A comic series about three Britons who come to America, and end up regretting it for the rest of their lives.

Since its inception the series has undergone a complete overhaul and given a loose plot. The series likes to avoid StatusQuoIsGod as much as possible.

The series starts in London, England in 1976. The Browning family, consisting of 12-year-old Shaun and 10-year-old Graeme, as well as their [[TheWoobie depressed father Francis]], lose their home and their matriarch, Maria, to foreclosure and cancer, respectively. After a brief stay in [[CrapSackWorld Croydon,]] they move to the city of South Falls, Florida, and begin a life that's not all that much better.

Then it GETS better.

[[TimeSkip Fast-forward]] to 2010. Shaun, now 46, has become a well-respected archaeologist and linguist, and has been married for 26 years to Evelyn Rhodes, a formerly homeless Frenchwoman, and travels the world incessantly. Graeme, 44, has purchased an dingy apartment and has been married for 15 years to Holly Eastings, [[spoiler: then divorces her when she turns out to be his long-lost sister.]] Francis remains a homeless old man who doesn't want to be happy, refusing to let his sons help him.

Eventually, the local police force stages a coup and overhtrows the mayor, effectively putting everyone in town who isn't considered important on lockdown. Chief-of-Police and now King of the newly-renamed "New Tenochtitlan" James Barnaby is quite corrupt, unfortunately for everyone.

So maybe it doesn't get better after all.
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!!This Work Contains Non-Alphabetized Examples of:

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Shaun. Francis used to be one, but now he's a Depressed Homeless Guy, which should be a trope...
* CloudCuckooLander: Graeme is worse than an idiot. He's an idiot with his own sense of "logic".
** Dreams recurringly about a nightclub with no doors out, an infinite bar, the same song repeating over and over again ad naseum, dim, red lighting and a population of [[NightMareFuel naked androids armed to the teeth with rocket launchers. But don't worry, they protect you.]]
** Milkat Jones is EVEN WORSE. He's got all of Graeme's problems, plus he tends to go insane with conspiracy plots from time to time over the stupidest things.
*** "The leaves are falling! It must be the machinations of Tree Emperor! Shaun, we need to stop him!"
* Homage: To Inception, when Shaun enters Graeme's dream, though it is purely accidental.
* GratuitousItalian: A running gag is whenever Shaun and Giovanni meet up, they speak in Italian until Shaun inevitably accidentally starts speaking Latin.
* DeadPanSnarker: Evelyn.
* KnightTemplar: All of the Templarmasons. They routinely travel the world and murder thieves and innocents alike in order to keep artifacts from being stolen, destroyed, lost, or even tampered with.
** Shaun, mostly.
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler: Accidentally between Graeme and Holly]].
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Amir and Giovanni die whilst murdering all of Barnaby's offcials with knives.]]