History Webcomic / SmokeFurAndStone

[[http://smokefurandstone.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/ Smoke Fur And Stone]] stretches from exotic flying cities to the demon-haunted depths of magical oceans. This series of short comics and spin-offs (which includes Smoke Fur And Stone, Aspects and Backwater Siren) share a fictional universe. One of the SFS spin-offs was awarded a Shortbox grant in 2020. The creator has since removed the bulk of comics from the website and is focusing on a soft reboot called Iron Nail Afternoon.

Smoke Fur And Stone stretches from exotic flying cities to the demon-haunted depths of magical oceans. This series of short comics and spin-offs (which includes Smoke Fur And Stone, Aspects and Backwater Siren) share a fictional universe. One of the SFS spin-offs was awarded a Shortbox grant in 2020. The creator has since removed the bulk of comics from the website and is focusing on a soft reboot called Iron Nail Afternoon.

[[http://smokefurandstone.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/ Smoke Fur And Stone]] contains examples of the following tropes:

* TomBoy: With her short hair, boyish dress sense and gutter mouth, Jordan falls under this trope.

->"''We don't look like people normally. You give us our faces.''"
-->--'''Whithers''

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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: A rare male example with Chuck and Whithers. Chuck is about 7 ft tall and Whither's [[https://www.deviantart.com/lj-phillips/art/Under-My-Skin-Punchline-814288668/ barely reaches his shoulder.]] How they have sex is anyone’s guess.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In the comic, they’re called Skins and they look less like wolves and more like an mixture of different animals. They also seem to change shape at will (by shedding their skins), not according to the moon. Silver does kill them though.

A queer fantasy tale, Smoke Fur And Stone stretches from exotic flying cities to the demon-haunted depths of magical oceans. This series of short comics and spin-offs (which includes Iron Nail Afternoon, Aspects and Backwater Siren) share a fictional universe. One of the SFS spin-offs was recently awarded a Shortbox grant.

* ActionGirl: Valjo. She's rugged, muscular and imposing. When first introduced, she's even wearing [[spoiler:war paint.]]

* AntiHero: Arguably Sed from [[https://tapas.io/series/Iron-Nail-Afternoon Iron Nail Afternoon.]] He's charming, intelligent and highly educated. But he also put one of his best friends in hospital. Although he had some moral justification [[spoiler: (his friend was guilty of elder abuse)]], the real reason is simple. Sed was having a bad day. Despite being Sheriff of Iron Nail, he's more like a mobster, using his position to distribute black-market magic. However, he does have several morality pets like [[spoiler:The Jekkel and Skoll.]] He also seems to genuinely care about the downtrodden and restricts his violence to those his size or bigger.

* BigBeautifulMan: Sed piled on the extra weight after [[spoiler:losing his wings.]] Despite this - or because of it - he's garnered a significant fanbase.

* CastFullofGay: The comics focus on the lives and loves of queer supernatural beings. The main protagonists consist of Smiling Chuck and Whithers (a same-sex couple), Caliban (bisexual or possibly just Skoll-sexual), Skoll/Skollina (who changes gender by shedding their skin), Rachel (a trans woman), Valjo (a lesbian werewolf), Sed (an intersex trans guy) and the Jekkel who doesn't seem to give a toss about the gender of his partners.

* EnthrallingSiren: Valjo encounters one of these in her travels.
* FantasticRacism: The real racial tension is between humans and Oldbloods and various supernatural races.

* IntersexTribulations: Sed was born with ambiguous genitalia. His parents [[WantedAGenderConformingChild couldn't cope with that]] and decided to forcibly raise him as female using various interventions. His decision [[spoiler:to later transition to male]] caused a rift with his entire family.

* SelfMadeMan: Rachel is a female example of this, having clawed her way up from poverty to a position of leadership in the Krag.
* TheBear: Skoll in male form. When he's a guy, he's burly and hairy with muscles for days.
* TheChessmaster: As a Krag Governor, Rachel manipulates both district and her people with smooth efficiency. She moves her staff and friends around like pieces on a chessboard.
* TheDon: Rachel. She's Governor of Iron Nail and runs it like a mob boss.

