Line #5 Webcomic/GoblinHollow


1	''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/comics/goblin-hollow/ Goblin Hollow]]'' is a UsefulNotes/{{Furry\|Fandom}} comic by Creator/RalphHayesJr (also known for ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' and ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'').
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3	It stars [[SpeciesSurname Ben Bruin]], his wife Lily (a mountain lion), her younger sister Penny, and a septet of goblins (Sheldon, Velvet, Slick, Zoot, Morty, Gunther and Piff) that Ben inherited along with the old mansion they all live in.
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5	In a previous incarnation, the comic was called ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/comics/under-the-lemon-tree/ Under The Lemon Tree]]'' and the goblins weren't goblins, but aspects of Ben's subconscious brought to life (Ex. Sheldon was his intelligence, Velvet his sensitivity, Mort his pessimism, etc.)
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8	!!''Goblin Hollow'' contains examples of:
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10	* AbortedArc: There were hints of a {{mysterious past}} that would explain why someone of Ben's skills and intelligence was basically working as a janitor at a Woolworth's. This seems to have vanished along with the previous continuity.
11	** The promised appearance of [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0362/ the Wyrd Kids]] was abandoned as well, much to the dismay of the readership.
12	* AuthorAppeal: [[strike: RH Junior]] Ben is an unashamed gun "enthusiast".
13	%%* AuthorAvatar: Ben, originally
14	* BadassBoast: Ben has one toward old man Feldspar, seen [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0338 here]].
15	* BigBeautifulMan: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/under-the-lemon-tree-0282/ How Lily]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/under-the-lemon-tree-0283/ sees Ben]].
16	** After all, there's more than one way [[http://www.rhjunior.com/under-the-lemon-tree-0426/ to be sensual and erotic]].
17	* BilingualBackfire: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0333 "Actually I was deciding if I should tell you I speak Navajo..."]]
18	* BlahBlahBlah: An interesting variation found in [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0369 this]] strip.
19	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Or in Penny's case, "Teenage Sister." (Hayes may have been going for "seriously troubled" and missed the mark a bit.)
20	* CaptainErsatz: Ookami Lobo: Totally not The Joker.
21	* CharacterDevelopment: An odd case. When Penny first arrived, she was very much the [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Bratty Teenage Sister]] described above. But as time went on, we saw instances of her [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0051 playing]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0248 nice]] with the other kids, showing more [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0262 good]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0285 grace]] about helping out around the arcade, moments of [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0305 real humor]] and, most importantly, [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0202 ferocious]] [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0203 protectiveness]] of her family. Most of the fandom saw her as having matured out of [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Bratty Teenage Sister]] and into a grump with some DeadpanSnarker tendencies and a MamaBear right beneath the surface. The cartoonist, however, still saw her as an ill-behaved brat who needed to A) be brought up short with the kind of real discipline she's never had before, and B) get the dead little sister issues at the root of her troubled personality dealt with.
22	* ChristmasSpecial: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0271 Not in D&D thank you kindly.]]
23	* ChurchLady: Ben runs into some trouble with a group of Church Ladies objecting to his arcade, whose leader absolutely blows her top when she finds the D&D room. Fortunately their pastor turns out to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who tells them to back off.
24	* ContinuityReboot: The comic dropped [=UTLT's=] LifeEmbellished tone to more supernatural hijinks, to the point where [[OrwellianRetcon the older strips were redrawn]] to give the menagerie their goblin wings.
25	* CrossOver: With ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' - though that turned out to be AllJustADream.
26	** And Ben decided to take the family to the [[Webcomic/NipAndTuck Malarky County Fair]].
27	* DoesHeHaveABrother: A goblin wants to marry a woman who skritches him behind the ears. She's married. But does she have a sister?
28	* ExpressDelivery: Lily goes from [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0388 "not even showing"]] to [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0389 "about to drop"]] in the space of two panels (via lampshaded TimeSkip).
29	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Walk about freely. [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0393 It's covered]]
30	%%* GirlsHaveCooties: (And boys are weird.)
31	* GoshDangItToHeck: Another Hayes staple.
32	* HalfHumanHybrid: Ben, by his own words, is of "mixed heritage." What that actually means has yet to be disclosed.
33	%%** Also, Ben and Lily's child.
34	%%* HauntedHouse: Which Ben converted into an old-school arcade.
