History Webcomic / CrowCillers

* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Fanfic of Horror II'', for Final Bloodmaster Alpha. [[spoiler: She gets [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence cancelled]] [[ADeathInTheLimelight at the end]].]]
* ApocalypticLog: The journal excerpted in ''Campground of Carnage'', which belonged to an anonymous Crow left in the woods to starve until he has encounter with [[AnimalisticAbomination Bloodwolfe]].
* AuthorPhobia: Ominous checkered tile is a recurring motif, perhaps owing to an incident in the author's childhood, as discussed in ''Fanfic of Horror I''.

* BrokeEpisode: In ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Depressed'', when [[UnclePennybags Varg's Ex]] stops paying the gang's rent for fear of being found out by the Order.
* BurnBabyBurn: On the last page of ''Cross My Art and Hope to Die'', Jamie throws an old photo from before she came out that her parents put on the fridge as a passive aggressive gesture on to an American flag the gang set on fire.

* FramingDevice: ''Fanfic of Horror I'' is framed as a fanfic Emma is sharing with her friends, with frequent cuts away to reactions and suggestions from the rest of the cast, who generally don't quite grok what she's doing.

* LighterAndSofter: The first season contains considerably less sex and drugs compared to Cate's previous comic, ''Microwave Planet'', and even when these elements reassert themselves, there's a marked absence of the death and despair of her earlier work. Lampshaded in ''Mi-Crow-Cillers-Wave-Planet''.

* MediumBlending: Frequently dips into photo collages and hand-drawn pages, as well as a handful of embedded YouTube videos from darkelaine227 toward the end of season 2.

* OneSteveLimit: On top of the [[LiteralSplitPersonality many]] [[GrandTheftMe permutations]] [[PowerUpgradingDeformation of]] Elaine, we have one seemingly unrelated Elayne. Confusion between the two becomes a plot point in ''The Elayne-Vince Project.''

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In ''Eye for an Ida'', when Joslyn and Emma fall into [[OneWingedAngel Beloveless]]'s clutches, Joslyn launches intoa monologue where she [[spoiler: [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight recognizes Beloved as Ida]], and offers her understanding but not forgiveness, shaming her for what she's become.]] Beloved immediately annuls her fusion with the Curse Hand and releases them.

* DramaticUnmask: Played with at the climax of the ''{{Franchise/Scream}}'' [[WholePlotReference episode]]: when Emma unmasks Fresh Fries-as-Ghostface, she's treated not to her face, but a vision of her origins as [[spoiler: a doppelganger of Harlyn that Harlyn killed as a child.]] Then

* MalevolentMaskedMen: The Order of the Crow at large. The standard mask has a curved beak, like a parrot's, but higher ranked Crows get different designs, like Lord Marrow's scythe-shaped deal, or Master Vein's [[SilentHill Pyramid Head]] jawn.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The A-Plot of ''The Past and the Plur-ious'' is dedicated to flashbacks showing [=Three4One's=] time with the Crow, notably revealing Mintchip as a trans woman.

* DrugsAreGood: It's probably quicker to list the number of characters who ''don't'' smoke marijuana.

[[caption-width-right:350: Early art from the first printing of the Crow Cillers Season 1 DVD.[[note]]From Right to Left: [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Doris]], [[DefrostingIceQueen Cortney]], [[WrongGenreSavvy Emma]], [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep That Kid]].[[/note]]]]

* CutAndPasteComic: Subcomics ''Office Crittlers'' and ''As Told By Crittler'' both take this form, with ''As Told'' in particular consisteng of the same panel of a girl writing in her diary repeated six times with different dialogue on top.

* FakeBand: There's [=Three4One=], the [[TheMoralSubstitue Crow-produced]] pop trio from Pistachio's backstory, as well as lo-fi electronica duo Sour Gummy, which you can listen to on [[https://partydog.bandcamp.com Cate's bandcamp page.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Fanfic of Horror II'', for Final Bloodmaster Alpha. [[spoiler: She gets [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence cencelled]] [[ADeathInTheLimelight at the end]].

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Lord Marrow's secret lab, "The Pit," so called because it's hidden underneath the ball pit of an abandoned [[FictionalCounterpart Elation]] [[SuckECheese Zone]]. [[spoiler: After Marrow's death, it becomes the Crow Cillers' home and headquarters.]]

* {{Fandom}}: A major part of the series thematically. The characters are obsessed with bands, animes, and cartoons, the results of fandom like obsessive collecting of merchandise (to the point it becomes an in-universe economy) and ESPECIALLY fanfiction are everywhere. [[ShowWithinAShow Crow Cillers itself has an obsessive fandom within Crow Cillers,]] [[FanGirl Fangirl Darkelaine227 a player within the storyline.]] Her, and presumably others like her, go so far as to obsessively seek out scans of art of Crow Cillers characters from limited-edition Poptart boxes.

* ThisIsReality: Emma got hit with a lot of this in Season 1, sometimes gently, sometimes not so much.

* SeasonalRot: Played with as part of the aforementioned [[ShowWithinAShow Show Within A Show]] nature of Crow Cillers, in which later seasons, e.g. season 8-12 are referred to freely, [[NoFourthWall even though they do not exist at time of writing.]] (At least, not in our world.) In-universe, or at least, in-universe where Crow Cillers is a show in-universe, Crow Cillers is a long-running and highly popular TV show that has "glory days" and lame later seasons.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A large portion of the characters could apply, but special mention must go to the In-A-Dress gang, a group of characters from existing properties who care nothing for the bounds of their IP, [[NoFourthWall and both exist in and outside of the world of Crow Cillers,]] occasionally [[ShowWithinAShowwatching it as a show.]]

* Cloudcuckoolander: A large portion of the characters could apply, but special mention must go to the In-A-Dress gang, a group of characters from existing properties who care nothing for the bounds of their IP, [[NoFourthWall and both exist in and outside of the world of Crow Cillers,]] occasionally [[ShowWithinAShowwatching it as a show.]]

* ShowWithinAShow: Numerous.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Early art from the first Crow Cillers VHS Release.[[note]]From Right to Left: [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep That Kid]], [[DefrostingIceQueen Cortney]], [[GenreSavvy Emma]], [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Doris]].[[/note]]]]

->''"Read Crow Cillers Or Die"''
-->-- '''4lung'''

''[=Crow Cillers=]'' is a [[MindScrew surrealist]] [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative drama horror comedy furry coming-of-age queer]] {{Webcomic}} by Cate Wurtz (A.K.A. Partydog, of ''[=Asscastle=]'' fame) about a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits group of friends who band together]] to do battle with a [[SecretCircleOfSecrets mysterious and antagonistic cult-like society known as the Order of The Crow.]] Both the Crow Cillers and the Order seek to understand a mysterious [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Creature]], or maybe it's an [[EldritchLocation Eldritch Dimension of Existence]] known only as Ynce Iche.

''[=Crow Cillers=]'' can be read monthly as each issue is released at [[https://www.patreon.com/lamezone Cate Wurtz's patreon.]] Alternatively, you can purchase each season in a 'DVD' (complete with bonus features) from the official [[http://lamezone.net/ Lamezone site.]]

!! ''[=Crow Cillers=]'' contains examples of:

...At least, that's what it's BASICALLY about. [[GenreBusting Crow Cillers defies the traditional format of a webcomic.]] It's also a meta-commentary on pop culture, often of the past [[AuthorAppeal (particularly the mid-2000s)]] but also of the contemporary era, both celebrating and poking fun at obsessive fandom, while in the world of Crow Cillers, fiction and reality blend into a confusing mess and nothing is certain, the audience and characters