* TheWoobie: Caliban. He lost his family in the war and was gang-pressed into working in the Deadfall mines. He still has nightmares about it.

An epic fantasy tale, Smoke Fur And Stone stretches from exotic flying cities to the demon-haunted depths of magical oceans. This series of comics and spin-offs (which includes Iron Nail Afternoon, SFS: Depths and Backwater Siren) share a fictional universe. One of the SFS spin-offs was recently awarded a Shortbox grant.

* GenderBender: Unlike most of their species, Skoll sheds a skin and emerges as a different gender instead of a werewolf. This isn't a source of angst since the character is GenderFluid, identifying as both male and female.

* MoralityPet: Sed and Rache have several.

* TheChessmaster: As a Krag governor, Rachel manipulates both district and her people with smooth efficiency. She moves her staff and friends around like pieces on a chessboard.

* The Napoleon: Despite being tiny (and surrounded by BeastMan nearly twice her height), Jordan is extremely aggressive. Averted with girl-mode Skoll. Despite being short in female form, she's calm and pleasant.

* Tomboy: With her short hair, boyish dress sense and gutter mouth, Jordan falls under this trope.

* AntiHero: Arguably Sed from [[https://tapas.io/series/Iron-Nail-Afternoon Iron Nail Afternoon.]] He's charming, intelligent and highly educated. But he also put one of his best friends in hospital. Although he had some moral justification [[spoiler: (his friend was guilty of elder abuse)]], the real reason is simple. Sed was having a bad day. Despite being Sheriff of Iron Nail, he's more like a mobster, using his position to distribute black-market magic. However, he does have several morality pets like [[spoiler:The Jekkel and Skoll.]] He also does seem to genuinely care about the downtrodden and restricts his violence to those his size or bigger.

* Genderbender: Unlike most of their species, Skoll sheds a skin and emerges as a different gender instead of a werewolf. This isn't a source of angst and the character appears to identify as both male and female.

* Intersex Tribulations: Sed was born with ambiguous genitalia. His parents [[WantedAGenderConformingChild couldn't cope with that]] and decided to forcibly raise him as female using various interventions. His decision [[spoiler:to later transition to male]] caused a rift with his entire family.

* PrettyBoy: Rabbit and Jekkel. Of course, they're Smokes and the entire species consists of pretty vampiric albinos.

Self-Made Man: Rachel is a female example of this, having clawed her way up from poverty to a position of leadership in the Krag.
* TheBear: Skoll in male form. When he's a guy, he's burly and hairy with muscles for days.

* MoralityPet: Sed has several, including [[spoiler:Jekkel.]]

* TheWoobie: Caliban. He lost his family in the war and was gang-pressed into working in the Deadfall mines. He still has nightmares about it.

* AffablyEvil: Arguably Sed from [[https://tapas.io/series/Iron-Nail-Afternoon Iron Nail Afternoon.]] He's charming, intelligent and highly educated. But he also put one of his best friends in hospital. Although he had some moral justification [[spoiler: (his friend was guilty of elder abuse)]], the real reason is simple. Sed was having a bad day. Despite being Sheriff of Iron Nail, he's more like a mobster, using his position to distribute black-market magic.

* RatedMForManly: Chuck sports a [[nest of chest hair CarpetofVirility]],a powerful physique and a bad attitude. But underneath, he is quite emotionally vulnerable and secretly [[BruiserWithASoftCenter craves acceptance, even love.]]In fact, most of the guys in the comic fall under this trope. Probably because Skins are a rough-and-ready species.

* RatedMForManly: Chuck sports a [[Carpet of Virility CarpetofVirility]],a powerful physique and a bad attitude. But underneath, he is quite emotionally vulnerable and secretly [[BruiserWithASoftCenter craves acceptance, even love.]]In fact, most of the guys in the comic fall under this trope. Probably because Skins are a rough-and-ready species.

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* The Don: Rachel. She's Governor of Iron Nail and runs it like a mob boss.

