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Tuesday Titans Note is a webcomic series created by Phillip M. Jackson (a.k.a. Jolly Jack).

Beginning as a series of pinups featuring giant, anthropomorphic animal women (the eponymous "Titans"), the comic tells the tale of a war-torn alternate Earth where the forces fielded by opposing nations are enormous, heavily armed robots and Titans, an all-female species of giant, genetically engineered animal people.

Tuesday Titans is primarily a sci-fi action series with elements of mystery and comedy. It also possesses themes of loss, war, and horror.

The comic can be found on Jackson's DeviantArt, Fur Affinity, and Twitter.


Tuesday Titans provides examples of:

  • A Boy and His X: A Man and His Giant Monster Woman. Later, A Boy and His Giant Monster Girl.
  • Amazonian Beauty: The Titans are an entire manufactured species of this taken to its logical extreme: An all-female race of gorgeous, musclebound, anthropomorphic Kaiju.
  • Attack Its Weak Point: During her battle with the Autocarrier, Excel manages to punch her way through the machine's armor, leaving its innards exposed. A quick call by Simon to some friendly artillery and one rocket-powered tackle by Excel later, the Autocarrier is scrap metal.
  • Badass Adorable:
    • The bat Titans. Easily some of the smallest Titans at barely 50 meters tall, they look positively miniscule compared to the larger Titans. However, they are still more than capable of acting as air support, being just as bold and ferocious as any Titan.
    • Lemony. 250 meters of genetically engineered muscle created to act as a living weapon of mass destruction and she's as cute as a bright yellow button. Her anxious, inquisitive nature and ravenous Sweet Tooth make her even more charming.
  • Battle Amongst the Flames: Excel versus the Autocarrier. City melting to slag around her, Excel battles the enormous war machine to protect her home and comrades.
  • BFG: Plenty on display, but the Autocarriers stand out due to the sheer number of Titan-killing, city-leveling guns they come equipped with. A single barrage is enough to send Excel running for cover.
  • Big Creepy-Crawlies: The caterpillar Titans. Giant, hungry, aggressively territorial monsters living in the ruined cities of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Though miniscule compared to other Titans, their numbers and hostility more than compensate for their lack of size.
  • The Big Guy: While all Titans are this by default, Excel stands out among them. While the Dies Martis Peninsula is under attack, she intercepts the Autocarrier that's breached the city's defenses and faces it alone, holding her own while the defenders repel the invaders.
  • Bioweapon Beast: The Titans. The exact process of their creation is unknown, but they are manmade Kaiju created to act as military assets.
  • Bond Creature: Titans are typically bonded to a human handler who acts as their go-between with humanity and as a companion.
  • Cyborg: Excel is this. In addition to being a 350-meter tall musclebound Kaiju with military training, she also has some cybernetically grafted augmentations, including a set of massive rocket boosters.
  • The Dreaded Dreadnought: The Severine Autocarrier. A massive, horrifying Military Mashup Machine of a Walking Tank, a Base on Wheels, and a Humongous Mecha, it comes covered with BFGs, carries a complement of smaller Humongous Mecha, and is tough enough to take constant artillery fire and the assault of a defending Titan while barely slowing down. A single one comes dangerously close to wiping out an entire city by itself.
  • Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: The Titans were created by humanity to act as soldiers and war machines. A single Titan, even a "small" one, is capable of wreaking terrible amounts of destruction by herself. Fortunately, they're firmly on the side of humanity. Or at least, on the side of Enotria, a human nation.
  • Gentle Giant: The majority of Titans we've seen have all been allies and defenders of humanity fighting against outside threats. They seem to share close, personal connections with their human partners, and even when Excel is going all out against the Autocarrier, she tries to avoid causing unnecessary destruction.
  • Giant Equals Invincible: Averted hard. The Titans are unquestionably impressive creatures and just as hardy and powerful as their stature would imply, but the sheer, unyielding force they face oftentimes dwarfs them.
  • Giant Flyer: The one type of Titan shown to be capable of flight are (relatively) small, bat-like creatures. Despite being some of the smallest Titans shown, they are still nearly fifty meters tall with well over 100-meter wingspans.
