Line #39 Webcomic/SexyLosers


1	Formerly known as ''The Thin H Line'', ''Sexy Losers'' is an adult {{webcomic}} by [[PenName Clay (a.k.a. Hard)]] that began in 1999. Drawn in an {{animesque}} style, it followed the antics of several different characters. They include a {{hentai}} [[{{fangirl}} artist]], a [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]], a compulsive masturbator (and his equally compulsive masturbating sister), a bored housewife [[ParentalIncest trying to seduce her son]], a group of scientists developing bizarre sex aids, several porn stars, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking couple of stage magicians]]. It was the highest scoring entry on the List of Potentially Offensive Webcomics, having been awarded six "toilets" [[BrokeTheRatingScale out of a possible five]]. Its biggest claim to fame was its popularizing [[MemeticMutation "fap" and "shlick"]][[note]]often spelled "schlick" elsewhere[[/note]] as onomatopoeiae for male and female masturbation. It's notable in that the graphic art and themes is not the ''point'', but a vehicle for both comedy and serious discussion.
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3	The series can be found [[https://www.sexylosers.com here]] ({{NSFW}} with a semi-SFW filter page).
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5	As of 2011, the series has been reborn as ''The Thin H Line'', again as a Tumblr feed/blog. The comics are listed [[https://thinhline.tumblr.com/list here]]. (Again, most comics are {{NSFW}}.) As of 2020, Clay has started infrequently posting new content on the original site, including the Mother's Little Helper arc.
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7	In accordance with site rules, '''please do not directly link to NSFW pages'''.
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10	!!This Series Has Examples Of:
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12	%%* AllMenArePerverts
13	%%* AllWomenAreLustful
14	* AnimateInanimateObject: Sex toys in this series are moderately alive and remember everything that's done to them. A fairy occasionally shows up to bring them to life, but it tends to turn out badly, since they know nothing other than how to give sexual pleasure. (The longest-running arc with one featured [[strike: Shiunji's former blowup doll]] Ishida's dug-up corpse, who tried to take revenge upon him [[spoiler:and found that he was so perverted [[TooKinkyToTorture he would have been happy to be cut into bits]]. Then she got torn to pieces by dogs]].) It's bizarrely tragic, albeit funny and cringe-inducing as well.
15	* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: One strip has Chie stressing over the fact that yet another date has ended with the man just wanting to cum on her face instead of having sex with her. When he fails to do so she complains that he doesn't think she's pretty.
16	* ArtEvolution: Early comics were in black-and-white and less detailed. Additionally, the earliest comics had a clear manga-esque style, but they eventually evolved into a much more Western comic-like style.
17	* AshesToCrashes: [[spoiler:The nymphomaniac mother kills her son's girlfriend [[OutWithABang via sexual exhaustion]]. She attends the funeral. The urn her ashes are in is vaguely phallic. She tries using it as a dildo, and it breaks ...]]
18	%%* AssShove: Often the ''least'' offensive joke in a strip.
19	%%* AttractiveBentGender: #230 (NSFW.) [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued]] when this strip was ripped off many times, most notably by ''Maxim''.
20	%%* AuthorGuestSpot: #15, [[https://www.sexylosers.com/comic/083/ #83]] (SFW apart from offensive dialogue), and #156.
21	* BarbieDollAnatomy: at first, the series applied Japanese censorship effects as part of its {{animesque}} art. Dropped around #95, and hasn't looked back since.
22	* BedTrick: Literature/HarryPotter uses this to get in bed with Hermione Granger. [[spoiler:Then it gets worse.]]
23	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Kenta has a huge penis, as his mother observes. Unfortunately, her side of the family "has all the big dick genes".
24	%%* BigNo: In #205 (NSFW), this was Natsuki's [[spoiler:death scream.]]
25	%%* BreakingTheFourthWall: But only in crossovers. In both cases so far, it's involved an [[TakeThatAudience insult to the readership]] and its presumed horniness.
26	* BrotherSisterIncest: Mike has masturbated to his sister several times - and masturbation is the only form of sexuality to him. In one strip, he needs to answer the phone while they're both watching porn together, and asks her to reach over and "take over for a while". Later strips with the two of them continue tightrope-walking along the line without quite crossing it.
