Line #8 Webcomic/MonsieurCharlatan


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3	''[[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/ Monsieur Charlatan]]'' is a webcomic takes place in Paris during TheGreatDepression. Isidore Charlatan was once a great detective but, after falling into disgrace and losing his beloved fiancée, he now spends his time drinking and contemplating suicide. His OnlyFriend is Magda, who insists into helping him to face life again, despite his jerkass behaviour. Ironically, that is what happens when she drags him into a night club and he suspects that someone is trying to commit a murder. The problem is, nobody believes him and Inspector Louis, the chief of police, hates Isidore fanatically.
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5	Starts [[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/comic/ here]].
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8	!!Tropes featured:
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10	* AccidentalPun: While the Count is hiring Professor Kamir to kill his wife, two students stop outside the latter's office door. One of them is wiring the other: "I am telling you, don't ever take his classes! The man is a "killer"!"
11	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: All the comic is digitally painted. Some of the sceneries are particulary awesome, like [[https://monsieur-charlatan.com/archive/page-25-26/ this one.]]
12	* BelligerentSexualTension: Isidore and Magda relationship is showing signs of this.
13	* BettyAndVeronica: Magda and Adeline
14	* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Between Isidore and Adeline]] on page 90.
15	* {{Blackmail}}:
16	** The Count threatens to reveal Kamir's past as an assassin if he refuses to kill Adeline.
17	** When Magda tells Adeline to stay away from Isidore, the latter threatens to put both in jail by telling everyone [[spoiler: they killed Magda's husband.]]
18	* BrokenAce: Isidore.
19	* ByronicHero: Isidore, indeed. He is BrilliantButLazy, cult and perceptive, whenever he is not too drunk or obsessed with death. Also, he was the only one willing to help Magda in the past, while most people preferred to ignore domestic violence. And when realizes there is a murderer on the loose, his old passion returns.
20	* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Kamir doesn't kill Isidore even when the latter begs to because he needs him to take the blame for Adeline's murder.
21	* CassandraTruth: Isidore seems to have a hard time getting people to believe him.
22	* ClingyJealousGirl: Magda gets pretty jealous whenever Isidore gives some attention to Adeline.
23	* CloseKnitCommunity: His neighbors look after his cat.
24	* CueTheSun: The opening scene
25	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Isidore
26	* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Isidore feigns this.
27	* DirtyCop: Inspector Louis
28	* DoggedNiceGuy: Phillip insists into inviting Magda to dinner, although she is clearly not interested. When Isidore burst into the newspaper office to warn her about the killer, Phillipe menaces him, but she dismisses him firmly. He smirks when Isidore leaves dejectedly.
29	* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: Magda suffered from this at the hands of her ex-husband.]]
30	* DrowningMySorrows: Isidore became an alcoholic after he has lost everything.
31	* DrivenToSuicide: Isidore
32	* EvilCripple: The Count
33	* ForgetsToEat: Isidore
34	* GoodSamaritan: Magda to Isidore. As much as she complains, she can't help it, because [[spoiler: he saved her life after her husband raped her and locked her up.]]
35	* GoldDigger: Adeline, was Isidore's fiancé until he lost everything, she then decided to dump him. She then married a rich Count instead. [[spoiler: Her new husband wants her dead.]]
36	* GreatDetective: His BackStory
37	* ImmoralJournalist: Magda's boss presses her to write a deprecating article about Isidore because whatever is written about him "sells like crazy". She quits, but changes her mind after learning that Isidore told her secret to Adeline and he was quite a jerk to her when she called him out (also, because he had sex with Adeline after everything that woman did to him). She regrets it later.
38	* InterruptedSuicide: Happens to Isidore a lot. The first time, he is about to give himself a shoot when Magda arrives. His cat, Luna, interrupts his second attempt by hissing when he is cutting one of his wrists with a razor.
39	* IntrepidReporter: Magda
40	* KickTheDog: Many characters love doing that: Adeline, Liam, The Count, Inspector Louis...
41	* ManipulativeBastard: Adeline. Just frickin' Adeline.
42	* MessOfWoe: The condition of Isidore's office horrifies Magda.
43	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Isidore saves Adeline from getting murdered but the bouncer comes in at the wrong time and thinks Isidore is taking advantage of her. In the end Isidore gets beaten up and humiliated for his trouble.
44	* NotWhatItLooksLike: This [[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/archive/page-40/ page.]]
45	* OddShapedPanel: Conforming, mostly, to objects inside.
46	* ParentalAbandonment: According to Magda's article, Isidore's parents abandoned him to be raised by strangers while they traveled.
47	* ProfessionalKiller: Kamir Geroux's past profession.
48	* PrivateDetective: Isidore.
49	* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Magda started wearing pants after her husband's death.
50	* SirSwearsalot: The Count

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