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Comic Book: Horndog

Not to be confused with All Men Are Perverts and All Women Are Lustful, both of which, naturally, show up as tropes within this particular comic.

Bob, a Modified Dog. Arf, he said.

Horndog is a Funny Animal Stoner comic created by Isaac M. Baranoff and published by Mystic Studios Productions. The main character, Bob, is a "canine tomcat", a literal personification of the term "horndog".

Most of the storylines focus on his attempts to acquire marijuana, sex or both. Storylines have focused variously on topics ranging from real-life based topics, including relationships, politics and racism, to more surreal subject matter, including Zombies and Alien Abduction. It also portrays a Beast Fable involving interracial romance.

Created in 2003, seven issues (and two "Archives" compilations) have been produced to date, and in 2009, Horndog was the first underground comic to produce a webcomic spinoff. Horndog has been criticized for what some readers perceive as Vulgar Humor, because of its high level of profanity and (initially) nudity (which has been toned down over the years).

The comic's creator identifies the series as a "Funny Aminal" comic, instead of using the terms Funny Animal or Furry. Its fans are known as "Horndogs".

Web edition can be read here

Horndog includes examples of these tropes:

Abhorrent Admirer: Andrea Mouse was this with Bob. She's since turned into a Stalker with a Crush.
A Date with Rosie Palms: A strip in issue 3 shows that Bob has the ability to perform oral sex on himself.
A Man Is Not a Virgin: Bob has at least tried to have sex with pretty much every female character in the comic, Andrea Mouse being a notable exception. It usually works.
Alpha Bitch: The appropriately named Alpha.
Art Evolution: Baranoff tends to redraw his older comics from time to time.
Ax Crazy: Andrea, again.
All Men Are Perverts
All Women Are Lustful
Author Appeal: All of Baranoff's female characters have large asses and breasts, which are predominately shown.
Back from the Dead: Freddy, and later Tommy The Rat.
Barbie Doll Anatomy: Bob appears this way, since he apparently wears T-shirts and hoodies but no pants.
Barefoot Cartoon Animals: The entire cast.
Beast Fable: Black cats are identified as being African-American.
Black Best Friend: Subverted; in addition to the fact that Bob actually dates a black woman (Charlene), Bob's best friend, Leonard, is portrayed realistically and with fully developed characterization.
Black Comedy Rape: It happened to Bob.
Born Unlucky: Freddy.
Bigger Is Better In Bed: Implied.
Bland Name Product: Charlene uses a Sharkie marker.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Actually, the Fourth Wall broke Bob's nose.
Caught Up In The Rapture: Discussed.
Carnivore Confusion: Tommy, a rat, and Leonard, a cat, engage in a conversation about Tommy's fear of being eaten. Also, a recent storyline involves Charlene becoming romantically involved with a Jewish lesbian mouse, which gives new meaning to the phrase "eating pussy".
Cats Are Snarkers: Charlene and Leonard.
Character Blog: Bob posts on the comic's Facebook page, and has his own Twitter. Charlene has a Twitter, too.
Chew Bubblegum:
Andrea Mouse: I'm here to kill lemmings and chew bubblegum...and I'm all out of gum.
Cluster F-Bomb
Contemptible Cover: Issue #6 is Charlene Kat sitting nude in a chair with a skull bong covering her crotch, but her breasts exposed. Censored on the publisher's website, but not on the actual cover.
Creator Thumbprint: Bob's love of marijuana, Hip Hop and Punk Rock are directly adapted from the author's own interests. Libertarianism and atheism also applies.
Crossover: With Here, Wolf.
Cute Little Fangs: Charlene.
Deadpan Snarker: Usually Bob, Charlene or Leonard.
Dogged Nice Guy: Leonard shows signs of this with Charlene.
Dogs Are Dumb: Largely averted, although Bob has proven himself to be quite stupid in situations that calls for it when the creator thinks that it's funny. Otherwise, he's fairly intelligent.
Double Standard: Rape�Female on Male: What happened with Bob.
Dumbass Has a Point: Freddy is typically as sharp as a box of hammers, but has occasionally shown himself to be intelligent.
Erudite Stoner: Bob, Leonard and Charlene at various points.
Esoteric Motifs: The cover of issue 3 depicts a pentacle in conjunction with demonic spirits being summoned.
Even the Girls Want Her: Charlene.
Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Everybody Must Get Stoned: One strip portrays LSD use.
Everything's Deader with Zombies: Horndog was already a Funny Animal Stoner comic to begin with. Issue 2 added Zombies into the mix.
Fetish Fuel:invoked Invoked by Tommy, who eats "more than [he] can stomach" to attract readers from that fetish.
Four-Fingered Hands: All characters.
Gay Conservative: Had one of these in its second issue.
- Averted with Charlene, who is bisexual and libertarian.
Granola Girl: Alpha is this coupled with Alpha Bitch.
Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Pretty much everyone.
Hollywood Voodoo: Played for laughs; voodoo spells are actually Frank Zappa and ODB lyrics.
I'm Going to Hell for This: Tommy tells Bob that "You're going to hell for this" after a series of bizarre sexual encounters.