27	** One "Doctor Lovetalk" two-parter has a brother and sister separately call into Doctor Lovetalk's show to get advice on how to sleep with each other.
28	%%* CaptainErsatz: ARPA-01 is a stand-in for [[Manga/{{Chobits}} Chii]], as well as an opportunity to make Platform/{{Commodore 64}} jokes.
29	%%* TheChikan: He accidentally feels up a transgender woman, who ''forces him to continue''..and then the ''real'' punchline is [[spoiler: the Ridiculously Fertile Woman [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent in the foreground]] got pregnant]].
30	%%* ClipShow: Parodied; it shows events that never actually happened on the strip.
31	%%* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Cuckolded Husband.
32	* ContinuityCreep: Even extends to seemingly unconnected RunningGags - if WordOfGod (through the site's navigation) is to be believed, the strips with the punchline at the bottom of this page all feature the same woman.
33	%%* {{Crossover}}: ''Tang's Weekly Comics'' and ''Webcomic/GhastlysGhastlyComic''.
34	%%* CutAndPasteComic: Occasionally.
35	* DepravedBisexual: Rumiko Shibata [[ParentalIncest openly lusts after her son]] and in one arc has regular sex with his girlfriend [[spoiler:to the point that [[OutWithABang she dies from exhaustion]] and Mrs. Shibata masturbates with her urn]].
36	%%* DoubleStandard: Lampshaded in #241 (probably SFW, but so borderline we won't link it anyways.)
37	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Tying in with BlackComedyRape, this is played straight with the "Kenta's Horny Mom" strips, where the mother lusts after her son... but is then [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with a GenderSwap, to point out just how wrong it really is... and appropriately titled "Gender Incrimination."
38	--> '''Touro Maebashi''' (post-beating): I don't understand... it was funny when it was a ''mom'' and her ''son''. It's the same fucking joke.
39	* EightiesHair: Anime mullets out the wazoo. Most have been phased out since.
40	%%* EyepatchOfPower: The Suicide Girl.
41	* {{Flanderization}}: The Swearing Friend. He used to be able to have conversations, and sometimes made it through an entire sentence without swearing. By the end of the strip's run, he did nothing but swear so much he was borderline incomprehensible.
42	* GenderFlip: #241 (NSFW), an inversion of Kenta's Horny Mom which turns things quite dark. It's a good demonstration of the {{Double Standard}}.
43	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: When Rumiko begins an affair with a 18-year-old girl, her husband is [[https://www.sexylosers.com/comic/147/ delighted]]. Later, he [[https://www.sexylosers.com/comic/148/ installs video cameras in her room.]] (Both links technically SFW.)
44	* GISSyndrome: Stock photos show up in the earlier strips.
45	%%* GraveRobbing: How [[spoiler: Shiunji]] finds a girlfriend. When he's done, though, he puts her back..."Whenever you break up with someone, you feel like part of you has died..."
46	* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the "Shiunji and the Suicide Girl" storyline, Yuko is buried again, but the last panel reveals that [[spoiler:the Dutch Wife Fairy revived his stepmother, who is now planning her own revenge against his father]].
47	%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Jon & Al.
48	%%* {{Homage}}: Too many to count.
49	* HypocriticalHumor: In #226, the scientists make a male sex robot and say the female scientist Dr. Kaori Tsudanuma is going to test it out. She is offended at the suggestion and tells them off that she's not desperate enough to want that...and then the next panel is her apparently using a vibrator.
50	* IncestantAdmirer: Kenta's Horny Mom, who wants her son in the worst way. It's later {{Gender Flip}}ped in #241 (NSFW) which turns things very dark very quickly.
51	* InnocentInnuendo: Taken to extremes with the addition of Innocent White Sticky Stuff On My Face
52	%%* InterruptedSuicide: Yuuko Ishida, AKA The Suicide Girl.
53	%%* ItRunsInTheFamily:
54	%%** Mike's sister is also a compulsive masturbator.
55	%%** Shiunji's father is a necrophiliac.
56	%%** Miho comes from a proud family of coprophiles.
