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2 | [[caption-width-right:300:Claire (left) and Dominic (right)]] |
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4 | Dominic and Claire are a pair of characters created by Max West, making their debut in a 24-hour comic, followed by the 2019 comic book ''The Dominic & Claire Funnies'' from Different Mousetrap Press. This was followed by two more titles - ''Dominic & Claire Fun-Size'' and ''Dominic & Claire Circus'' - in later 2019 and early 2020, both funded by Website/{{Kickstarter}}. |
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6 | Dominic is a 7-year-old anthropomorphic kitten living in the town of New Gestad; the comics reveal he is the cousin of Rusty Duncan, protagonist of ''ComicBook/SunnyvilleStories'', making the work a SpinOff. |
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8 | Claire, the deuteragonist, is a 14-year-old anthropomorphic porcupine living next door to Dominic. She plays the StraightMan role to Dominic, setting him up to say something funny and often laughing at his antics. |
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10 | Other characters include Chester, Claire's older brother and Dominic's primary antagonist; Dominic's family (his father, mother and little sister); Claire's best friend, Amber (a squirrel); Rusty, Dominic's cousin from Sunnyville; and Dominic's friends, Bryan (another squirrel), Gino and Pinky (two pigs who are also brothers). |
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12 | In contrast to the more artistic Sunnyville, Dominic & Claire's comics are a GagSeries, emphasizing jokes over story and character. |
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15 | !!This comic contains examples of the following tropes: |
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17 | * BubblegumPopping: In ''Funnies'', Claire blows bubble gum as she listens to Dominic's baseball story; Dominic pops the bubble with his finger and a following panel shows Claire peeling off the gum stuck to her quills. |
18 | * ButtMonkey: Chester, Claire's older brother; he's always on the receiving end of Dominic's antics. |
19 | ** In one of the two stories from ''Funnies'', he keeps trying to make a phone call to Dominic's mother, only to have Dominic constantly answer the phone to Chester's frustration. |
20 | ** He doesn't fare better in other stories, one even have him getting drenched by a jet of water from a clam. |
21 | * DeadpanSnarker: Dominic |
22 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Dominic appeared alone in a bonus story in the limited edition comic, the Sunnyville Stories Super Special #2. |
23 | * GagSeries: Consists of short vignettes involving Dominic doing or saying something funny with Claire reacting. |
24 | * NameAndName: Named for the two protagonists |
25 | * NonIronicClown: Dominic and Claire turn up on the cover of ''Circus'', both dressed as clowns hence the title. |
26 | * SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Dominic claims to have seen ''Film/{{Tron}}'' fifty-five times in one story to justify to Claire that he knows about machines. |
27 | * ShoutOut: |
28 | ** Hai Karate is mentioned in ''Fun Size''. This was a budget brand of men's aftershave popular in TheSeventies. |
29 | ** In ''Circus'', Dominic tries to get a coconut custard pie with whipped cream at an automat, a nod to the 1947 Bugs Bunny cartoon ''WesternAnimation/SlickHare''. Just like in the cartoon, Dominic ends up getting a PieInTheFace! |
30 | * SpecialGuest: Rusty shows up in ''Circus'' in a story reprinted from the Sunnyville Stories Super Special #2. |
31 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: In their story together, Rusty teases Dominic about loving Claire which he denies. Dominic returns fire by taunting Rusty over Samantha from Sunnyville; Rusty says she's just a friend, blushing when doing so. |
32 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: Dominic is the wise guy and Claire is the straight man. |
33 | * TwoGamersOnACouch: Played straight in ''Funnies''. The second story in the funnies has Dominic sitting on top of a wall and recounting to Claire an anecdote about being on a baseball team as she stands by the wall to listen. |
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