History Webcomic / Shadownova

* AwesomeMcCoolName: [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] Lance Fury
%% * BadassLongCoat: All of the Everto military except Cam. Fury has a particuarly over the top one.

* MoeStare: Iris is doing this on the site's donate page.

%% * BandageBabe: Iris on [[http://shadownovacomic.com/archivechp02pg11.html this page.]]

* ActionGirl: Iris and Nikki. Anne Caver is implied to have been one before she injured her leg.
* {{Animesque}}: Oh so much.
* AltText: Provides commentary, anecdotes and referential jokes.
* AuthorAppeal: Just about all of the [[strike:female]] cast.

* BadassLongCoat: All of the Everto military except Cam. Fury has a particuarly over the top one.
* BandageBabe: Iris on [[http://shadownovacomic.com/archivechp02pg11.html this page.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted pretty hard.

* BookDumb: Jacob
* BreakTheCutie: Iris
* BrightSlap: Nikki delivers one to Iris.
* BrokenBird: Iris again
* ChildSoldiers: The resistance are not picky about who fights for them.

* DoesNotLikeGuns: Iris, on account of ThouShaltNotKill.
* MrFanservice: Fury, just Fury.

* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: When Iris and Jacob meet up with Nikki's team.
* {{Fanservice}}: Iris's changing scene in chapter 2 and Jacob's ShirtlessScene in chapter 3.

* GeneralRipper: Major Gereral West.

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Iris is slapped by Nikki during her FreakOut in chapter 3.
* HandsomeLech: Jacob

* ICallItVera: Implied for Cam via the alt text

* {{Infodump}}: When Nikki explains to Iris and Jacob what's happening in chapter 3.
* InvisibleToNormals: The Everto.
* {{Jerkass}}: The way Iris acts towards other people.

* LaResistance: A particlarly well organised one with a base in the mountains.

* KnifeNut: Cam.

* PeopleOfHairColor: Colonel Fury has blue hair. Justified, in that strange hair and eye colours like that are an ethnic trait of the Everto.
* PerkyFemaleMinion: Lieutenant Zakiko.
* PrecisionFStrike: Iris during her MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.

* PsychicPowers: Espers, though not all of their powers are traditionally "psychic."
* ScarfOfAssKicking: Nikki.

* ShirtlessScene: Jacob gets one in chapter 3.

* ShownTheirWork: The effects of mixing loaded guns and extremely high temperatures.
* StripBuffer: The artist tries to have this and fails miserably most of the time.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Iris has one with pyrokinesis.
* TheCoatsAreOff: Fury, before he confronts Iris's SuperpoweredEvilSide.
* TheMasquerade: Maintained by the Everto.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: Fury's reaction to Iris's massacre.
* ThouShaltNotKill
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Iris, while she's getting changed.

* ViralMarketing: [[spoiler: This Page]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Colonel Fury. Justified, in that strange hair and eye colours like that are an ethnic trait of the Everto.

** Of course, this logic is quite sound even in RealLife - Siding with "the mystery girl with the crazy powers" is a good way to get a MagicalGirlfriend at best, and will [[AndroclesLion keep her from killing you]] at the very worst. Siding with "the army of dudes trying to kill her" will get you [[PoliceAreUseless locked up and harangued]] at best, and KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade at the very worst.
*** The AltText even {{Lampshades}} a different opinion. [[WikiMagic Link please!]]

Shadownova is a now defunct {{Webcomic}}, written and drawn by troper [[Tropers/ThatGuyWhoDraws Mark Alda]].

Shadownova tells the story of Iris Kolrick, an antisocial teenager who finds herself drawn into an ongoing war between [[InvisibleToNormals the Everto]] and a ragtag [[LaResistance human resistance group]]. There is a fair amount of action, but the main focus is on the characters and their growth, particularly that of the three lead characters [[BrokenBird Iris]] [[JerkassWoobie Kolrick]], [[StepfordSmiler Jacob]],[[HandsomeLech Freeman]] and [[StoicWoobie Nikki]] [[ColdSniper Fawkner]].

