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7	->''Tentacle monsters, and the women who love them.''
8	--> -- '''Tagline'''
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10	''Ghastly's Ghastly Comic'' is an adult webcomic that originally ran from 2001 to 2006. Inspired by a '''[[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]''' ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'' strip, the series is about tentacle monsters living in our world, and the people they interact with. These people include a [[SuperDeformed chibi]], a UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} girl who [[GratuitousJapanese speaks broken Japanese]], an {{attention whore}} CosplayOtakuGirl, a Flaky New Age Neo-Pagan, [[Creator/HPLovecraft Baby Cthulhu]], a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who looks perpetually stoned, a furry, a guy transplanted from a {{hentai}} game who [[RightThroughHisPants has an invisible penis]], a guy transplanted from a 1970s {{Blaxploitation}} flick, and Drunk and Bitter Jesus.
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12	Due to a CreatorBreakdown (see the Trivia tab) the main run of the comic ended in 2006 but the creator has sporadically posted new one off strips since then, most recently in 2015. The creator however was still active with one off artwork appearing as recently as June 2018 on his Website/{{Tumblr}} image dump before Tumblr purged all adult content.
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14	The series can be found [[http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20010510.html here]]. This {{webcomic}} is '''NotSafeForWork''' -- assume any link leads to NSFW material and be careful about the examples.
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17	!!''Ghastly's Ghastly Comic'' provides examples of:
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19	* AmbiguousGender: Glemph and and Nort play a fictional Japanese FightingGame called ''Shota Versus Loli'', where it's impossible to tell which on screen character is supposed to be which gender.
20	* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: The very first strip, where human girl Kiki encounters tentacle monster Glemph and is put out when he fails to live up to his species stereotypical behaviour and eruditely explains why he isn't going to do what she's expecting him to, leading to Kiki forcefully reiterating what should be happening.
21	* ArtEvolution: Lampshaded in one comic which juxtaposed the early black and white character designs with the more polished modern colour versions.
22	* AttentionWhore:
23	** Cosplay Girl has this as her her only real character trait, even saying "She who dies with most attention, wins!"
24	** Bunny Boy isn't a direct example but gets a lot of (negative) attention for his extremely aggressive and in your face flaunting of his sexual proclivities.
25	* AuthorAppeal: Lots and lots of futanari. Aside from Freddy, lots of one off and filler art is of these.
26	* BaitAndSwitch: Two characters go to "[[PlayingDoctor play doctor]]" off camera. After a lot of suggestive remarks like "It won't fit!" it turns out that they were talking about the doctor coat being too large for one of them.
27	* BestialityIsDepraved: Played with in multiple ways. Kiki has sex with an octopus on the aquarium floor but some of the tentacle monsters consider sexual relations with humans to be this, though it's always PlayedForLaughs.
28	* BlindIdiotTranslation: On a dildo made in Japan, the words "Three year warranty" accidentally got translated as "Not recommended for three years and under".
29	* BrainBleach: Creator/AlanMoore yaoi. Not yaoi using Alan Moore's comic characters, illustrations of two 'Alan Moores' engaging in the activity.
30	* CatapultNightmare: Kiki has one. In keeping with the subversive nature of the comic, her nightmare is about conventional missionary position sex with a human male. Also Hammer has one where Bunny Boy was about to yiff Hammer's fluffy bunny slippers one after the other.
31	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The aptly named Kwerki, whose most common activity seems to be infiltrating presentations and hijacking them with her bizarre sexually based hypotheses.
32	* {{Cosplay}}: Cosplay Girl, who cosplays all day every day as a way of attracting attention.
33	%%* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20030302.html This]] {{crossover}} with ''Tang's Weekly Comic''.
34	%%** Sholi-chan and Lota-chan manage to simultaneously drop Bridgets on ''themselves''.
35	%%* {{Ecchi}}
36	* EldritchAbomination: Fnanp mistakes the tentacle monsters for these, not realising that, aside from their appearance, they are just regular people with lives similar to humans -- going to the bar, surfing the net, etc.
37	%%* [[AllMenArePerverts Everyone But Glemph Is A Pervert]]: And Peep, who's so young, [[ChildrenAreInnocent he looks at sex toys and thinks they are ninja implements]].
38	%%* EveryoneIsBi
39	* ExposedToTheElements: Cosplay Girl is seen wearing her usual {{Stripperiffic}} costume on the street in the middle of winter, attracting plenty stunned looks. This is precisely the point, as she thinks to herself, "Winter is the time when you can tell the real {{attention whore}}s from the simple posers."
40	%%* {{Expy}}: Freddy, of one of the artist's earlier creations, [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries James]] with Tits.
