Webcomic / Faulty Logic

Jalyss: Fox, where are your pants?
Fox: Where are YOUR pants?

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Faulty Logic was a webcomic by Rae Bruner starring Fox the anthropomorphic Fox and Jalyss from planet Basti. There's very little, if any plot to speak of, being more of a gag-per-day comic which updated a lot less than once per day.

This webcomic provides examples of:

• Accidental Pun: Jalyss saying "do you need a hand" to a one-handed elderly man, which is apparently the dumbest thing she's said.
• Ambiguous Gender: Rae, the author. From the FAQ on his/her other webcomic, Dissonance;
  Q: Are you a boy or a girl?
  A: Maybe.
  • Trans female, according to their FurAffinity page.
• Animorphism: Due to Eden's absence, Fox has to find himself a "temporary girlfriend". He doesn't have enough time to find a fox like himself, though, so he simply changes a random human girl into one.
• Art Evolution: 2010 onwards has a cleaner style. The banner on top of the page didn't evolve with the comic, though.
• Art Shift:
  • Imaginary scenarios and thoughts of the characters are hand drawn with coloring pencils.
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  • The 14/07/2007 comic is one Imagine Spot for Fox for being a mop-based superhero with a very bad catchphrase.
  • Every now and again, Jalyss makes a video on a game they didn't like, like Bioshock. Fox also makes a video on Gordon Freeman.
  • Every once in a while they do this.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Name mentioned in Jalyss dislikes television.
• Author Avatar: Fox and Jalyss are both this for Rae.
• Bait-and-Switch: This comic has Fox try and wake Jalyss up, but instead gets mauled in the final panel by Jalyss.
  • Seagull Poo is actually a seagull plush with Winnie the Pooh's head.
  • In this strip Fox warns Jalyss to not go to the bathrrom right after he's done. A killer clown is in there.
• Bare Your Midriff: Jalyss. Justified because she'd probably suffocate with her back covered in fabric.
  • On the other hand, she can sit on a sofa just fine.
• Bilingual Bonus: 17/11/2007 has half the comic in French.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Jalyss smells through her antennae and can breathe through apertures on her back, except when she wants to speak.
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• Black Comedy: "I saw the first robin of spring today..."
• Bland-Name Product: Toys "R" Fun. They do sell Barbie, though.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Actually, Faulty Logic goes on the other side of the Fourth Wall.
• Chainsaw Good: For having Jalyss' DSL fixed.
• Destroy the Product Placement: Deconstructed. Fox questions why NASA doesn't use sponsorships to fund space missions, and the reality of it is that it'd be in extremely poor taste if the spaceship crashes.
• Did Not Think This Through: Fox in this comic after he makes a deer for a car to crash into, but which when deployed, the car crashes into the bridge instead.
• Disrupting the Theater: The 09/06/2007 comic is about Fox and Jalyss talking about War of the Worlds and how the aliens are stealing clothes, much to the annoyance of the others in the theater.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Fox. While drawing. Leads to accidental Male Gaze.
• The Ditz: Fox is often treated as one; such as in 16/06/2007 when he fills out a health and safety quiz with what appears to be the first things that come into their head.
• Filler Strips: Rae does them if they fall ill, or are otherwise away, such as in 23/08/2008 which is Jalyss winning gold at the 2008 olympics by sitting on their competitor.
• For Science!: Fox strapping a chicken to an RC Car.
• Energy Weapon: Of course, Fox has got nothing better to do with them than pranking cats.
• Funny Animal: It's a furry webcomic, so this feels like it goes without saying, but just in case you're not sure...
• Furry Webcomic: Lampshaded. And, yes, played straight.
• Granola Girl: The customer in the 26/06/2007 comic believes that evolution and "Mother Nature" and one in the same, with Jalyss trying to explain how wrong she is.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy: Parodied in this comic.
• Guest Strip:
  • 02/08/2008 was drawn by a friend of theirs, Nick.
  • This one even came on April Fools' Day.
  • This comic by Tebryn.
  • This comic by Genesis Whitmore, the artists of Little Tales.
• I Have to Go Iron My Dog: Clark Kent's excuse in the 19/05/2007 comic comes off as this:
  "Sorry, I um....have a...sock appointment".
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Hard to beat this one. Not that Faulty Logic didn't try.
• Loony Fan: In this comic, Jalyss looks up the "Frankenberry" cereal mascot on Wikipedia, with the last panel implying a Loony Fan wrote the entry mere seconds after broadcast.