Inkblot Cartoon Style
Intellectual Animal
Interspecies Romance: Most relationships and sexual encounters portrayed in the comic are of this sort, including Bob and Charlene (which is also a metaphor for an interracial romance).
Juggalo
Locked in a Freezer: Leonard, in a parody of The Shining.
Killed Off for Real: Freddy
Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor: All nude depictions of characters from this series indicate that they have human-like genitalia.
Maligned Mixed Marriage: Applies to Bob and Charlene even though they're not married. Averts Discriminate And Switch because the fact that she's a cat is considered less important than the fact that she's black, so Fantastic Racism is not called upon here.
The Merch: Horndog has a lot of it.
Mundane Fantastic: Horndog has both social commentary and character-based material, as well as storylines featuring aliens and zombies.
N-Word Privileges: Bob's use of nigga goes by without objection.
- Bob almost beat up a clerk because he thought the clerk called Charlene a nigger. The clerk actually said niggler (which has a quite different meaning). Even Charlene noticed it. Bob later noted that the similarity of the two words gave away some Unfortunate Implications.
The Pornomancer: Bob
Prepare to Die: Bob, to Leonard, who had drunken sex with Charlene:
I wanna run your head through a meat grinder.
- Lampshaded Two strips earlier by Leonard, who wonders if Bob will "be okay" with this, or if Bob will want to run Leonard's head through a meat grinder.
Refuge in Audacity
Rise From Your Grave: Freddy
Schedule Slip: Has happened from time to time. The comic's former web host and the creator's personal life were usually a factor in this.
Seinfeldian Conversation
Self-Deprecation: Bob (whose personal preference is Hip Hop and Punk Rock) and other characters make fun of Heavy Metal and Metalheads. In real life, creator Isaac M. Baranoff is actually a Metal fan.
Shangri-La: Is Heaven.
Shout Out: The author loves these.
- Comics: The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Peter Bagge, Plastic Man, Femmegasm, Omaha The Cat Dancer, Martin Kellerman's Rocky and World of Fizz are all mentioned to some degree.
- Literature:
  - Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  - The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Movies: Among them Inglourious Basterds, Night of the Living Dead and They Live!.
  - Billy Bong Thornton
- Music: Many, including Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Brotha Lynch Hung, Kottonmouth Kings, Ice Cube, Insane Clown Posse, Opeth, Slipknot, Frank Zappa, Twiztid and Zug Izland.
  - Subtle one. The character Tommy is a rat. The band Primus has a song called "Tommy the Cat". Obviously intended as wordplay/tribute.
  - TechN9ne is responsible for the acronym "F.U.N."*
    Fuck U Niggas.
- "Uh, Dave's not here"
Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Primarily comedy; Horror elements sometimes played as parody, sometimes straight.
Species Surname: Andrea Mouse.
- Charlene Kat is a slight subversion.
Sphere Eyes: All characters.
Spin-Off: The main character in Here, Wolf made its debut in this comic, then went on to star in his own series, with a different plotline involving an Interspecies Romance with a human female.
Take That: Quite a few of these.
- Hot Topic is a reocurring one.
- Politics: Alex Jones and Bill O'Reilly have gotten a couple of these. Not to mention, Herman Cain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin...
  - Averted when Baranoff almost put up a comic making fun of Michael Moore, but took it down, not because he felt Moore was undeserving of satire, but because he felt he was coming down on the left too much and decided to switch it up and make fun of a right-wing figure, Sarah Palin.
- Music: Otep, Murder by Death and Tila Tequila are all the subject of mockery.
- Walt Disney: Characters that look like silhouettes of Mickey Mouse and Goofy are portrayed as Neo-Nazis who try to murder Bob.
- The character Alpha looks like Raine Dog. Considering Baranoff's interactions with DC Simpson and the fact that Alpha is as a pretentious and hypocritical Alpha Bitch Granola Girl, this probably isn't a Shout Out.
They Killed Kenny: Freddy commits suicide, returns as a zombie, is killed by Bob, and is reincarnated as a teenage boy, only to once again be killed by a chupacabra. Then he reappears wihout explanation during the New Year's storyline solely for the purpose of being killed by a Stepford Smiling Ax Crazy Lemming.
Trademark Favorite Food: Faygo.
Underground Comics
Unusual Euphemism: "Neden" (vagina)
Updated Rerelease: Issues 1 & 2 were reissued as Horndog Archives #1, with additional material not in the original published version.
Verbal Tic: The word "the" is printed as "th'" many times.
Wall of Text
White Void Room: Bob is sometimes shown talking in front of a white background, in a stylistic Shout Out to Harvey Pekar.
Wolverine Publicity: Bob's appearances in Here, Wolf qualify as this.
World of Funny Animals
You Need to Get Laid: Typical advice given by Bob. Even when the situation doesn't call for it (like being told by a friend that they are in danger of being killed).