41	* ExactWords: The commissioner wanted yaoi featuring Alan Moore's characters, but asked for Alan Moore yaoi. Ghastly provided [[ScrewYourself Alan Moore yaoi]].
42	* EyesAlwaysShut: Hammer the barkeep.
43	%%* {{Fangirl}}
44	%%* {{Filler}}
45	* TheFundamentalist: [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Chick]]-Boy. This causes him a lot of angst when he gets into a relationship with Freddy.
46	* GenkiGirl: Freddy. The girl aspect is debatable (they're depicted with breasts and a penis). The genki aspect is not (bouncing around like crazy first thing in the morning after sleeping with Smokey).
47	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Chibi Sue when she's considering losing her virginity via a glory hole. Subverted in that both angels egg her on. When her quest fails (as it was H.G. on the other side and she couldn't see his invisible penis), the two of them proceed to have sex with each other as she watches in frustration.
48	* GratuitousJapanese: Freddy.
49	-->"If I was a [[{{Catgirl}} cat-girl]], [[Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof baka-baka-baka-neko-neko-neko-neko-dum]]"
50	%%* GroinAttack: Distressingly common.
51	%%* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Zipper ninja.
52	* HimeCut: Kiki, an unusual example as she has no obvious Asian ancestry.
53	* HypocriticalHumor: Glemph defends his cousin's homosexuality... only to flip out on discovering his cousin's boyfriend is ''human''.
54	* IgnoringBySinging: A tentacle monster frantically starts yelling "LALALALA LAAAAAA!!" trying to drown out someone's hypothesis on why zombies are constantly moaning.
55	%%* InnocentInaccurate: Peep.
56	* TheInternetIsForPorn: Bobby looks at Yaoi porn online.
57	%%* [[JesusWasWayCool Jesus Was Drunk And Bitter]]
58	* JiveTurkey: Brewster "Da Funk" Bombe, who is an obvious parody of black American {{Blaxploitation}} depictions from TheSeventies.
59	* LocalHangout: The Spanked Monkey bar run by Hammer, where most of the main cast hang out when they're not otherwise engaged.
60	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: One of the tentacle monsters suffers from his tentacles not working when he ends up in bed with Kiki.
61	* LovecraftLite: Cthulhu, who is actually a baby, and his parents pawn him off to a babysitter.
62	%%* ManicPixieDreamGirl Freddy again.
63	%%* MarsNeedsWomen
64	* MeaningfulName:
65	** [[NoSocialSkills Kwerki]]. Not quirky as in "endearing", more quirky as in "weird and disturbing in a bad way".
66	** Also Fnanp, which stands for '''F'''laky '''N'''ew '''A'''ge '''N'''eo '''P'''agan, which is a pretty accurate description of him.
67	* MeetCute: Offscreen: F'ga and Bobby met when F'ga reached through a glory hole to ask for toilet paper because his stall had run out.
68	* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Glemph is appalled at Kiki's insinuation that he intends to rape her, and frequently finds himself exasperated by the perverted antics of the rest of his species.
69	* NaughtyTentacles: The general premise of the entire comic. Probably covers every form of PlayingWithATrope of this.
70	* NotGrowingUpSucks: Chibi Sue, who's thirty-six but is stuck in the body that looks six years old. This is... problematic when it comes to relationships.
71	* OlderThanTheyLook: Chibi Sue, who is thirty-six, but as her name suggests looks like a six-year-old. Parodied, as Hammer explains that her claim of only being thirty-two was because she went into denial in her late twenties.
72	* OrphanedSeries: The main run of the comic abruptly ended without any resolution due the the author's CreatorBreakdown.
73	%%* BlackComedyRape
74	%%* RuleThirtyFour: This comic is loaded with it.
75	%%* RunningGag
76	* ShroudedInMyth: Among other exploits, Hammer once rode the range and fought in a {{Sentai}} team... always alongside a masturbation-obsessed dip named Clem.
77	%%* SpitTake: Done dry in [[http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20011007.html this strip]].
78	%%* StupidSexyFlanders
79	%%* StylisticSuck: The strips drawn by Freddy.
80	* TakeThat:
81	** Several aimed at ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}''. These lead up to a piece of SelfDeprecation: When he compares his vasectomy to a long line of people waiting to kick him in the nuts, Largo and Piro announce they've gone three times.
82	** [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]] and his tracts are parodied mercilessly. See UsefulBook below for the first instance. Later on, Freddy makes {{Doujinshi}} tracts.
83	* UsefulBook: Nort finds himself with no toilet paper, and starts yelling blasphemous things until Chick-Boy shows up and flings some tracts into the stall. Punchline: "I knew there was a use for these things."
84	%%* {{Yonkoma}}

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