YMMV / Serenity (Buzz Dixon)

• Designated Monkey: The audience is supposed to pity Serenity because she hasn't found God, but with her notorious streak of bad luck and how the prayer club treats her sometimes, they pity her for completely different reasons.
• Jerkass Woobie: Sure, Serenity may act like a jerk at times, but that doesn't mean we can't feel sorry for the things she's putting up with.
• Memetic Mutation: "Whoops! Can't show that in a Christian manga!" Considered by Christian and secular readers alike to be a bit insincere, it caught on as a stock joking self-censor.
• Misaimed Fandom: This was supposed to be a story of a bad girl finding about the wonders of God's love and becoming a better person in the process. The way it was handled makes most people see it as a depressing story about a lonely girl who only wanted to have friends getting subjected to emotional harassment and manipulation by a bunch of Christian zealots until she turns into a brainwashed drone.
• Narm Charm: The stories are cringe-inducing, awkward, and questionable, and the characters are as cliche as you can get. That said, there's also a lot of sincerity and charm in the characters, which can get you genuinely invested in their stories.
• The Scrappy: Kimberly was originally Serenity's rival and foil. But while Serenity becomes a better person and addresses her flaws, Kimberly only gets more and more hostile as the story goes on. By the end of the story, most fans turn against her.
• Strawman Has a Point: Serenity's harder questions to the youth group are rarely answered in a substantial way, and the plot relies heavily on her forgetting them when she's brushed off or fed a poetic-sounding line. Ms. Baxter also falls under this. At several points she makes attempts to restrict Serenity's exposure to Christian information on campus, or during school hours in recognition of separation of church and state. She provides condoms to Serenity, while the theme of the comic is to insist on abstinence only, equating owning condoms with premarital sex. She also calls Serenity's mother in the final arc, warning her that Serenity's conversion to Christianity has come at the abnormal price of forsaking her sense of self. None of her efforts to help Serenity are portrayed in a good light, though there is nothing inherently wrong with these actions, and as a stern teacher, they are to be expected.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Several potential subplots involving the other members of the youth group are brought up but never explored. Tim's self-loathing, Lori's sexuality, Derek being in rehab, etc.
• The Woobie - Serenity, largely due to her horrible luck, but the Woobieness reaches critical mass in the final volume, which she spends much of moping around, feeling empty. The miserable girl seen post-conversion is a sad sight after so many volumes getting to know her as the plucky young punk girl. Fortunately...