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2	[[caption-width-right:237:This panel sums things up fairly well.]]
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4	->'''Marie:''' [Admires her Oxbridge-style, college-required dining robes] Am I supposed to feel like Batman?
5	->'''Casey:''' Minus the money and the purpose in life, sure.
6	-->-- ''West of Bathurst''
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8	''[[http://www.westofbathurst.com West of Bathurst]]'' was a thrice-weekly WebComic following the lives and misadventures of a library science grad student named Marie and several of her friends at fictional Davies College in Toronto. Marie struggles with procrastination, required Harry Potter-esque dining garb, ongoing guilt over an event in her past, and a mysterious best friend who may or may not be the [[{{Satan}} folkloric devil]]. In the words of the strip's author, ''West of Bathurst'' can best be summed up as "procrastination, panic, ambiguous fantastic elements, and angst."
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10	Can be considered a LifeEmbellished webcomic, since Davies is a thinly-veiled stand-in for the author's alma mater; however, she has stated that the main characters are entirely fictional.
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12	The comic started in July 2006 and concluded in February 2014. The creator then moved on to the still running {{Spinoff}} comic ''[[http://www.itneverrainscomic.com/ It Never Rains]]''.
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15	!! Contains examples of:
16	* BatmanGambit:
17	** Ursula has alleged that [[spoiler:Casey's friendship with Marie]] was just a BatmanGambit to ensure that [[spoiler:Marie]] would come to his rescue.
18	* DoggedNiceGuy: Rahim is the Patient Friend subtrope.
19	* FairyTaleTropes: Casey may be the folkloric devil, considering he: relies on a cane (sometimes), plays the fiddle, and is at the center of an ongoing plot which appears to involve a green coat, seven-year bargains, and souls. .
20	* ProudToBeAGeek: There is an entire page devoted to strips with ''Doctor Who'' references, and Harry Potter has come up several times as well.
21	* RunningGag: The annual dousing in the Davies pond, and Casey's phone conversations with his mother about tentacles.
22	* {{Satan}}: Whether Casey is or is not the actual devil is still up for debate, but he has been known to set things on fire with his mind. Maybe
23	* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Averted, in that grad students often spend much of their time independently working, and presumably actual studying and thesis writing is occurring off-panel.
24	* StatusQuoIsGod: Averted; time is passing, and many of the characters are now alumni. Their continued presence in and around Davies is justified by the fact that some of the first strips featured alumni that never quite managed to stop hanging out at the college.
25	* TheSlacker: Casey doesn't quite qualify, since his work always gets done -- just eerily quickly. And then he spends the rest of his time playing violin and having mysterious meetings at Tim Hortons.
26	* ThereAreNoTherapists: The fact that Marie is actively resisting hers probably isn't helping.
27	* WackyCollege: Davies. They wear full robes to dinner and recite Latin grace. And then there's the architecture.
28	* WhenIWasYourAge: The strips with Barbara marking horrid essays may qualify as a commentary on the English skills of Kids These Days.
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