Another normal day at camp.
Detox Camp
is a Magic Realism webcomic about a girl named Kiro, who is sent to a rehab camp in the Alaskan wilderness after getting involved in a shady get-rich-quick scheme. Somehow, she ends up in a camp full of teenage Internet addicts, where there is no adult supervision. And with a growing host of creepy entities that, apparently, only Kiro can see.Detox Camp is drawn by sereneseal and has updated twice a week since April 2018.
Contains examples of:
- Abnormal Ammo: Light arrows have brittle heads and are useless for actually shooting people. However, they create a bright flash and allow certain people to see ghosts and tamper with people's minds through the Dream Shore.
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council: By definition it must be, as there are no adults (at least none who care to exercise authority).
- Adults Are Useless: "Mom", the woman who runs camp, is quite aggressively disinterested in the campers' well-being.
- Characterization Marches On: Daisy started out excitable and a little unaware, before quickly settling into a more mature, confident personality. The George Lucas Altered Version of chapter 1 addressed this, bringing her initial behavior in line with her later appearances.
- Cell Phones Are Useless: Although the campers can access the Internet at "Down Below", any attempts to communicate with the outside world are immediately censored.
- Deadly Environment Prison: The kids are free to wander to their heart's desire, but the entire camp is surrounded by impassable mountains and dangerous waters.
- Death Course: The camp government occasionally forces people to walk through Death Courses full of traps, from rusty nails to falling cabinets. Kiro and Daisy end up getting sent through one as punishment, but they get dropped out-of-bounds and escape early.
- Event Flag: Kiro knows there is a curse working to send everything into chaos, but after a sudden streak of explosions, she has to wonder...
Kiro: This is going downhill too fast! Did I trigger a death flag somewhere??
- George Lucas Altered Version: Chapter 1 was replaced with a redrawn version in 2021, three years after its initial release. Much of the dialogue also got tweaked, leading to some small but significant characterization changes.
- Incompatible Orientation: Kiro develops a lesbian crush on Daisy, a straight girl who's already in a committed relationship. For obvious reasons, it doesn't go anywhere.
- Love Dodecahedron: The comic's romantic arcs get messy fast. At first, Reina's still getting over A, who left her for Daisy. Reina quickly falls for Kiro and seems to think they're in a relationship, and Kiro plays along despite having mixed feelings. Then Reina finds Kiro in the bath with Shay, and becomes convinced there's something happening between them. And then Kiro kisses Daisy but gets rejected, bringing everything full circle.
- Mystery Meat: "Military Mush" is the only food available in the cafeteria.
- No OSHA Compliance: The camp is situated in abandoned industrial buildings full of sharp edges, steep drops, and Bottomless Pits filled with skeletons.
- Outdoorsy Gal: Due in part to her banishment, Daisy has become an expert at living off the land, though she was a "hippie" type long before she even came here.
- Parental Abandonment: Likely the case for many of the kids here.
- Summer Campy: More of a Boarding School of Horrors, with the rules removed.
