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1	''The Talbot Chronicles'' was a short-lived webcomic that mixed the Franchise/UniversalHorror movies and FilmNoir. The protagonist was Larry Talbot, from the ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 Wolf Man]]'' movies, who had gone into business as a private eye/monster hunter, trying to make up for his [[TheAtoner involuntary murderings]].
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3	%%It was at http://studiotriumph.com/talbot/, but the site is now defunct.
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5	!!This webcomic provides examples of:
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7	* TheAtoner: Talbot.
8	* ContinuityNod: The villain of the second story arc is almost certainly Elsa Frankenstein, last seen in ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfman''.
9	* DeadpanSnarker: Talbot.
10	* GuileHero: What Talbot eventually evolves into.
11	* HardboiledDetective: Talbot, complete with fedora, trenchcoat, and world-weary internal monologue.
12	* KarmicDeath: In the comic's first story arc, Talbot [[spoiler: wolfs out on the villain who'd been faking werewolf attacks.]]
13	* KnightInSourArmor: Talbot.
14	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: The werewolves follow the same rules as the 1940s movie series, with some fudging to cover inconsistencies. For instance, the movies are inconsistent about whether Talbot becomes a werewolf "when the Autumn moon is bright" or "when the moon is full and bright"; in the comic, it's both: Talbot transforms on full moons, and every night during Autumn.
15	* PrivateDetective: Talbot.
16	* PrivateEyeMonologue: In the second story arc of the webcomic.
17	* ShoutOut:
18	** Talbot's bookshelf is full of them, including ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Necronomicon]]'', and ''[[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} The Secrets of Life and Death]]'', ''Donovan's Brain'' (by Curt Siodmak, who wrote the screenplay for the original ''The Wolf Man''), ... and two large volumes titled "OurWerewolvesAreDifferent" and "OurVampiresAreDifferent," both by [[Website/TVTropes T. Tropes]].
19	** The list of victims that appears on his desk is full of famous FilmNoir and horror characters, specifically: [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmstreet N. Thompson]], [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} L. Strode]], [[Film/TheBigSleep E. Mars]], and [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941 J. Cairo]].

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