Line #37 Webcomic/ListeningTo11975Mhz


1	''Listening to 11.975 [=MHz=]'' is a {{Webcomic}} started in December 2002 by Ethan Forsythe.
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3	And it's ... ''[[MindScrew really weird]]''. It's about a girl (whose name is never given within the comic but WordOfGod says is [[http://www.succubi.org/ Deco Bleu]]), and her, um... ''adventures'' in a very surreal dream world.
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5	The comic is filled with obscure references (especially to shortwave radio), and the comics sometimes contain messages to the author's friends. These are incomprehensible to anyone else.
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7	It can be found [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=01 here]] (currently down, but the strip has since been made available on the creator's [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/listening-to-11-80225183 Patreon page]].).
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9	In late 2014 the author re-launched the comic as a self published indy comic, "11.975 [=MHz=]", which is available via [[https://www.comixology.com/11-975MHz/comics-series/27105 ComiXlogy]] for a small fee. The updated version is simultaneously much less and much more surreal than the original, switching the storytelling style to a more traditional comic format while retaining much of the Dadaesque elements.
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11	"Deco and her mother, Pascale, wake up one day to find themselves in "The Archives", a near-infinite warehouse of every known archetypal location in the Multiverse."
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14	!!This webcomic provides examples of...
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16	* ArcWords: wm
17	* ArtEvolution: As in most webcomics, the art gets better and better as the comic progresses, with a particularly noticeable shift when the shading style changes. Another trend is how Deco seems to be looking younger and younger.
18	* BadassCape: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=30 This one here.]]
19	* BarbieDollAnatomy: Averted like crazy with the Brazilian hippie, aka Fussy Britches. Most pages with her are somewhat NSFW due to nudity.
20	* BeautifulAllAlong: The Girl Who Speaks Math (Caboose) is [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=39 adorable]] when she takes her [[NerdGlasses super-thick spiral glasses]] off.
21	* BigBallOfViolence: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=115 here.]]
22	* BilingualBonus: Averted; while the comic uses a myriad of languages (see below) all of them are apparently nonsense aside from the references, which are always in English.
23	* BilingualDialogue: Multilingual would be more accurate; between Deco's French, Lunchbox's Chinese, Fussy Britches' Portuguese with occasional Italian, whatever the white-haired devil speaks, the English used by signs and assorted one-off characters, and the ''calculus equations'' used by Caboose, this trope is present in spades.
24	** The white-haired devil's speech in [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=82 at least one strip]] seems to be Dutch/Flemish. [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=49 Elsewhere]] she seems to speak Greek, or at least in Greek letters. Sometimes it’s Dutch/Flemish written in Greek.
25	** And [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=160 starting here,]] a floating mouse-like creature (with a distinct resemblance to [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]) speaks Catalan.
26	* BodyHorror: Whatever is happening on [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=22 this page]], [[{{Squick}} it's a good thing Deco is turned the other way...]]
27	* CantYouReadTheSign: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=07 Of course the signs warning of the deep, deep hole ahead aren't worth noticing.]] Though neither Deco nor Lunchbox actually speak English, so I suppose it's justifiable.
28	** [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=17 This one specifically says, "No one listens to me anyways."]]
29	* {{Catgirl}}: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=21 Deco, in one comic only,]] [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=85 and these one-off characters.]]
30	* CharacterCatchphrase: Deco says "Bassoon!" quite a bit at the beginning.
31	** The phrase "drink Early Times" shows up with fair frequency in later comics. Early Times is a brand of whiskey, by the way.
32	** The radio with legs [[BrokenRecord keeps repeating the phrase]] "Zachary. Acetaminophen. Beige."
33	* CuteMute: Antithesis (Fussy Britches' daughter) [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=37 has blank speech bubbles.]]
34	* DadaComics: Of which this is a prime example.
35	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The character often called "The Girl Who Speaks Math" is exactly that. Though her real name is Caboose.
36	* {{Fanservice}}: The characters are randomly naked every so often. ([[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=105 Here]]'s an example.)
37	* GodivaHair: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=105 Deco, in this comic.]]
38	* GuestStrip: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=87 Only one, by someone named Divine.]] It makes about as much sense as the rest of the comic, as in none.
39	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: The Brazilian hippie girl who rarely wears pants or underwear and frequently doesn't even button her shirt.
40	* LargeHam: The '''TWONKY'''. A boon to mankind? Or '''''its terrible fate?!'''''
41	** A ShoutOut to a short story by Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore, alias Lewis Padgett, and/or [[Film/TheTwonky the movie adaptation]] thereof.
42	* {{Mindscrew}}: Almost inverted, it's the parts that near comprehension that are disorienting.
43	* MoodWhiplash: The comic is cute and whimsical, right? [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=85 Then you have this]], which is pretty damn depressing. Then it's back to cute and whimsical.
44	* MsFanservice: Fussy Britches, the hippie. See InnocentFanserviceGirl above.
45	* MushroomSamba: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=28 What do you expect from brownies made by a hippie?]]
46	** [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=73 Possibly here as well, though it's hard to understand.]]
47	* ShoutOut: Lots and lots, particularly to old video games such as Pac-Man (Deco's headband has the game's titular character and a ghost, not to mention [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=15 this]]), VideoGame/{{Zork}} [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=08 (when Deco and Lun Che Box fall into a pit, the opening text is in the background)]], and plenty to ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''. There are also excerpts from ''The Idiot at Home'' by John Kendrick Bangs every once in a while, and one comic has the last few lines from Tennyson's Sir Galahad.
48	** [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=30 This comic]] references the last two lines of the song "Truckstop" by Marty Stuart.
49	** There are many, many references to the end text of VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}.
50	** Deco must have dialed the 80's into the [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=134 Dial-A-Decade machine]], because [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty Steve Dallas]] walked out.
51	* TalkativeLoon: Nearly all characters gives off this impression.
52	* SistineSteal: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=21 Tag!]]
53	* TheUnintelligible: EVERY. SINGLE. CHARACTER. But especially Deco herself, the AnimeChineseGirl Lunchbox, and Caboose.
54	* UnsoundEffect: Many of the "sound effects" are things like celebrity names. Actually, none of them are real sounds...
55	* WholesomeCrossdresser: One-off character [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=68 Sinbios]]
56	* WrenchWench: [[http://www.succubi.org/db/index.php?strip=124 Caboose.]]

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