History ComicBook / WormwoodGentlemanCorpse

* PaintingTheMedium: All the major characters have different colour text in their speech bubbles. Undead or magical people have different colours of text on black speech bubbles (mostly red, but Medusa has white, the Calimari Brotherhood have mauve, and Buel has green), normal humans have black on white, and Mr. Pendulum uniquely has blue on black.

* RealTimeTimeskip: At the beginning of "Mr. Wormwood Goes to Washington" Wormwood has been away from London for some years, corresponding to the gap in publication of the comics.

* RealTime: At the beginning of "Mr. Wormwood Goes to Washington" Wormwood has been away from London for some years, corresponding to the gap in publication of the comics.

* SelfHarm: Phoebe puts a new small scar on one of her upper arms as a tally every time she kills someone.

''Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse'' is an irregular comedy-horror comic series by Creator/BenTemplesmith, published by Creator/IDWPublishing as a series of one-shots and miniseries during the 2000s. Although no new comic issues were produced for some years, it was announced in 2016 that an AnimatedAdaptation was entering development, and a new miniseries ''Wormwood Goes to Washington'' was published in 2017.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A very recognisable Creator/RupertMurdoch and Roger Ailes are plotting with the Ghorass in "Wormwood Goes to Washington".

* PreMortemOneLine: Lincoln to the Ghorass:

''Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse'' was an irregular comedy-horror comic series by Creator/BenTemplesmith, published by Creator/IDWPublishing as a series of one-shots and miniseries during the 2000s. Although no new comic issues have been produced for some years, it was announced in 2016 that an AnimatedAdaptation was entering development.

* TelescopingRobot: Mr. Pendulum can extend his limbs in combat.

* PaintingTheMedium: All the major characters have different colour text in their speech bubbles. Undead or magical people have red on black speech bubbles, living people have black on white, and Mr. Pendulum uniquely has blue on black.

* FacefullOfAlienWingWong: Happens in the stories with incredible frequency. In one case, this was caused by [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination pretending to be human masturbating into people's beer]].

* RevengeIsADishBestServed: The very first issue establishes just how far the comic will go into black comedy by combining this with [[spoiler:FacefullOfAlienWingWong]]. Seriously.

* PaintingTheMedium: All the major characters have different colour text in their speech bubbles.

* CreepyChild: In one story, Wormwood's usual body gets parasitised and consumed by aliens, so he ends up in the corpse of a little girl.
* DisposableSexWorker: The hookers who Wormwood supplies the Four Horsemen with don't survive the experience very often.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Mr. Pendulum can drink beer, is not particularly servile, and usually looks like an entirely human elderly outlaw biker.

Wormwood is not in fact a zombie, but an extra-dimensional magical larva who can use corpses as puppets. Most of the time he can be found drinking in the Dark Alley Club, a sinister strip joint ("Sad, seedy loners welcome") with his buddy Mr. Pendulum, appearing to anybody who can't pierce his PerceptionFilter to be a seedy upper-class Soho alcoholic. He's actually, however, one of the main entities protecting Earth from a wide variety of extra-dimensional horrors, although he doesn't feel the need to be nice about it.