Glorianna
Glorianna
is a fantasy/sci-fi comic created by J. Kevin Carrier. It began as a series of self-published minicomics in 1991, and began appearing as a webcomic in 2007. Glorianna is a sword-wielding mercenary, wandering a post-apocalyptic world seeking fortune and adventure.
Glorianna contains examples of:
- Action Girl: Glorianna.
- Amazon Brigade: The priestesses of Ojhal in "Steel".
- And Now You Must Marry Me: Glorianna is forced to marry Portai in "Children of Woe".
- Appease The Volcano God: in "The Halls of the Mountain King".
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Vasgor, Lord Claughmoore, Duke Ludwig.
- Bittersweet Ending: Most storylines feature this.
- Bodyguard Babes: Glorianna sometimes gets hired as one.
- Broken Bird: Glorianna is prone to melancholy, when she's not fighting or carousing.
- Chainmail Bikini: Her garb of choice.
- The Charmer: Jandar, Glori's occasional ally / foil / lover.
- Consequence Combo: Glorianna is told that she will "never know peace" until she finds her mysterious twin.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Glori sometimes alludes to her difficult childhood.
- Evil Chancellor: Vasgor, in "The Conscience of the King"
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Ninjas, dragons, vampires, you name it.
- Fish Out of Temporal Water: Glorianna travels to the 21st century in "Time Past" and "The Replacement Killer".
- Fortune Teller: Valangia, the oracle who tells Glorianna that she has a twin out in the world somewhere.
- Gentle Giant: Gith
- Jumped at the Call: Glori was happy for an excuse to leave the backwater village she grew up in.
- Long Lost Relative: Hope, Glori's abandoned daughter.
- Opening Scroll: The strip begins with one of these.
- Puppet King: Arven, in "The Conscience of the King".
- Raised by Orcs: Glorianna's daughter Hope, whom she left in the care of an Ojhal priestess.
- Really Gets Around: Glorianna has, shall we say, intimacy issues.
- Royal Brat: Princess Nemi in "The Conscience of the King", though eventually she becomes a Politically Active Princess.
- Scavenger World: Leftover bits of the 21st century are everywhere, though mostly in ruins.
- Small Secluded World: "The Halls of the Mountain King".
- Stripperiffic: A lot of the costumes fall into this category, male and female.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Portai, Gith, Thanaktos, the Mountain King, et. al.
- Walking the Earth: Glorianna is constantly on the move, looking for mercenary jobs, questing for her twin, and avoiding lasting relationships.
- You Mean Xmas: In "Solstice", Glori gets an inspirational message from an unidentified jolly fat man.
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