History Webcomic / PunchAnPie

* CartoonCreature: Frank, Angela's pet cat...dog...whatever.

* BiTheWay: Angela comes out to Heather as bi, rather than lesbian, when she offhandedly refers to an ex as "he"; Heather comments that she wishes it could always be done so easily. Heather herself is identified as bi in a similar fashion.

* ContinuityCameo: Felix and Shannon from ''Queen of Wands'', and their daughter Adrienne, cameo [[http://punchanpie.keenspot.com/daily/20080213.html as customers]] at the zoo where Heather works. Canon guest storylines by [[SomethingPositive R.K. Milholland]] feature Wannabe Wiccan Girl, Linda [[spoiler:and Kestrel]].

* AllThereInTheManual: It is highly recommended to read ''Queen of Wands'' first to make a few things clearer. Angela's abandoned polyamorous views are only referenced obliquely in ''Punch an' Pie'', and she and Justin occasionally reference Kestrel, Seamus, and the Macarena Bear from the previous strip.

--> '''Aeire''', author of the comic.

''[[http://punchanpie.keenspot.com/ Punch an' Pie]]'' is a comic, written by Aeire and illustrated by Chris Daily, about two bisexual women who start the comic in a relationship, break up, and rebuild their emotional lives afterward. It is a spinoff to Aeire's ''Webcomic/QueenOfWands'', focused on the life of Angela, from that comic; her girlfriend to start, Heather, and the increasingly large social networks that they form after their relationship ends.

The strip was originally written by Aeire, writer/artist of ''Webcomic/QueenOfWands'', and drawn by Chris Daily, writer/artist of ''Webcomic/{{Striptease}}''. After 2011 became a particularly bad case of ScheduleSlip due to Aeire's schedule, she turned the scripting duties over to Daily as well, stepping back into a directing role.

* ReallyGetsAround: Karen claims that Aiden has slept with all of the girls at the zoo, and that he is reliable for a fun, uncomplicated sexual experience. The "sleeping with everyone" part is left up in the air, but the "uncomplicated" part? ''Dead wrong.'' [[spoiler:Especially in Karen's case, where she assumed that they were in a relationship after they slept together.]]

** Also applies to the Angela/Justin ShipTease, which is more on the Won't side but nonetheless appears increasingly plausible.

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Karen insists that Heather should have a one-night stand with Aiden to break her post-breakup mope. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be a personal test to see if Aiden was being true with her.]]

* DreamSequence: Used to contrast Angela's and Heather's different thought processes. Angela has wacky and meaningless dreams involving her favorite TV shows, video games and books (as well as a nightmarish fairy tale-inspired dream); Heather has introspective dreams where she re-examines her flimsy FreudianExcuse and tendency toward projecting her repressed traits onto others.

* PointyHairedBoss: Subverted with George. At first he comes across as a sadistic and socially inept Jerkass, but it turns out that as poor as his personal skills are, he is a pretty decent boss.

* RomanticFalseLead: Angela ''thinks'' that Jack is one. He certainly wasn't in Heather's eyes, [[spoiler: and wasn't in his eyes, either]].

* TheStoic: Aiden. He is infuriatingly detached, which is part of why he and Heather have so much UnresolvedSexualTension.

* YouNeedToGetLaid: Karen insists that Heather should have a one-night stand with Aiden to break her post-breakup mope.

* ClosetKey: When Karen decides to "become" bisexual to be more like Angela, Natalia tells her that's not how it works, and offers to experiment with her to prove that people can't just choose to change their sexual orientation. She proves her point, since Karen chickens out and can't go through with it, but the experience makes Natalia realize her own attraction to women. She already has a girlfriend by her next appearance in the strip.

* HowWeGotHere: After a very lengthy Angela arc, the comic switches back to Heather in real time — meaning that several months have passed, she's graduated from college, has a new (and much less fun) job, and [[spoiler:has cut off her quasi-relationship with Aiden to go out with Lucy]]. {{Flashback}}s are being used to fill in up to the present.

** Karen attempts to do this with Heather and Aiden - that is, she wants them to have sex together, but not to have a relationship. Her reasons are still somewhat unclear; she wants Heather to be happy, but it is possible that she is also sore over a one-night stand with Aiden not leading to a relationship.

* MilestoneCelebration: Subverted quite nastily. The 100th strip has Angela and Heather declaring their love for each other and affirming their relationship in a genuinely heartwarming fashion...the 101st strip is the full-color WhamEpisode where Heather breaks up with Angela.

* MoodWhiplash: Ah, a DreamSequence FillerArc parodying Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon! Surely this will be some good, lighthea-[[NightmareFuel HOLY JESUS CHRIST]] [[http://punchanpie.keenspot.com/daily/20100504.html WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!]]

* ReallyGetsAround: Karen claims that Aiden has slept with all of the girls at the zoo, and that he is reliable for a fun, uncomplicated sexual experience. The "sleeping with everyone" part is left up in the air, but the "uncomplicated" part? ''Dead wrong.''
* RelationshipUpgrade: Heather is still trying to figure out whether or not she and Aiden have had one of these. Subverted when he up and proposes...and she rejects him and breaks up with him in the same breath.

* ScheduleSlip: From April 2011-March 2012, only 15 strips were posted. Apparently this was due to Aeire's schedule being quite busy, preventing her from writing. She turned the writing reins over to Chris Daily in late 2011, and he began working on a buffer so that the schedule wouldn't slip that badly again, finally returning with a regular schedule in April 2012.

** It is legitimately unclear whether Angela and Heather will ever get back together. Karen, Jack, Justin and Lucy have all been set up as possible [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhov's Gunmen]] that would make a reunion plausible (their reunion was instead a completely chance encounter without any external engineering).

* ChekhovsGunman: Lucy, who started as a colorful co-worker who taught Angela how to work the bookstore's coffee shop and later got a cameo in one of Heather's arcs as a burlesque dancer. [[spoiler: And now Lucy is Heather's new girlfriend. And now they broke up because it turns out Lucy was just using her as something of a free ride.]]

* GrandFinale: Angela and Heather finally run into each other for the first time since the breakup, and after talking for a while, they part on friendly terms after Heather gives Angela a ride to work. The comic then gets in one last gag as Angela is about to enter the toy store but then remembers [[IdiotBall it's actually her day off]] and leaves, grumbling about her mistake.