Goblins is a series of comic books drawn by Tristen Roulot featuring titular Goblins. Used for target practice by the King's guards, as toys by Trolls and toothpicks by dragons, these goblins will have to think of ever more ingenious plans to survive their dark destiny and the troubles that lay ahead... GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
Not to be confused with the webcomic Goblins.
Goblins provides examples of:
- Aesop Amnesia: The goblins never learn from their mistakes and keeps repeating them. Justified as they (usually) forget about their deaths and resurrections.
- Bullying a Dragon: The goblins will quite often attack beings and creatures bigger and stronger than them. The results are very obvious. The page image even features two of them actually tickling a dragon's nose to cook brochettes!
- The Chosen One: The goblin village has one, a goblin who was born with hair on his head. His introductory comic strip shows through an epic narration how he grew to become strong and a vessel through which gods would speak... he ends up used as a cotton bud by a giant.
- Exact Words: An inventor goblin proudly shows off his siege tower to an orc, who only responds with "too small" even after the goblin explains that with smaller wheels, you can fit more of them under the tower and spread the tower's weight more evenly. Come the day of the siege, the tower runs smack into the wall, being, well, too small.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The shaman casts a water-to-stone spell to cross a river. Unfortunately he did this just before it started raining, meaning the horde is crushed by falling boulders.
- Intrepid Merchant: A recurring character called Merchant is regularly robbed by Goblin Hood. With the robber being a goblin, he always gets away with profit.
- Negative Continuity: Do not bother counting how many times a particular goblin dies, or how many times everyone dies and/or the village is rased, or how many times Gerard from the Goblinaholics Anonymous tries and fail to cross the village without killing a goblin. It doesn't matter. It's effectively reset to happen again in a different way as many times as you want !
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The goblins are creatures of evil, so any time they try to do the right thing they get punished for it.
- One-Gender Race: There are no female goblins. Their species can only reproduce once a few years when constellations are right. Any female can be impregnated... any female.
- Recurring Character: A lot of characters appear time and time again.
- Schizo Tech: Modern devices appear in a background despite the story taking place in a medieval/renaissance setting.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- One goblin drinks a growth potion and becomes a giant. The goblins head to attack the castle, but, due to the size change, the giant goblin end up stepping on his comrades, and trips and dying from impalement on one of the castle's towers.
- The goblins attempt to dig a tunnel to castle's armory and launch an attack. Due to wrong calculations the tunnel opens at the bottom of the castle's moat and floods their village with gunk.
- A goblin scout encounters six massive armies of darkness heading to a battle that can only end up being a massacre. He wonders where the heroes are, only to find them in the very same bush he was standing in and shushing him down.
- Ninja Goblin breaks in to a castle, avoids detection at every turn, but with no knowledge of the castle's layout... he steps outside through the very doors he went in.
- Goblin Hood in a surprisingly heroic moment retrieves money stolen from the merchant by a group of kids. He ends up beaten up by them when they catch up with him.
- Goblin Beast Tamer tries to tame a giant dragon by throwing a lasso on its snout and jumping on its back. What does dragon do? Flies to the nest and feeds the pesky goblin to her kids.
- Goblin Hood takes part in an archery tournament to marry the Princess. Instead of shooting the target he ends up killing the princess who was holding a lollipop.
- Buffed Up Goblin tries to kill a dragon by running beneath it and slicing its soft underbelly. He dies drowning in blood after dragon dies and falls on him.
- They Killed Kenny Again: The goblins will die in one comics and be perfectly okay in the next. In one longer story arc it becomes clear that goblins can't die as they are universal playthings. Kenny MacCormick from South Park even appears for a brief moment.
- Too Dumb to Live: The goblins die from their own stupidity in many comedic ways.
- Tropaholics Anonymous: The Goblinaholics Anonymous are a support group for adventurers who are trying to quit slaughtering goblins, which is apparently very addictive. They will frequently try to test their resolve by crossing a village full of Goblins without trying to kill any… Not that the goblins wouldn't die of another cause anyway!
