Webcomic / Port Sherry

Port Sherry (Puerto Jerez in Spanish) is a webcomic by Pedro Arizpe. It began in 2009.

The strip is a Gag-Per-Day Webcomic. Some strips are dramatic stories. Others poke fun at fiction, tropes, and day-to-day life. There is also the occasional slice-of-life strip depicting Arizpe, his wife Sara, and their pets. While the comic is in English, some strips are available in Spanish.

The comic, as well as other mirror links, can be found here (in English) and here (in Spanish). Compilation releases are also for sale on Gumroad.

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Tropes:

• Aesop Enforcer: In "Nice, like me" Laura the sorceress discusses her involvement in the story of Beauty and the Beast, where she cursed the titular beast and his household and made the town forget him. Her friend is horrified, saying that he was just a boy.
  Laura: How else is he going to learn to be nice?!
• Birthday Hater: The boy having a birthday party in "Two fun birds with one happy stone" hates his birthday because it falls on Halloween, and his family just has one party to save time.
• Humans Are Morons: In "A human joke", an alien tells a joke about a hypothetical scenario where humans are finally invited to "the higher stage" available to other alien species, and given all the resources they need to chart their species' future. The punchline is that sixty years later, they haven't progressed because they're still fighting over who gets to sit at the planning table. The joke is a hit.
• Lost in Translation: Discussed in "The puzzle of foreign visual wordplay", where the Spanish-speaking artist doesn't understand the English visual gags of someone turning into a donkey, a lollipop, or a sign picturing a screw and a ball (since the word 'screwball' doesn't exist in Spanish).
• Loves Me Not: "Respect the process": A girl is plucking petals and lands on "Loves me not". She tries to cheat by plucking two petals at once, but the flowers protest.
  Flower: You already know you are not loved!
• Medusa: She is portrayed as a nice woman who just happens to have snakes for hair and petrification powers.
  • In "Stop cluttering my home please" she is dismayed that her powers result in heroic warriors being frozen in inconvenient places.
  • In "Just trying new stuff" Medusa is testing out new hairdos, much to the dismay of her snake-hairs.
    Medusa: Maybe braids...
    Snakes: No! No! No!
• Message in a Bottle:
  • In "A reply, maybe?" a stranded man gets a reply to his message in a bottle.
  • In "And found they were", a stranded man throws his last message-containing bottle into the ocean. It turns out that they end up as musical instruments for Sebastian and company.
• Mirror Monster: Parodied in "Bloody Mary", where a girl shrugs off summoning Bloody Mary by saying her name thirteen times in front of a mirror. Her friend who had told her about it turns out to be in league with Bloody Mary, lamenting that they have a terrible sales pitch.
• Monster Mash: "That's no moon": Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Mummy give their Werewolf friend a moon lamp as a gag gift.
• Revised Ending: "Last minute rewrite" posits that the reason so many fairy tales end happily is because the children they were told to disliked the original tragic endings.
• Panicky Expectant Father: The father in "Chip off the old block" is lamenting his life choices as his wife gives birth. The gag turns out to be that the father is Pinocchio, who had been worried his wife was about to give birth to a puppet.
• Recycled with a Gimmick: "At the ride-in" retells Avengers: Endgame as an In-Universe play in the Wild West. The Captain America analogue wielding the Mjölnir analogue draws an And the Fandom Rejoiced reaction.
• Seeks Another's Resurrection: Implied Trope in "Out of your hands", where a genie freed by a human offers said human one wish. Though we can't read the human's speech, the genie's replies imply that they cannot bring someone back to life.
  Genie: If you want, I can make it stop hurting. I can make you forget.
  Genie: Nothing?
  Genie: I am sorry for your loss.
• Stillborn Franchise: In-Universe, "The saddest movies": The woman gets emotional over a B-list action movie titled Codename Rex. Her reason is that there was an obvious Sequel Hook that never got followed up on because the film didn't do well.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: "Asylum" posits that Batman has been insane all along, and his Rogues Gallery are concerned medical professionals and scientists analyzing his condition.
• Worthless Yellow Rocks: In "But not gold" a court alchemist is fired for not being able to turn lead into gold. He is, however, able to turn lead into precious gemstones, but does not realize their worth.

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