57	* KarmicRape:
58	** One "Dr. Lovetalk" strip has a man calling Dr. Lovetalk to ask for advice on [[BrotherSisterIncest having sex with his sister]] after knocking her out with a hammer. The next strip has the sister knocking him out with a hammer and calling Dr. Lovetalk for advice on how to get him hard.
59	** Downplayed in one "...And That's The Story" strip. A pervert on a train reaches up a woman's skirt to grab her vagina, but finds out too late that [[UnsettlingGenderReveal she's a pre-op transsexual]] who threatens to cry rape unless he gives her a handjob. The Unbelievably Fertile Woman is standing across from them at the time and is impregnated by the ejaculation.
60	* LawOfInverseFertility: The storylines of "...And That's The Story" consist of a woman having some strange event happen to her (such as a man masturbating in an airplane's bathroom, causing his semen to fall on her while she was in a nudist colony) which apparently caused her to get pregnant since she's explaining the event to her son. Fittingly, her name used to be tagged as "Unbelievably Fertile Woman", then became [[PunnyName Lottie Kidmeiker]].
61	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: In one early strip, a character clearly based on Indiana Jones survive the usual shootouts and adventures, only to say, "Today I am not a man" when he's with a woman and things don't quite work.
62	%%* LosingYourHead: "I am certain that at some point in the future, I will be prosecuted for this comic in a court of law."
63	%%* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Parodied in one of the "science" stories.
64	%%* TheMovie: Sadly, [[AprilFools no]].
65	%%* NakedFirstImpression: #130.
66	* NonstandardPrescription: In strip 196, a doctor prescribes a destitute woman oral sex... not to cure her depression, but to pay for the actual therapy.
67	* NotWhatItLooksLike:
68	** No matter how often he finds his wife in bed with his best friend, the Cuckolded Husband believes this immediately, and runs with their lame excuse until they wish they'd never said it.
69	** In #31, a guy caught cheating on his wife tries this excuse. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work.
70	* OrganAutonomy: Reg and his talking penis. The penis is, unfortunately, a [[IncrediblyLamePun dick]].
71	* OrphanedSeries: Seems to be dying after an injury to the author's drawing hand in 2006, though occasional updates are trickling out as of 2009.
72	%%* OutWithABang: A rare female example, [[spoiler: Natsuki's death.]]
73	* ParentalIncest: In the "Kenta's Horny Mom" arc, Kenta's mom wants to bang her son. Poor Kenta isn't as enthused as his mom is about the whole thing.
74	%%* {{Parody}}: Again, too many to count.
75	%%* PetitePride: Natsuki in strip #141.
76	* PrimalScene: Kenta walks in on his parents having sex (which includes bondage and roleplaying as Creator/DCComics characters).
77	* PrisonRape: One character admits that he has recently come out as gay, he would actually enjoy being the passive participant in the experience, and the assertion of dominance involved would not be psychologically traumatizing or break his spirit. This actually prevents the rape, because the rapists are mostly interested in making him suffer.
78	* QuoteMine: A non-verbal version with rather unfortunate results in strip #219, which takes place at a book signing.
79	-->"JERK OFF NOW!" -> "IN MY FACE"
80	-->'''Madame X:''' What a tragic pairing of titles. You ought to read the guest list before agreeing to these things.
81	-->'''Chie:''' Shut up and go get some club soda to pour on me. I'm stuck to the chair.
82	%%* TheRant: Parodied in [[http://smc.comicgenesis.com/d/20010902.html this]] ''Sunday Morning Coffee'' guest strip.
83	%%* {{Salaryman}}: Mr. Shibata.
84	* SelfParody: The storyline A Hentai Made of Glass is a parody of one of the author's earlier, autobiographical strips.
85	%%* SexBot: ARPA-series.
86	* SkewedPriorities: #270 has the scientists develop a new condom designed to stimulate the G-spot. The woman trying it is ''shattered'' by the experience[[note]]she reports having 17 orgasms, is ''still'' shaking and twitching so much she can barely stand, and is so out of it that she hasn't noticed that she's still naked[[/note]], but the man wearing it reported a slight decrease in sensitivity, so the experiment's a failure.
