History Webcomic / PlatinumGrit

* AnythingThatMoves. Nils. Anything except Jeremy that is.

* PeekABangs. Nils. You'll never see her right eye...

Jeremy [=MacConnor=] is a brilliant young science student whose work occasionally [[MadScientist stretches the bounds of belief]] and who [[ChasteHero doesn't know much about girls]], whose misadventures begin when he finds out that he has to fight a duel to the death with his AxeCrazy (and immortal) Cousin Dougal to find out who will inherit the ancestral Castle [=MacConnor=]. His best friend Nilson Kerr, a young lady of dubious morals who thinks that owning a castle sounds fun, doesn't care about Jeremy's rather understandable fear of death, and sets herself to the task of helping him inherit a castle. And so begins an [[WorldOfWeirdness increasingly bizarre]] series of adventures including an [[AliensMadeThemDoIt attempt by extra-terrestrials to get Jeremy laid]], an investigation by a private detective who [[WrongGenreSavvy mistakenly thinks he's in a private eye dime novel]], ghostly manifestations from the nearby lake, the [=MacConnor=] family's private mental asylum, a crazed zookeeper, a talking cupboard from Jamaica, and an insidious family conspiracy spanning generations. Eventually they're joined by Kate Provocski, a hack writer for trashy womens' magazines, whose cynicism and relatively sane personality make her the stable anchor of the group.

''[[http://www.platinumgrit.com Platinum Grit]]'' is a webcomic by Danny Murphy and Trudy Cooper (better known as the artist and co-writer of {{Webcomic/Oglaf}}) in a surreal, often nonsensical version of the real world, following the adventures of a mismatched trio of incompetent Australian misfits as they struggle to make sense of (or at least put up with) various encounters with the bizarre and inexplicable.

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[[AC:SETTING]]
* UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}
* WorldOfWeirdness Exploding zoo animals, a road trip from Greenland to Australia (via Arkansas, Holland, and Mexico), extra-terrestrial matchmakers, immortals, and a manifestation of lust assuming the form of Kate Bush.

[[AC:NARRATIVE/THEMES]]
* {{Flashback}} Frequent flashbacks to Jeremy's childhood, especially memories of Uncle Angus.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot The first time around you won't even realise there's an overarching plotline at all until halfway through. The second time, you'll start noticing important supporting characters getting cameos several issues before their official debut, and all sorts of other foreshadowing.

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[[AC:META]]
* FunetikAksent. German accents, Jamaican accents, Jersey accents, real Scots accents, and badly impersonated Scots accents all get this.

* BadDreams. Jeremy keeps having nightmares about his childhood tormentor Cousin Dougal suddenly returning. Despite Dougal looking suspiciously dead at the end of an early storyline, Jeremy's dreams [[DreamingOfThingsToCome might be more]] than just the result of childhood trauma.

''[[http://www.platinumgrit.com Platinum Grit]]'' is a webcomic by Danny Murphy and Trudi Cooper in a surreal, often nonsensical version of the real world, following the adventures of a mismatched trio of incompetent Australian misfits as they struggle to make sense of (or at least put up with) various encounters with the bizarre and inexplicable.

* CaptainErsatz. Cousin Dougal just happens to be a centuries-old immortal Scottish swordsman. And his last name is McWickening.

* ScheduleSlip. Dropping by the news agent once a week to see if it was in yet... [[spoiler: Gave up after a couple of years.]]
** Now (mid-2011) pretty officially on-hiatus (according to forum bulletins), pending serious website re-tooling and reformatting to make it more like a typical webcomic. Of course the fact that the artist is [[Webcomic/{{Oglaf}} already doing that pretty successfully with a new comic]] doesn't help.

** Now (mid-2011) pretty officially on-hiatus (according to forum bulletins), pending serious website re-tooling and reformatting to make it more like a typical webcomic. Of course the fact that the artist is [[{{Oglaf}} already doing that pretty successfully with a new comic]] doesn't help.

* WorldOfWeirdness Exploding zoo animals, a road trip from Greenland to Australia (via Arkansas, Holland, and Mexico), extra-terrestrial matchmakers, immortals, and a manifestation of lust assuming the form of old Dungeons & Dragons art.

* MsFanservice. Nils is a Stripperific WhiteHairedPrettyGirl who spends near an entire issue in her underwear. Aiaiai...

Jeremy [=MacConnor=] is a brilliant young science student whose work occasionally [[MadScientist stretches the bounds of belief]] and who [[ChasteHero doesn't know much about girls]], whose misadventures begin when he finds out that he has to fight a duel to the death with his AxeCrazy (and immortal) Cousin Dougal to find out who will inherit the ancestral Castle [=MacConnor=]. His best friend Nilson Kerr, a young lady of dubious morals who thinks that owning a castle sounds fun, doesn't care about Jeremy's rather understandable fear of death, and sets herself to the task of helping him inherit a castle. And so begins an [[PlanetEris increasingly bizarre]] series of adventures including an [[AliensMadeThemDoIt attempt by extra-terrestrials to get Jeremy laid]], an investigation by a private detective who [[WrongGenreSavvy mistakenly thinks he's in a private eye dime novel]], ghostly manifestations from the nearby lake, the [=MacConnor=] family's private mental asylum, a crazed zookeeper, a talking cupboard from Jamaica, and an insidious family conspiracy spanning generations. Eventually they're joined by Kate Provocski, a hack writer for trashy womens' magazines, whose cynicism and relatively sane personality make her the stable anchor of the group.

* PlanetEris Exploding zoo animals, a road trip from Greenland to Australia (via Arkansas, Holland, and Mexico), extra-terrestrial matchmakers, immortals, and a manifestation of lust assuming the form of old Dungeons & Dragons art.

* BottleFairy. Nils. Kate as well, but especially Nils.

* [[UsefulNotesOnAustralia Australia]]