YMMV / Concession

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: In one Story Arc, Artie is taken to a NAMBLA meeting after being Mistaken for Pedophile. The author had to assure people that it was a real organization and not something he made up for the comic.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Joel Calley is this in spades. He's either a Scrappy, or a case of Draco in Leather Pants. In some cases, it boils down to whether one finds him awesome and/or attractive.
  • Matt along the course of the webcomic. In the wake of Matt's apparently willing and aware embrace of Joel's supervillainy, the fanbase reaction charted a course for Draco in Leather Pants.
  • And Artie as the comic came closer to its finale what with him becoming more of a Magnificent Bastard than Joel could ever hope to be. Once someone who had a vibe of being a good natured slacker, attaining Melusine as his Spiritual Symbiote has brought him to the same path as our former 'Hero' and only just managed to avoid being worse.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Joel and Matt, and arguably also Artie. When Immelmann is commissioned to draw porn of any of their characters, it’s usually the former two and/or Nicole.
  • Fan responses of Joel have been of a similar note, often glossing over Joel's horrific actions because he's sexy and/or because they refer to Miranda being completely at fault despite Joel's sadism and willingness to help her cause suffering.
• Funny Moment: Joel's response to hearing that the health inspector is coming is to spot a random passerby who happens to be wearing a trenchcoat and wide-brimmed hat and shoot him. His boss stares briefly, then says "The health inspector is a woman." Cue Joel shooting the first passing female.
• Memetic Badass: The Baron became this in the space of a single comic.
  • Immelmann changing their sig on the forum didn't help.
  Immy hypnotized in bondage: "Vote for The Baron" f5 "Gentlemen prefer the Baron" f5 "I want the Baron's babies." etc.

  • The signature cycles through exactly 27 different phrases. Out of these, only one◊ isn't Baron-related.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Joel Calley definitely crosses the Moral Event Horizon during the various acts of his complicated revenge plot. Among the worst are causing a child's parents to die in a car crash and giving his friend Artie cancer in order to kill him.
  • Artie himself had a moment, making the oil tanker crash into the Dolphin city as revenge for Melusine's "honor killing" murder. However, it's ambiguous if he actually fully intended to do it. Or if he made the decision himself, as Melusine's ghost is later revealed.
• Narm:
  • Last panel of this page where Angie chews out Rick.
  • Matt's big damn speech he gives to Artie would be much easier to take seriously if he wasn't drawn wearing bright blue bike-shorts and a skin-tight t-shirt.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Joel's psychic battles with Father Tim and Artie. And more recently, Millicent, which was even creepier.
  • Chelsie is pretty damn scary. As is Kate's reasoning behind keeping her little harem; the knowledge that some people think this is a reasonable argument is terrifying. Mercifully the author's demonstrated he doesn't think so.
  • Follow the url in the alt text for this comic. Go here if you need help. If the letters don't creep you out, Miranda's infected version of the site, complete with drawings never on the regular site to begin with will give you absolute chills.
• Squick:
  • Chelsie's adventures embody this trope. Joel's tentacular psychic form is pretty disturbing as well.
  • Nicole and Roland end up breaking up, and Nicole hooking up with his own father. They live happily ever after. Um... yay..?
  • And Matt indulges in infantilism and likes to wear diapers. In general, the webcomic is full of these sorts of moments. And they often result if you're not fond of a fetish that Immelmann favors.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Zoe is actually a male crossdresser.

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