87	* ShoutOut:
88	** In strip #11, Touru is trying to psych himself up by saying "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away...]]".
89	** One strip has Anime/SailorMoon catch Tuxedo Mask cheating on her with the other Sailor Scouts.
90	** There are quite a few strips about ''Franchise/StarWars'', usually about Luke and Leia's BrotherSisterIncest.
91	** #102 has Franchise/IndianaJones hesitate to take a golden idol since it's shaped like a penis.
92	** Even [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] won't touch any body Shiunji has "used".
93	** Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s prince turns out to have a foot fetish.
94	** A series of strips parody ''Manga/VideoGirlAi''.
95	%%* SirSwearsALot: Swearing Friend.
96	%%* SmokingHotSex: A couple of times. Even with a tentacle monster.
97	%%* StatusQuoIsGod: The Madame X storyline.
98	%%** Or, for that matter, all of them. WordOfGod is that "everyone is locked into their own perversions", which might be part of why the comic has apparently stalled and died.
99	%%*** Anyone accomplishing anything would kill the joke (according to Clay), so no, Chie would never get to have normal sex, Kenta's mom will never bed her son, Touru will never get Madame X to have sex with him, Mike's roommate will never learn to live with Mike's habit or move out, etc.
100	* SuicideAsComedy: There's a running gag of people being unwilling to go through with it when they realize Shiunji will rape their corpses. Also, one girl tries to ''fake'' suicidal tendencies so Shiuji will be interested in her, [[DidntThinkThisThrough then realizes she has no easy way out of the situation]].
101	* SuicideByPills: Yuuko tries privately overdosing on sleeping pills upon realizing after her first run-in with Shiunji that he's going to have sex with her corpse.
102	* SuperGullible: The Cuckolded Husband repeatedly catches his wife having sex with his best friend, but always falls for the lame excuses they come up with.
103	%%* TakeThat: #231, a dig at ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}''.
104	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Dr. Lovetalk appears in most story threads, offering well-meaning and sound advice that, sadly, is completely useless in the full context of the situation.
105	--> "No amount of family counseling can help these people now."
106	%%** Swearing Guy at least gets to be OnlyKnownByTheirNickname, at least in a meta sense.
107	%%* TooKinkyToTorture: '''Shiuji'''. In fact, too kinky to murder would be more accurate.
108	* UnsettlingGenderReveal:
109	** GenderFlipped in a strip where a gay man picks up a guy in a restaurant, and shocked to find out that he is actually a she.
110	** Played straight as early as #8 (NSFW), where after sex, the woman reveals that she's not on the pill. When the man freaks out, she calms him down, saying that she can't get pregnant... because she used to be a man.
111	** Played straight in #230, when a man talks a cute suicidal girl into giving him a blowjob instead... only to learn that "she's" actually a crossdresser. [[spoiler: In the last panel, the crossdresser is staring over the cliff in horror, implying that the man killed himself at the revelation.]]
112	*** and later inverted in a (work safe) [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090321032902/http://sexylosers.com/g081.html guest comic]] when it is revealed [[spoiler: her parents are both crossdressers, who are upset with her because she isn't.]]
113	* ViewersAreGeniuses: The writer would often throw in this or that element of Japanese culture and expect everyone to not only be familiar with it, but to recognize it on sight with little buildup.
114	* WebcomicTime:
115	** The resolution of "Shiuji and the Suicide Girl", set during a single day, started in 2004 and ended in 2011.
116	** "Mother's Little Helper", a nine-part story, also set during a single day started in September 2016 ended in May 2022.
117	* WrongNameOutburst: In strip #169, Rumiko and Natsuki both call out Kenta's name while having sex with each other.
118	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Mike goes through one of these, focusing on the past and present of his history of treating others as sex objects rather than human beings, with the message that he will [[DyingAlone die alone and unloved]]. He completely fails to get it. (In the final strip of the arc, it seems like he changed his ways and started a relationship with a cute blind girl he knows... but then it turns out he's just thinking about doing this while masturbating).
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121	->''[[RunningGag "And that's the story of how you were born!"]]''

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