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2.0
- While Brent is preparing for his wedding, he overhears Cole being sarcastic and bitter about how the marriage will fizzle out. He gets angry, but then finds out that Cole and his wife Donna are divorcing.
- The simple fact that Cole's Henpecked Husband characterisation wasn't funny at all, it was the sign of a dysfunctional relationship. They might have been highschool sweethearts, but it's now clear that their relationship wasn't really ever healthy at all, it was two once-loving people slowly becoming bitter and resentful. Donna hasn't been seen for years, and it's likely she never will be again.
- Brent's reaction to finding out that Skull has to leave him after Brent's marriage is officiated. He tries to destroy the gargoyle that delivers the news, but finds it's a No-Sell. He and Scratch have Heroic BSoD for months afterward, until Scratch arms himself up and prepares to take his troll back by force.
- Skull also does a terrible job mentoring kids. One dies, another tries to exorcise him, another he eats, and the last he nearly beats to death.
- Brent's to the death of Steve Jobs.
- Jade reacts to the death of Carrie Fisher.
- When Cole's grown-up daughter Lindsay comes to visit, he tries his best to be a good dad, especially with the divorce. There are still sad moments though:
- Cole is worried because Lindsay has grown into a woman. He tells Brent, who has a toddler daughter, that he doesn't understand because Kate is at an age where she still likes him. Brent has a Freak Out, but adjusts by telling Kate that "soccer" is called "Death Star" and preparing for her to be different.
- Cole then gets worried on realizing that Lindsay has become a recluse, like him. He tells her that he remembers that she enjoyed socializing when she was younger, and wants her to be happy.
- Lindsay admits she'd rather spend time with her dad than go out with Francis and Marcy to watch a sports event called Tough Mudder because she has body image issues, with having gained forty pounds. Cole then does Tough Mudder with her to cheer her up when Lindsay is bolstered by his pep talk, only for her to wipe out. He then thinks, "I'm a terrible father." It segues into a Heartwarming Moment when the hipsters on their team invite Lindsay out to see or heckle a garage band, and she accepts. Cole also says that if his daughter wants to work for him, there will always be a job opening.
- During Halloween 2017, the Bone Burglar reappears. He goes around demanding scary stories from all the PvP cast. Much to his disappointment, they all have scary but not entertaining tales about reality:
- Cole tells him that Trump is President and asks that the Bone Burglar take all his bones.
- Brent tells him the movie Beastmaster premiered thirty-five years ago, which the Bone Burglar liked when he was a kid, making the Burglar realizing how old he's getting and how fast life is slipping away.
- Marcy mentions how humans are destroying the planet at an alarming rate.
- Lucille maces him and tells him to Get Out!.
- The Bone Burglar walks off in Villainous BSoD with no bones. He starts Drowning My Sorrows and asking if there's a place for a Bone Burglar in a world where everything is scary. Fortunately, he then goes to pester Skull.
- In an earlier Bone Burglar appearance, Skull delivers a surprisingly poignant one, even if the Bone Burglar just brushes it off.Skull: Okay, once upon a time there was a sad little man who collected the fears of others so he never had to face his own.
- The Ombudsmen storyarc, which is a satire of Watchmen and the dismal state of the newspaper comics medium, comparing their stagnancy and incapability of changing with the politics of the Cold War.
- Charlie Brown, aka "The Blockhead," is the stand-in for The Comedian. Unlike all the other characters represented, Charlie Brown is a child. An immortal child by comic standards, but still a child. And Dilbert murdered him. His doing a parody of the Comedian's lines during a flashback isn't more reassuring, where he shows Troubling Unchildlike Behavior towards Jon Arbuckle. There's an added layer in The Blockhead's scene where he desperately defends the nearly-dead syndicated newspaper comics, demanding that the established comic strips stay the course of ancient, inoffensive nonsense, despite their refusal to change bringing them close to extinction. All in a pathetic attempt at keeping a constantly shrinking circle of aging readers from possibly being offended.
- Popeye's words to Jon Arbuckle in his old Garfield lair, where he warns him about someone possibly killing cartoon characters.Jon: We had some good times, whatever happened to that?Popeye: You stopped drawing.
- Dagwood from Blondie, as a stand-in for Dr Manhattan, reminiscing about his past, and how his unchanging status as one of the oldest comic characters in existence has essentially made him immortal. The man who created him has been dead for 36 years. Dagwood looks at a photo of flapper Blondie, whom he married despite his family disowning him in the 1930s.Dagwood: I am tired of this world; these people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. It's 2009. I've been eating giant sandwiches and taking naps for 75 years. And I will never die.
- Dilbert's plan: drop an F bomb in the dailies, which would get rid of half a million old newspaper subscribes but bring in a new generation save comics as a whole. Jon Arbuckle is horrified and can't believe that Dilbert would do such a thing, let alone get away with it. Unlike Ozymandias, Dilbert shows no remorse for his actions. Why would the snarky engineer from the 90s care about one F bomb?
- Unlike in the original Watchmen, due to the constraints of the panel format, Popeye and Jon don't have time to react to Dilbert's revelation. Rather, Jon does, but Popeye doesn't.
- Also, the bomb that Dilbert drops end up killing and injuring nameless bystanders. Cathy goes "Ack!" and it's not as funny as it normally would be. The parody ends with Dagwood finding the evidence, and... that's it. No hopeful resolution, or plans to start a new life.
- The ongoing Kringus plots:
- Scratch murders a Mall Santa, mistaking him for the actual Saint Nick. In front of children.
- When Santa gets wind of his assistant being killed, he sends a task force to handle Scratch proactively. They nearly hurt Skull, which causes Scratch to go Thats My Human.
- The year after that, Scratch actually manages to kill Santa. Then he transfers the man's brain to a jar and mind-controls his body, so as to have control over the holiday. The elves have to recruit LOLbat to stop the furry menace, after a year.
- What causes Scratch to snapback after several years of good behavior? Finding out he can possess holiday stones, and wield intense power. Fortunately, it turns out to be a dream in his head.
- Val feels guilty when she convinces Jade to have a book signing, and no one comes. Jade doesn't mind, and is cheered up when her daughter and Brent come by to purchase a copy.
- Kurtz's father has been a minor recurring character since the comic started, often providing material with his mild Cloud Cuckoolander personality, but in the late 2010s he had several health scares, and he suffered a series of strokes that greatly reduced his mobility, as has been documented in Kurtz's blog. As of 2019, he requires assisted living and as his stroke-induced dementia continues to get worse, it's clear that these issues can't go away. In 2021 Scott launched a new webcomic titled Mort as a way to cope with everything that has happened.
3.0
- Katie has dropped out of college to become a streamer and work at PvP. Jade is furious about this and they've been fighting on video calls. It takes a while for Jade to admit that Katie is an adult and free to make her own choices.
- Scratch and Kirby have both passed on. Apparently, Scratch created a computer program that's a duplicate, and uploads himself to a 3D-printed body. Even so, Skull knows it's not the same.
- Skull realizes that S.C.R.A.T.C.H. doesn't know what happened to Kirby. He takes him outside, showing S.C.R.A.T.C.H. the grave. Cue the grieving process, and S.C.R.A.T.C.H. trying desperately to resurrect Kirby.
