History Webcomic / Back

''[[http://backcomic.com/ BACK]]'' is another webcomic written by loveable scamp Creator/KCGreen (''Webcomic/{{Gunshow}}'') and drawn by his friend [[Webcomic/{{Nedroid}} Anthony Clark]] which follows the adventures of Abigail on her quest to end the world.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:After Abigail defeats the Cool Witch and King Dang, the last few pages focus on what everyone is doing now that they are gone.]]

* SuperStrength: Abigail can hit very hard, launching people ''miles'' into the air with a kick and stopping a bullet through sheer brute strength.

* HideYourLesbians: Knook and Crannie are clearly in love, but it's never stated outright.

* ShoutOut: Among Accursed's townfolk, one can be seen dressed as Franchise/SpiderMan, and Mr. S resembles [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ned Flanders]].

* AmbiguouslyHuman: While normal humans are around, most of the world's beings are close but not quite, as described above.

* BerserkButton: The clown is not pleased when Daniel steals his clothes for Abigail after her set gets melted off.

* EvilVersusEvil: King Dang and those under his employ come off as amoral jackasses who have no problem jerking their subjects around and exploiting them, but Abigail seems little better when she [[spoiler:is willing to shoot two babies because they might be threat]] and with her stated goal of ending the world. That said, [[AmnesiacHero Abigail literally has no idea who she is or how the world works]], so she's going completely on raw instinct, and she doesn't actually want to end the world, it's just the only goal she's been given in life.
** With Abigail not knowing right from wrong, that still leaves the Head Witch of South, who works decidedly against the king, but is a cackling, self-serving {{Jerkass}} themself. And they're definitely more keen on the end of the world than Abigail herself is; they initiated the whole matter in the first place.

* GassHole: The Tummy Boys, Burpo and Sippus, have this down to an art. Bonus points for being absolutely massive tools.

* GoshDangItToHeck: Not really in dialogue, but places and certain characters use soft-swears as names.

* JerkAss: Due to her callous attitude and utter conviction that she doesn't need anyone's help (and a certain tendency to [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] at Daniel's misfortunes), Abigail comes off as mean, arrogant and petulant. How much this is a result of her apparent memory loss due to being undead and how much is her actual personality is not known.
** The Tummy Boys also get mention for threatening dismemberment and almost carrying out an execution just because the townsfolk couldn't pay the taxes [[InsaneTrollLogic which Burpo had just shortened the deadline for]].

* LargeHam: King Dang. One of the notes accompanying his concept sketches at the end of the physical book version is "Very animated dude".
** Crannie too. It comes with being a game host and entertainer in a Las-Vegas expy.

* RunningGag: Abigail's "bad hair".
** Also: "Daniel... there are clowns." After the clown encounter in Cripes, Abigail [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes really dislikes clowns]] -- to such a degree that, contrary to her usual LiteralMinded understanding, she calls people clowns not because they really are clowns or to insult them, but simply because she [[MonsterClown finds them threatening]] and they're dressing funny.

* VivaLasVegas: The city of Daggun is Back's equivalent to Vegas. Lot's of casinos, Elvis impersonators, marriages, and stage shows. Sherlock ends up with a gambling problem, [[spoiler:Abigail and Daniel get married]], and the Sheriff of the town challenges Abigail to a highly televised fight.

* ThemeNaming: All the cities, towns, and villages in this world have MincedOaths as their names.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Dang doesn't really move from the capital, and even there his operations are restricted to inner politics [[spoiler:(which he is loosing, ''hard'')]] and issues in his castle with Princess Darn. Even as he hears of Abigail making her way to the capital to literally bring about the end of the world, he doesn't make any direct move against her. She in turn plows through her sheriffs and her advance towards the capital is so far unstoppable. [[spoiler: Somewhat justified, as if such news got out the panic would be catastrophic, while Dang himself might not be a match for Abigail. Not to mention the inner city politics keep him weak in the scheme of things.]]

* ReverseMole: Knook, who is secretly a member of the Society of Clocks despite working for the sheriff of Daggum. [[spoiler:Much later on, Frick reveals that he is also part of the Society, while simultaneously being King Dang's most trusted lieutenant.]]

* AbusiveParents: The Head Southern Witch acts like an emotionally abusive one to Abigail. She barely cares about giving Abigail a name but uses it to guilt-trip Abigail when she starts to doubt the "end of the world" plan.

* AxCrazy: As it turns out, [[spoiler:the Head Southern Witch]] is completely out of [[spoiler:her]] gourd. [[spoiler:During her confrontation with Abigail in King Dang's palace, she goes on one hell of a MotiveRant: she was born from the earth the same way Abigail was, and spent her time observing the world grow and change. But then...[[ModernStasis it stopped changing.]] And she decided that, if civilization was going to come to a halt, [[OmnicidalManiac it all deserves to burn]], and outright admits that [[ItsAllAboutMe she sees herself as justified because she's an immortal being who can do whatever she wants to stave off her existential boredom.]]]]

