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* FilmNoir: Clearly inspired by it, but not quite as strongly as the cartoon.
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* AntiHero: Inspector Gill. He drinks, swears, gets into fights, lusts after women, you name it.
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* ArtEvolution: Moncuse's art gets more "shiny" in appearance over time. He started making subtle changes to make the line art more compatible with color while at Comico, but kept the "shiny" style of inking when it reverted to black-and-white under Apple.
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* AuthorAvatar: According to Moncuse himself, Inspector Gill is pretty much him as a fish.
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* AuthorAvatar: Moncuse has openly admitted that Inspector Gill is pretty much him as a fish.
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* AuthorAvatar: Moncuse has openly admitted that Inspector Gill is pretty much him as a fish.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Moncuse has openly admitted that Inspector Gill is pretty much him as a fish.
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* LighterAndSofter: ''Fish Shticks'', a six-issue spinoff series centered on Inspector Gill's life outside the Fish Police.
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* LighterAndSofter: ''Fish Shticks'', which (as mentioned above) started off as a special section of the Comico issues. They were eventually spun off into a six-issue spinoff series centered on Inspector Gill's life outside the Fish Police.upon moving to Apple Comics.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Moncuse has openly admitted that Inspector Gill is pretty much him as a fish.
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* LighterAndSofter: ''Fish Shticks'', a six-issue spinoff series centered on Inspector Gill's life outside the Fish Police.
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* TakeThat: In the letters section to issue #10, Moncuse tells a story of an art teacher who tried to convince him that there was no future in doing comics. The entire last page is Inspector Gill yelling "EAT ME!"
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* GuestStrip: The Comico run had "Fish Shticks", little one-offs set in Riverfront Joe's Bar, written by Moncuse buy drawn by guest artists.
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* GuestStrip: The Comico run had "Fish Shticks", little one-offs set in Riverfront Joe's Bar, written by Moncuse buy and drawn by guest artists.
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A black and white comic series created by Steven Moncuse in TheEighties. The story centers on Inspector Gill solving crimes. The big one involves a drug called Hairballs, an organization called S.Q.U.I.D. and someone's niece being held captive.
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A black and white comic series created by Steven Moncuse in TheEighties. The story centers on Inspector Gill solving crimes. The big one involves a drug called Hairballs, an organization called S.Q.U.I.D. and someone's niece being held captive.
captive. After that, things get kinda complicated.
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* GuestStrip: The Comico run had "Fish Shticks", little one-offs set in Riverfront Joe's Bar, written by Moncuse and buy drawn by guest artists.
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* GuestStrip: The Comico run had "Fish Shticks", little one-offs set in Riverfront Joe's Bar, written by Moncuse buy drawn by guest artists.
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* CoolSword: At S.Q.U.I.D., Gill acquires one which he dubs Suds-Guzzler.
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A black and white comic series created by Steven Moncuse in TheEighties. The story centers on Inspector Gill solving crimes.
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A black and white comic series created by Steven Moncuse in TheEighties. The story centers on Inspector Gill solving crimes.
crimes. The big one involves a drug called Hairballs, an organization called S.Q.U.I.D. and someone's niece being held captive.
* TheAlcoholic: Inspector Gill is constantly drinking. This is even mentioned in one letters section, where a reader points out that Gill went a whole issue without drinking. Moncuse counters that by saying that the violence and sex in that issue make up for it.
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* AtlantisIsBoringAtlantisIsBoring: If they even ''are'' truly underwater, that is.
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* FourFingeredHands: Lampshaded in the special issue.
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* {{Prequel}}: A special issue, also the first for Comico, gives a backstory on Gill and S.Q.U.I.D.
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* AllJustADream: Subverted in issue 5, where Gill wakes up, believing he just dreamed that he was a fish — only to find that yes, he really is one. He didn't dream up a single thing that happened so far in the plot; he was just drunk when a lot of it happened. Cue the "WhatDidIDoLastNight" from Gill.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "I've got no friends, no family and probably no job. Angelfish and Goldie are *gulp* probably dead, and I can't find my rubber snail."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "I've got no friends, no family and probably no job. Angelfish and Goldie are *gulp* probably dead, and I can't find my rubber snail."
* FunWithAcronyms: S.Q.U.I.D.
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* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Pretty much everyone; they don't make pants that fit tailfins, after all.
* PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales: Played straight. The females are often wearing swimsuits.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Issue 5 briefly breaks away to give instructions for a DrinkingGame between Gill and one of S.Q.U.I.D.'s prawns.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Issue 5 briefly breaks away to give instructions for a DrinkingGame between Gill and one of S.Q.U.I.D.'s prawns.
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-->'''Gill''': If we're under water, how come the beer stays in the mug?
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* WaterIsAir: Zig-zagged to hell and back. Sometimes lampshaded as well.
-->'''Gill''': If we're under water, how come the beer stays in the mug?back, with plenty of lampshading.
-->'''Gill''': If we're under water, how come the beer stays in the mug?
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* GenreSavvy:
-->'''Gill''': Ever since I arrived in this dreamland of the incredibly obvious, I've seen ''nothing'' but clichés! Of course Goldie's your niece, it couldn't be any other way!
-->'''Gill''': Ever since I arrived in this dreamland of the incredibly obvious, I've seen ''nothing'' but clichés! Of course Goldie's your niece, it couldn't be any other way!
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A black and white comic series created by Steven Moncuse in TheEighties. The story centers on Inspector Gill solving crimes.
Originally issued independently, ''Fish Police'' was picked up by Comico in 1987, then acquired by Apple Press. Marvel Comics also reprinted it in color.
The comic was loosely adapted into a [[WesternAnimation/FishPolice cartoon]] for CBS in 1992, with John Ritter voicing Inspector Gill. It lasted six episodes.
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* AtlantisIsBoring
* NoCartoonFish: Inverted.
* NonMammalMammaries: Angel and nearly every other female.
* WaterIsAir: Zig-zagged to hell and back.
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Originally issued independently, ''Fish Police'' was picked up by Comico in 1987, then acquired by Apple Press. Marvel Comics also reprinted it in color.
The comic was loosely adapted into a [[WesternAnimation/FishPolice cartoon]] for CBS in 1992, with John Ritter voicing Inspector Gill. It lasted six episodes.
!Tropes present:
* AtlantisIsBoring
* NoCartoonFish: Inverted.
* NonMammalMammaries: Angel and nearly every other female.
* WaterIsAir: Zig-zagged to hell and back.
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