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Concession is a Furry Comic centering on a group of movie theatre concession workers. The series originally started out as smart remarks the author could never make when he worked at a concession stand, but it gradually evolved into a complex story with engaging and mindblowing plots.
The plot centers on a rather small cast of characters, including Joel; a wangsty black wolf, the Author Avatar/ Villain Protagonist/ Villain Sue; Artie, a white rat with brain cancer and powerful psychic abilities; Matt, a very confused kitty, and Angie, a somewhat ditzy Yaoi Fangirl who's currently dating Rick, the janitor and Joel's frequent partner in crime.
Keep in mind, the author is not only well aware of the many complaints against the comic, he usually agrees. In reality, this comic is an art project gone rampant, not taking it too seriously, unlike many of his critics.
This webcomic is rated M for Mature due to language and sexual themes.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Alt Text: Present since #239 (though absent in a few of them even since, probably intentionally)
- Anything That Moves: Joel (of course), probably Angie.
- Art Evolution: The chars have new muzzle shapes. They're rhinocerus-sized.
- As The Good Book Says: Concession contains a lot of religious Strawman debates.
- Bear in mind who's doing the ranting most of the time, though. Joel isn't the nicest (or sanest) of people, after all. And to be fair, the only priest shown so far in the comic seems to be a genuinely good person. He does his best to assuage Matt's gay guilt, and warns him about Joel, though the latter has little effect
- Battle In The Center Of The Mind: Joel attacks Father Tim in the connfession, and Artie in the hospital using his Combat Tentacles, but it's No Big Deal.
- Best Served Cold: Recent revelations show that Joel's plan all boils down to getting revenge against his brother for killing their sister.
- Brother Sister Incest/Twincest: Rick and Kate, though Kate is also a pedophile and Rick is a multiple drug user. Also Joel and his sister Miranda appear to have been very close, her spirit form is usually shown wrapped around Joel's like a cloak
- Cerebus Syndrome: The comic slips in and out of this, in that it started as a gag-per-day comic and then shifted into something with a (admittedly very weird) story, but it often switches back to it's original premise every now and then. Joel and Artie even seem to forget that they're enemies every couple of months.
- Confessional: Multiple characters talk to Father Tim in the confessional.
- Convenient Miscarriage: Inverted when Thonnen went on to have her baby. She wanted to have an abortion, but apparently was talked out of it by Roland and Joel.
- Creepy Child: Chelsie.
- Deadpan Snarker: Joel, though a lot of the characters get a turn at it.
- Devil In Plain Sight: Joel. Yepp, he's a baddie.
- Dont Explain The Joke: "See, it's funny because you're a pedophile. Kate's 25, so I'm implying you'd be happier dating a 10-year-old."
- Joel's sense of humor is not subtle at all: "I'd rather do your mom! See it's implied necrophilia."
- Dropped A Bridget On Him: Artie's incident with Chelsie, after which he reveals Chelsie's real gender.
- Everyone Is Bi: Well, not everyone, but a lot of characters are.
- This may be related to the fact that the author is also bi. Or just an extreme case of coincidence, owing to the rather... odd way new characters are created.
- Faceless Masses: Averted. Every background character is generated randomly with a complex formula and given a rather humorous backstory.
- Fan Nickname: Joelmann. Pretty self-explanatory.
- Freudian Excuse: Joel was treated harshly as a child by his father and his brother. Then his brother killed his sister, and his parents thought Joel did it, so he was put in a mental hospital and appears to have been sexually abused by a doctor and then released before he was ready to face the outside world again.
- Flamboyant Gay: Nicole and Matt, the latter only slightly, but Joel's 'helping' him with that.
- Good Shepherd: Father Tim.
- Heroic Sociopath: Joel, for a given value of 'heroic'.
- Innocence Virgin On Stupidity: Matt, who is also the target of Break The Cutie.
- Instant Expert: Lampshaded when Artie becomes aware of his powers.
- Interspecies Romance: Lots. Thonnen specifically chooses to date outside her species to annoy her bloodline-obsessed family.
- It Got Worse: Happens to Artie a lot.
- Important Haircut: Artie, after the cancer arc, losing the White Haired Pretty Boy look. It eventually grew back.
