Line #52 Webcomic/TheChapelChronicles


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Book One of Chapel Chronicles]]
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4	''[[http://chapelchronicles.com Chapel Chronicles]]'' is a hand drawn, full-color webcomic created by Emma T Capps which updates on Fridays with author commentary in English and Spanish.
5	The strips center around the adventures of Chapel Smith, a zany 11 year-old girl and her hedgehog sidekick, Sir Rupert Tennyson Bollingsworth the First. Chapel loves hats, hates chores, has a little bit of an obsession with Music/LadyGaga, an archenemy, Fred, with whom she plays games, and in Season One adopts a pet hedgehog. The art has evolved in Season Two to give backgrounds to Chapel, such as a house, and to explore other aspects of her personality. The author sells a [[WebcomicPrintCollection Webcomic Print Collection]] of the 32 strips in Season One. Can be read [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com here]]. You probably should start from the beginning to get a real sense of Chapel's character and to understand later references.
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8	!!Tropes featured in this webcomic
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10	* TheAce: Chapel is obsessed with board and card games, so whenever Fred babysits her, that's how they pass the time. Fred always wins, driving Chapel up the wall.
11	* AliceAllusion: In the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 final strip]] of the first season, Chapel in Wonderland, Chapel imagines herself as Literature/AliceInWonderland, with other characters from her strips appearing in Wonderland Cameos.
12	* Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/32 Waiting for Buffy]] and the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/33 Whedon Addiction]], Chapel is waiting to watch the [=DVDs=] of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''.
13	* DaydreamSurprise: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/2 Battleship: The Games Continue]], Chapel imagines herself in a submarine being sunk by a patrol boat when in reality, her submarine has been sunk in the game.
14	* DreamSequence: The comic book ends in a four page Dream Sequence entitled [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 Chapel in Wonderland]] in which Chapel finds herself dressed as Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Fred, her archenemy is the Cheshire Cat, Lady Gaga appears having [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] Music/JustinBieber, wanting to play chess with flamingos and using Rupert as the ball. Chapel finally leaves and walks off but is still dressed as Alice at the end.
15	* EasterEgg:
16	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/6 The Folly of Chivalry]], the position of the chess pieces are the exact ones referenced by the characters when Alice checkmates in Through the Looking Glass but the black and white suits are reversed.
17	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/17 Lobster Delivery]], the packing labels on the box (almost impossible to read) say 42 Penny Lane, referring to Music/TheBeatles, Millinery Co. Drum Isle, Grand Line, referring to a place in ''Franchise/OnePiece''.
18	* FormallyNamedPet: Rupert, Chapel's [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/24 pet hedgehog's]] formal name is Sir Rupert Tennyson Bollingsworth the First
19	* HalloweenCosplay: In a special [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/35 Halloween strip]], Chapel tried on a Gorgeous Period Dress, the [[TimeMachine Tardis]] from ''Series/DoctorWho'', finally deciding to wear the outfit of Manga/CardcaptorSakura with her hedgehog dressed as Kero-chan.
20	* HeadPet: Chapel's pet hedgehog, Rupert, occasionally is perched atop Chapel's big head of hair, as in [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/27 Hedgehog Constitutional]]
21	* ImagineSpot
22	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 Chapel in Wonderland]], Chapel imagines herself as Alice from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', and others from her life appear in the story.
23	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/14 The Good, the Bad, and the Hatted]], Chapel imagines herself a gunslinger in one panel.
24	* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: In the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/15 Gaga Saga]], Chapel dresses in an outfit from the Lady Gaga video "Bad Romance" and a Versace outfit parodied on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
25	* IndulgentFantasySegue: When Chapel plays games with her archenemy Fred, she sometimes engages in these. When she is playing ''TabletopGame/{{Risk}}'' in [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/7 Chapel the Conqueror]], she imagines herself taking over the world before discovering that in reality, she has just lost the game. In the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/6 Folly of Chivalry]], she imagines herself as Sir Lancelot when in reality, she has just been checkmated.
26	* LimitedWardrobe: Chapel's wardrobe is mainly limited to her LittleBlackDress and loads of hats and is easily recognized by her clothing. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/19 Gaga Dress Code]] and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/20 Oblivious to the Obsession]], Chapel dresses in Lady Gaga outfits.
27	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The last four panels of Volume One entitled "[[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 Chapel in Wonderland]]" are a reference to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
28	* LittleBlackDress: Chapel wears a little black dress in almost every strip. It's one of her fundamental characterizations. In Chapter 3 of Season One entitled [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/15 The Gaga Saga]], Chapel wears various Lady Gaga outfits, one from the video Bad Romance and one which was also worn by Quinn on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
29	* LongPants: While other on-screen characters are drawn with shoes on, Chapel's feet are always portrayed as long skin-colored blobs, even though she has well-defined fingers. It's never clear whether that's the case of artistic simplification or Chapel being perpetually barefoot, but she is portrayed wearing shoes inside her [[FreakyFridayFlip personality flip nightmare]], so it probably might be the latter. Interestingly, this trope also applies even after the comic undergoing ArtEvolution for ''The Hats of London''!
30	* MeaningfulName: Rupert, the hedgehog, is named after Rupert Giles in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
31	* PimpedOutDress: The dresses in the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/15 Gaga Saga Chapter]] and in the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/35 Halloween Strip]] certainly qualify.
32	* PlayingPictionary: In a reversal of the usual trope, Chapel draws an [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/5 photo-realistic Mona Lisa]] (how slow ''is'' that sand?), but Fred can't identify it.
33	* PuppyDogEyes: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/23 Chapel Guevara]], Chapel gives her parents huge puppy-dog eyes while trying to get a well, puppy. It doesn't work. She gets a hedgehog instead.
34	* RobeAndWizardHat: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/9 Dumbledore Voodoo]], Chapel wears a wizard cape and hat and uses a wand to find her math journal by using Accio Math Journal.
35	* ShoutOut: The strips have Shout Outs to other authors and works.
36	** In the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/1 The Babysitter Arrives]], Chapel is wearing a hat worn by the character Nico Robin in ''One Piece''.
37	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/14 The Good, the Bad, and the Hatted]], Chapel is reading ''Hereville'' by Barry Deustch.
38	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/16 Google Epiphany]], the computer Chapel is using has the AppleNewton logo.
39	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/6 The Folly of Chivalry]], the chess pieces are drawn in the style of ''VideoGame/{{Through the Looking Glass}}'', the first game for the Platform/AppleMacintosh.
40	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/20 Oblivious to the Obsession]], the color of the Lady Gaga outfit is a Shout Out to the color worn by Quinn in ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
41	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/26 DVD Collection]], Chapel proposes various names for her hedgehog which are all Shout Outs to science fiction television characters.
42	** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 Chapel in Wonderland]], Chapel references a poem by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, "Literature/TheRaven".
43	* StoicSpectacles: Chapel wears tiny little [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/ granny glasses]].
44	* [[Characters/OnePieceStrawHatPirates Straw Hat Pirates]]: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/1 The Babysitter Arrives]], [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/12 Work Schedule]], and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/14 The Good, the Bad, and the Hatted]], Chapel is wearing a hat styled after Nico Robin from ''One Piece''.
45	* TheVoice: Chapel's parents and Fred are often heard, but never seen.
46	* WebcomicPrintCollection: The [[http://chapelchronicles.com/catalog Chapel Chronicles Volume One]] collects the first 32 strips in Season One in a 44 page paperback edition. You can also buy it in select comic stores in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (Showcase Comics), Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Comics), Berkeley, California (Fantastic Comics) and a toy store in San Mateo, California called Talbot's Toyland.
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