is a drama webcomic by Dinkygollier about the adventures of Jack Delitt and Mortimer Jones, in the city of Newheimburg. Both Jack and Mort are running away from serious problems in their lives, but just how long can they keep running?It began in February 2012 and updated every Monday but stopped updating in July 2019 with no explanation.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Art Evolution: Inverted - the final comic is far cruder than the first one.
- Art Imitates Art: Jack’s character design is a pretty obvious knockoff of the Moomins’ design.
- Bilingual Bonus: In Chapter Five, Rufus has a moment where he mutters a line in Spanish to himself.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Mort likes a very loaded pizza.
- Blackmail: Jules pulls a non-option on Jack, by giving Jack the option of going to his house or ending up in jail.
- Blood Is Squicker in Water:
Especially in an unflushed toilet. - Briffits and Squeans: These visual shorthands come up a number of times throughout Newheimburg. Wafterons are used as a regular motif for Jack's emotional state. Plewds and blurgits are often used to indicate nervousness and movement as well.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: From this comic.
- The City: The titular Newheimburg.
- Deliberately Monochrome: All of the comic is desaturated into a grey palette.
- Deuteragonist: Mort.
- Dream Sequence: Mort has a kind of fever dream with his fish in Chapter Three.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Hinted at with Mort, becoming more and more explicit as time goes on.
- Embarrassing Tattoo: Jack has an unusual scrawling of a cat with the phrase 'FUK U' etched on his belly.
- Expressive Mask: Mort.
- Fat and Skinny: Jack and Mort.
- Farm Boy: Jack used to live on a farm before moving to Newheimburg.
- Face Palm
- Five-Finger Discount: Jack does this regularly.
- Functional Addict: Sarah, as she alleges:I'm not taking this seriously?! I'm sick, you little asshole! I'm sick, and the medicine I've been getting's not helping me! I thought you, of all people, would understand that!
- Gag Nose: Just about everyone that does, in fact, have a nose.
- Gotta Get Your Head Together: From this comic.
- Hand Behind Head
- The Insomniac: Jack has some trouble with racing thoughts when falling asleep.
- Interrupted Suicide:There's a brief flashback near the end of Chapter Three, where it's revealed that Mort is a suicide attempt survivor, who was rescued by his parents and by Carol.
- Iris Out: Used several times to convey a shift in Jack's mental stability.
- Irrational Hatred: In Chapter Three, Barry gets pissed at Jack for not making sure Mort was talking care of himself.
- Long Neck: Carol.
- Man Bites Man: Jack bites into a mugger's leg in Chapter Two.
- Man Hug: Once in Chapter Three.
- Mugging the Monster: Jack gets the better of an armed mugger in Chapter Two.
- My Card: Jules gives Jack this line at the bar after realizing Jack lifted money off of him in Chapter One.
- Nervous Wreck: Jack.
- No Mouth: Jack doesn't have a discernible mouth like the rest of the cast.
- No Party Like a Donner Party: There's a sub-plot involving a plane crash survivor eating her best friend after being stranded in the mountains for ten days.
- Perp Walk: From this comic.
- Pipe Pain: Jack's weapon from Chapter One.
- Post-Stress Overeating: From this comic.
- Rage Breaking Point: One point in the comic where a power outage and Jack's babbling causes Mort to lose his patience.
- Reluctant Psycho: Jack.
- The Runaway: Jack admits to Mort that he ran away from home trying to escape the situation with his sister.
- Secretly Dying: Mort tries to hide his disease from Jack, and ends up coming clean about it at the start of Chapter Three.
- Shout-Out: There are mainly song references added to the comic, namely:
- Spiky Hair: Barry.
- Tough Room: Mort introduces himself to Jack with a joke, getting no response. It didn't help that his joke was unusually sexist.
- Trying Not to Cry: Mort has an emotional breakdown at the dinner table in Chapter Two.
- Yonkoma: The comics after the first chapter are all in this format.
