Juvenile Diversion is a Slice of Life webcomic, written and drawn by Heather Lebria and Dean Farrington, set during the 1980s. It chronicles the escapades of a group of hormone-driven teenagers running a local rock band (whose name provides the webcomic's title).
Of course, balancing this with their budding sexuality and conflicting relationships with each other and their families, as well as more mundane teenage issues such as school and homework, is going to be far from easy...
Because some content is NSFW, the SFW first page will be linked.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Advanced Tech 2000: The Saunders Virtual Reality Creator 6000 and the Gender-Bend 7000.
- Alpha Bitch: Courtney "Corky" Roberts.
- Alt Text: Present from page 386 (early in chapter 17) hence (previously, it's just the comic title).
- Art Evolution: The current strips have very little in common with the first few strips.
- Becoming the Mask: The "bad" version: Courtney infiltrated the cheerleaders to get revenge on them, then promptly became just as much of a bitch as them.
- Beta Couple: Kyle and Jenny, to Alicia and Jason.
- Big Fancy House: Jenny lives in one with her family.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: Kyle is well endowed, which leads to some very enjoyable times for Jenny.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Almost happened to Jason, combined with Long-Lost Relative (see below) for maximum impact. Jason is thoroughly embarrassed when he realizes it.
- Business Trip Adultery: Downplayed. The husbands on a "business trip" are merely shown playing poker together at the casino of the same name; the main source of drama is teenage couple Kyle and Jenny, eloping to Vegas due to a pregnancy scare. Two of the wives left home on the other hand, end up in bed together.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Alicia and Jason, in regards to how they feel about each other.
- Catholic School Girls Rule: When Erin and Kyle are forced to go to a Catholic school for a week, the former takes advantage of the opportunity to dress up this way, much to the latter's disgust.Kyle: My God, woman, put some clothes on!
Erin: Never thought I'd hear that from you...
Kyle: Seriously. You're ruining one of my favorite fantasies.
Erin: Aw, I'm stuck here for a week. I may as well make the most of it... - Coitus Uninterruptus: Erin and Meg continue having private time offscreen despite the fact that Kyle keeps opening the door to their room to show a different person what's going on.Erin: Why don't you just take a picture?
Kyle: I already did! - Defrosting Ice Queen: Jenny, due to her relationship with Kyle.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Done accidentally. After an encounter with a landmine, a soldier wakes up in a hospital with identity amnesia, the rest of his platoon dead, and his dog tags weren't found. The only name he can remember is "Brian", which is assumed to be his. Then remembers his squadmate and best friend Jack, who died in the landmine explosion. Except it was the other way around, as he learned painfully after informing Jack's girlfriend of his death (though one could say in a way, the landmine had killed both of them).
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Chris trying to tell Alicia he choose her because she doesn't have ADHD.
- Drives Like Crazy: Alicia. Also see Ninja Maid.
- Endearingly Dorky: Chris is the youngest, smartest, and geekiest of the protagonists. Naturally, this is why Evie is attracted to him.
- Fanservice with a Smile: "Busties", whose waitress uniform includes an open shirt and hot-pink bra.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: The chapter 12 flashback shows a wounded soldier and an intern nurse falling in love and planning marriage.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: A malfunction in Chris' experimental VR system results in the members of Juvenile Diversion switching bodies with one another.
- Gilligan Cut: Erin and Kyle's mom sending them to a Catholic school.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: After Kyle gets an angel and devil on his shoulders that look like Jenny, he tells them he expects them to make out with each other. After a moment of shock, they do just that, to his glee.
- Good Angel, Bad Angel: Numerous characters end up getting these, though most of the time they aren't very helpful.
- Kyle is the first one to have these. It says a lot about him that a) they both resemble Jenny, and b) he expects them to make out with each other.
- Jenny later has these as well, and both are Kyle.
- Improbably High I.Q.: Chris supposedly has an IQ of 181.
- In the Blood: Guess where Erin and Kyle get their Extreme Libido from.
- It Runs in the Family: Erin tells Julie that her family is full of hopeless romantics who hide this side of themselves behind a wall of debauchery and arrogance.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sparky suffered from this, leading him to think he was really his best friend.
- Long-Lost Relative: The trope directly below this one ultimately means Julie is Jason's half-sister.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Jason's father is actually Sparky. See Long-Lost Relative.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Jenny and Kyle have an actual list. It later returns as a Chekhov's Gag.
- Male Gaze: Kyle will often go out of his way to set up situations where he can see plenty.
- Mile-High Club: Kyle and Jenny join it on their flight to the mountain lodge.
- "Mister Sandman" Sequence: Alicia waking up in 2015.
- Modesty Bedsheet: Used to full effect right after Kyle and Jenny have sex for the first time.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Jason punches Kyle after he has a threesome with Julie and Corky.
- Ninja Maid: Jenny's family apparently has one, who Drives Like Crazy when challenged.
- Not Enough to Bury: Implied in flashbacks for Autumn breeze's dad: His grave is empty "because [he] died a hero", which suggests protecting someone from explosives.
- Oops! I Forgot I Was Married: Sparky not only forgot his wedding along with his name, but mistook his dead squadmate for himself and wrote to his wife that he witnessed himself die. Needless to say, his wife was not pleased.
- Perky Goth: Jenny is almost always seen wearing black and is one of the nicest characters in the webcomic.
- Porn Stash:
- Kyle's room contains enough pornographic posters to mess with Meg, who's completely into girls.
- In the winter holiday arc, we see Kyle discovering Jenny's gay stash.
- And much later, Alicia-in-Kyle's-body discovers Kyle's room... and redecorates it.
- Ready for Lovemaking: Jenny pulls this in order to make up with Kyle after they have a brief falling out. It works.
- Revealing Hug: Cynthia pretends to cry and hugs Erin, but at the same time makes faces at Meg.
- Snowball Fight: Done at the mountain lodge.
- There Is Only One Bed: One bed for four.
- Title Drop: Chris's logical idea for the name of the rock band serves as this.
- Tome of Eldritch Lore: "The Book" has some overtones of this, though it seems more neutral. It warns that misusing it is dangerous, and the worst it has been seen doing so far is taunting Kyle-in-Meg's-body. It's shown in a flashback giving Courtney a warning she didn't heed.
- Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: Erin reveals to Julie that she's been in love with Jason for years but neither told him nor forgot about her feelings.
- Webcomic Time: Mentioned at the end of chapter 18, "It took me nearly nine years to cover five and a half months".
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Kyle wakes up naked next to Corky and Julie, but was too smashed to remember anything.
- Work Off the Debt: "Team A" (Meg and Erin) after Erin gambles away all their cash.
- Wrong-Name Outburst: Kyle blurts out Meg's name while having sex with Jenny because he catches her peeking on them. Unfortunately, Jenny doesn't see Meg and gets angry at Kyle for doing this.
- You Know What You Did: Pulled on Kyle by both Corky and Julie when he desperately tries to find out how far they went in that drunken night. Expected of Corky, but Julie really ought to know better. She wises up to it next page and decides to spare him and Jenny from the truth.