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Coga Suro is a relatively new-to-the-internet webcomic currently hosted on Drunk Duck. Official party line from the artist/writer is that he started drawing it a few years ago, and so has a lot of raw pages to catch up on. The dates on the bottoms of the posted pages seem to confirm this, as does a preview page posted on [[Deviant ART]].
Coga Suro has somewhat of a random plot, jumping between different and increasingly strange plot arcs, but generally keeping to a theme of computer games, [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]], or some combination thereof. Starting out as more of a 'gag a day' strip with poor artwork, it eventually metamorphosed into a comic given to longer story arcs and gradually-evolving art.
Main characters include:
* Steve: Resident Cloudcuckoolander and wannabe superhero. Occasionally displays [[The Hero]] moments, but most of these are taking care of something that's his fault anyway. Wears a costume [later armour] that uses [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to give him superhuman attributes.
* Jerry: Steve's friend and owner of a [[Badass Longcoat]] that he wears in almost every appearance; he only owns the one coat, and cleans and maintains it religiously. Smarter and more sensible than Steve, and in charge of robot-related plot advancement. [[The Smart Guy]].
* Frank: Final member of the main [[Power Trio]], Frank possesses a pair of [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]] consciences, apparently has some form of acrobatic or martial arts skills, and switches to a new job every strip this is bought up.  {{spoiler|Died in the final chapter.}}
* Jane: Steve's girlfriend  {{spoiler|Later, his wife and mother of his children}}, whom he met on the internet and, uniquely, turned out to be just who she said she was. Some form of [[Gamer Girl]] and onetime user of a [[Clothes Make the Superman|Super Suit]].
* Lincoln: [[Ridiculously Human Robot]], who, due to a recent botched repair, constantly speaks as if she's a one-man [[Dada Comic]]. Possessed large breasts. Recently 'died'.  {{spoiler|She got better.}}
* Hades: Another [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] created by two other robots, one good and one evil, fusing together. [Don't ask.] 

It has recently finished (as of August 5th, 2009), and can be read in its entirety [https://web.archive.org/web/20130426091930/http://www.drunkduck.com/Coga_Suro/ here.] Followed up by the brilliantly named sequel ''Coga Suro '''2''''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130170607/http://www.drunkduck.com/Coga_Suro_2/ here.]

----{{tropelist}}* [[Ambiguous Gender]]- Primarily Styx, an android that is meant to be explicitly androgynous.
* Animesque- Totally. See also [[Cross-Popping Veins]] and [[Sweat Drop]].
* [[Art Evolution]]- The express purpose of the comic was that this happen.
* [[Badass Cape]]- Steve seems fond of having a cape when making himself a superhero identity.
* [[Bash Brothers]]- Steve is delighted both times he gets to invoke this trope- once in the future with his older self [citing the need for a double-Steve combo move] and again in the sequel with his son. 
* [[Blank White Eyes]]
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]- Coga Suro is pretty much a textbook example of this, gradually losing more of the 'gag a day' material in favour of longer arcs.
* Cloudcuckoolander- Steve, when not otherwise provoked [see [[Berserk Button]]]. Also, Lincoln's nonsense speech gives the impression of being a cloudcuckoolander, but this is not entirely true.
* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]- The 'Super Suits' Steve makes fluctuate between this and [[Power Armour]]. The first is this trope played straight [A [[Retcon]] in Coga Suro 2 explains the exact ''Phlebotinum'' behind this], the second is [[Power Armour]], and the thrid looks to be a mix between the two.
* [[Cue the Flying Pigs]]- Played straight in an early strip.
* [[FemBot]]-Lincoln, Persephone, Hades.
* [[Final Battle]]- Chapter 15 of the first run.
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Yeah,  {{spoiler|Steve and Jane end up married with kids.}} Who saw that coming?
* [[Future Me Scares Me]]- Steve.
{{quote|'''Steve''': I don't wanna be scarred and stubbly!}}
* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]- see also [[Author Appeal]].
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]- Frank has a pair of these, though his Bad Angel has been known to wander off and influence others.
* [[Kid From the Future]]-  {{spoiler|How we first meet Steve's son John.}}
* [[Mundane Fantastic]]- It's basically the real world, but with added robots [that it seems anyone can build?] and superheroes. And other odd stuff. So much that the 'mundane' is less visible every day.
* [[No Name Given]]- The name of the man in square glasses is never revealed.
* [[One Steve Limit]]- Very literally.
* [[Only Six Faces]]- Subverted. The author was aware of this from when he started drawing, and took pains to give every character a different nose. More recently, as the art has improved, characters have been exhibiting unique jawlines and physical builds.
* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]
* [[Right Behind Me]]
* [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]]
* [[Shout-Out]]- references to [[Neverwinter Nights]] from the outset, Warhammer, Marvel comics and Trigun.
* [[Sideways Smile]]- Styx, in particular, is fond of this, even having a grin so wide that the synthetic skin of its face cracks and splits in a later chapter.
** The first Styx robot seen has a [[Sideways Smile]] as the one expression on its immobile face- thus looking quite odd when the 'wrong' side is facing the viewer.
* [[Speech Balloons]]- The usual convention of robots having square speech balloons. Most of them, anyway. Styx, an evil example, has black speech balloons with white text. For a few chapters, each character had a different font, but this was dropped later.
* [[Strip Buffer]]- Due to starting drawing the series two years before starting to post it online, Coga Suro has an enormous strip buffer of raw scans.
* [[Skunk Stripe]]- For no real reason, black hair with blonde parts seems to be genetic in the Taylor family.
* [[Theme Naming]]- Every robot after Lincoln has a name derived from Greek mythology.
* [[Tron Lines]]- [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]] on Persephone, Styx and Hades.
* [[Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born]]
* [[Wolverine Claws]]- The fingernail variety is Hades' weapon of choice.
* [[You Wanna Get Sued?]]- Steve is interrupted from introducing Lincoln as ''The Vision''.
** A later comic has him briefly gain an equivalent of the Black Symbiote, only for the Hulk to appear, promising to 'sue him.

Coga Suro 2 provides examples of:

* Animesque- Again, same style as Coga Suro.
* [[Art Evolution]]
* [[Bash Brothers]]
* [[Bonus Material]]- 'Coga Suro Review' at the end of each chapter, heavily influenced by Lucky Star's 'Lucky Channel'
* [[Emergency Transformation]]-  {{spoiler|John}} early in Coga Suro 2.
**  {{spoiler|Likely what happened to Frank during the timeskip.}}
* [[Hair Decorations]]- Anne. Given that the only time she's ever been seen without a hairband of some colour is  {{spoiler|when she transforms into a lightning-shooting skeleton thing, }}she is most definitely cuter with it by default. 
* [[Facial Markings]]- On most robots.
* ''Fembot''-  {{spoiler|the second [younger-looking] Persephone.}}
* [[Shock and Awe]]-  {{spoiler|Anna and later John's powers.}}
* [[Skull for a Head]]- See the spoiler above.
* [[Skunk Stripe]]- John and his siblings inherited their blonde streaks from their father somehow.
* [[Time Skip]]- Coga Suro 2 is set about 18 years after the end of Coga Suro, and is [eventually] centred more around Steve's grown-up kids.

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