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openA recent webcomic Webcomic
A few weeks ago I started reading a new webcomic. It's fairly new, and only had about four pages or so, but was made by somebody who's made webcomics before. It's in full color. Think it's updated once a week. I don't remember much, but it's about a woman who's a goddess in diguise or something and is a huge celebrity. I think the plot so far is that she runs into some old acquaintances of hers in public.
(But PLEASE mention anything that sounds remotely close to it!)
open"Swim Club" webcomic created by a troper Webcomic
First of all, I apologize if this isn't the place to ask this, but I'm out of ideas and I've been trying to find this comic for a while.
Around five years ago, in the TV Tropes forum, a troper named Muttx SC mentioned on the forum they created a webcomic called Swim Club - a story set in the eighties about teens in a high school swim club who find some sort of portal to a horror dimension in their school pool.
I think the person abandoned the project after around 100 pages. I can't find any information about them or the comic, no real names, archived pages, online footprint or nothing. The troper is no longer active (and might've just joined the site to promote the comic, which is kind of a dick move, but that's a different issue), so it seems like the comic's disappeared from the face of the Earth.
Does anyone have any idea of where I could find it?
And again, sorry if I'm using this feature wrong, I'll drop it if that's the case.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Pokémon fan comic on Smackjeeves Webcomic
This might be difficult considering the state of comic's origin, but I'm confident someone here has read this.
This was a Pokémon webcomic on the now-defunct Smack Jeeves, and I remember it for being noteworthy for the fact it showed Pokemon death and it WASN'T based on someone's Nuzlocke run.
So, it starts out with this brown-haired girl who ends up reluctantly getting a wild Zangoose. They also keep running into this guy and his Golduck who both have disfigurements thanks to some explosion or something.
A pivotal point is when the girl and the Zangoose come across the fresh corpse of a Sneasel that's chained to a tree.
They both freak out, but eventually a storm comes and both of them and the corpse are taken in by a helicopter.
That's where I remember it leaving off and not continuing at all since I believe the author/artist only did it as a hobby (even having to state so in a description at one point). I think it got cancelled.
openComic about having large breasts Webcomic
It was a comic about the advantages and disadvantages of having large breasts. I remember one chapter had the main character putting her phone in between her breasts and setting the alarm to vibrate so it would wake her up.
openAn early animatic by Emilyamiao Webcomic
An animatic (set to Baby, It's Cold Outside) by Emilyamiao for the webcomic Catechism, that has since disappeared. If anyone has a link it could be accessed again.
(The comic has no relation to the actual catechism.)
Edited by JS8openWebcomic website with lizard, fish, and fast food worker (Solved!) Webcomic
There was this old-style webcomic website with a few comics by the same person. One of them was about these fish in a fishtank who started doing politics. This very bad fish started to pull ahead in the polls by doing propaganda.
There was also one starring a lizard of some sort. She was pretty intelligent and went on adventures. I think she was a kid's pet but broke out of her cage.
There was another about a man who worked in a fast food shop that sold tacos. I remember there was a subplot where he had a girlfriend, but then he realized that she thought they were pretending to date while he thought they were really dating.
Edited by BeaCandyresolved Artists collaboration and competition to create story Webcomic
I once saw a website where a lot (> 20) artists did collaborate to create a story of a giant world where every artist created their own character.
Every week 2 artists had to draw the encounter of their 2 created characters and had to draw how this encounter concluded. Then the work of one of the two artists were selected to be canon.
On the website there was a giant map as a overview and you were able to view all the created versions of the webcomics.
resolved Government Super Gender-Bender webcomic Webcomic
The protagonist — I think he works for the government or something — meets someone at a restaurant. The person swaps his drink for something else (or slips it in). It turns out it was Applied Phlebotinum, and the next morning the protagonist has not only transformed into a woman, she also effortlessly cartwheels out of bed without meaning to. She now has superhuman strength and reflexes. Maybe higher intelligence too, I don't remember. Anyway, it turns out she's been involuntarily recruited to some secret government program, and it involved giving her this enhancement, which for some reason invariably turns you into a woman. I forget what the government program was all about.
