Sequential Art is a webcomic drawn by Phillip M. Jackson about a group of unlikely anthropomorphic housemates.Art is a chronically frustrated graphic designer (and the only human living in the house); Kat, a cat girl, is a fun loving photographer; Pip, a penguin, is a stereotypical geek who is obsessed with comics and computers, and Scarlet is a naïve and energetic squirrel girl whose erratic behaviour and short attention span masks her true intellect.After the arc covering Scarlet's Backstory, the other members of a Think Tank also live with the foursome.
Attention Whore: Hillary. It's revealed that the reason why Hillary and Kat are having their feud is because Kat had the same lunchbox as Hillary, and Hillary thought that would take attention away from her.
Aura Vision: Vanity Thorn can see auras as well as ghosts.
Bare Your Midriff: Kat's wardrobe consists of a sleeveless belly shirt and short shorts. At least she wears sweaters and such during the winter months.
Referenced in-universe: Art draws such material for a commission in one strip.
Also, Hilary, a former porn star.
Averted in Real Life, since the artist is still drawing the naughty stuff- it's even advertised on his main site. The reason he's against his portfolios being shared is because they're the majority of his income, as he's ranted about several times.
Break the Haughty: Hilary, Kat's arch-nemesis from grade school, downgraded from high-powered advertising executive to sitting in the unemployment office. Next to Pip, who wants to talk about her previous "career".
Brick Joke: After the Denizens storyline, Pip scavenges some of their technology from the basement of the house and sells it on eBuy, and as a result, on strip 344, a couple of collectors get transported to the Gobi desert due to one of the pieces of technology being still functional. On strip 765, Pip gets his eBuy account cancelled on account of an outlandish claiming about those very memorabilia collectors being stranded in the desert and supposedly one having to eat the other.
The spider from all the way back in strip 7 makes a re-appearance during Scarlet's flashback, as well as somewhat justifying how Pip managed to blow up the bathroom with a deodorant flamethrower.
Another call back is in strip #765 regarding the Denizens' technology that Pip sold to the two nerds in strip #344. It teleported them to the middle of the Gobi desert in Mongolia, and one apparently had to eat the other.
Cerebus Syndrome: Downplayed. Twice the artist has taken a few months to do long arc stories involving the plucky characters combating dangerously powerful adversaries like the Denizens or Oz, only to have the conflict resolved and go right back to the "Gag-A-Day" Format.
Colourful Theme Naming: The SquirrelGirls: Ambernote the one with the small ahoge in front, Scarletnote the one with messy Peek-A-Bangs, Jadenote the one with the longest hair and Violetnote the one with a similar hairstyle to Scarlet, but not ruffled.
Cool, but Inefficient: Pip grabs a rather large gun because it looked dangerous. It actually is powerful as it was shown to blast off a door, but it's actually just a popcorn popper, and as such has a range measured in only a few centimeters.
Cooldown Hug: Art gets one from Kat, when's he's understandably upset with Scarlet after she THREW HIM IN FRONT OF A DEATH RAY!
Cosmic Plaything: Art's skill of collecting troubles and dangerous adventures is only outmatched by the Universe's eagerness to provide them.
This particular example is made extra funny by the fact that she wanted Art to draw a high fantasy version of her. Meaning she wanted to see how he was fantasizing about her.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Hilary, as of this strip, which also marks the first time she's seen with a smile of contentment rather than out of pleasure at someone's suffering.
And sure enough, in the very next comic, we get to see that the 20+ year rivalry all started over having the same lunchbox, so Hilary felt less special.
Droste Image: Pip meets the Author Avatar hamster in the strip itself. He gives Pip a copy of his latest strip (which at the time was that very strip.) Pip looks at the strip, which is about Pip looking at the strip, looking at the strip, looking at the strip and so on.
Pip: Woah. Trippy.
Dynamic Entry: Kat slams Hilary with a flying kick to the face for the above-mentioned lies she spread about Kat.
Eldritch Abomination: Four live in the town's requisite Haunted House. Also: the Denizens, creatures that evolved from the shadow of a condemned criminal.
Although the Denizens actually become rather cute after their leader was incapacitated, leaving them to mill around the house aimlessly, watching soap operas and assist with random chores.
Expy: Many, usually Bland Name Product-type expys, but special mention should go to the Eldaks, who are fairly obviously inspired by Doctor Who's Daleks. They even use the same Catch Phrase: EXTERMINATE!, and their name is an anagram of "Daleks."
Gadgeteer Genius: Scarlet. Managed to use household tools to build a working Wave Motion Gun. Also her sisters managed to make a lawnmower escape the earth's atmosphere.
Then there's this non-canon fanservice-y accident. There was plenty of times it could've happened during DeCerto storyline. A pity it didn't.
Glasgow Grin: A variation. It's stated in Jack's official bio that his "mouth" is actually a crack in his face, meaning he's broken. This pretty much explains why he was the only Denizen who turned out to be evil.
