The Depths
is an adults-only furry web comic illustrated by artists A Blue Deer, Kino Jaggernov and Ralph Del Mundo, and written by P.M. Amaras and Paul Driggere, under the collective pseudonym Leilani Perriere.
The concept began in 2009, when Leilani Perriere began writing erotic stories for her sea otter character of the same name. With the help of artist A Blue Deer, whom she had been a fan of for many years, they decided to work together to create a web comic based on these stories. In the spring of 2017, The Depths was launched, and the two worked together via their Patreon, under the name of Dark Blue Comics - not just with The Depths, but also A Blue Deer's other comics, Moonlace and Bethellium. At the end of 2017, a second artist, Kino Jaggernov, was added to the team to assist with coloring, inking, and special effects.
Based in the 1920s through the 1940s of an alternate Earth, the web comic follows a sea otter named Leilani Perriere, and her adventures above and below the South Pacific as she courts romance, danger, and epic adventure.
The Depths has enjoyed successful readership, and has consistently ranked near the Top 100 most read web comics on the Belfry WebComics List. It has received rave reviews for its writing and illustrations, and recently earned further distinction from Top WebComics, ranking among the Top 30 web comics in the world.
The Depths contains examples of:
- Badass Native: Leilani and all the Polynesian characters are the Southern seas version of this trope, as they are very able on kicking ass on even more bigger foes than them.
- Informed Species: Leilani and the rest of the otter characters are supposed to be sea otters, but they look more like to either North American river otters or Eurasian otters, which are normally depicted as slimmer and larger, rather than their sea cousins, which are normally fatter and shorter, unless the author intented intented to be Marine otters, which the characters also closely resemble. It is very likely that the author chose that species of otters because the color of their fur, in addition to their body, resembles the likeness of a person of Polynesian origin, which is where the story takes place.
- R-Rated Opening: The story begins with Leilani having hardcore sex at the bottom of the sea with Thierry.
