And The World Will Turn To Ash

And The World Will Turn To Ash, also called simply Ash, is a is a bimonthly webcomic, created by surfaçage, that follows the story of the three Pokémon Go leaders.

Surfi began creating art for Pokémon Go in July 2016, soon after the release of the gym leaders' character designs, with a short comic centered around Blanche's lack-of gender. The first formal pages of Ash were uploaded in mid-August.

Setting
Ash is set in a world where the real world (i.e., ours) and Pokémon world have collided through some way ~50 years ago. The main story takes place in Opal City, a city where you can take a flight to both Los Angeles and Goldenrod.

Opal City is a seaside city with a total - land and sea - territory of around 1,200 sq. km., around the size of New York City. A sizable urban district is clustered near its shoreline, with a mountain range and the Instinct Reserves bordering the edges. Climate is curiously temperamental - thunderstorms in summer are common, and there have been records of subzero winters as well.

Opal is known as the center of its region’s financial and academic institutions, with infrastructure befitting its reputation.

Team Structures
There is a total of nine major teams in Opal City, with Team Valor, Mystic, and Instinct being the largest and strongest. The city is very vehemently defended ‘underground’ as Team Rocket territory.

Influences
Ash takes various elements from the Pokémon Adventures manga, the Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness games, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, and Pokémon GO. Surfi also said there will be several cameos of items/people from other games. She expressed that the reader doesn't have to be familiar with any of these storylines to understand the plot of Ash, as they will be explained later in the comic.

Many of the background characters in Ash, most notably Team Rocket members, are characters from the series Haikyū!!.