Mega Man #0

Mega Man #0
Standard cover by Jeffrey "Chamba" Cruz.
Publication Information
Publisher:	UDON
Publication date(s):	May 3, 2025
Schedule:	One-shot
Series:	Classic Mega Man
Price(s):	Free
Creative Team
Writer(s):	Tavis Maiden
Cover artist(s):	Jeffrey "Chamba" Cruz
Artist(s):	Andrew Dickman Edwin Huang Kenny Ruiz Jeffrey "Chamba" Cruz
Letterer(s):	Marshall Dillon

Mega Man #0 is a one-shot silver-tier comic that was given out on Free Comic Book Day in 2025 at participating locations to promote the new Mega Man comic books by UDON, the first being Mega Man Timelines.

The comic's story takes place in Boing-Boing Amusement Park, where Wind Man, Cold Man and Skull Man have become food truck workers and reminisce about their life-changing battles against Mega Man.

Publisher's summary

Video game legend MEGA MAN returns with all-new comics from UDON! In this special one-shot adventure, the original Blue Bomber faces off against villainous robots masters like Cold Man, Wind Man, Skull Man, and more! The new era of Mega Man comics begins HERE!

Get this comic FREE at your local comic shop on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025! More info at freecomicbookday.com.

Plot

"Almost Had 'im"

Wind Man, Cold Man, and Skull Man work as food truck workers at Boing-Boing Amusement Park. Wind Man and Cold Man run a successful ramen and snow cone shop called Breezy Bowl and Snow-Cone Zone which have a 5-star and 3-star respectively, while Skull Man runs a shady delicatessen called Skelicatessen which has a negative review. At the end of the day, the three close their shops as Wind Man remembers his fight with Mega Man and how it changed his life. The two had fought in a city where Wind Man had the upper hand before Mega Man blinds him with a bowl of ramen and defeats him with Centaur Flash. In the present, Skull Man's truck starts on fire, and Cold Man shares his story of his own battle with Mega Man at a zoo, where Cold Man declares the penguins do not have a large enough exhibit and decides to freeze the entire zoo for them. He overwhelms Mega Man with several Mokumokumo, but gets distracted by a baobing truck and forgets that he was attacking. Mega Man orders the two of them some baobing and they eat together, Cold Man saying he will never forget that moment. In the present, Cold Man flips his truck's sign to “Closed” and states it was his first time having baobing as he notices he ate all of the ice cream in his bowl and is sad that the dessert truck was closed, not realizing it is his own truck. Skull Man asks Cold Man to extinguish the fire in his truck while he shares his story, where he kidnapped Roll during her birthday party and sends some Skeleton Joes to attack Mega Man. He lectures Mega Man on causing his family pain, and tells him to accept defeat, but Roll breaks free and smacks Skull Man with the arm of one of the Skeleton Joes, knocking him into a ball pit as she and Mega Man leave. In the present, Cold Man has frozen Skull Man's truck to his frustration, and Wind Man wonders if Mega Man realizes how positively he has impacted his life and wants to treat him to his best ramen one day as Mega Man coincidently comes crashing down from above. Skull Man helps Mega Man up as Bounce Man emerges from some scrap ready to attack. Wind Man states Mega Man has always fought to protect his family and friends, and the three robots realize that they too are Mega Man's friends as they prepare to defend Mega Man from Bounce Man.

Trivia

• Cut Man, Air Man, Ice Man, Snake Man, Beat and a Met are all featured on the standard cover art, though they are not featured in the story. A garage door for a Shupponpon can be seen behind Snake Man, and appears to be the original graphic from Mega Man 8, given its pixelated look compared to the rest of the cover.
• The variant cover features Mega Man, X, Zero, Grey and MegaMan Volnutt.
• Various enemies from the Mega Man games can be seen:
  • Bunby Balloons can be seen on several panels.
  • Skull Man has lanterns modeled after VAN Pookin on his truck.
  • Cold Man sends Mokumokumo against Mega Man during their fight.
  • A defeated Togehero and Imorm are seen during Skull Man's fight with Mega Man, and he sends Skeleton Joes to attack him. Cut outs of Ratton can be seen on the stage.
• Three characters resembling Yai Ayanokoji, Mayl Sakurai, and Mr. Famous from the Mega Man Battle Network series can be seen in the background of first and second pages.
• A Servbot can be seen on the hat of the man Skull Man is serving food to.
• The last pages feature advertisements of Mega Man Timelines, Mr. Mega Man, Little Mega Man and Team Phoenix, which features Osamu Tezuka characters.

Gallery

Mega Man UDON store-exclusive variant cover by Jeffrey "Chamba" Cruz.

Bad Box Art Mega Man Metal Card by Hitoshi Ariga included with the store-exclusive variant.