1 | ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20201229163231/https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/articleList?titleNo=11412 Pictures Of You]]'' is a Webcomic written and drawn by Gibson Twist. |
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3 | It tells the tale of farmboy Peter Morris who starts college life and forms a close circle of friends. While he adapts to life in the city, the group struggles with love life, money and the occasional barfight. |
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5 | Oh, and it is constantly [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] that something will go really, really wrong. |
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7 | !! Provides examples of: |
8 | * AffectionateParody: See ShoutOut below. |
9 | * ArtEvolution: While the art was good from the beginning, the comic turned from black & white to full color with the beginning of Book Three. And even more notably, when the first draft of the comic was posted. |
10 | * AssholeVictim: Peter's [[CurbStompBattle brutal beating]] of [[spoiler:Devon]] was received this way by readers. Readers initially cheered since he had it coming, but it didn't take long for it to turn to squick and [[{{Woobie}} sympathy.]] |
11 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Done beautifully with [[spoiler:Chisto and Michelle]] |
12 | * BerserkButton: Peter pushes Mulligan's when he calls a gentleman's club a "nudie bar." [[http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/802013/3-ii-04-dancing-queen-3/ Those girls are dancers.]] |
13 | * TheCasanova: Andy. |
14 | * {{Catchphrase}}: "I didn't see that coming at all." |
15 | * CerebusSyndrome: It starts out light and comedic (that is, if you ignore the Prologue) but everything seems to point toward a rather dramatic ending. In this case, though, it is planned. |
16 | * CoolBigSis: Michelle tends to act this way towards Wily; she'll even occasionally call him 'Little Brother'. |
17 | * CrushFilter: Peter's first sight of Kara leads him directly to envisioning them waltzing together in formal wear. |
18 | * DidTheyOrDidntThey: Patrick and Alexander, though it's [[HoYay somewhat heavily implied]] that something did in fact happen between them, especially given Patrick's nervous reaction when he [[http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/767090/3-ii-02-tattoo-you-14/ sees him again.]] |
19 | * ExtremeDoormat: Melanie acts like this toward Devon, and Michelle eventually [[http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/753712/3-ii-02-tattoo-you-9/ calls her out on it.]] |
20 | * FillerStrips: Done after every book, in the form of guest artists drawing short scenes about the characters to bridge the hiatus. |
21 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Dripping with it. Peter, as the narrator, constantly hints that the group will fall apart. |
22 | * FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:If things weren't disintegrating before, they certainly do after Wiley's suicide]]. |
23 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: {{Averted}} with Alexander, who is an exchange student from Prague and a StrangeSyntaxSpeaker, and Christo, who is from Spain and speaks perfect English. |
24 | * BlackAndGrayMorality: There's no character in the webcomic without some skeletons in the closet, vices, or nasty flaws. However, DomesticAbuser Devon and PhantomThief Alexander are much more antagonistic and morally black than the rest. |
25 | * InformedJudaism: Andy. |
26 | * InSeriesNickname: Peter gets known as Slugger early on after taking out a heckler with one punch. It informs the name of the band, too: One Inch Punch. |
27 | * NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Christo does this to Peter, though he's not technically trapped outside; just in the hallway where Michelle and Lauren see him. |
28 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Peter unleashes one of these on [[spoiler:Devon after he finds out he beat the crap out of Melanie.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Peter hasn't been the same]] since. |
29 | * ObliviousToLove: Peter, though he seems to have moved past it. |
30 | * OddCouple: Stoic Patrick and ladies' man Andy |
31 | * OhCrap: Peter's reaction when he learns that the woman he slept with [[spoiler:is married]]. This later happens again when Peter, Andy, and Mulligan discover that [[spoiler:Michelle works as a stripper at the club they went to]], and Peter, along with Michelle, suffer this when they find out that Mulligan told Christo before she had a chance to do so herself. |
32 | * OutOfFocus: Lauren begins to see plot lines more isolated from the larger ensemble, and less screen time, around when Melanie [[spoiler: gets out of her abusive relationship]] and starts hanging around a lot more in Book Three. |
33 | * TheRant: |
34 | ** A few early strips include {{Aesop}}ish diatribes, in narration or [[AuthorTract by characters]] about Patrick's experience being gay, or how Sam changed Peter's perceptions, etc. They wear away as the out-of-universe real world social climate continued to adjust, and as Twist's writing prowess grew. |
35 | ** Patrick used to write snarky letters to the government. |
36 | ** Reading Gibson Twist's tales about college life can be as entertaining as the comic itself. Also even more {{Foreshadowing}}. |
37 | * TheReveal: After a lot of foreshadowing, it's finally revealed that [[spoiler:Michelle is a stripper and gets found out by Peter, Andy, and Mulligan.]] |
38 | ** [[spoiler:The incident that was the final nail in the coffin for the group, it was Wiley killing himself]]. |
39 | * TheStoner: Pretty much all the guys in the main cast, although they are far from being [[{{Buttmonkey}} Buttmonkeys]]. |
40 | * RightThroughTheWall: [[http://picturesofyou.smackjeeves.com/comics/658592/3-i-02-bishop-street-7/ Andy's bedroom isn't exactly soundproof.]] |
41 | * SanitySlippage: Hinted at during the band's first tour, but comes as kind of a WhamMoment when Wiley shows up for a photo shoot and begins screaming random stuff into the mic. Confirmed when Michelle reads his diary. [[spoiler:It ends with the poor guy jumping off a bridge.]] |
42 | * SassyBlackWoman: Kara. |
43 | * ScaryBlackMan: The bouncer at the strip club Peter, Andy, and Mulligan go to. |
44 | * ShoutOut: |
45 | --> "[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby dooby doo]], I see you, smoking marijuana! You're not foolin' me, so share with me, some of that crazy ganja! |
46 | * SlapSlapKiss: Sums up most of Christo's and Michelle's relationship. |
47 | * StepfordSmiler: Melanie, concerning her relationship with Devon. That is, until [[spoiler:she breaks up with him after he brutally beats her]]. |
48 | * StraightGay: [[spoiler: Patrick]]. |
49 | * WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: [[spoiler:Devon does this after he [[DomesticAbuse hits]] Melanie, saying that it's Peter and company's fault he got so angry at her, as well as her own fault for hanging out with them/having a life outside of her boyfriend.]] |
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