Also, if anyone (more specifically the troper who drew the thing in the first place) would happen to have a file with the comic, we would greatly appreciate if a link to said file were to be suddenly added to this page. It would also be great if said file wad posted on [[https://archive.org archice.org]] and ''not'' on Mediafire.

Shadownova tells the story of Iris Kolrick, an antisocial teenager who finds herself drawn into an ongoing war between [[InvisibleToNormals the Everto]] and a ragtag [[LaResistance human resistance group]]. There is a fair ammount of action but the main focus is on the characters and their growth, particularly that of the three lead characters [[BrokenBird Iris]] [[JerkassWoobie Kolrick]], [[StepfordSmiler Jacob]] [[HandsomeLech Freeman]] and [[StoicWoobie Nikki]] [[ColdSniper Fawkner]].

It all begins with Iris innocently walking to school one morning. However just before she arrives a fighter plane swoops overhead and shoots several missiles at the school, destroying it. Iris quickly discovers that no one besides herself can see what happened, including a schoolmate who was half killed in the blast. Soon after a man called Cameron Hunter arrives and, after introducing himself as a member of a group called the Everto, tries to kill her. Iris is injured but manages to escape.

While hiding from Cam and the Everto in a shopping centre Iris is approached by Jacob, who is unaware of her situation and tries to flirt with her but she coldly brushes him off. The everto attack again, interrupting the one-sided would-be romance. Iris goes against character saves the still-ignorant Jacob's life but finds herself cornered as a result. Right when Iris is about to be shot the Everto soldiers and almost everyone else in the area are wiped out by a massive firestorm which Iris stands at the centre of.

The artwork has a [[{{Animesque}} distinctly manga influenced style]] reminiscent of Creator/DavidGonterman ([[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds that... came out wrong...]]). If you want to find the comic you can try copying the url from [[http://shadownovacomic.com/ this]] link and putting it on the Website/WaybackMachine, but even then you'll only be able to wiew a few pages at best.

* GeneralRipper: Major Gereral West

** Of course, this logic is quite sound even in RealLife - Siding with "the mystery girl with the crazy powers" is a good way to get a MagicalGirlfriend at best, and will [[AndroclesLion keep her from killing you]] at the very worst. Siding with "the army of dudes trying to kill her" will get you [[PoliceAreUseless locked up and harangued]] at best, and KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade at the very worst. Sorry pigs, you're all just too damned ''mean''.

* InvisibleToNormals: The Everto

* MysteriousWaif: Iris. Played with in that she's the main character and we're exlicitly shown at the start why she can't go home. Jacob doesn't know what we know and definetly sees her as one, mistaking himself for the hero in the process, and heavily {{Lampshades}} her use of the trope.
* KnifeNut: Cam

* ShoutOut: The AltText frequently quotes and compares the comic to other works and memes. In the actual story Nikki references Film/TheMatrix while explaining things to Iris and Jacob.

* TheCoatsAreOff: Fury before he confronts Iris's SuperpoweredEvilSide.
* TheMasquerade: Maintained by the Everto

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Colonel Fury. Justified in that strange hair and eye colours like that are an ethnic trait of the Everto.

The artwork has a [[{{Animesque}} distinctly manga influenced style]] reminiscent of Creator/DavidGonterman. If you want to find the comic you can try copying the url from [[http://shadownovacomic.com/ this]] link and putting it on the Website/WaybackMachine, but even then you'll only be able to wiew a few pages at best.

If anyone (more specifically the troper who drew the thing in the first place) would happen to have a file with the comic, we would greatly appreciate if a link to said file were to be suddenly added to this page. It would also be great if said file wad posted on [[https://archive.org archice.org]] and ''not'' on Mediafire.

The artwork has a [[{{Animesque}} distinctly manga influenced style]] reminiscent of Creator/DavidGonterman. If you want to find the comic you can try copying the url from [[http://shadownovacomic.com/ this]] link and putting it on the Website/WaybackMachine, but we don't guarantee that that'll work.