After The End / Webcomics

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• Alice Grove: The setting is a post-post-apocalyptic Earth, millennia after a horrific war was "blinked" to an end. There are rustic towns in existence, with some level of electrical technology. Flora has largely reclaimed the apocalyptic landscape as well, but Alice notes that you don't have to look too far to find remnants of the war: there are plenty of nearly circular lakes all over the landscape that were explosion craters, and rubble can be found pretty much anywhere if you dig for it.
• The Angel In The Forest is set in a world where an unknown disaster - most likely a virus - is implied to have wiped out the human race completely. As a result animals have begun to inhabit the buildings and cities left behind, managing to coexist somewhat peacefully.
• Aurora Danse Macabre is a Darker and Edgier version of a post-apocalyptic Scavenger World.
• The Awesome Adventures! Comic Heaven takes place in post-apocalyptic Detroit after most of humanity has apparently been turned into a race of mutant zombies.
• Bicycle Boy takes place in a post-apocalyptic desert, though it is unclear where on earth.
• Blade of Toshubi is set on a future Earth where the only humans survive in arks orbiting Earth while animals have been artificially 'evolved' into sentient bipeds.
• Blood Bank takes place in a future where a meteorite devastated human civilization and paved the way for vampire supremacy.
• Bubble Wrap - where most of humanity was wiped out due to a contagious virus. The surviving humans don't have to wear protective suits at all times...unless they have an aversion to dying, in which case it's a good idea to stay dressed.
• Circa After The Apocalypse takes place after an undetermined time period after Earth is bombarded by meteors, which devastate the world and raise a dust cloud that blots out the sun- the dust cloud seems to have settled prior to the events of the comic itself.
• Cthulhu Slippers is set after the end of the world as we know it after an invasion of all powerful alien gods. That the gods are dumber than a bag of hair is beside the point.
• In Daughter of the Lilies, remnants of modern-day Earth like a flashlight and "D" batteries are sold as historic artifacts and monsters infest the ruins of Wien (a.k.a. Vienna). What sort of apocalypse replaced technology with magic is unknown, aside from cryptic and wholly untrustworthy hints from a Drath.
• The Demon Archives is set on Earth about 100 years after nuclear and biological war destroy global civilization. A few high-tech organizations were prepared, survived the nuclear winter and actively work to re-establish civilization on the war-torn Earth.
• Derelict A mysterious event has flooded much of the world and turned many humans into misshapen monstrosities; roaming scavenger Deng attempts to stay alive and keep her small boat fueled.
• The world's been "broken" four times in The Dragon Doctors. Once in a war between evil puppet masters and upstart magic users, a nuclear war, a meteor impact, and a disaster called "The Dimension Fusion" that mixed up parts of Earth with parts of other dimensions. Each time started a new calendar.
• Drowtales is technically set after two ends: the first was a massive magical war between the ancient elven nations that left one of the moons shattered and split the world between the skyworld, the overworld, and the underworld. The second came after elven civilization recovered enough to start experimenting with nether magic and demon summoning, at which point demons overran the world, nearly driving magic-using life to extinction and forcing the elves to seek refuge in the underworld, where they became the drow.
• Earth, 2068: By 2068, the only humans surviving worldwide nuclear fallout are the residents of an underwater dome.
• In El Goonish Shive, a few EGS:NP storylines are set in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout and one is set in a world that combines Fallout with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim which has the apt title "Fantasy Wasteland".
• The Ends is set in a post-nuclear wasteland, but that's only the beginning of the wierdness. Apparently the nuclear apocalypse set up a "Groundhog Day" Loop, forcing its inhabitants to endure an endless cycle of death and rebirth.
• Endtown is one of the more bizarre aftermaths (as measured against some hefty competition).
• Not stated in Ever Blue, but Underwater Ruins full of Lost Technology strongly suggest some sort of a catastrophic flood in the past.
• FreakAngels is heavy with this. "London is drowning," seems to be the catchphrase here. Significant portions of Great Britain (and perhaps the world) are submerged underwater, and it turns out that the eponymous protagonists are to blame.
• Planet designated 76432-69-GM in Galaxion had a nuclear war first, then an Alien Invasion (though characters speculate that the aliens may have in fact caused the war, but there's nothing solid on that).
• Gone with the Blastwave is set during a post-apocalyptic war. It draws on a number of sources, and in many ways is something of a Black Humor parody of them.
• Homestuck:
  • Once players activate Sburb, meteors begin to bombard their world. The planet is eventually reduced to a desolate wasteland, with a few of the NPCs from Sburb being exiled to the wasteland in order to repopulate it. This scenario happens to Earth, leaving five NPCs exiled on Earth to discover how to rebuild civilization, and on Alternia, where the Midnight Crew eventually manages to build a City Noir civilization in the wastes.
  • In the B2 universe, Dirk and Roxy live years in the future (but not many) in a Flooded Future World ruled openly by the Condesce.
  • The lands of the B2 Session are all barren and filled with tomb complexes of the Consorts who died long ago.
  • Calliope and Caliborn grow up on a planet that is later revealed to be the post-Scratch version of Earth, long after all human life has gone extinct and its sun began to die.
• Ice has an Endless Winter slowly eroding what's left of human decency.
• Implied in Kit And Kay Boodle, of all things. The world is populated with furries and has crossovers with a few other comics, at least one of which casts humanity as the bygone predecessors of furkind, and humans themselves only appear in classical artwork.
• Magical Misfits is set in the far future after magic returned & killed some humans while changing others into creatures of mythology.
• The Mansion of E is set in a world fifty years after a sudden catastrophic failure of magic.
• Mars in Marooned was once flourishing.
• A Moment of Peace is a Lighter and Softer version of a post-apocalyptic Scavenger World.
• Neo Kosmos concerns human kids being raised in captivity by aliens after Earth's destruction, with an archived copy of Wikipedia as their only connection to their ancestral planet.
• In Not a Villain, some unknown disaster has completely decimated the world. The survivors live in the ruined cities, some of them trapped with no way out.
• O31 is set in San Francisco in a world where all electricity has simply and mysteriously disappeared (which was followed promptly by gigantic explosions worldwide).
• Off-White takes place after a 300+ year winter destroyed much of human civilization.
• Only Human takes place 500 years after the end, with humanity as we know it gone.
• The Order of the Stick is set on what turns out to be the second universe, after the first was destroyed by an Eldritch Abomination called the Snarl. All may not be as it appears, however, as it was recently revealed that the first universe may still exist.
  • Certainly not as it appears. This isn't the second. Or tenth. Or hundredth. Or even billionth. Countless worlds have been created by the gods, and inevitably destroyed by the Snarl.
• Paonia Pawns visits various alternate worlds suffering through versions of this.
• Pinch Point is a comic that starts in a post-apocalyptic setting after a war began 30 years ago in the 2030s.
• Post Nuke takes place following a nuclear war that played out eerily similar to the biblical apocalypse. A mad dictator took over, nuclear fallout poisoned a third of all water and a third of all land, and there was very little warning of the first shots in the Last War being fired-people say it came like a thief in the night.
• Romantically Apocalyptic is a Lighter and Softer take on the setting. The Captain and his/her subordinates wander around, trying to find some sort of amusement in the otherwise rather boring nothingness of the post-apocalyptic world.
• Rumors of War takes place in a Post Apocalyptic mythical Greece.
• A Discussed Trope in Schlock Mercenary, where various groups (including the Oaafans, and the Fleetmind) know there are records and (sometimes scant) archeological evidence of intelligent galactic civilization developing, then disappearing in waves; usually in a time-scale of millions of years between each wave. From that point of view, the current setting is automatically After the End for untold Trillions of people. When one character ask an Oaafan^note That was resurrected; he was a member of the previous civilization wave, and had studied archeology about the odds (regarding the previous civilizations he knows about):