[[http://smokefurandstone.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/]] contains examples of the following tropes:

* AffablyEvil: Arguably Sed from [[https://tapas.io/series/Iron-Nail-Afternoon Iron Nail Afternoon.]] He's charming, intelligent and highly educated. But he also put one of his best friends in hospital. Although he had some moral justification [[spoiler: his friend was guilty of elder abuse]], the real reason is simple. Sed was having a bad day. Despite being Sheriff of Iron Nail, he's more like a Godfather figure, using his position to distribute black-market magic.
* Age-Gap Romance: Caliban and Skoll. Caliban is in his early-mid 20s and Skoll is about 42. What makes it interesting is that Caliban is the one actively pursuing the romance [[spoiler:despite Skoll's misgivings.]]
* BackStory: Nearly every character has one and because it's a [[Crapsackworld]], they're normally tragic. Smiling Chuck lost his first lover [[spoiler:in the war]] and it obviously scarred him deeply. Caliban grew up in the dreaded Deadfall mines.

* Body Horror: The Deadfall miners are horribly deformed thanks to the magical energy in the mines. Some of their faces are completely eaten away.

* RatedMForManly: Chuck sports a CarpetofVirility,a powerful physique and a bad attitude. But underneath, he is quite emotionally vulnerable and secretly [[BruiserWithASoftCenter craves acceptance, even love.]]In fact, most of the guys in the comic fall under this trope. Probably because Skins are a rough-and-ready species.

The monsters didn't just lose the war. They lost everything. Now a ragtag group of gods and monsters are trying to rebuild their lives on the Coven Island. There's only one problem - the island is already occupied...

[[https://tapas.io/series/-Smoke-Fur-And-Stone-Depths/ Smoke, Fur And Stone: Depths]] contains examples of the following tropes:

* BackStory: Smiling Chuck lost his first lover [[spoiler:in the war]] and it obviously scarred him deeply.
* BadassBeard: Chuck's occasional beard and always present CarpetOfVirility enforce his role as a comic's badass.
* BeastMan: Chuck and Valjo both fall under this trope (although Valjo is female.) They have slit pupils, digitigrade legs and possess abnormal resilience, strength and agility.
* BerserkButton: With Chuck? Just about everything. His response to nearly every situation is violence. He probably wasn't hugged enough as a child.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Chuck is deeply shaken (to the point that he stutters) when he encounters another siren bearing a deep resemblance to his long-dead lover.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Coven Island is largely occupied by Skins, Smokes and creatures that go bump in the night but at the end of the day, they're just people trying to find a homeland.

* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: Skins have their own language, one that humans find challenging to speak. This is because the human throat can't get the sub-vocalizations right. "Smiling Chuck" is a human bastardization of Chuck's Skin name (which most humans find unpronounceable.)

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In the comic, they’re called Skins and they look less like wolves and more like an mixture of different animals. They also seem to change shape at will, not according to the moon. Silver does kill them though.

* RatedMForManly: Chuck sports a CarpetofVirility,a powerful physique and a bad attitude. But underneath, he is quite emotionally vulnerable and secretly [[BruiserWithASoftCenter craves acceptance, even love.]]

* BiTheWay: It's mentioned that Chuck likes guys and girls equally.

* HeroesWantRedHeads: Chuck's first boyfriend was a redhead and when various sirens appear to Chuck, they look - surprise, surprise - like lithe, redheaded males. Whithers is also a redhead. Word of God even states that this creative choice is a nod to Wolverine's obsession with redheads since that character is one of the prototype [[BeastMan beastmen]] in comics.

* ManipulativeBastard: Whithers. Like all [[EnthrallingSirens sirens]] in the series, he can adopt different forms. And he's quick to exploit this to get what he wants. People find it hard to say no to someone who looks like their first love.

[[https://tapas.io/series/-Smoke-Fur-And-Stone-Depths/ Smoke, Fur And Stone]] contains examples of the following tropes:

* ActionGirl: Valjo. She's rugged, muscular and imposing. When first introduced, she's even wearing[[spoiler:war paint.]]
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Jordan is a Coven officer and a powerful psychic yet the man she chooses to be with is the loyal but somewhat unstable team power-house Vinnie
* BackStory: Smiling Chuck lost his first lover [[spoiler:in the war]]and it obviously scarred him deeply.

