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Webcomic: Out at Home
aka: Outat Home

...In a nutshell.

Out at Home is a webcomic by Alex Wendzel that started on November 19, 2008. It started as a family Sitcom-style strip, but morphed into a comic about HighSchool-aged Kate Beckett (Not this one) and her best friend Penny O'Brien. The comic combines slice-of-life dialogue and attitude with outlandish, outsized situations and gags. Most of the strips fall into story arcs, sometimes with added audio or video content. Each arc is separated by one-off gags. Better Than It Sounds, or at least different, as it rarely if ever delves into the emotional and relationship drama featured in most webcomics about teenagers.

Out at Home includes examples of:

Art Evolution: The artist bet on art school and the strip was the winner.
Alt Text: Starting here
Bottle Fairy: Penny.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Penny, a bunch of times
Crazy-Prepared: At least Penny has this covered with her alarm clock, on account of her breaking them every morning, just look here
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Ordog.
Disproportionate Retribution: Mim has it out for Herman for firing her... which was entirely her fault. that doesn't stop her from trying to kill him, though.
Frame Break: Penny does it here
Green Eyes: Penny.
Hot Mom: Taylor.
I Always Wanted to Say That: Alasdair, in this strip
Idiot Savant: Herman, who is an idiot in every way except for being an incredible baseball player.
Impairment Shot: Penny has one after being drunk for much of a story arc.
Noodle Incident: Penny has a few of these tied to here being drunk some are mentioned here
Painting the Fourth Wall: here, among others
Vomit Discretion Shot