Unreality
is a webcomic created by Kiyan Shahab. It started on November 19, 2017, and updated on an inconsistent yet frequent basis until Shahab announced its cancellation in 2019. Unreality is a slice-of-life comedy that centers around three teenagers living together in a recovering apocalyptic future.
The series takes place in the surprisingly nice post-apocalyptic year of 0377AE, and revolves around a Trio of teenagers,a jaded, overworked 18-year-old woman named Monica, Dominic, a rambunctious 14-year old boy who while not related to Monica by blood, is still unquestionably her brother, and Sarah, Dominic's cheerful and eccentric 16-year-old girlfriend. The series is a gag strip involving all sorts of humorous happenings the trio finds themselves in.
The comic is available to read on Tumblr as well as on SmackJeeves, on Tapas, and on ComicFury
While the comic isn't necessarily NSFW, it does have a consistent air of lewdness throughout so be wary of that.
This webcomic provides examples of:
- Art Shift:
- Strip 005 is drawn and colored with crayons on top of being stylized differently to serve as further conveyance of the strip flashing back to significantly younger versions of Dominic & Monica.
- Strip 005
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: Monica's everyday life is already so ludicrous that she is relieved when she wakes up to the sight of the house on fire.Monica: Finally, a normal morning!
- GIS Syndrome: Played for laughs in Strip 010, which has Monica show Dominic a picture of a "nasty steroid" that's being sold on the streets. The last panel shows said picture, which is a stock image of bagged spinach.
- Reference Overdosed:
- Strip 010 makes mention of a dangerous steroid, which turns out to be a bag of spinach.
- Strip 013 makes an incredibly direct reference to The Artist At Sea from Spongebob Squarepants
- in Strip 017 Dominic imagines himself, Sarah, and Monica, becoming Chris, Quagmire, and Peter.
- this supplementary image should speak for itself.
- a certain series' title cards are referenced in Strips 016 and 026
- The trio watches Evil Dead 2 in Strip 021, and Monica gets annoyed about an interruption from a Sewer Clown who thinks balloons floating is noteworthy.
- in Strip 023, Ultraseven makes a cameo, although not the most glorious of ones.
- in Strip 028, The Trio has a run-in with a rather familiar Killer Rabbit.
- Strip 029 has references to Kikaider, Ultraman, and Avengers: Infinity War all within the same strip!
- In Strip 31 Dominic ends up incurring an Unstoppable Rage within Monica, visualized through a reference that made it safe to say, that Dominic Wa Shock.
- Strip 010
- Stylistic Suck: Strip 019? is made entirely with basic geometric shapes in MS Paint.
