New School Kids
is a webcomic about two elementary school friends, Frank and Trevor, and some of their classmates. Occasionally stars the Butt-Monkey Lily.
New School Kids provides examples of:
- Alt Text: The hover text used to be used for additional gags.
- Art Shift: Sometimes the art style will change. Usually just for a panel at a time, but sometimes a whole comic.
- Author Avatar: Frank and Trevor are loosely based on the artist and writer, in both design and character.
- Bait-and-Switch: In strip 91, a detective comes to school and says one of the students is an adult masquerading as a child. Cut to a bearded student looking nervous... then the detective arrests Frank instead.
- Butt-Monkey: The only reason Lily is around, really.
- Calvinball: Trevopoly appears to be a mixture of Battleship and Sorry, played on a Monopoly board, with made-up rules.
- The Faceless: Adults. Sometimes. It's inconsistent.
- Flipping the Table: Frank flips the table during a bad game of "Trevopoly."
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot
- Frame-Up: Strip 92 reveals that Frank's arrest in the previous strip was a result of Trevor giving the police a fake tip-off so that they would lock Frank up and Trevor could play his Castlevania save files.
- Gone Horribly Right: Lily's "accident."
- Gone Horribly Wrong: The potato battery experiment.
- Hollywood Board Games: In the 34th strip, Trevor tries to cover up that he lost Monopoly's instructions by reading made-up rules from the brochure of an unidentified game and including Battleship pegs and ships. When Frank calls him out, he decides that this new game is ''Trevopoly''.
- In Case of X, Break Glass: Parodied in one strip, where the red box reads "Break glass if you want, I guess". The boys, of course, smack it, causing alarms to blare and a red light to appear. As the strip's title indicates, it's really the garage door opener.
- Jetpack: In the Christmas Special, no less.
- Last-Name Basis: Frank is called by a shortening of his last name. His full name is Jonah Frankenstein.
- Lethal Chef: Exploding Mac & Cheese. And how do you start eggshells on fire?!
- Little "No": "Uno."
- Medium Awareness: In strip 77, Frank is aware that he is in a comic, and quits it in response to Trevor coming up to him with a scheme.
- Mr. Imagination: Tends to happen regarding Johnny Keyfeet and Deadbolt.
- No Name Given: The creators have mentioned off-hand that the neighborhood girls do have names, but they're never mentioned in the comic itself.
- Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Johnny Keyfeet II: The Keyfeeting.
- Painting the Medium: In strip 77, Frank quits the comic and the last panel is a faux error message saying "This webpage is not available".ERR_FRANK_QUITTED
- Remaster: A full decade after the comic's original run of 90 strips or so (2010-2014), the artist began drawing high resolution "remasters" of each strip. The low resolution versions have been pulled off their website.
- Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Subverted in the Dungeons & Dragons comic.
- Shout-Out: Strip 91 is titled "He would've gotten away with it" as a reference to Scooby-Doo.
- Blade Runner
- Clint Eastwood
- CSI: Miami
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Iron Man and Portal 2, in the same comic.
- Pokémon
- Team Fortress 2
- Tally Marks on the Prison Wall: In strip 92, Frank is in prison and the wall behind him is covered in tally marks.
- Visual Pun: The thumb war
- Younger Than They Look: Lily. It's hormonal. Maybe.