- Infinite Canvas: In At The Heart Of It All, the side-comic.
- Just Between You And Me: Played entirely straight.
- Law Of Inverse Fertility: Thonnen getting pregnant from the rape.
- Mean Boss: Dave, to an extent.
- Dave? Look at Millicent.
- Millient is just there to watch over the strip's pet murderous sociopath. Her mean boss thing was just a cover.
- Nightmare Fuel: Joel's psychic battles with Father Tim and Artie. And more recently, Millicent, which was even creepier.
- Chelsie is pretty damn scary. As is Kate's reasoning behind keeping her little harem; the knowledge that some people think this is a reasonable argument is terrifying. Mercifully the author's demonstrated he doesn't think so.
- No Fourth Wall: Joel and Artie make sure of this fact.
- Official Couple Matt and Joel and the Unwanted Harem Nicole
- Only Six Faces: Only one face. The only indication of any given character's furry species is Word Of God in the character profiles, and to a minor extent the tail; one of the characters is a pangolin, but for all that he resembles one you'd think the author only made him one because he liked the sound of the word. If this sort of thing gets your goat, it gets worse; the author would have us believe that this is deliberate, for reasons of aesthetics (he uses the aforementioned pangolin character as an example, saying he'd be pretty fuck-ugly by reason of having a face like a tube, further advancing the impression that the only point to the character being a pangolin is an excuse to say the word).
- Well, he would be pretty odd-looking with a tube face, and it would be next to impossible to read his expression. Besides, Immy's not the only one to do such a thing; ever seen Arthur the supposed "aardvark"?
- Plot Tumor: The comic was originally about stupid customers who appeared at a concession stand, then alternating between concession-stand gags and Joel's life in college, a subplot about a dinosaur family, and nowadays is almost the original comic In Name Only with how little the Concession stand has to do with the actual plot. (The author is of course aware of this and states this in the "About" section.)
- Powers Via Possession: the reason Joel is so powerful is because of his sister's vengeful spirit
- Put On A Bus: Pretty much half the cast of the concession stand. (Again, Immelmann is aware of this, and has even made fun of how some characters will never get any arcs.)
- Rape As Comedy: one of the randomly generated background characters is described as a "very frequent rape victim".
- Rape As Drama: Thonnen Turunen was raped by order of her grandmother, Rajah Jensen, an Evil Matriarch, in order to preserve the Turunen bloodline. The rapist, Valae Jensen, only did it because he needed the money to save his daughter, who was dying of an unknown disease. When his daughter dies, he reveals himself to the family elders, Rajah is disgraced and the family falls apart.
- Also an arc of the author's other comic "At The Heart Of It All" in which Joel is institutionalized for apparent schizophrenia and abused by a doctor. Recent revelations in the main comic show that this is in fact his canonical backstory.
- Then there's Artie's incident with Chelsie - since Chelsie is a small child with bipolar-related hypersexuality and Artie was in a trance, technically *both* of them were raped by Joel, who arranged for the incident to happen. Borderline example, since Artie is clearly traumatised by the incident and it turns out to be related to the Xanatos Gambit, but the deeper implications on his psyche aren't brought up in much detail and it's often brought up again for a gag strip.
- Right Through The Wall: This strip - not work safe.
- Squick: Chelsie's adventures embody it. Joel's tentacular psychic form is pretty disturbing as well.
- Tastes Like Diabetes: A repeated guest comic joke shows Joel's nightmares to be a Sugar Bowl.
- The Game: There's a specific joke about it in one comic, complete with a dramatic Khan shot.
- The Un Smile: Joel. Really should have seen it coming.
- Transparent Closet: Matt. "You've been in denial. Everyone else has figured this out, and has grown to accept it. Everybody but you."
- Transsexual: Word Of God is that Chelsie is one, rather than just a crossdresser.
- Troubling Unchildhood Behavior: Chelsie.
- Villain Protagonist: Joel. Artie is just some secondary character that just happens to be in the way of Joel's Xanatos Roulettes.
- Wangst: Joel is the embodiment of this trope.
- Xanatos Gambit: Joel's long-terms plans get very, very complicated. His ill defined and far ranging powers do stop it from going to Xanatos Roulette levels.
- Yum Yum: Nicole.
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