History Webcomic / GoneWithTheBlastwave

* TomatoSurprise: The 2015 April Fools comic -- Crosshairs and Pyro are chased down the sewers by a yellow tank, they run through a nightmarish hellhole full of mutated animals and giant plants and finally find their way out of the city. [[spoiler: Which turns out to have been a fenced-in historical preserve site of a nuked city [[AnAesop in memorial and as a warning about the dangers of WMD's all along.]]]]

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: PlayedForLaughs when the group finds [[http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=56 a disturbing massive skeletal monument]] and begin hypothesizing what it means, that perhaps it's a warning or a god for a surviving civilization. Then Steve, the artist, shows up and gleefully explains that it means nothing and he just made it because he was bored.

''[[http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=1 Gone With The Blastwave]]'' is a webcomic created by Kimmo Lemetti. It follows a group of soldiers fighting (for reasons they're more than a little hazy about) in a ruined city of a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] world. It "is not a very serious comic", having a lot of BlackComedy - the author advises you to "think of it as a some kind of a parody" of more serious post-apocalyptic settings.

* BodyCountCompetition: The Reds appear to be constantly using this as a way to amuse themselves. According to [[http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=33 this comic]], [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority it also determines rank]].

* TooDumbToLive: According to [[AllThereInTheManual some doodles]] by Kimmo, a Green fraction was at one point involved in the war, but thanks to their own stupidity and incompetence (using cardboard boxes as bomb shelters and mistaking their own spies (who was wearing {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s nonetheless) for enemies) they managed to eliminate themselves from the war very early on.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Justified: [[http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=75 Someone went underground to mine for gold.]] Crosshairs appropriately asks why would he do that in a warzone. He...just wants to have gold.
* YellowPeril: Implied, though you never actually see what the Yellows really look like, obviously.

--> '''Crosshairs''': Did you see that wall full of nightmarish creatures?
--> '''Pyro''': Nope!
--> '''Crosshairs''' Me Neither! lets go!

* ZombieApocalypse: [[http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=22 Some Reds think there was one]], though they might be TechnicallyLivingZombie|s instead.

* RocketJump: [[http://www.blastwave-comic.com/images/green4.jpg Invoked, attempted, and averted.]] RealityEnsues, both for the idiot that tried it and the other two idiots who stood there watching him.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: None of the factions are presented as obviously right, although since we're never even told what the war is about, this might just be lack of information. The individual soldiers often seem to be more driven by a desire to avoid boredom than anything else.

* DrivenToSuicide: Arguably the one point where it momentarily stops being black comedy and starts becoming [[http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=14 a bit depressing.]]
** Or even more hilarious.

** Waaaait, so wouldn't that make [[spoiler: him/her [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Sniper Wolf]]?]]

* HeadPet: One of the characters has a [[MacabreMothMotif giant moth]] perched on his helmet in strip 24. He tried getting it to leave, but it just wouldn't. Now he just takes it in stride. Bit of a {{BLAM}}, as it never shows up again.

* TwistEnding: Played with. One soldier thinks it all a nightmare, another thinks it purgatory, and another thinks is a Virutal Reality game. Turns out they ate a rat.. [[SicklyGreenGlow That was glowing purple.]]

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Our nameless protagonists, being incompetent, psychotic, depressed, apathetic, or all four, really could care less about handling their guns properly. See AmusingInjuries above.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: They're all a bit mad, but Pyro in particular gets a mention. Which is impressive, in this setting.

** As the series goes on, though, [[DownplayedTrope small differences emerge]] - The Yellows don't speak English and are shown to be far more numerous and supplied with tanks, while a brief conversation with a Blue solider reveals that Blue rifles are sturdier and better-designed than Red rifles.

** somewhat averted because as crosshairs (and the other reds in the next strip note) "There is a war on"

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