Team Competent (Classic Comic)

Team Competent is a comic written and illustrated by Billy Scranner. The comic was originally made in late 2015, but was remastered in May of 2020.

The comic centers around Ricky, a young child who is a member of a friend circle calling themselves Team Competent. One of his team members, Eddie, inflicts a serious injury on himself, forcing Ricky to come to his aid.

Synopsis
The comic opens on Ricky travelling to Eddie's house at the latter's behest, though Eddie doesn't disclose why. After ascending the hill atop which Eddie's house sits, Ricky barges in and asks Eddie what's going on. To his horror, however, Ricky finds Eddie lying on a table with a gaping hole cut into his chest. After collecting himself, Ricky demands answers. Eddie explains that, recalling a meeting the team had prior where he said he wanted to be a hero like Iron Man, he had decided to cut a hole in his chest in order to mimic Iron Man's arc reactor. After a little bickering, Eddie guides Ricky in plugging the chest wound with an arc reactor Eddie designed himself. Ricky shows safety concerns, but Eddie assures his friend nothing will go wrong. Things go wrong, and Eddie calls in Jacob, another team member. Jacob and the other two team members, Danny and Nate, arrive at Eddie's house only to find it in ruins. The ceiling is missing, the surrounding area is aflame, and Ricky and Eddie are unconscious and brutally injured. The team is shown patching the two up while hanging out around a campfire on the ending page. After the ending page, however, a stranger approaches Team Competent while talking about some sort of upcoming event. The stranger introduces himself to the Team as Neonon and warns them about "the end of Team Competent."

Characters

 * Ricky
 * Eddie
 * Jacob
 * Danny
 * Nate
 * Neonon

2020 Remaster
The original Team Competent comic strip was written in 2015. Both of the original pages have since been lost. However, on May 19th, 2020, Billy Scranner redrew the comic in its original art style. Noticeable changes have been made; originally, the comic was two pages long, only Ricky and Eddie made appearances, and the entire story take place inside a life-size statue of the Grimace from various McDonald's advertisements. However, the core plot remains the same.

Trivia

 * The pose Ricky is in when he yells "What the fuck is wrong with you" is a reference to a panel from chapter 588 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically the scene where Diavolo - under the effects of Gold Experience Requiem - screams at a little girl.
 * As Team Competent is the first entry in Scranhouse, it can be seen as a sort of thematic predecessor to all other iterations of Team Competent