• Male Gaze: 10/05/2008 has Fox draw the comic in more suggestive ways than normal to spruce up talking about Tax cuts; much to Jalyss's disapproval.
• Meaningful Background Event: A store is being opened in the background of this comic with Fox and Jalyss talking about WALLE. The end of the strip has Fox play Rock-paper-scissors with the novelty scissors bearer.
• Modesty Towel: Jalyss in this strip.
• Moral Guardians: The theme of 18/08/2007 is to paint adults as wanting more safety guidelines, even when the guidelines are pretty clear to begin with.
• Mundane Made Awesome: 16/02/2008 is about Fox filing a tax form in the style of a Pokemon battle.
• Mundane Utility: LASER was invented in 1969, but all people use it for is for annoying cats.
• Non Sequitur, *Thud*: The bar fight guy.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
  • This comic features the Clearplay DVD player, which apparently filters out parts of films to make them more family friendly, and as the comic points out, very boring. Even the father in the TV Ad the comic uses as a parody realises how stupid this is when applying it to "Satanic Bloodening 7", a horror movie with swears in it.
  • 16/05/2009 makes fun of "Scrabble for Girls".
• Orphaned Series: The last actual strip was posted on December 10, 2011. The author has moved on to Dissonance, and then onto Recursion.
• Press X to Not Die: Lampooned in this comic.
• Pizza Boy Special Delivery: In this strip Fox and Jalyss discuss Fox's obsession with Krystal, and Fox offers an explanation; Fox runs away from Krystal to be in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but distracts her first by asking to get a comms unit, and leaves before she gives it to him. Krystal talks aloud of being "sexually vulnerable" because Fox left her, and a Pizza boy arrives, and cuts to Krystal leaping at the Pizza boy off-screen, and Jalyss suitably squicked out.
• Running Gag: The many time machines Fox builds in the future and uses to drop into the present time.
• Shout-Out: The end of 26/05/2007 has Jalyss mention the next Youtube debate be about "piano-playing cat", a reference to the "Keyboard Cat" viral video.
• Soul-Sucking Retail Job: Happens a lot:
  • 14/04/2007 has an old lady count her pennies to pay for some shopping, which Fox isn't too pleased about. It takes so long that in that time the lady is counting, a drunken idiot gets arrested by security for attempting to buy a whole box of lighters, and she's only halfway done.
  • 26/06/2007 comic is all about the people Jalyss meets in the store. It's essentially written as an Author Tract for working in retail.
  • This comic has Jalyss deal with a beaten up customer that starts to speak in nonsense, as well as a lady who insists on double-bagging her shopping.
  • 07/06/2008 has Jalyss be annoyed by a crying toddler, and elderly lady counting change painfully slowly.
• Stable Time Loop: Fox built a time machine to go to the future and steal comic ideas from himself so he wouldn't have to think them up. Unfortunately, shortly after he gets back, a time-traveling Fox shows up and steals it.
  Fox: That's like the Eighth time that's happened!
• Straw Feminism: 14/03/2009 accuses Taco Bell of this with a then-recent advert, by pointing out that having a complex female character does not mean you can make the male character stupider, as the defeats the point of Feminism, and puts you straight back into Sexism territory.
• Take That!:
  • 05/05/2007 is a thinly-veiled jab at game companies selling games and expansion passes that are filled with bugs, often knowingly shipped by the developers, and can be "patched out", but are not officially recognised until said patch releases.
  • The 07/07/2007 comic is a review of the first Transformers film, with complaints of shaky camera, plot holes and poor writing.
  • This comic takes potshots at Windows Vista, from running slowly to being overly-protective as to what gets installed. Apparently it's still better than using a Mac.
• The Operators Must Be Crazy: Jalyss calls the helpline for her internet company and gets nowhere fast in this comic.
• The Prankster: Fox often comes up with hairbrained schemes in a lot of the comics.
• Temporal Paradox: Fox builds a time machine to go back in time and prevent himself from building and misusing a time machine. He is stabbed with a screwdriver by his future self.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: In 12/07/2008, Jalyss is annoyed that she liked WALL•E, while Fox finds the end heartbreaking.
• Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Some of the strips are based on the author's own experiences. This ranges from when he/she nearly committed a massive faux pas, to blatant revenge fantasy.
• Violation of Common Sense: This map for the Connecticut convention centre.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: For example.