Line #22 ComicBook/DominicAndClaire


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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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