Hard Drinking Party Girl: Kat stays sober all year...until New Year's Eve, when she gets totally smashed. Her "New Year's Resolution" for several years now has been to "stop drinking so much alcohol during the holiday season".
Hive Mind: Again, Scarlet and her sisters. The reason they're such ditzes most of the time is that each is one part out of a 4-part superintelligence. As seen when everyone plays the board version of Land of Lorecraft: everyone against Pip, the squirrel sisters manage to pull off a spectacular plan on Pip to allow Kat and Art to beat him unhindered.
Which just goes to show, never challenge a bio-supercomputer to a strategy game
Karma Houdini: A number of the more dangerous situations that the protagonists find themselves in can be traced back to Scarlet in one way or another, as well as more destructive actions such as when she activates a Kill Sat. These are typically never brought up again, presumably due to a combination of her cuteness and her essentially being socially and developmentally retarded.
Kids Are Cruel: To Art at least. Timmy talks to Kat nicely and normally while, at the same time, barraging the poor sod with snowballs.
Limited Wardrobe: Pip is by far the guiltiest, wearing his trademark sweater on the hottest day of the summer.
At first, Scarlet is naked. When she finally gets a (singular) shirt, she never changes it. Lampshaded in one comic when Art suggests she wash it, so she does — without taking it off.
Perpetual Expression: Pip's face rarely changes thanks to his Opaque Lenses and unnoticeably small mouth. That definitely doesn't mean he doesn't emote.
Art: Have you been using my laptop again? Kat: I like the way that folder is marked "reference material".
Powered Armor: Scarlett and her sisters make a suit in this strip to fight a giant bug. Or rather were intending to make a Humongous Mecha, made a scaling error, then liked it and made more "Soopa Soots".
Sadist Teacher: Ms. Strinpit - possibly only towards Kat and the kids in her last school, judging by how she gave Hilary the easiest questions and assigned Kat with ones that couldn't be answered without research (research she would never allow). More like Evil Teacher, really.
Scenery Censor: Scarlet originally ran around the house naked. Kat eventually got her a jumper. Her sisters wear shirts from their old science lab. They're still 1 awkward pose away from falling out of them.
Scooby Stack: The squirrel girls express their fear of open spaces by hugging a doorway in a Stack.
Ship Tease: Sequential Art doesn't do it nearly as much as other webcomics but every so often the readers will be teased with a little moment between Art and Kat. Some of them are about as subtle as a brick to the head. From anonymous Valentine's Day cards to finding the perfect mattress.
The Martian Invasion story arc has one toDoctor Who. The Eldak are basically expies of the Daleks, their very name is an anagram of the infamous pepper-pots and they use the Dalek's Catch Phrase, "Exterminate!". Then another to Star Wars when Pip finds some TIE Interceptors to play with.
Pip the penguin apparently has an Uncle Feathers who was a career criminal. Sure enough, his last name turns out to be McGraw.
Comic 831 appears to start a story arc in vein of They Live.
A subtle one in comic 834: the website address is a reference to Hudson's "ultimate badass" speech in Aliens, and who's on the webcam? James Cameron wearing the armor from said film.
Nightlight gets one as well, when Pip is disgusted with how the movie got Scarlet and her sisters to think that all vampires are hot, sparkly, and nonthreatening. He promptly treats them to Oldman's version of Dracula.
Of course aside from a story arc in vein of They Live, this.
There Are No Girls on the Internet: Art convinced Pip the girl he meets on "Realm of Lorecraft" is really a guy. Turns out she actually is a girl — and for extra fun, is every bit as bimbo-tastic as her character's design.
This Explains So Much: Art's reaction when Pip reveals his uncle, who he admired and wanted to go into the same line of work, was a career criminal.
In case you were wondering exactly why PMJ's Author Avatar is a hamster...
Villainous Breakdown: When the Eldak's best attack simply reverts Art back to his normal, slim self, they instantly believe that he's invincible and panic.
This became the focal point for on entire story arc... complete with a Dalekexpy race out to kill him because of it.
Weaksauce Weakness: Scarlet's sisters were brainwashed into having a crippling phobia of the outdoors to prevent them from ever running away like Scarlet did.
Of course, this being Think Tank, the limitation was eventually circumvented by tinkering up opaque visors that show everything without depth perception.
Weirdness Magnet: Lampshaded when the cast are inadvertently drawn into a plot involving alien infiltrators.
Kat: WHY DO WE KEEP GETTING DRAGGED INTO STUFF LIKE THIS?!
Wetware CPU: Amber, Jade, Violet, and Scarlet formed a four-part organic supercomputer at Quinten R&D.
is a webcomic drawn by Phillip M. Jackson about a group of unlikely anthropomorphic housemates.Art is a chronically frustrated graphic designer (and the only human living in the house); Kat, a cat girl, is a fun loving photographer; Pip, a penguin, is a stereotypical geek who is obsessed with comics and computers, and Scarlet is a naïve and energetic squirrel girl whose erratic behaviour and short attention span masks her true intellect.After the arc covering Scarlet's Backstory, the other members of a Think Tank also live with the foursome.
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