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openA recent webcomic Webcomic
A few weeks ago I started reading a new webcomic. It's fairly new, and only had about four pages or so, but was made by somebody who's made webcomics before. It's in full color. Think it's updated once a week. I don't remember much, but it's about a woman who's a goddess in diguise or something and is a huge celebrity. I think the plot so far is that she runs into some old acquaintances of hers in public.
(But PLEASE mention anything that sounds remotely close to it!)
open"Swim Club" webcomic created by a troper Webcomic
First of all, I apologize if this isn't the place to ask this, but I'm out of ideas and I've been trying to find this comic for a while.
Around five years ago, in the TV Tropes forum, a troper named Muttx SC mentioned on the forum they created a webcomic called Swim Club - a story set in the eighties about teens in a high school swim club who find some sort of portal to a horror dimension in their school pool.
I think the person abandoned the project after around 100 pages. I can't find any information about them or the comic, no real names, archived pages, online footprint or nothing. The troper is no longer active (and might've just joined the site to promote the comic, which is kind of a dick move, but that's a different issue), so it seems like the comic's disappeared from the face of the Earth.
Does anyone have any idea of where I could find it?
And again, sorry if I'm using this feature wrong, I'll drop it if that's the case.
Edited by Mac_RopenAn early animatic by Emilyamiao Webcomic
An animatic (set to Baby, It's Cold Outside) by Emilyamiao for the webcomic Catechism, that has since disappeared. If anyone has a link it could be accessed again.
(The comic has no relation to the actual catechism.)
Edited by JS8openFantasy Rock band comic? Webcomic
If i'm remembering this right, this was around 2014/2015. I remember reading a comic that centered around this like 17 y/o dude who had a mask that sent him to the demon realm? Some hellish dimension, where he turned into this big skeleton version of himself and 2 of the locals would play in a rock band with him. I think the second chapter featured the main dude discovering he had like laser powers? And the third was set in a mushroomy area where people insisted he was the hero set to save them. The tone was very light hearted, and it was plot driven. The art was fairly good, but not super impressive.
openArtists collaboration and competition to create story Webcomic
I once saw a website where a lot (> 20) artists did collaborate to create a story of a giant world where every artist created their own character.
Every week 2 artists had to draw the encounter of their 2 created characters and had to draw how this encounter concluded. Then the work of one of the two artists were selected to be canon.
On the website there was a giant map as a overview and you were able to view all the created versions of the webcomics.
openApology without knowing the offense Webcomic
I'm pretty sure it was in some webcomic, but I lost the details.
What I remember is a male character apologizing to a female one because obviously he offended her in some way, but she rejects the apology because it's clear he has no idea what he's apologizing for, which makes the apology insincere in her eyes.
openComic about having large breasts Webcomic
It was a comic about the advantages and disadvantages of having large breasts. I remember one chapter had the main character putting her phone in between her breasts and setting the alarm to vibrate so it would wake her up.
openWebcomic website with lizard, fish, and fast food worker (Solved!) Webcomic
There was this old-style webcomic website with a few comics by the same person. One of them was about these fish in a fishtank who started doing politics. This very bad fish started to pull ahead in the polls by doing propaganda.
There was also one starring a lizard of some sort. She was pretty intelligent and went on adventures. I think she was a kid's pet but broke out of her cage.
There was another about a man who worked in a fast food shop that sold tacos. I remember there was a subplot where he had a girlfriend, but then he realized that she thought they were pretending to date while he thought they were really dating.
Edited by BeaCandyopen"Don't you watch Dragonball Z? Firing into a cloud of smoke does nothing!" Webcomic
I recall a particular occasion of the Smoke Shield trope which ended with the attackee calling out to the attacker "Don't you watch Dragonball Z? Firing into a cloud of smoke never works!" (Or something to that effect.)
I can't recall where I had seen that though. I want to say it was in Bob and George as it was their style of humor, but I can't find where that had happened. I might be remembering wrong and it wasn't even from a webcomic, but that's my first guess.
Does this ring any bells? Anyone know where this was from?
openWebcomic about the antics of Cyborg Guy and daughter/little girl? Webcomic
I remember around /co/ on 4chan, I made a thread for this exact thing and I posted a panel from a webcomic and I got my answer (but because I was a idiot at that time I didn't save the thread and now I can't find it.
It was this comic about some guy and I believe his daughter??? The guy had a robotic arm. the daughter had a catchphrase which was always something like "Well THAT was ____" (Ex: The panel I posted was the guy going to the dentist and the last panel had "Well THAT was embarassing.." I believe here name was Beans but I can't remember. BTW, this webcomic has a page right here on TV Tropes.
Edited by TropeFanaticFanopenMid 2010s, homestuck lineless artstyle, kids mistakenly send themselves to hell Webcomic
Around 2013-2015, I remember reading the start of a webcomic. I only really remember 2 plot points from it. It was about this group of kids who tried summoning a demon, but the reverse happened and they mistakenly sent the entire group to hell, scattered across the plane. However hell was not stereotypical fire and brimstone, and instead was very alien looking with forest and areas of housing.
I remember only one of the characters designs: A "Dave Strider" lookalike, an albino male teenager, with white hair and white skin, wearing glasses and acting very aloof.
Two plot points I remember were of two of the 5 or so kids meeting their respective demon.
One of the girl characters, a very sweet but weird kid, manages to come out of the woods and breaks into a demon's home to look for a phone or food. The house was empty, so she was able to get out of the open. However the demon who lived there shortly returned home and panicked/was scared of the girl when she was discovered.
