After their deaths in the famous Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet, William Rosencrantz and Anne Guildenstern find themselves flung forward to the present day, and quickly discover that they are now immortal and can travel through time to any point in history, except for their original time period and, for some strange reason, Christmas Day, 2050 - apparently the day the world ends, because on December 26, 2050, everything has been reduced to ruin.
In order to ground them in a sense of reality, Rosencrantz decides to enroll himself and Guildenstern in a modern, upper-class high school, where the two of them meet friends, enemies, and try to experience some semblance of a normal life... while not going on adventures and meeting famous historical figures, of course. However, Rosencrantz has a deeper motivation for doing this than he originally lets on, as he has reason to fear immortality could take its toll on his and Guildenstern's sanity, although Guildenstern isn't entirely clueless about this, either...
Written by Merryweatherey (of I Made A Comic About Internet Explorer and Stalker x Stalker fame) and illustrated by PeaCh,
Everywhere and Nowhere is one of Merryweathery's lesser-known works, featuring a different artist than his usual partner Princess Hinghoi. Nevertheless, it's also one of his more plot-heavy comics, and has significantly more episodes and a more frequent update schedule than either Internet Explorer or Stalker x Stalker. The entire comic can be found on Webtoon, and has a surprisingly frequent update schedule, with new episodes released every Wednesday and Sunday.
Tropes about Everywhere and Nowhere
- A Day in the Limelight: Season 3 focuses on the evil Future William and Anne instead of their present day counterparts.
- A God Am I: The Evil Future Rosencrantz.
- Apocalypse How: One of the series's mysteries is why the world gets destroyed on Christmas Day 2050. It's Guildenstern and Rosencrantz's own fault, in a way. The world is destroyed in a battle between Adam, aka William Shakespeare, and the evil Future Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. This is apparently a constant and cannot be changed in any timeline.
- Future Rosencrantz triggers a separate apocalypse when he breaks time, causing monsters to appear from the void and destroy the world.
- Anachronic Order: The premise makes it easy to reveal details about the plot after they happen, and with the exception of the prologue it is sometimes difficult to follow.
- Been There, Shaped History: Very common.
- Catapult Nightmare: Rosencrantz has these frequently; when he dreams of future Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and when he dreams of Prince Hamlet, whom he accidentally helped King Claudius betray.
- Evil Me Scares Me: Overlaps with Future Me Scares Me.
- Future Me Scares Me: The Big Bad of the series is an evil alternate Rosencrantz from a Bad Future, who together with his timeline's Guildenstern rules all of time with an iron fist.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Although he's never actually mentioned in the comic, let alone seen, King Claudius was the one who tricked Rosencrantz and Guildenstern into betraying Hamlet in the original Shakespeare play, resulting in their deaths.
- Historical Domain Character: The most common supporting characters in this series are various famous historical figures like Alcibiades, Albert Einstein and Leonardo Da Vinci.
- In Medias Res: With the exception of the prologue, most of the time the story is flung at the reader right as it happens, with context being delivered later if at all.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are both horrified by the fact that they were tricked by Claudius into betraying Hamlet.
- Our Time Travel Is Different: The rules of Time Travel in this universe are a little different than usual.
- Public Domain Character: The main pair are supporting characters from Hamlet, and as a result their counterparts from various alternate futures are too.
- Other characters from Hamlet, such as Prince Hamlet himself, also qualify.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The main duo.
- Stable Time Loop: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern accidentally create one when they go back a little too early to enlist help from a teenage Einstein, inspiring him to conduct research into his theory of relativity.
- Timey-Wimey Ball: This is more or less how time travel is explained, except that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern can never visit their past selves. Or at least, they shouldn't be able to...
- Or Was It a Dream?: When Rosencrantz first has a vision of Future Guildenstern and Future Rosencrantz, he isn't sure if it was a dream or not. It wasn't.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Guildenstern and Rosencrantz can travel to any time period except their original one and Christmas Day, 2050.