* BerserkButton: With Chuck? Just about everything. His response to nearly every situation is violence.

* CrapsackWorld: First the world was wrecked by a decades of occult warfare between Oldbloods and humans. Once the war ended, occult technology from the war fell into the hands of bad guys and the plagues started. Not to mention that the remaining supernatural races are busy fighting among themselves...
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Coven Island is largely occupied by Skins, Smokes and creatures that go bump in the night but they’re the one’s working to make the world a better place.

* HereosWantReheads: Chuck's first boyfriend was a redhead and when various sirens appear to Chuck, they look - surprise, surprise - like lithe redhead males. Whithers is also a redhead. The [[WordOfGod creator]] even stated that this creative choice is a nod to Wolverine's obsession with redheads since that character is one of the prototype [[BeastMan beastmen]]in comics.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: A rare male example with Chuck and Whitehrs. Chuck is about 7 ft tall and Whither's barely reaches his chest. How they have sex is anyone’s guess.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The Jekkel is a Smoke and unlike traditional vampires, he can walk in sunlight and he feeds on the breath of the dying, not blood. Blood is just an aphrodisiac to Smokes - they drink it during sex. Smokes can also turn to smoke (duh!)

->"''This plague is one of the reasons this agency exists. Supernaturals and humans fighting it side-by-side. Makes a nice change from us fighting each other, I suppose.''"
-->--'''The Director''


Twenty years ago, the supernaturals didn't just lose the war with the humans, they lost everything. Now without a homeland, many of them work for the Coven, an elite occult agency.

Little more then glorified mercenaries, they face demonic invasions and zombie infestations by day and spend their nights getting drunk in bars.

[[http://smokefurandstone.thecomicseries.com/ Smoke, Fur And Stone]] is on a temporary hiatus as the creator works on a webcomic called Webcomic/SilverBulletNights (an unofficial alternative universe version of Smoke, Fur And Stone.)
!!The comic contains examples of:

* TheAce: Tyr. He’s good-looking, intelligent and he’s the Coven’s second-in-command, effortlessly running the Coven base.
* ActionGirl: Jordan. She's a Coven Officer, she’s excels at unarmed combat and she seems to mostly wear combats and military gear. She even cosplays as [[spoiler:Commander Shepard]] when they go to a costume party.

* BackStory: Vinnie and Rabbit were recruited from [[spoiler:prison]] by Jordan when they were all still teenagers.
* BadassBeard: Vinnie's beard and CarpetOfVirility enforce his role as a Coven's badass.
* BerserkButton: Never ever make sexual remarks about Jordan in front of Vinnie or Tyr. Vinnie put Rabbit in choke-hold when he hit on Jordan and Tyr broke a disrespectful recruit’s nose
* BiTheWay: Rabbit is openly bisexual. At one point, we see him with both a guy and girl on his arm. He flirts with both Jordan and Tyr.
* BodyHorror: Where to begin? The comic features everything from three-headed monstrosities to skinless undead. Generally, horror in this comic means people get very ugly verrrrry quickly.
* BoyishShortHair: [[ActionGirl Jordan]] has short dark hair. Coupled with her toned build and pretty yet somewhat androgynous features, she looks a bit like a {{Bifauxnen}}.
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Rabbit is generally very sexual, hitting on Jordan and implied to enjoy threesomes with girls and guys. However, when he’s around his lover Tyr, he’s very shy and acts almost innocent. Awwwww-
* CockFight: Tyr and Vinnie over everything.
* CrapsackWorld: First the world was wrecked by a decade of occult warfare between Oldbloods and human. Once the war ended, occult technology from the war fell into the hands of bad guys and the plagues started.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Coven is largely staffed by Skins, Smokes and creatures that go bump in the night but they’re the one’s working to make the world a better place.
* FantasticRacism: Jordan is Eurasian but that nobody seems to care. The real racial tension is between humans and Oldbloods.
* HealingFactor: When Vinnie's fighting another monster in [[spoiler: jail]] during a flashback scene, he has a broken nose, black eye and his arm so badly broken that the bone is protruding from the skin. But after he [[spoiler:shifts to werewolf form and back again]] he appears all healed up and actually looks quite handsome.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Vinnie and Jordan. He’s about 7 ft tall and she barely reaches his chest. How they have sex is anyone’s guess.
* IslandBase: The Coven base is on an island
* OddFriendship: Rabbit is a PrettyBoy vampire who treats life like a [[ManChild candystore]] and Vinnie is a [[RatedMForManly hulking]] fatherly werewolf soldier who views it more as a barfight.
** Hell, even Jordan and Rabbit fit this trope. She's a driven [[TheAce workaholic psychic commander]] and Rabbit is...Rabbit. Yet they're best friends.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In the comic, they’re called Skins and they look less like wolves and more like an mixture of different animals. Vinnie’s were-form has a mane and teeth like a sabretooth tiger. They also seem to change shape at will, not according to the moon. Silver does kill them though.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Rabbit is a Smoke and unlike traditional vampires, he can walk in sunlight and he feeds on the breath of the dying, not blood. Blood is just an aphrodisiac to Smokes - they drink it during sex. Smokes can also turn to smoke (duh!)
* PowerTrio: Jordan, Rabbit and Vinnie.

