Before ''{{Webcomic/Spinnerette}}'', there was ''Krakow''. (No, not the city in Poland.)

Krazy Krow's debut comic, ''Krakow'' followed the SliceOfLife adventures of Canadian roommates Tom and Case and Case's girlfriend Kia, who just happens to be a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] that Case summoned from hell on a whim one day. It ran from 2000 to 2008.

Occasionally diverted into a subplot entitled "The Demon Sisters", in which the home life of Kia's family is told.

Characters include:

* Case: Canadian college student who got bored and decided to summon a succubus one day.
* Kia: Blue-haired succubus. Case's girlfriend. Works at a bookstore. Dresses... minimally.
* Tom: Canadian college student and Case's roommate. Goes through (very strange) girlfriends like tissue paper.
* Case's parents: Dad works for the US government (for some reason). Mom is a fairly typical MILF.
* Lucretia: Kia's green-haired older sister. Grouchy about her short horns, and not very tolerant of Kia's relationship with a human (something about letting perfectly good food go to waste). Has three eyes.
* Guinness: Kia and Lucretia's little (half) sister; she's half-snake and just entering high school.
* Elise: Guinness's mother, and Kia and Lucretia's stepmother. Lucretia does not like her.
* Kia's Father: Possibly Satan, possibly just a high-level demon lord. Loves his daughters.

''Krakow 2.0'' is not a sequel, but the first half of the ''Webcomic/{{Marilith}}'' duology. Likewise, ''Charliehorse'' aka ''Krakow 4.0'' doesn't seem to be a direct sequel, though it also deals with succubi and Hell; in this case former victim of a FaustianBargain Charlie now has to fulfill the main character's FaustianBargain to claim his soul. ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' is mostly about it's titular superhero, but there are a few arcs centering around Hell and its inhabitants, where fans of ''Krakow'' will [[CanonWelding spot quite a few familiar faces in prominent roles]]. Whether the other comics are also part of TheVerse is unknown.

Unfortunately, this and all of [=KrazyKrow=]'s pre-''Spinnerette'' comics have gone missing from the site.
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!!''Krakow'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* AccidentalPervert: Played with, as Yamaguchi, the co-worker Tom keeps accidentally perving on, is portrayed as an unhinged psycho and her stereotypical DisproportionateRetribution leaves him with serious lasting injuries rather than {{amusing|injuries}} ones. She eventually gets arrested for attempted murder.
* ACupAngst: Played with. Lucretia's breasts are plenty nice, but she's insanely jealous of Kia's much longer devil horns. (It is all but canon that Guinness will eventually have much longer horns than Lucretia as well, which drives Lucretia up the walls.) Reagan instills this in Guinness by comparing her to her sisters.
* {{Area 51}}: Case's father worked there for a while.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Tom breaks up with Hanna not because she's a crazy Nazi, but because [[spoiler:she's two inches taller than him.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Well, Tom did manage to bag Cute Video Store Girl... [[spoiler:after she turned into a fanatic bodybuilder.]]
* ButtMonkey: Tom, especially with his multiple oddball girlfriends.
* TheCameo: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo, Shinji, and Rei]] appear in [[http://www.krakow.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20010313 an early strip]].
* CanonWelding: Guinness, Tom, and Kia appear in ''WebComic/{{Spinnerette}}'', establishing both comics as happening in the same setting.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Guinness. One of the sweetest six-armed demon nagas you'll ever meet.
* EyeScream: Kia apparently stuck Case in the eye with her horn by accident while having sex. He gets better thanks to a healing potion.
* GoodBadGirl: Kia is the perfect example -- though a succubus genetically, she's far happier working in a bookstore. Played with using Reagan, a young vampire and Guinness's only friend at the beginning of high school, who listens to Christian Rock as an act of rebellion against her mother, who is incognito on Earth as a big star in the death metal music world. [[spoiler:Except when she's singing sickengly cute kids' music to pay the bills...]]
* HappilyEverAfter: Case and Kia tie the knot, and Tom hooks up with Lucretia.
* HumongousMecha: Tom's job in Japan involves developing these to fend off {{Kaiju}} attacks.
* HyperspaceMallet: Deconstructed for black comedy: when Tom [[AccidentalPervert accidentally sees up the skirt]] of a Japanese coworker, she attacks him with a ''claw hammer'', and he's put in hospital with a cracked skull and has to undergo scans to check for brain damage.
* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Discussed; the boss [[InformedAttribute points out]] that Yamaguchi has an Osaka accent, but she's really from Kanto. When asked why, he explains that it's because she's an unrefined HardDrinkingPartyGirl. This makes no sense to Tom at all.
* IMissMom: The source of the tensions between Lucretia and Elise. [[http://www.krakow.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20071122 Kia also carries a locket with a picture of her.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: {{Implied|trope}}; Tom's boss has a long-lost older brother. His masked co-worker "[[Anime/SpeedRacer Manager X]]" tells him that he "might be closer than you know..."
* MailOrderBride: Tom accidentally orders one and it turns out to be his crazy Russian professor's sister.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Inverted, literally. When Guinness flushes Lucretia's contact lens down the toilet and she has to go to work with her glasses on, she's really, really annoyed when a summoner can't keep his eyes on her cleavage because he's staring at her three-lensed glasses.
** Also, in succubi society horns seem to have the same meaning as breasts for humans -- leading to phrases such as "[[http://www.krakow.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20060302 I'm down here]]."
* SayingTooMuch: [[http://www.krakow.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20031008 On the upside, Chapters gets their money one way or another...]]
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Doesn't happen in the comic, but Guinness gets a ''lot'' of fanart of her as an adult. Guinness herself later appears as an adult in ''Spinnerette''.
* ShoutOut: Before changes, Guinness was explicitly called a Marilith, after the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' monster she is patterned after, and Case even made a reference to her as Type V Demon. Mariliths were referred to as Type V Demons in the 1970's. The current version instead references 3rd Edition D&D. In ''WebComic/{{Spinnerette}}'' she's once again referred to as a Type V Demon.
** Kia herself is based on a certain eroge about succubi named after cars.
* SquareCubeLaw: Early on, Tom's boss claims that they [[BlatantLies don't]] build giant robots for [[http://www.krakow.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20030709 this reason]].
* {{Stripperiffic}} Kia usually wears nothing except her underwear.
* TheUnpronounceable: CVSG is the Cute Video Store Girl's real name.
* ThatPoorPlant: Yamaguchi's tea gets tipped into one, and kills it.
* ThirdEye: Lucretia has one in the middle of her forehead.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Hanna is one of them.
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Lampshaded by Kia, who is 23 except when she's 1800.
* {{Tsundere}}: Yamaguchi-san is an AxCrazy parody of the trope.
* {{Yakuza}}: Tom pokes fun at one in a public bath. Yamaguchi later signs up when the robot company goes out of business.
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