  • Giant Woman: All Titans. They are an Always Female race of Kaiju.
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: When you're as big and strong as a Titan, you don't need more than your bare hands to deal with threats.
  • Humongous Mecha: The number one opponent the Titans face is the giant robots built by a hostile country. Horrifically large, heavily armed, borderline unstoppable by conventional means, and ready to destroy anything in their path, they're quite capable of giving the Titans a hard fight.
  • Impossibly Graceful Giant: The Titans are massive, mighty, and they can move. For example, in her battle with an Autocarrier, Excel, the 350-meter tall Kaiju Cyborg, sprints, ducks, dodges, rolls, and leaps with no difficulty.
  • Kaiju: The stars of the comic, the Titans, are all gigantic, anthropomorphic animal people. Made for war and combat, they come in various shapes and sizes, though none are short by human standards, and being able to think and feel for themselves, they are the perfect counterpoint to the giant robots they fight.
  • Leg Focus: Part of the introduction of Excel, and Titans in general, is a panel dedicated to Excel's massive foot and leg as she strides through an embattled city.
    Soldier: Tower inbound. Brace for footfall.
  • Mech vs. Beast: A rare case where the Titan "beasts" are the heroes and the Severine "mechs" are the villains.
  • Old Soldier: Excel and Simon have shades of this. They've been partners for a long time, judging by their behavior toward each other, and they've been fighting long enough to not even blink at challenging an Autocarrier by themselves.
  • Our Giants Are Bigger: Oh, yes. Even the smallest Titan is nearly 50 meters tall, and Excel, the prime example of Titans shown, is easily 350 meters tall (counting the horns). Oh, and they're all anthropomorphic animal women.
  • Our Titans Are Different: Massive, Always Female, genetically engineered anthropomorphic animal people.
  • Psychic Link: When a human and Titan are connected, they share a strong mental connection. They share sensory input, being able to see, smell, hear, feel, and taste through each other. The link is also empathic, allowing them to share what each other is feeling.
  • Ramming Always Works: With the Autocarrier sporting a freshly made hole in its armor and an artillery strike ready to bring it down, all that's left is to get it into position. How does Excel accomplish this? Ignite her cybernetically grafted rocket boosters and tackle it into the artillery's sights.
  • Rhino Rampage: One type of Titan resembles rhinoceroses, being heavily muscled, thick-limbed, and sporting large, singular horns growing from their snouts. A group is shown charging a line of enemy robots, dwarfing many attacking machines and smashing them with their fists. Oddly, colored art shows them to be red rather than grey.
  • Robot War: Possibly. During the battle on the peninsula, Enotrian intelligence claims that there's been no communication traffic among the invading Severine forces, which is very odd as the command staff says that Severine war machines operate off programming under the coordination of human crews. It's implied that the Severine robots have turned on and killed their masters and are now targeting the rest of humanity.
  • The Siege: The story opens with an all-out attack by the nation of Severine on the Dies Martis Peninsula in Southern Enotria. By the time the reader joins, the city is in flames, the military defenders are fighting for their lives, and the Titans have been deployed.
  • Statuesque Stunner: All Titans are exaggerated examples. Even the smallest Titan is several stories tall, and they are all strong, attractive females.
  • Sweet Tooth: Lemony, full stop. Her partner, Dillon, takes a bite of a cookie, and as they're sharing senses, she's instantly hooked on sweets. Moments later, she's had him sample every sweet and snack in his fridge.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Titan/human partnerships, to an extreme degree. Unavoidable when Titans are immense, genetically engineered Kaiju, and humans are, well... human. Dillon, the human protagonist, looks like a bug compared to Lemony, his Titan partner.
  • Voice with an Internet Connection: A Titan's human partner is this via the pair's Psychic Link. While the Titan does the fieldwork that only a Kaiju with military training can do, the human can help her strategize, feed her tactical information, navigate, warn her of threats, and provide support with other military assets, i.e. artillery strikes. Assuming that the pair aren't a newborn and a civilian, of course.

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