Sundae Comics is a Gag Per Day Webcomic by Southern California cartoonist Nathan Olsen. The strips are usually self-contained, adhering to a four panel format that sets up a premise in the first three panels and delivers a punchline in panel four. However, Olsen has been known to dabble with the occasional storyline, developing characters and premises that are popular with his readers into multi-part storylines.
Some of the recurring characters in the comic include Fast Man, a hero burdened with the power of super speed; the witch Iris Bloom, who teaches her niece Sunflower Daffodil about witchcraft; and Tiny Dracula, a smol (and mostly harmless) version of his namesake, who spends his days in Whitby, England pining after his one true love, Lucy Westenra.
Tropes:
- Be Careful What You Wish For: A man makes a wish on a monkey's paw and triggers the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Country Mouse: In a parody of Creature from the Black Lagoon, the lonely Gill Man attempts to adapt to life in the big city.
- Hell Gate: A couple touring a house for sale discovers that it has an... unusual feature.
- Safecracking: The protagonist of this strip [1], and a few more that follow got his money via this method.
- Not Big Enough for the Two of Us: Discussed in this strip [2].
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: A parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Middle-Aged Mutant Probate Lawyer looks at what life might be like for the turtles had they had aged in real time.
- Super-Speed: In an interview with a tv reporter, a hero with super speed attempts to hide the suffering he endures living in a world that moves incredibly slow.
- Spy Fiction: An agent of the stale beer variety shows up in this strip [3].
- Tomato Surprise: In a comic from October 2022, trick-or-treaters are revealed to be children living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that have never experienced Halloween.
- Turn Out Like His Father: The protagonist of this strip [4], Sal, doesn't want this to happen to his son.