Cycle of Luv is a Webcomic by Lucas 'The Doctor' (The writer of Object Oblivion) for ComicFury. It first uploaded around December 2018 with traditional art, but didn't last long before finally being uploaded as a digital format in July 2019
Warning, the comic can sometimes be Not Safe for Work. Refrain from posting any links from the comic unless they are directed to its main page!
Cycle of Luv has the following tropes:
- Added Alliterative Appeal:
- Shawn's restaurant, "Roadkill Reckless"
- Ripoff Raya the Ripoff Doll
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: At some point, Jessie has been arrested for containing drugs in her room, vandalizing very expensive stuff, and looking up Skrillex online... thanks to her roommate...
- In a later strip, Shawn mentions some of the casualties the restaurant has suffered from includes: Fire losing his paw, Cupid killing off a family of clams, and Nooby Bird showing up naked.
- Cupid Chicago: ''"Great, I'm picturing that shit again, thanks a lot!"''
- In a later strip, Shawn mentions some of the casualties the restaurant has suffered from includes: Fire losing his paw, Cupid killing off a family of clams, and Nooby Bird showing up naked.
- Awkwardly-Placed Bathtub: During one of the strips, Shawn is seen taking a bath… in Maxx’s kitchen, with the latter lampshading the trope.
- Bait-and-Switch: It looked like for one strip that the boys lost a volleyball match to the girls… only to reveal that they won.
- The way Cupid puts how he got a DJ gig at Jessie’s school was how he gave the counselor in charge of the dance some of his Boston creme… turns out he baked a Boston creme cake
- Battle Rapping: A Birthday strip, TJ and Lucas engage on one. While we see TJ rap “In Da Club”, we don’t see Lucas’s rap. All we know is, he managed to somehow blow the former to Shanghai.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: According to Friday in one strip, Shawn's restaurant has Alcohol, Wine, Chips, and Alcohol-Wine flavored chips
- Date Rape: Fortunately, averted! When one of Jessie's dates (Chen) decides to sexually abuse her... however, after touching one of her breasts, she manages to 'black belts' him out of the restaurant and give him a polite gesture
- Department of Redundancy Department: Ripoff Raya the Ripoff Doll
- Driven to Suicide: One of the 'Comic Version of Game of Life's' cards has the player hanging themselves after their kid mentioned they forgot the milk.
- Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Happens to Jessie after getting jump scared by a scary game she was playing.
- Epic Fail: Jessie's attempt at making a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich results in it catching on fire.
- Expy: 'Gintle' is this to Tinder
- Extreme Omnisexual: Shawn’s Dad chose to have sex with a stop sign after catching his wife doing the same thing with his brother. That results in not only their divorce, but the former also being taken to the madhouse.
- Flashback Cut: Used by Jessie to explain one of her dates to the School Dance. However, Cupid accidentally goes TOO far back
- Furry Reminder: An April Fools 2020 strip had a character end up sitting on packets of ketchup, which eventually landed in the toilet water. But he remarks that despite being a dog, he knows better than to lick the ketchup off it. After a while, however, he starts licking the toilet water.
- Gory Discretion Shot: The panel of Friday kissing a fan because she sees it as a random sexy man in it gets cut to a wall where her blood splatters it.
- Insane Troll Logic: Somehow, a female dolphin was able to end up pregnant just by making love to a tree.
- Jerkass: One of the grandchildren of Mr. Evans decides to do a paid-livestream... during the former's funeral
- Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: The world in this webcomic is made up of humans varies of wild animals... including bugs and certain objects
- Magic Misfire: Nooby Bird decides to help everyone change out of their swim gear and it worked out fine... Except for Maxx…
Nooby Bird: "Uh... let me try again?"
Fire Fuego: "How about no!"
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: After their first date, Schafer & Fire make love and cuddle in bed... or rather the bed in a furniture store
- Marijuana Is Lsd: After trying out expired-cigerettes, both Diego and Friday trip into craziness... leading both to not only go through a trip, but the latter 'clanks' their car
- Mistaken for Racist: One of Jessie's dates (Bufford Acorns) decides to toss her out of his house after hearing that her favorite basketball player is a gray squirrel
- Mister Big: Mr. Large is actually a wasp
- Noodle Incident: A character once mentions how they know someone who crashed into a tree and lost an eye
- Apparently a couple of strips later, Hanna once married a piece of corn named Corny in her Freshman year, where they later divorced.
Jessie: Remember Corny?- During the time at Shawn's restaurant, Shawn lists off Nooby Bird being naked as one of the restaurant's casualties.
- Nude-Colored Clothes: Friday wears a suit that matches her fur, giving the illusion that she's naked... Diego knows she isn't, but Maxx doesn't.
- N-Word Privileges: Avians will find it offensive if someone that isn't in that group starts saying 'woodpecka' or 'woodpecker' out of the mist as described by Fire.
- Rule of Three: One of the strips had three different skits
- Shout-Out:
- A shot of Zombieland appears on Diego's TV
- One of Maxx's toys is named 'Benny' from North Land
- Some references to Open Source Objects are shown via cameo and/or reference
- Diego's Neat Curves album art is similar to another musician's album cover
- From the same strip, one of the songs that appear on the album is "Solitude" by Zombie Korma
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Selena J & Shawn Skunky to each other
- Suspect Is Hatless: After being asked what the said diner dasher looked like, she says it’s red, has a strand of hair, and had a word written on its side. They tell her that she probably was looking at a past diner’s meal… then it cuts to TNT sitting by a brick wall.
- Take That!:
- Teeny Weenie: Friday seems to know Fire from the furniture store as 'The Dalmatian with a ding the size of a penny'.
- Time-Passage Beard: Justified with Shawn, where he gets one after being gone since Arc 1. However, it only appears for a few strips before he shaves it.
- World of Funny Animals: Downplayed
- World War Whatever: Apparently… World War III existed in the comic's timeline, which had President Kanye had initiated The Great Destruction of 2025 which almost led to the apocalypse of humansDiego: Oh right, World War 3...