She gets taken to a space station, which is the program's base of operations, and one of the last things I remember is her learning to play a zero gravity sport they invented. (But it isn't The Fuse. I think the sport had a similar sort of nickname as ziggyball, though.)
The protagonist wasn't the only recruit, there were others. I think they had some name, but I don't remember what it was. When I looked at Differently Powered Individual, the term "Angels" stuck out to me, but that might be a false positive. (And it definitely isn't Angels 2200, despite other similarities like space and Improbably Female Cast.)
Edited by NoriMoriopen"Don't you watch Dragonball Z? Firing into a cloud of smoke does nothing!" Webcomic
I recall a particular occasion of the Smoke Shield trope which ended with the attackee calling out to the attacker "Don't you watch Dragonball Z? Firing into a cloud of smoke never works!" (Or something to that effect.)
I can't recall where I had seen that though. I want to say it was in Bob and George as it was their style of humor, but I can't find where that had happened. I might be remembering wrong and it wasn't even from a webcomic, but that's my first guess.
Does this ring any bells? Anyone know where this was from?
openMid 2010s, homestuck lineless artstyle, kids mistakenly send themselves to hell Webcomic
Around 2013-2015, I remember reading the start of a webcomic. I only really remember 2 plot points from it. It was about this group of kids who tried summoning a demon, but the reverse happened and they mistakenly sent the entire group to hell, scattered across the plane. However hell was not stereotypical fire and brimstone, and instead was very alien looking with forest and areas of housing.
I remember only one of the characters designs: A "Dave Strider" lookalike, an albino male teenager, with white hair and white skin, wearing glasses and acting very aloof.
Two plot points I remember were of two of the 5 or so kids meeting their respective demon.
One of the girl characters, a very sweet but weird kid, manages to come out of the woods and breaks into a demon's home to look for a phone or food. The house was empty, so she was able to get out of the open. However the demon who lived there shortly returned home and panicked/was scared of the girl when she was discovered.
The dave lookalike got arrested for looking so weird, and while arrested, he met a demon lawyer that immediately realized that he wasn't a demon, and was trying to figure out a loophole to get him out and possibly back home.
The artstyle was either lineless, made in paint with hard edges, or was lined with colored lineart. (It's been several years, but it is what it is.) The art style reminded me a lot of Andrew Hussie's lineless art style, for example: The dramatic close up of Jadesprite and Davesprite's faces in [S] Cascade.
If anyone recognizes this comic, I'll really appreciate it! Thank you for your time <:7!
openI’m trying to remember a webcomic… Webcomic
I remember this absurdist gag a day comic. One strip parodied Dr who by having him stop a leavking dam with his giant forehead.
openBL manhua where one of the protagonists has a musical note on his haircut Webcomic
It's a BL manhua (probably) where one of the guys has a musical note shaved on his hair. He has a mute little sister who likes skate boarding and he himself likes photography. His family life is also kinda dysfunctional. The other guy discovered that he was adopted or something like that, and he dislikes his biological father I think, and the reason he moved to a new city has something to do with it. They are still in high school and they have gotten involved in fights and stuff.
resolved Post-apocalyptic Webtoon Webcomic
I remember reading this webcomic on Webtoon Canvas (or whatever it was called before). It's a post-apocalyptic story with a blind girl as the main protagonist. The apocalypse started because of a nuclear blast, but she survived because she was hiding behind her boyfriend, and went blind because she looked at the explosion. Does anyone know the title of this webcomic?
open(FOUND) College student doccumenting weird architectural things with professor Webcomic
The comic was about this college student meeting/working under a professor whose private area of research was documenting irregular features in buildings. She had a specific name for them, but it was basically these tiny barely noticeable details like an an out of place brick or an extra section of roof in a location that didn't make sense.
The main character initially thinks she's crazy, but over time gets increasingly sucked into the mystery despite her warning him to only record data and not dig deeper. He ignores this and one day suddenly comes to some kind of realization about the irregularities. But when he runs to tell her, he finds that her office is gone and he can no longer remember anything about the research. One of his friends comes to get him, and he returns to life as a normal college student.
That's probably plenty to identify it. But if it helps, it was a fairly medium-short comic, readable in one sitting and I think a fairly muted (monochrome?) color palette.