The dave lookalike got arrested for looking so weird, and while arrested, he met a demon lawyer that immediately realized that he wasn't a demon, and was trying to figure out a loophole to get him out and possibly back home.
The artstyle was either lineless, made in paint with hard edges, or was lined with colored lineart. (It's been several years, but it is what it is.) The art style reminded me a lot of Andrew Hussie's lineless art style, for example: The dramatic close up of Jadesprite and Davesprite's faces in [S] Cascade.
If anyone recognizes this comic, I'll really appreciate it! Thank you for your time <:7!
openI’m trying to remember a webcomic… Webcomic
I remember this absurdist gag a day comic. One strip parodied Dr who by having him stop a leavking dam with his giant forehead.
openBL manhua where one of the protagonists has a musical note on his haircut Webcomic
It's a BL manhua (probably) where one of the guys has a musical note shaved on his hair. He has a mute little sister who likes skate boarding and he himself likes photography. His family life is also kinda dysfunctional. The other guy discovered that he was adopted or something like that, and he dislikes his biological father I think, and the reason he moved to a new city has something to do with it. They are still in high school and they have gotten involved in fights and stuff.
openweb comic about death Webcomic
TW: suicide self harm mention
my friend told me about a webcomic, possibly a Manhwa, in which there is little to no dialogue, and there is a girl who is either suicidal, or has ideation of sucide. And there is this formless creature watching her.
Its implied that the formless creature represents the reader and how they are a passive participant in this woman's pain.
lol a light one. thank you.
open(FOUND) College student doccumenting weird architectural things with professor Webcomic
The comic was about this college student meeting/working under a professor whose private area of research was documenting irregular features in buildings. She had a specific name for them, but it was basically these tiny barely noticeable details like an an out of place brick or an extra section of roof in a location that didn't make sense.
The main character initially thinks she's crazy, but over time gets increasingly sucked into the mystery despite her warning him to only record data and not dig deeper. He ignores this and one day suddenly comes to some kind of realization about the irregularities. But when he runs to tell her, he finds that her office is gone and he can no longer remember anything about the research. One of his friends comes to get him, and he returns to life as a normal college student.
That's probably plenty to identify it. But if it helps, it was a fairly medium-short comic, readable in one sitting and I think a fairly muted (monochrome?) color palette.
Edited by rachiebirdopenTumblr ask blog focusing on classic cartoon characters arriving in the real world Webcomic
It was an ask blog/webcomic on Tumblr that focused on a human girl accidentally summoning cartoon characters to the real world - I believe she summoned 3 (Mickey Mouse, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Felix the Cat), but there's a possibility that there were more. The girl had to hide the characters from her family and friends, but over the course of the comic she found other people hiding their own cartoon characters, such as a fellow classmate who had befriended Marvin the Martian. The art looked like it had been done in MS Paint/a similar art program, and I think the artist of the webcomic was pretty young but I don't know for sure. I read it back in 2017/2018 but can't for the life of me remember the name of the blog.
Edited by MissGemKnightopenDid a webcomic called "Clear Skies" (IIRC) exist, then disappear into thin air? Webcomic
It was Low Fantasy, and all of the characters had wings or at least patagia. The plot involved multiple rival tribes; The Prophecy would be fulfilled, and a lot of major problems would be solved if two of the tribe leaders' kids were allowed to marry when they came of age (a plan with which said kids were more than fine with, but a bunch of old traditionalists opposed). I think the female lead was named Lisslie.
The art was highly detailed and proficient. I think that it was on either Tumblr or dA; one way or another, it seems to have just sort of vanished into the aether.
Edited by FarseerLoloteaopenMario Crossover Sprite Comic Webcomic
This is the biggest long shot but TV Tropes is the last place I saw this comic mentioned so I'm asking here.
I'm looking for a Mario sprite comic that I unfortunately remember almost nothing about. I'm 70% sure its title was "Mushroom Kingdom [SOMETHING]". That last word might have been "collapse" but absolutely don't quote me on that.
What I do remember is that it was one of those massive crossover stories that involved various other Nintendo universes. The part I remember is that there was a section of the story that crossed over with the Kirby universe, and particularly a part about Drawcia. This comic is (perhaps apocryphally) quoted as the origin of the popular fanon that Drawcia "contracted" with Zero and became part Dark Matter.
I have nothing on the timeframe, but because it involves Drawcia, I would put it between 2005 and 2010, since Canvas Curse released in 2005 and I remember this comic dropping off the face of the internet many years ago.
I've done a bunch of frantic googling but I'm turning up nothing. Thank you so much for the help!
openSlice of Life Witch Mom Webcomic Webcomic
A cute slice of life webcomic about an average middle aged mom, her husband, and like 2 or 3 kids, and the mom just happens to be a witch in a world where magic is known and fairly normal, but not super common. I remember in particular a sequence where the mom is trying to set up a magical grocery delivery, but given that magic is treated as a technology that has upsides and downsides like any other, she eventually concludes she'd rather go get them herself mundanely. At least part of it was definitely published between 2005-2010, but likely more on one or both sides of that time.
I am trying to remember the name of a web-based interactive, episodic cartoon. The protagonist was a kid who is part bug (antenna growing out of head) and whose pet roly poly ran (or rolled) away. Each episode represented a different stage in his search. Completing the episode required you click on different things like a point-and-click adventure game. Throughout his search he was followed by a one-armed man in a Napoleon costume and a psionic frog carrying the man’s severed arm in a glass box. The tone of the cartoon was mysterious and surreal. I never saw the end and was always curious what happened. Does anyone remember watching this in the late 90s?