35	%%* HeartwarmingOrphan
36	* {{Hypocrite}}: The Neighborhood Watch, among others. When they complain about Ben's building, he proves that all of them have extended their own buildings onto his property.
37	* IndianBurialGround: Subverted, it's an ancient Indian garbage dump.
38	%%* InsatiableNewlyweds: Ben and Lily.
39	* InterspeciesRomance: Ben (bear) and Lily (mountain lion)
40	%%* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique - [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0166 here]].
41	%%* LiterallyShatteredLives - The gargoyles, goblins' natural predators.
42	* MamaBear: Lily smashed a gargoyle to pieces with her bare claws when one of them almost ate one of the Goblins. Her getting a sledgehammer to deal with the goblin eaters afterwards was a mere formality.
43	* MutualMasquerade: Penny finds and hatches a pair of goblin eggs and spends several strips keeping them secret from Ben and Lily, who unbeknownst to her already have seven goblins of their own.
44	* MundaneFantastic: ''Much'' heavier on the supernatural (or at least the weird) than ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', which takes place in the same universe.
45	* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Feline Lily is pregnant with ursine Ben's child.
46	%%* ObviousPregnancy: Invoked, and subverted
47	* Oireland: Tam O'Shanter shakes.
48	* OurGargoylesRock: These ones are natural predators of goblins, and turn to stone whenever someone is looking at them.
49	* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Starting with the fact that they're (now) green-colored FunnyCartoonAnimals, with bat wings and pointy ears.
50	* OutGivingBirthBackInTwoMinutes: Lily gives birth between comics.
51	* ParentalAbandonment: You can argue about whether sending Penny to stay with her sister counts or not, but if their parents couldn't guess (or if they ''did'' guess, they didn't warn Lily and Ben) that maybe, possibly, in theory, it was not inconceivable that Penny's issues just ''might'' have at least some of their source in [[spoiler:''her best friend's suicide'']], they were pretty useless anyway.
52	* PeerlessLoveInterest: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/under-the-lemon-tree-0029/ His original intention with Lily.]] even in ''Lemon Tree'', that changed
53	* SexualKarma: Those in the comic who have unmarried sex lives are of questionable moral character, at best. And the good people have ''really'' good sex.
54	* SmellySkunk: Ronnie, whenever he's [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0018 scared]] or [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0085 surprised]].
55	* TimeForPlanB: When Ben tells the [[IdleRich Snotworthy]] [[MockMillionaire Heights]] [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense snobs]] politely that if they call it quits, he will too. But when the head JerkAss [[ScrewTheRulesIhaveMoney threatens to sue]] [[BullyingADragon Ben]] [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem for everything and anything he can think of]], Ben ''vividly illustrates'' '''''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0243 his backup plan]].''''' In ''[[BowelBreakingBricks blood-curdling]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation detail]]'' on how he would turn the leader and his friends from very rich [[EntitledBastard entitled bastards]] to LandPoor losers.
56	* TitleDrop: "Little sis… welcome to ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0380 Goblin Hollow]]''."
57	* TrickDialogue: Penny on the phone, without actually having dialed.
58	* TyrannicalHomeownersAssociation: When Ben moved in to Lovecraft Manor, the homeowners association, who also effectively ran the zoning board, heaped all kinds of ordinance complaints against Ben's mansion/video game arcade. Up until the posse found some [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0241/ incriminating photos]], and Ben discovered that due to a drunken surveyor he technically owned large chunks of their plots, and then he threatened to turn his land into a trailer park if they didn't give up.
59	* YouAllMeetInACell: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0063 After the players complained]] that [[YouAllMeetInAnInn meeting in an inn]] was too cliche.
60	* UnclePennybags: Ben was able to start his arcade due to an inheritance from his Uncle Phineas(a ShoutOut to P.T.Barnum)... who rather than leaving him money, left him his extensive collection... of arcade games.
61	* WeakenedByTheLight: {{Downplayed}} with gargoyles. Light doesn't directly harm them, but because they are immobilized by observation, they become far less dangerous in a well-lit area.
62	* WithThisHerring: Averted for an in-comic RPG session, because [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0067/ the GM thinks it makes more sense that way]].
63	-->"The ''Darned Good Reason'' rule. As in 'nobody becomes an adventurer without a darned good reason to think they'll survive it'."\
64	''That and I got tired of Fred needing to write up a new character twice a session.''

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