Webcomic / Rasputin Barxotka

"Some men never face the void within and thrive as happy human demons."

— King Camello Basma

A NSFW webcomic by Reverend Vas Littlecrow Wojtanowicz. It can be found here.

Rasputin Barxotka is a crime drama webcomic with a supernatural twist. The story follows the relationship between a dead Russian Romani smuggler and his deeply tormented compatriot, Lucky.

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This comic provides examples of:

• Abduction Is Love:
  • Marlborina resents the fact that Camello did not kidnap her at her wedding.
  • When Camello volunteers to be abducted when he sees a kidnapped woman trying to escape mechanical tentacle rape by the Zeta Reticulans.
• Acid Trip Dimension: Where the Reptilians end up after Camello discharges the Magical Easter Egg of Doom by accident.
• Action Girl:
  • Marlborina is capable of throwing strong punches.
  • Tatiana after she became one of Camello's armed bodyguards
• Adventures In The Bible: Tsar's takes place in a scene described in Revelations 4.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Camello seems to have throes of wannabe-groupies even though he is too gay to be interested in women.
• Anal Probing: Though the humans view it as sexual, the Zeta Reticulans don't seem to have a clue that this form of fuel collection might be perverted, or even seem to understand the mechanics of human sex.
• Anti-Hero: Lucky doesn't seem to possess any sort of redeeming qualities. Camello is cruel, manipulative, arrogant, and abusive, but is marginally more likable.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Marlborina's reaction after Camello sobers up from a previous rape attack and sings her an apology song.
• Art Evolution:
  • The original twenty nine pages of Rasputin Barxotka were done in a completely different style and moved to a different site. These pages were redone to give the webcomic a more consistent look. Other pages were enhanced with shading or backgrounds.
  • When A Superkiller Rusalka Week began, Rasputin Barxotka became less cartoony.
• Art Shift:
  • Side stories tend to be black and white or done in a different style.
  • Tsar's dream sequence was illustrated by Ram Lama.
  • When the Almighty is shown in her true form, she's a photograph rather than a drawing.
  • Thomas Overbeck, creator of Times Like This, did an April Fools' Day gag guest comic that was written into the storyarc and turned into canon.
  • Supplemental comics drawn by guest artists are invariably done in a different style.
• Attempted Rape:
  • Camello attempted to rape Marlborina while extremely drunk, but successfully fought him off.
  • Camello saves a woman from getting an unwanted anal probe from the Zeta Reticulans by gleefully volunteering to take her place.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Getter
• Bar Brawl: They usually involve Camello.
• Beautiful All Along: Marlborina after she plucks her monobrow, puts on lipstick and lets her hair down.
• Beneath the Mask:
  • Lucky's entire persona appears to be lies layered upon lies.
  • Lechy changes personality when he takes off his mask.
• Best Served Cold: Tsar years after his boss's death.
• Bodyguarding A Bad Ass: Tsar works as Camello's Bodyguard
• Brainless Beauty:
  • Daniella and Zoya.
  • Tatiana started out as such, but proved to be less stupid than she appeared.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Cain after being punished by Tsar
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • Zoya did it when she teased the readers about Russian apartments.
  • The Almighty is able to travel freely inside and outside the fourth wall, especially when other characters are dreaming, and at one point she was depicted as a photograph rather than a drawn character.
  • Tsar could be perceived as breaking it when he complains about Thomas Overbeck's April Fools' Day guest comic, even though technically Bob was responsible for it in the story.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Not only are Marlborina and Camello cousins, they are also adoptive brother and sister.
• Brutal Honesty: Camello has a bad habit of being maliciously honest at inappropriate times.
• Camp Gay: Lechy.
• Coming-Out Story: It happens at Camello's trial.
• Domestic Abuser:
  • Gloria apparently beats her husband Camello on a routine basis. Camello only seems to beat her when he's extremely drunk.
  • Lucky is extremely emotionally abusive to Camello.
• Glowing Eyes: Pretty much every ghost, demon and angel depending on their state of being.
• The Greys: The Zeta Reticulans
• Gypsy Curse: Inverted. The curse follows the Gypsy Curse trope but it only affects the Roma characters, and wasn't actually cast by them. The culprit was actually a non-Roma Russian pretending to be a Gypsy.
• Happiness in Slavery: Camello
• High-Class Call Girl: Getter secretarial job is actually a cover for her true profession.
• Hidden Badass: Tsar and the rather diminutive Superkiller.
• Hitman with a Heart: Tsar
• Historical Domain Character: Superkiller, Sylvester and someone who may be Mikhail Gorbachev
• Hot Gypsy Woman: Tatiana follows this stereotype to a tee, but it comes to an abrupt stop after the Kris.
• Jerkass Gods: The Almighty routinely sexually exploits her creations, and seems to enjoy messing with them.
• Kavorka Man: Lucky, usually with Russian blondes.
• Kissing Cousins: Marlborina and Camello
• Led Zeppelin: Camello's favorite band.
• Lower-Class Lout: Camello and his family.
• Mistaken for Racist: Bob and Tsar, mostly due to an unresolved cultural misunderstanding about what is considered to be "black" in Russia.
• You Are What You Hate: Lucky.
• Macho Camp: Camello
• The Mafiya: Mikhail and most of Tsar's hitlist.
• Manly Gay: Tsar.
• Marital Rape License: Lucky attempted to rape Marlborina on their wedding night, but was thwarted with a shoe and fist to his face.
• Metalhead: Camello, Medved, Ursula and Especially Tsar, plus all of their fans.
• Moral Guardians: Romeo and Babushkas in general.
• Mouthy Kid: Olivia when talking back to Tsar and Geni's Girlfriend. Marlborina in general.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Camello after he reforms.
• Our Angels Are Different: The angelic form of Camello is pretty terrifying.
• Psychopathic Man Child: Superkiller.
• Prison Rape:
  • Camello apparently finds the idea of prison rape to be a turn on.
  • Tsar was the victim of prison rape on multiple occasions.
• Serial Killer: Sasha blackmails Dmitri by threatening to reveal the location of the bodies.
• Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Many of Camello's sexual exploits tend to be a direct result of this attitude.
• Sexy Secretary: Getter.
• Slut-Shaming:
  • Romeo has a bad a habit of talking smack about women's sexual proclivities.
  • Lucky mock slut-shames Marlborina, but admits that he's a slut shortly thereafter.
• Stoners Are Funny: The Zeta Reticulans.
• Wrong Genetic Sex: Sasha looks male, but actually isn't.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Lucky and Marlborina.
• Vigilante Man: Superkiller.
• Pretty Fly Fora White Guy: Tsar, sort of.

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