Edited by rachiebirdopenTumblr ask blog focusing on classic cartoon characters arriving in the real world Webcomic
It was an ask blog/webcomic on Tumblr that focused on a human girl accidentally summoning cartoon characters to the real world - I believe she summoned 3 (Mickey Mouse, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Felix the Cat), but there's a possibility that there were more. The girl had to hide the characters from her family and friends, but over the course of the comic she found other people hiding their own cartoon characters, such as a fellow classmate who had befriended Marvin the Martian. The art looked like it had been done in MS Paint/a similar art program, and I think the artist of the webcomic was pretty young but I don't know for sure. I read it back in 2017/2018 but can't for the life of me remember the name of the blog.
Edited by MissGemKnightopenDid a webcomic called "Clear Skies" (IIRC) exist, then disappear into thin air? Webcomic
It was Low Fantasy, and all of the characters had wings or at least patagia. The plot involved multiple rival tribes; The Prophecy would be fulfilled, and a lot of major problems would be solved if two of the tribe leaders' kids were allowed to marry when they came of age (a plan with which said kids were more than fine with, but a bunch of old traditionalists opposed). I think the female lead was named Lisslie.
The art was highly detailed and proficient. I think that it was on either Tumblr or dA; one way or another, it seems to have just sort of vanished into the aether.
Edited by FarseerLoloteaopenMario Crossover Sprite Comic Webcomic
This is the biggest long shot but TV Tropes is the last place I saw this comic mentioned so I'm asking here.
I'm looking for a Mario sprite comic that I unfortunately remember almost nothing about. I'm 70% sure its title was "Mushroom Kingdom [SOMETHING]". That last word might have been "collapse" but absolutely don't quote me on that.
What I do remember is that it was one of those massive crossover stories that involved various other Nintendo universes. The part I remember is that there was a section of the story that crossed over with the Kirby universe, and particularly a part about Drawcia. This comic is (perhaps apocryphally) quoted as the origin of the popular fanon that Drawcia "contracted" with Zero and became part Dark Matter.
I have nothing on the timeframe, but because it involves Drawcia, I would put it between 2005 and 2010, since Canvas Curse released in 2005 and I remember this comic dropping off the face of the internet many years ago.
I've done a bunch of frantic googling but I'm turning up nothing. Thank you so much for the help!
openSlice of Life Witch Mom Webcomic Webcomic
A cute slice of life webcomic about an average middle aged mom, her husband, and like 2 or 3 kids, and the mom just happens to be a witch in a world where magic is known and fairly normal, but not super common. I remember in particular a sequence where the mom is trying to set up a magical grocery delivery, but given that magic is treated as a technology that has upsides and downsides like any other, she eventually concludes she'd rather go get them herself mundanely. At least part of it was definitely published between 2005-2010, but likely more on one or both sides of that time.
resolved Portal fantasy, with animal-people? Webcomic
I read this webcomic somewhere in the early/mid 2010's. It's a fantasy comic that's set in a world where everyone is some kind of animal shapeshifter, or everyone has the characteristics of some kind of animal. I don't recall the specifics, but it's some kind of natural animal-human combo.
Our main character is a child who was adopted by a family of sheep-people. They aren't a sheep person, and aren't quite sure what animal they are. They might be some kind of deer? Don't recall the gender of this character.
They end up going through a portal to another part of the world, or perhaps another time. It's definitely the same world, but super far away. On the other side of the portal, it's very snowy, and our protagonist ends up in the care of a village of moose-people.
As this is going on, the main character's mother is looking for them.
I haven't had much luck finding anything, does this description ring any bells?
I am trying to remember the name of a web-based interactive, episodic cartoon. The protagonist was a kid who is part bug (antenna growing out of head) and whose pet roly poly ran (or rolled) away. Each episode represented a different stage in his search. Completing the episode required you click on different things like a point-and-click adventure game. Throughout his search he was followed by a one-armed man in a Napoleon costume and a psionic frog carrying the man’s severed arm in a glass box. The tone of the cartoon was mysterious and surreal. I never saw the end and was always curious what happened. Does anyone remember watching this in the late 90s?