Line #15 Webcomic/Ardra


1	''[[http://www.ardracomic.com Ardra]]'' is a webcomic created in 2005 by Jason Dunstan, who served as writer through 2012. Fesworks is the current writer, and John Peters (Gypsy!) is the current artist. Past artists are Jason Dunstan (2005), Trevor Adams (2006, 2008-09) and Fesworks (2007-08).
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3	The comic stars Dr. Ardra Renelsior, a brilliant scientist. She decides to raise twin daughters, Eileen and Lenore, as a sort of ongoing behavioral experiment. Eileen is much like her mother (or as the girls call her, "maternal provider"), shy and bookish, although more sarcastic. Lenore is more like Ardra's younger sister, Aldla...outgoing and fun-loving. She's also rather bizarre.
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5	Even though Ardra is almost an agoraphobic, she and the girls somehow manage to awkwardly interact with relatives, friends, and other people in the outside world. But can the world handle them?
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* ArchEnemy: Ardra's French cousin Ardrienne, a sort of rogue Bonapartist hell-bent on world domination. She sees herself as the rightful ruler of the world, due to her outlandishly high I.Q. Ardrienne wants Ardra out of the way, because she feels Ardra is the only one smart enough to foil her plans.
9	* BeautifulAllAlong: Ardra thinks she's unattractive but has more than once been shown to be of at least above-average attractiveness.
10	* BrilliantButLazy: Otto, who can seemingly hack into any database, yet remains an unemployed slacker.
11	* CharacterDevelopment: Ardra changes from hands-off overseer of her "experiments" to a more typical mom figure as time goes on.
12	* CheerfulChild: Lenore
13	* CuteBookworm: Ardra. Also Lenore & Eileen, in the "cute kid" version of the trope.
14	* DorkHorseCandidate: Ardra, in the "Ardra For Congress" storyline, plays the spoiler role against Smirk.
15	* EvilMatriarch: Anna.
16	* GamerChick: Otto's girlfriend, Faylin.
17	* GameShowAppearance: The "Quiz-O-Rama" storyline, wherein slimeball extraordinaire Smirk Barkberkery is introduced.
18	* LEGOGenetics: Ardra, a whiz at DNA manipulation, designed the girls to be super geniuses.
19	* LovableNerd: Practically the entire cast, except for "villainous" characters Ardrienne, Smirk, and Anna.
20	* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Perhaps Faylin, who speaks in internet jargon with Otto, and is a free-spirited geek girl type.
21	* NerdsAreSexy: This comic is full of examples of this. Della, Faylin, Ardra herself...
22	* NerdsAreVirgins: Ardra, who apparently used artificial insemination to conceive the girls.
23	* ParentalAbandonment: Ardra's mother, Anna, rejected her first child, Otto, because he's not a girl.
24	* RevengeOfTheNerd: Eileen, in the "Quiz-O-Rama" storyline. Or Ardra and the girls any time they cross paths with Smirk.
25	* SleazyPolitician: Smirk (originally a sleazeball game show host, later a sleazeball used car salesman) in the "Ardra For Congress" storyline.
26	* SpeedDating: The subject of an entire story arc, when the girls convince Ardra to get out of the house and go to a speed-dating event...which, luckily, is being held at a library, one of the few places Ardra ever goes.
27	* TakeOverTheWorld: Ardrienne.
28	* TheSlacker: Otto.
29	* TheSnarkKnight: The ever-sarcastic Eileen. Perhaps also Ardra, to a lesser extent.

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