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Stories from Metropolis is yet another Spin-Off of DLD, this one focusing on the daily lives of the main series' 45 characters.

In a nutshell, it's a cartoonish Genre Roulette.

In a more detailed explanation, the comic follows 45+ characters in their day-to-day lives, often with something supernatural mixed in. What started out as a Horror Comedy about three kids fighting monsters has grown into something much much more, thus this series was created.

The Tropes:

• Affirmative-Action Legacy: Kitty Kristofferson, the first Kittenwoman, gives her title to Anisha, a Syrian refugee, who thus becomes the second Kittenwoman.
• Artifact Title: The series grew from being about the D.L.D.'s adventures, to featuring the lives of the series' secondary and tertiary characters, often in a Slice of Life way. In fact a lot of characters have had their own Day in the Limelight to the point where the D.L.D. haven't appeared in their own comic for 9 straight episodes. This is why I created this spinoff, to give focus on those characters and their stories.
• Artificial Afterlife: In Heaven is a Place on Earth, a tribute episode to Black Mirror: San Junipero, Dexter creates a digital afterlife in the form of a beach town where ghosts can upload themselves into it and spend eternity in a virtual heaven. The only ghost not willing to upload herself is the Lady in Grey, whose lover the Lady in Lightgreen immediately immerses herself into the program. In the end, the Lady in Grey uploads herself and the two Ladies spend the rest of forever together.
• Amateur Film-Making Plot: In All the Wrong Movies, not-too-bright Filly is chosen (via getting her name picked out of a hat) to make a movie that will represent her school in the Metropolis Film Festival. With the help of her friends (Milly and Lilly) and their enemies (Vicky, Marcy and Anisha), she makes a totally bizarre and incomprehensible film that leaves everyone in a state of confusion. In the end she uploads it to YouTube, which gets 9 million views in one night.
  Milly: What was the point of all this?
  Lilly: Culture is dead.
• Gag Series: With the horror rempved, it has become this..
• Log Fic: The episode The Great D.L.D. Group Chat of July 21st 2019 is written and drawn in the form of a group chat on Tina's phone between a majority of the characters.
  • TikTok Schlock offers a variation, as it's about Tina going through the characters' videos on TikTok.
  • D.D.'s Lexicon is another variation, as it's written and drawn in the form of a lexicon D.D. made and gave her friends when she was 14.
• To the Tune of...: Here's the unofficial theme song, sung to the tune of the Animaniacs intro:
  Stories from Metropolis
  They're quite dumb and that's the gist
  We should really make a list
  Of the people that we've pissed
  Stories from Metropolis!

  Come join the Botey siblings
  And their enemies and friends
  We believe the means justify the ends
  To have quality
  Why bother to pretend?
  We'll just recycle the same episode again and again!

  Stories from Metropolis
  They're a joke that you just missed
  From Vicky's first kiss to her ovarian cysts
  Now here's some more you missed!

  With Kittenwoman who makes the criminals pay
  To those time travelers Hunter and Day
  Milly, Lilly, Filly
  They always get their way
  At this point we don't know who's straight and who's gay!

  Stories from Metropolis
  You can boo and you can hiss
  If there's something that we've missed
  It's our ass you can kiss
  We're animaney
  Totally insaney
  We've changed our namey
  Stories from Metropolis
  We've just been dissed!