Website for the comic can be found
here
Chainey wakes up dead in a dump one way to find himself in a very strange and unfamiliar situation. Enter Maggot Boy, the resident hero, who takes Chainey under his wing so to speak. Shenanigans occur!— Official description of Maggot boy on co-creator Jess's
deviantart
Maggot boy is a webcomic co-written by
Kris
and Jess.
Chainey is a narcoleptic amnesiac who meets the self-proclaimed hero of Soverign City, Maggot Boy (a.k.a. Davey) after waking up dead in a land fill. Together they protect the city from
zombies. Actually, it's more like
a zombie, but he's a very troublesome one.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Adorkable: Chainey and Davey's kid brother, PJ.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Davey is in love with Sam, who is in love with Lazaro who hates everyone.
- All There in the Manual: There is a written version
that provides more details than the comic, as well as various reference sheets on the artist's deviantart. - Ambiguously Brown: Sam
is simply listed as having a “mixed race background.” - Art Evolution: The backgrounds have dramatically improved since the start of the comic.
- Black Comedy
- Eats Babies: Owen
, the main villain. - Fourth Wall Mail Slot: So far there have
been
three
installments of “Dear Davey.” A fourth one is rumored to be in the works. - Ghost Amnesia: Chainey can't even remember his own name due to some brain loss.

- Heterosexual Life Partners: Chainey and Davey.
- Horror Hunger: When an aware zombie doesn't eat they go into a feral state, and only humans can satisfy their hunger.
- I Am A Humanitarian: Pretty much all zombies by default.
- Improvised Weapon: Davey has been known to fight with a wrench.

- Love Triangle: A type 5 between Davey, Sam, and Lazaro. And more recently a type 3 has formed, with both Davey and Carville competing for Sam.
- Necromancer: Lazaro and Sam. Lazaro used his necromancy to save the city from a horde of zombies.
- Nice Hat: Chainey
- Our Zombies Are Different: There's the Aware, which are zombies that can think for themselves, and the Mindless, which are your standard Romero zombies.
- Sidekick: Chainey to Davey.
- Termsof Endangerment: Davey meets the doctor who dissected him when he was freshly undead. She calls him "sweetheart" and says "I missed you terribly". Davey is less than civil.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Owen, most prominently. Now he's unintentionally getting PJ in on it.
- Unsoundeffect: WRENCH and GLARE

- Younger than They Look: This guy
is only 26. - Zombie Apocalypse: The whole story takes place after one.