** The Dead Man sentencing a woman to a beheading for not following her script.

** With Abigail not knowing right from wrong, that still leaves the Head Witch of South, who works decidedly against the king, but is a cackling, self-serving {{Jerkass}} herself. And she's definitely more keen on the end of the world than Abigail herself is; she initiated the whole matter in the first place.

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:After eavesdropping on the Head Southern Witch [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech gleefully laying out what a colossal failure he is as a ruler]] to Abigail, a huge serum-dosed Dang [[KickTheSonOfABitch sends the Witch flying with one punch]] and falls to his knees, admitting that he's been just as awful as she said he was. And when Abigail responds to his plea for forgiveness by [[AmnesiacHero asking him who he is]], Dang punches the ground in anger...and the laughs mirthlessly about how he's a nobody.]]

* ItAmusedMe: [[spoiler:At the end of the day, the Head Southern Witch admits that every evil, duplicitous thing she's done was motivated by boredom, [[ItsAllAboutMe which (in her eyes) justifies it all,]] because [[ImmortalityImmorality being an immortal being born from the Earth itself gives her the right to do whatever she wants.]]]]

* MaskOfSanity: Almost literally the case with [[spoiler:the Head Southern Witch.]] When Abigail starts to have doubts about her mission, [[spoiler:the Witch reacts with violence, tempered into TranquilFury. Then, during her battle with Abigail and Frick at Dang's Palace, she begins laughing as she [[CurbStompBattle utterly lays out both of them]], and goes on a MotiveRant in a mockingly conversational tone. When Dang arrives, having overheard her mocking him as an utter, wretched failure and [[OneWingedAngel dosed with enough serum to turn him into a giant,]] he sends her flying [[ImpactSilhouette THROUGH the palace]] with one punch. When she comes back, she's [[LaughingMad screaming and cackling with maniacal glee]], her now-uncovered face revealing an insane SlasherSmile and [[RedEyesTakeWarning crazed red eyes.]]]]

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: The Head Southern Witch is immensely displeased by Abigail straying from her orders.

* ChainOfDeals: Parodied. Daniel and Abigail have to go through the whole rigmarole in order to pay the toll to gain passage to Daggum through Shoot. It's as frustrating and annoying to them as one would think, and Abigail eventually decides to CutTheKnot.

** AxCrazy: As it turns out, [[spoiler:the Head Southern Witch]] is completely out of [[spoiler:her]] gourd. [[spoiler:During her confrontation with Abigail in King Dang's palace, she goes on one hell of a MotiveRant: she was born from the earth the same way Abigail was, and spent her time observing the world grow and change. But then...[[ModernStasis it stopped changing.]] And she decided that, if civilization was going to come to a halt, [[OmnicidalManiac it all deserves to burn]], and outright admits that [[ItsAllAboutMe she sees herself as justified because she's an immortal being who can do whatever she wants to stave off her existential boredom.]]]]

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:After eavesdropping on the Head Southern Witch [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech gleefully lay out what a colossal failure he is as a ruler]] to Abigail, a huge serum-dosed Dang [[KickTheSonOfABitch sends the Witch flying with one punch]] and falls to his knees, admitting that he's been just as awful as she said he was. And when Abigail responds to his plea for forgiveness by [[AmnesiacHero asking him who he is]], Dang punches the ground in anger...and the laughs mirthlessly about how he's a nobody.]]

* MaskOfSanity: Almost literally the case with [[spoiler:the Head Southern Witch.]] When Abigail starts to have doubts about her mission, [[spoiler:the Witch reacts with violence, tempered into TranquilFury.]] Then, during her battle with Abigail and Frick at Dang's Palace, she begins laughing as she [[CurbStompBattle utterly lays out both of them]], and goes on a MotiveRant in a mockingly conversational tone. When Dang arrives, having overheard her mocking him as an utter, wretched failure and [[OneWingedAngel dosed with enough serum to turn him into a giant,]] he punches her [[ImpactSilhouette THROUGH the palace]] with one punch. When she comes back, she's [[LaughingMad screaming and cackling with sadistic glee]], with her now-uncovered face revealing an insane SlasherSmile and [[RedEyesTakeWarning crazed red eyes.]]]]

* EvilVsEvil: King Dang and those under his employ come off as amoral jackasses who have no problem jerking their subjects around and exploiting them, but Abigail seems little better when she [[spoiler:is willing to shoot two babies because they might be threat]] and with her stated goal of ending the world. That said, [[AmnesiacHero Abigail literally has no idea who she is or how the world works]], so she's going completely on raw instinct, and she doesn't actually want to end the world, it's just the only goal she's been given in life.

* FatAndSkinny: The Tummy Boys, Burpo and Sippus.

* FauxAffablyEvil: King Darn is a whimsical and strange old man as well as a violent mood swinger and tyrant. He'll rattle off about his eccentricities in the same quirky tone he'll describe an especially painful torture method or death threat.