History Webcomic / ChoppingBlock

* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: "Damn caller I.D."

Definitely not for kids, as the subject matter swings freely from DeadBabyComedy to GallowsHumor to BlackComedy and all steps in between. However, if you're in the mood for a little walk on the darker side of the mind, this is the panel-strip for you.

* DeadBabyComedy: Butch kills men, women, children, and dogs without pause, sometimes in alarmingly graphic ways.

* VorpalPillow: An attempt by Butch [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010511.html to be rid of]] his BelovedSmother.

* HopeSpot: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010710.html This guy had one.]]

* {{Beat}}: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20030620.html Until Butch remembers his manners).

* [[BeatPanel]]: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20030620.html Until Butch remembers his manners).

* PunjiTrap: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010817.html Which permits do you need to build one?]]

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020305.html According to knifemakers, there is.]]

* PetTheDog: Butch feels no compunctions about killing dogs, but he never harms pet fish or allows them to come to harm, and he may have a soft spot for cats as well.
* PlaceWorseThanDeath: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20030106.html Cleveland.]]tp://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20030106.html

* YeOldeButcheredEnglishe: [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20030714.html Prayer to St. Guillotine.]]

* EnfantTerrible: Butch [[http://www.choppingblock.org/d/20020108.html strangled his twin in the womb]], and liked killing animals even as a child.

* VorpalPillow: An attempt by Butch [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010511.html to be rid of]] his BelovedSmother.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Butch is so out-of-shape that an old woman with a walker can outrun him, and he normally relies on stealth, but he becomes absurdly fast and lethal when large groups of people try to kill him.

* VorpalPillow: How Butch's BelovedSmother [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010511.html bought the farm.]]

* TitleDrop: Within a strip where Butch is trying to decide where to start cleaving a victim all tied up and ready.

A darkly humorous [[http://www.choppingblock.org webcomic]] by Lee Adam Herold documenting [[WebcomicsLongRunners since 2000]] the single-panel exploits of Butch R. Mann, a hockey mask-wearing serial killer who is equal parts "[[Film/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], Hannibal Lecter, [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates,]] and Ziggy." Most of the humor of the strip comes from taking typical horror and slasher tropes, then bringing them to the most ludicrous possible applications. The strip is notable for both its gag skill in CrossingTheLineTwice, and its unique gray-toned art style that is both inked and sponged before being scanned into the computer.

** The status of his mother often changes as well. Mostly how he killed her or hid of the body.

* TheFaceless: Butch always wears a hockey mask. In [[http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20020123.html one comic,]] he's shown without the mask (having carved words into his forehead... except they're backwards because he did it in a mirror); his face is entirely obscured by shadow.

* PunchClockVillain: Though for the most part he really enjoys it, Butch treats his murders like a job, often trying to make a quota or taking days off.

A darkly humorous [[http://www.choppingblock.org webcomic]] by Lee Adam Herold documenting [[WebcomicsLongRunners since 2000]] the single-panel exploits of Butch R. Mann, a hockey mask-wearing serial killer who is equal parts "[[Film/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], Hannibal Lecter, [[{{Psycho}} Norman Bates,]] and Ziggy." Most of the humor of the strip comes from taking typical horror and slasher tropes, then bringing them to the most ludicrous possible applications. The strip is notable for both its gag skill in CrossingTheLineTwice, and its unique gray-toned art style that is both inked and sponged before being scanned into the computer.

* UselessSpleen: The spleen is probably the most frequently-mentioned organ in the comic. Butch doesn't even know what it does, but he describes as having "a certain je ne sais quois."