Line #8 ComicBook/Umbra

Context ComicBook / Umbra

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1	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/umbracover.jpg]]
2	Iceland, 1999. An American tourist stumbles across a dead body and Askja Thorasdottir, as part of the forensic team, is called to the scene. Askja is a mass of anxieties, though, and not only drinks, but takes Atavin to calm her down. So it's quite a surprise when she finds the body isn't recent -- in fact, it's the skeleton of a Neanderthal woman.
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4	A Neanderthal who, in turns out, was wearing a fleece blanket made by the United Colors of Benneton and who was shot in the back with a Soviet-era pistol. While trying to bend her mind around that, Askja also deals with the beautiful Inspector Freyja Skullasdottir and her strange dreams of being in a boat with the Neanderthal woman (the only word she says is "Umbra") and a flock of Great Auks, birds that have been extinct since the 1800s.
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6	Things get weirder, if that is possible, after a very sensual encounter with Inspector Skullasdottir, the flock of Auks from her dream prevent her from going into the police lab, just as it blows up. And what comes afterwards may turn out to be stranger that anything she can imagine.
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8	''ComicBook/{{Umbra}}'' is a three-issue black-and-white mini-series written by Steve Murphy and drawn by Mike Hawthorne and published by Image Comics in 2006. It's a MindScrew in comic form. [[JustForFun/InSpace With lesbians.]]
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11	'''This comic contains the following tropes:'''
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13	%%* ChaseScene
14	%%* {{Chiaroscuro}}
15	%%* DirtyCommunists
16	* ForensicDrama: That's only the first few pages, though, since ''it gets weirder''.
17	* LipstickLesbian: Askja and Freyja.
18	%%* MindScrew
19	* PoliceProcedural: With some very {{Mind Screw}}y properties.
20	* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Well, not everybody, just Askja. And they don't really show the future, per se...
21	%%* ShownTheirWork
22	* TimeTravel: Only implied, however.
23	* TwoPersonPoolParty: Freyja takes Askja to the Blue Lagoon on "police business."
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Context ComicBook / Umbra