  What kind of percentages?

  A hundred?

  • And, somewhat surprisingly, there is still something of a Hope Spot to this; The Fleetmind (as represented by Petey) knows each wave largely ended — or 'failed' — in a different manner, which both implies that success is an option, and means that "intelligent civilization" is not inherently flawed in some fundamental way.
• Scurry: The entire premise of the comic follows the struggle for survival of a colony of house mice in a suburb where the humans have all gone missing, leaving nothing but empty shelves and abandoned cars, and the winter has lasted far too long, revealed to be the result of a societal breakdown followed by nuclear war.
• The Secret Knots: The last part of "Memory Weaver" takes place in 2260, after humanity has gone extinct for undisclosed reasons. Robotic/insectoid lifeforms are now the dominant species, and have a museum dedicated to human culture.
• Shifters takes place in 2034 after a "Nuclear Incident" gave rise to MegaCities where Werebeasts, Vampires, and other races live and fight unknown to the greater human population.
• Similarly, the "Aylee" arc from Sluggy Freelance shows an Alternate Universe where "ghouls" have overrun the Earth, with most of humanity's survivors living in orbital spaceships.
  • There are also a couple alternate universes where, while the most of humanity hasn't died, they have been transported into other dimensions, leaving very few people behind. In one there's no one around but an Alternate Universe Riff and six billion butterflies that replaced every single person on Earth.
• Soul to Call: Referred to as 'the Fall'. Two thirds of the human popular were wiped out, and malicious supernatural forces seem to have filled the void they've left…
• The prologue of Stand Still, Stay Silent showed the first few days after the discovery of a mysterious "rash illness" through the eyes of a several groups of Scandinavians who either got stuck in isolated areas or ran for the hills as the disease spread. The story itself picks up 90 years later with their descendants. Exactly what happened, and whether or not the character's beliefs that Trolls and Giants rule the world outside of Iceland and the few tiny enclaves they live in are true, is still unclear.
• In Tales from the Interface, the action takes place in a dystopian future, although the details of how this came to be are very blurry.
• True Villains: It's not immediately obvious, but most of the world has been overrun by vampires and left as the monster-infested Forsaken Lands. The comic is set on the Mainland, a Floating Continent that remains the last bastion of civilization, courtesy of a gigantic barrier infused with The Power of the Sun.
• UNA Frontiers. Notable for taking place three hundred years later, and for the conspicuous lack of biker gangs.
• Unicorn Jelly takes place in a strange pocket universe where the laws of physics are different from ours. Some time in the past one of the triangular "worldplates" where humans and natives lived was destroyed by something resembling an atomic bomb, resulting in a rain of debris that destroyed other worldplates, creating a chain reaction of destruction that will eventually obliterate every worldplate in this finite but unbounded cosmos. It's later discovered that new worldplates will gradually coalesce out of the debris.
• The premise of Wastelanders Anonymous. It's unclear how, but it seems to have been nuclear war.
• What It Takes which takes place after most of civilization has died. Commonly referred to as "the flip."
• White Noise takes place 120 years after a hostile alien race temporarily halted the rotation of the Earth, killing everyone and everything not on one of the three space colonies.
• The Zombie Hunters takes place years after the Zombie Apocalypse.

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