#comic tropes

[sweetmeatdale]

OSHA compliant Marvel or DC au in which there’s like 95% fewer people with super powers on account of the workplace accidents that were avoided

[saw08]

Chris from Comic Tropes took a look at my work and other great indie titles!

[not-avril]

The trope I appreciate very much

[prokopetz]

Essential genres of webcomics, updated for 2024:

Gag-a-day strip with the art and writing of a forgettable newspaper comic, but which inexplicably has 25 years worth of intricate setting lore and requires a day-long archive binge to fully understand the context of a grade-school pun.

Self-proclaimed deconstruction of superhero comics or giant robot anime or magical girls or something that has the exact same plot beats as every other self-proclaimed deconstruction of superhero comics or giant robot anime or magical girls or something. If you support the artist's Patreon you can download alternate versions of selected pages where the protagonist has their tits out.

Webtoon that sprang into existence complete with a hundred thousand followers at some point in the last week; the art displays immense technical mastery of figure drawing, but absolutely no grasp of panel layout, and the writing's gender politics are weirdly reactionary for something whose official synopsis manages to use the word "queer" three times in the space of two paragraphs.

Long-form narrative which hasn't received regular updates in several years due to the author's incredibly demanding real-life obligations, but instead of cancelling the comic or going on hiatus, they continue to publish one page roughly every four months with the kind of grim determination normally associated with historical anecdotes about the Battle of Stalingrad.

Fantasy adventure comic which you strongly suspect, but cannot prove, is a direct adaptation of somebody's high school GURPS campaign. The story is so elaborately and discursively plotted that you need to keep the fandom wiki open in a separate tab simply to remember who the fuck any of these people are.

Chicken-scratch parody comic about, like, Rainbow Brite fighting the Care Bears or some shit that somehow has better writing than anything on Netflix.

Semi-autobiographical slice of life comic, except with robots.

[let-them-fight]

can we stop doing this trope

[violent138]

Tim, muting the comms: "I'm telling you, Batman's onto us."

Stephanie: "We need to distract him. Maybe someone should fake an emergency."

Duke, stopping Tim: "No! That never ends well--"

Bruce: "Hello? Can you guys hear me?"

Dick, impatient as he hacks: "Someone say anything already before he shows up."

Bruce: "What's--"

Dick: "Trained by Batman and you guys are the worst liars--"

Jason: "Shut it." *clears throat*

Jason, to Bruce over comms: "Don't worry about it, we'll be home soon, Dad."

Bruce: ....

Bruce: "Alright, see you in a bit."

Jason: *ends call*

Dick, Duke, Steph: ...

Tim: "Am I evil for saying I'm a little impressed?"

[chloesimaginationthings]

The next game in the FNAF security breach era..

[cozylittleartblog]

not that we didn't already Know belos was full of shit, but it's even funnier knowing the titan was still alive the whole time and probably judging him

[dingledraw]

A short comic about Crowley’s hair🐍

[akanemnon]

That was faster than expected.

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[lazylittledragon]

i said that gale and cyra have disaster romcom energy and now it's all i can think about

[greykolla-art]

Every day I wake up and think:

“At some point Izzy realised how out of control things had gotten, and started putting himself in between Ed and the crew, as much as he could. Especially when Ed was too drunk/high to even know what he was doing. Cause Izzy doesn’t want the others to suffer more for his mistakes.”

“They are all bonded through shared trauma now.”

And every day I cry like a baby.

[tooquirkytolose]

Boy Hero

[prokopetz]

I do enjoy how Batman media so frequently contrives to have Batman unleash bats upon his enemies. Like, if one weren't terribly familiar with the character, one might think: "well, he's Batman, he summons bats, it makes sense" – but no: this is explicitly not a power that he has. It's not even a feature of any gadget that's a part of his regular arsenal. How it happens is different every time. The narrative simply arranges for Batman to confront his foes in places where bats are likely to be present, and he will inevitably at some point receive the opportunity to rile the bats up in such a way as to cause them to swarm his opponent. It's like if Spider-Man's villains kept unwittingly situating their lairs in prime spider habitats and getting randomly attacked by spiders.

[daxmiii]

spreading trans luffy propaganda