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An episodic, mostly single-panel daily strip by Zach Weiner. The strip has few, if any, recurring characters.

Much of the strip's humor comes from setting up a situation and then subverting either the established premise or the audience's expectations, often going with a Dead Baby Comedy punchline. Dig in.

Zach also does videos too! There's less sociopathy in them, though.

Compare Perry Bible Fellowship.

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This strip provides examples of:

• Back To Front - Done many times as a form of comedic reveal.
• Bizarre Alien Biology - It makes giving the aliens one million children in exchange for their advanced medical knowledge a poor decision in hindsight.
• Black Comedy - A lot. A real lot.
• Crapsack World - Where all doctors and lawyers are incompetent, all relationships are dysfunctional, and suicide and murder are apparently common pastimes.
• Dead Baby Comedy
• Deal With The Devil - several; usually it turns out the mortal was gypped.
• God Is Evil - Actually, he runs the gamut from all-loving to unspeakably cruel, as fits the gag.
• Good Angel Bad Angel - In debating whether he should kill his own family, the man's bad angel kills them himself. Say what you will, but sociopathy is efficient.
• Memetic Mutation: THOSE FUCKERS,OUR SHIT◊
• Mr Magoo And The Monster
• Obviously Evil - inverted.
• Rage Against The Heavens - There's a reason why we're not observant enough.
• Raising The Steaks - How the war was lost.
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
• Subverted Trope - Too many to count; half the strip's humor comes from doing this in a bizarre manner.
  • Double Subversion - Many, many gags involving something turning out to not be what you think it is, and then turning out to be what you thought it was after all.
• There Can Be Only One - The Ultimate Diet. It even says so in the votey.

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