Ted Lange, who does awesome drawings, lives in Brooklyn. Ted, an artist from Brooklyn, writes fanfics. Ted, a fanfic writer, is a huge geek. Ted, a huge geek, is writing a visual fanfic called Son of Super Mario.

A kid from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn wandered the underbelly of New York. He had found the derelict chamber known as the “Warp Zone” pretty quickly. The map left by his uncle Luigi made the sewer system easy to navigate. The inscriptions on the pipes were vague. What was world 1-1? He found out soon enough. The Warp dropped him off in a strange landscape overrun with toadstools (some of them sentient). An entire microverse existing perpendicular to New York. Now all he had to do was follow Luigi’s instructions. Climb the stairs at the far end of the world, jump off the top and tag the flag in front of the castle. It sounded simple enough. But was it?

The story takes place shortly after Super Mario 3, the first chapter and stunning first picture are up on his blog, be sure to it out for future installments.

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