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[[http://smokefurandstone.thecomicseries.com/ Smoke, Fur And Stone]] is on a temporary hiatus as the creator works on a webcomic called Webcomic/silverbulletnights, which is set in the same world.

* AmbiguousGender: The Director.

Hick werewolves * Gay gargoyles * Alcoholic vampires *

You can meet them all in [[http://smokefurandstone.thecomicseries.com/ Smoke, Fur And Stone]]

Since late-2016, the comic is on a temporary hiatus as the creator works on a webcomic called Webcomic/Silver Bullet Nights, which is set in the same world.

* PrettyBoy: Rabbit. Slender, tall and leanly muscled, he has no body or facial hair and his features are quite feminine.
* RatedMForManly: Let’s see? TallDarkAndHandsome - yep! CarpetOfVirility - yep! HeroicBuild - and how! Vinnie fits this trope perfectly. In fact so does Tyr (apart from the CarpetOfVirility. WordOfGod says Tyr shaves his body hair) and just about every other male Skin.

Since late-2016, the comic is on a temporary hiatus as the creator works on a spin-off webcomic called Webcomic/ChasingIce, which is set in the same world.

* TheAce: Tyr. He’s good-looking, intelligent and he’s the Director’s second-in-command, effortlessly running the Coven base.

* BadassBeard: [[http://lj-phillips.deviantart.com/art/Vinegar-Tom-340715645 Vinnie]] - his beard and CarpetOfVirility enforce his role as the team's ''Badass''

* BiTheWay: Rabbit is openly bisexual. At one point, we see him with both a [[http://lj-phillips.deviantart.com/art/Cosplay-Close-Up-The-Devil-You-Know-377695596 guy and girl]] on his arm. He flirts with both Jordan and Tyr.

* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Rabbit is generally very sexual, hitting on Jordan and implied to enjoy threesomes with girls and guys. However, when he’s around Tyr, he’s very shy and acts almost innocent. Awwwww-

* OddFriendship: Rabbit is a PrettyBoy vampire who treats life like a [[ManChild candystore]] and Vinnie is a [[RatedMForManly hulking]] monosyllabic werewolf soldier who views it more as a barfight.
** Hell, even Jordan and Rabbit fit this trope. She's a driven [[TheAce workaholic psychic commander]] and Rabbit is...Rabbit. Yet they're best friends and [[spoiler: possibly also lovers.]]

* SexIsViolence: Rabbit. He seems to take almost sexual pleasure in combat, even when losing.

* {{Badass}}: Vinnie. He rips open another monster's throat in a flashback scene during a [[spoiler: prison fight]] and he's not much more than a teenager at the time. The first time we see him in the main story arc, he's hunting another werewolf soldier and in the next scene, he's shown holding the other soldier's severed head. ''Implying he tore it off with his bare hands!''

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The comic contains examples of:

You can meet them all in Smoke, Fur And Stone[[http://smokefurandstone.thecomicseries.com/]]

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