Good Show Sir
is a blog run by artist Adam Szym, where he periodically posts comics. The comics are often horror (or at least Horror Comedy), but a few are in other genres.
Comics and their tropes:
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Tiny Caveman
- After the End: Judging by the area's state of disrepair and the many (relatively) gigantic human skeletons laying around, normal-sized humans don't seem to exist anymore.
- Deliberately Monochrome: The only colors used are white, black, and various shades of orange and yellow.
- Fungus Humongous: House-sized mushrooms can be seen growing outside.
- Lilliputians: All of the humanoid characters are absolutely tiny compared to the seemingly human-sized house they live in.
- Post-Apocalyptic Dog: An enormous dog (relatively speaking, at least) poses a major threat to the tiny cavemen. The fact that it seems to lack eyes and has mold growing on its coat implies it might be some kind of zombified dog.
- Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism: The ants in the yard are seen holding spears and seem to be on fairly good terms with the tiny cavemen, but as there's no dialogue and the comic is fairly short, there isn't enough seen of them to know exactly where they fall on the scale.
Biting the Bullet
- After the End: What exactly has happened to the world is unclear, but from what is shown to us it definitely seems to have suffered some kind of collapse.
I Was Buried by the Sea
Dem Bones: What the narrator awakens as at the start of the comic.
So This is Air
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The narrator kills a man seemingly just because it wants to see what his insides feel like.
- Gory Discretion Shot: All that's shown of the killing blow is a panel with a blood-splatter.
- Xenofiction: The narrator seems to be an alien of some sort.
No Other Place
Olympus Mons, Olympus Mars!
Biome
- Garden of Evil: The plant life in the ruins is extremely hostile, and almost seems to be actively malevolent.
- Genius Loci: The narrator of the story appears to be one. It doesn't seem to have much control on the surrounding area's extremely dangerous plants though, only really being able to observe the humans that enter the area and hope that they survive.
Animalia: Leeches
Tiny House
- Alien Geometries: The tiny house somehow has what looks like a massive cathedral on its top floor.
- Black Speech: The baby's speech is rendered as a fuzzy black blob in a speech bubble.
- Skewed Priorities: Tiny House Tom spends the end of the video telling his viewers to like and subscribe, rather than, say, calling for help.
Season's Finale
- Madness Mantra: "Sit at their feet, and be with them."
Plynth
- Alien Arts Are Appreciated: The Framing Device is an interview of an alien artist who leaves their art around for humans to find and interpret, and the artist itself seems to be a fan of human clothing, as it is seen wearing an anime T-shirt.
- Aliens Are Bastards: The aliens barely even seem to register the death and suffering of the humans exposed to their art, and they certainly don't seem to care very much.
- Brain Monster: One of the artist's works is a massive brain that shoots out some kind of spike into the head of one of the researchers. Their brain later bursts out of their skull, grows limbs, and runs around killing the other researchers.
- Entertainingly Wrong: The aliens really have no idea whatsoever how humans work, which is mostly played for comedy. They apparently believe that a gun is a "food-delivery device" and that toilet paper is for data storage, for example.
- Malaproper: One of the artist's works is called "Grape Minds Think All Ike," which it claims is a human colloquialism.
- Starfish Aliens: The pictures we see of their species show them to be seemingly formed from clouds of gas or energy, and they don't appear to understand things like "eating," "defecating," or "death."
- Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: Considering that a single one of them has the resources to strip-mine several planets and melt down entire moons just for a piece of art, the alien race the artist belongs to is probably advanced enough to fit this.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It's implied that the aliens don't really understand what death is, describing it as a "phase state" where humans "stop moving around so much and just take it easy for a while." With this in mind, they might not be evil so much as they just don't really understand the consequences of their actions.
Barge
A Place You can Go
- Lighter and Softer: Compared to many of the other comics on the blog, this is pretty much the only one that doesn't have death, violence, or horror.
- Talking Animal: The birds.
Swimming Holes
- Giant Flyer: The bird.
- Nonstandard Character Design: The kind man has a much larger and more detailed human face than the other characters, the proportions of which twist and shift from one panel to the next.
- Surreal Horror:
Filtered
Little Visitor
- Enfante Terrible: The aliens to... something to Kostya that makes him seem both otherworldly and terrifying, but what is shown of him still looks like a small child.
- Facial Horror: Anatoly gets his jaw torn off by a transformed Kostya at the end.
- Mockumentary/Mockbuster: The Framing Device of the comic is that it's a documentary about a Soviet knockoff of ET The Extraterrestrial.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Why did Anatoly work for the aliens? What happened to Kostya's sister? Why are the aliens tormenting Kostya? What do they do when they capture him? None of these questions are answered.
- Subverted with the appearance of the alien, which is actually shown at the end.
- WTH, Costuming Department?: In-Universe. Lluda doesn't understand why all the adults thought the alien design was so cute and charming, and the image the audience sees is frankly grotesque.
SPAM://FLESH
- All for Nothing: The narrator's efforts and sacrifice ultimately do nothing to stop his ancestor, who dismisses his message as a mere spam email.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Mr. Herman is apparently going to end up causing unimaginable harm to humanity in the centuries to come, and the comic is one of his descendants trying to get a message to him to him to keep him from doing whatever it is that he does.
A Cordial Invitation
