Pomp's Pomps
is a comedy webcomic by Pompmaker1, hosted on Tapas.
It depicts a world inhabited entirely by strange fish-like creatures known as "pomps", and the unusual and often extremely violent lives they live.
This webcomic contains examples of:
- Action Hero: What the Heroic Pomp thinks of himself as, and generally tries his best to be.
- Agent Scully: The Travelling Mama, who immediately dismisses her baby's observations about the absurdity of the world they live in.
- Anachronic Order: Most chapters do not take place sequentially, with only a few having directly connected storylines.
- Applied Phlebotinum: The Pomp Reality is made of and powered by "Illogical energy", and most recurring characters manipulate different forms of it with their powers.
- Art-Style Dissonance: The simplistic artstyle of the webcomic is used for a whole lot of gory action.
- Attack Reflector: The Retaliator has the ability to dodge any attack, and counter with the exact same attack aimed toward the attacker. His obvious weakness is indirect attacks such as traps, causing him to easily fall prey to the Determined Fool.
- Battle Aura: The In-Your-Face Pomp has one of these at all times.
- Bit Character: The Pomp Reality actually makes an in-universe distinction between these and the named cast; as explained by the Teacher, every single non-recurring character is one of these, and do not have names or the Resurrective Immortality that the named characters share.
- Body Horror: What BF's filth energies do to anyone she attacks, as the Evolver finds out the hard way.
- One of the intermission girls has a large vertical split down the middle of her head, dividing it into two halves and exposing her brain. Like everything else about the intermissions, it's never explained.
- Brick Joke: The baby in the bonus page of "Space-Goers" is spotted again in "The Travelling Family", showing off his functional spacesuit.
- Cartoon Bomb: The Bomber throws these out as part of his arsenal, though he also uses more modern plastic and shaped explosives when needed.
- Determinator: The Determined Fool, of course.
- Dogpile Of Doom: In the mind of the In-Your-Face Pomp, the Willpower Pomp tries this with his mental clones, to not much success.
- Enfant Terrible: Almost every baby pomp has natural megalomaniac tendencies, and thinks of themselves as superior to all others. The few that aren't insane are gathered and protected by the Teacher.
- Fragile Speedster: The Lightspeed pomp.
- Healing Factor: The Evolver can give herself this with enough time, and tries using it to counter BF's decay blasts. It doesn't go well.
- Immortal Life Is Cheap: Taken to its logical extreme; with every recurring character being functionally immortal, everyone murders everyone else without so much as a second thought.
- Intermission: Separating every three chapters is an intermission page, usually a drawing of one or more girls who have seemingly no relation to the plot (although one of them has a hairclip resembling a pomp)
- Said girl with pomp hairclip is occasionally used as the author's Author Avatar elsewhere on the internet.
- I Shall Taunt You: The modus operandi of the Insulters, and the main hobby of the Lightspeed Pomp.
- Jerkass: The Lightspeed Pomp, who uses his incredible speed exclusively to insult and humiliate others.
- Journey to the Sky: The premise of "Space-goers", which also combines Wacky Racing with In a Single Bound.
- Large Ham: Just about every B- and A-Rank recurring character, but of note are the Determined Fool and the Powerful Pomp, who call and narrate all their thoughts and actions.
- Lightning Bruiser: The In-Your-Face Pomp, who shrugs off the attacks of the Lightspeed Pomp, Willpower Pomp and Pee-er, before chasing down the Pee-er, outmaneuvering his defenses and bouncing him around with afterimages like a superball.
- Mad Scientist: The Determined Fool, although his inventive efforts are entirely dedicated to creating better traps to catch pomps with.
- Meaningful Name: Most of the recurring characters are named "The [X] [Species]", where [X] describes their abilities, e.g. the Powerful Pomp for a pomp who is powerful. Exceptions include BF, Old Pomp and the Sleeping Mama.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The Barger, who shrugs off any and all attacks thrown at him.
- No One Could Survive That!: The Lightspeed Pomp makes this claim after unleashing his largest attack on the In-Your-Face Pomp. It turns out how you'd expect.
- Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: In "Mountain Base", the victorious baby #1 gives a long tirade about his greatness before being annihilated by the In-Your-Face Pomp.
- Once per Episode: The "B-Rank" chapters each follow a new recurring character as they introduce themselves and their powers, immediately pick a fight with the strongest person around, and lose miserably.
- Random Power Ranking: The Sleeping Mama assigns these to each recurring character, ranging from D up to S-Rank.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: The Barger, Mother Nature and Old Pomp, king of Nibbonoplanet, queen and king of Pompplanet respectively, are all immensely powerful S-Ranks capable of instantly destroying anyone who angers them.
- Resurrective Immortality: Every single recurring character has this, making death nothing more than a mild inconvenience to most of the cast and enabling the heavily lethal slapstick used by the series.
- Rule of Cool: The entire Pomp Reality quite literally works on this, and most recurring characters are aware of it.
- Running Gag: The Determined Fool's continuing efforts to catch pomps can be seen in the background of later chapters.
- Shock and Awe: Old Pomp's preferred method of attack.
- Shooting Superman: Despite (or perhaps because of) his publicly known invulnerability, a large number of characters still attempt to kill the Barger with their fairly mundane abilities.
- Slapstick: Most of the humor in the webcomic comes from characters getting beaten up in various ways.
- Talking Is a Free Action: During the fight between the Bomber and the Powerful Pomp, both parties manage to deliver long lines of explanations before the other guy's shockwaves hit.
- The Gods Must Be Lazy: The Sleeping Mama, despite controlling the whole of reality, only ever takes action when something interferes with her sleep.
- Those Two Guys: The Travelling Family show up occasionally to commentate on the main character of the chapter.
- Token Human: The Determined Fool is, for reasons unknown, the only human in a world of alien fish. (Although the Human Artifact User does claim that there exist different, legendary beings known as 'humans' which the Determined Fool is not a member of.)
