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Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)

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A shared page for various linked webcomics (some of them also print comics) written by John Allison; many are set in or associated with the fictional Yorkshire town of Tackleford, while later stories move to other locations.These include at least three major runs of comics, and a number of one-offs. These differ mainly in tone and chronology, and characters from one series will often pop up in others, sometimes as major or at least recurring figures. The terminology for describing the various strips can get confusing because of all the shifts, name changes, and changes-of-mind on the author's part regarding the direction they are going. Bobbins is both the original strip and various later revivals, some of them retconned into the early strips and some taking place much later. Scary Go Round is both the successor strip to Bobbins and the title of the current website where various other comics in the Bobbinsverse are published. Bad Machinery is the successor strip to that and is no longer publishing new stories, but its characters continue to appear in other strips, and books collecting the earlier stories are still coming out, with some new material.The main Scary Go Round site has been down since 2020. Scary Go Round, Bobbins NOW and several side projects are available as PDF books from Allison's Gumroad page. However, Allison had a tendency up to then to put online archives up, pull them down, shift around their urls, and otherwise manipulate them, so they may still be online somewhere even when old links to them have linkrotted. (The appearance of bobbins.horse in 2016 is one of the later developments.) The book versions often have additional pages that never appeared online, however.Allison has created a new readers page that explains something of the tangled history of both his comics and the overall plot, and there is a wiki devoted to this fictional universe at Wikia.Main comics include: Bobbins, the original series, back online after a hiatus note However, only the low-resolution pages are available due to a hard drive crash. Bobbins NOW, following the grown-up exploits of these characters synchronously with Bad Machinery Bobbins.Horse A reboot/interquel set during the original strip, but adding later characters and additions to continuity. Scary Go Round Bad Machinery (view archive here) Giant Days, a spin-off of SGR about the university life of Esther de Groot, published by Boom! Studios under their Boom! Box imprint. Three issues of the original series are available in print; these were followed by an ongoing (initially mini) series, written by John Allison and illustrated by Lissa Treiman, with Max Sarin taking over after issue 6, published in print and online, and now complete. Steeple, which first appeared as a five-issue comics series from Dark Horse Comics in 2019 and was continued as a webcomic in 2020. It has a completely different cast and location (Tredregyn, Cornwall), but was eventually confirmed to be part of the Bobbinsverse, including a one-issue crossover prominently featuring Shelley and Lottie, and another short crossover briefly bringing Shelley back to Tredregyn. It was terminated in early 2024 with a whole bunch of pointers to previously planned plot lines (that other people might call loose ends or unresolved cliffhangers), including one of its characters moved elsewhere in the Bobbinsverse. Solver is a slightly intermittent series of comics, appearing a page at a time on the Bad Machinery website, about the further adventures of Charlotte as she solves mysteries and problems while trying to decide what to do with her life after school. The Great British Bump Off, a comic book series published by Dark Horse with Shauna Wickle entering a The Great British Bake Off-esque competition.Shorter stories and one-offs include: Murder She Writes, in which Shelley Winters takes Charlotte Grote on as a personal assistant when she attends a writers' retreat, and they find themselves caught up in a murder mystery. (John Allison had announced that a new Murder She Writes story would appear online in late 2014, in between Expecting To Fly and a new Bad Machinery story, but these plans changed and no such story was released.) THAT, in which Shelley goes to America and weirdness follows. (Weirdness involving giant insects, because the title is a reference to Them!) Expecting to Fly, a prequel to Bobbins featuring Shelley, Ryan, and Tim as teenagers in 1996. Mordawwa, Queen of Hell, a story following the titular Queen of Hell and her horse Scientist Aka Erin Winters and the reincarnated ghost of Eustace Boyce as she deals with the death of her beloved friend and lieutenant The Sheriff. Destroy History: An interquel focusing on Shelley's exploits at the Ministry of History, which has generated at least two stories. Allison says he likes the concept, so it may keep coming back. (view archive here) Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers, a re-telling of a storyline from Bobbins (with lots of details changed) in which Tim builds a Robot Girl and ends up fighting a big red robot over her. Released as a paper book in 2005 (now out-of-print) and an e-book in 2011. A number of one-shot mini-comics showing up everywhere from John Allison's various websites, blogs, and social media feeds to paper sheets tossed in with orders for his books; these may or may not be "canon", but sometimes reveal relevant details such as how Erin returned from Hell. Newer stories in the Scary Go Round website, such as Space Is The Place, feature characters from the earlier main strips, but are not labeled as being part of any of them. Wicked Things, a direct sequel to Bad Machinery but published as a comic, again by Boom! Box, depicting what happened to Charlotte immediately after she left school. Circus Windows is a two-part follow-up to Wicked Things which reunites Charlotte with Mildred; they solve a new case, and more importantly sort out where their friendship stands after they drifted apart for a couple of years.Then there's Allison's version of Conan the Barbarian. Which may be more relevant here than one might expect, on account of all the strangely familiar supporting character designs.John Allison has said that the chronological order of the various strips and books is: Bobbins, Scary Go Round, Giant Days, Bad Machinery Case 1, 2, 3, 4, Murder She Writes, Bad Machinery Case 5, THAT, Bad Machinery Case 6, 7, New Bobbins. He then announced in November 2014 that Bad Machinery would end with the just-completed Case 7, and that he would be reverting to the "Scary Go Round" title for a while, so the new Scary Go Round strips would logically belong on the end of that sequence. However, some strips continued to appear under the "Bobbins" title in that period. In 2017, he announced that the whole Bobbinsverse would be shutting down with the upcoming end of the current run of Scary Go Round (apart from Giant Days, which is only fairly loosely connected to the other titles anyway).The Bobbinsverse has a Character Page, currently under construction. Feel free to contribute.Tropes used in Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery and Giant Days should go on their respective pages. Tropes for other works are listed below.
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Creator Breakdown: invoked Shelley writes books for children and may at one point let her affair with Tim affect her work:
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Best Friends-in-Law
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Best Friends-in-Law: Ryan and Tim, via Ryan's sister Riley.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Holly came back from her ordeal in the Himalayas with a much meaner and more cynical personality. And some mental issues.
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Title Drop: See Shout-Out above.
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Twist Ending: It turns out that Everybody Lives, although rather the worse for wear in some cases and Saul is a Mad Scientist who was responsible for the attack in the first place. Also a case of The Bad Guy Wins, as Saul is elected the new mayor.
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Sibling Rivalry: Tim and Van Dyke Jones.
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The Ghost
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The Ghost: Shelley's boyfriend Bruno for the first few arcs. He finally appears in the flesh in "The Trouble With Bruno".
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Shelley and Amy, Shelley and Holly, and Tim and Ryan.
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Sequel Series
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Sequel Series: Follows up on what happens to Erin and Eustace after Bobbins NOW!
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The first conversation Tim and Ryan have in this story is about some Kurosawa movies Tim has been taping for Ryan. At the end of the story, Ryan decides to act after the samurai ethics conveyed in this movies, and takes all the blame in order to protect Tim from any negative consequences the accident with his contraption might have caused for him.
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Crappy Holidays
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Crappy Holidays: Amy is ''not'' looking forward to Christmas with her dad.
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Dirty Old Man
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Dirty Old Man: Len Pickering is a middle-aged lech. He makes frequent innuendos, endlessly flirts with attractive young women, and often ends up shirtless (or, occasionally, naked). Also Bill Tweedy.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus/Foreshadowing/Meaningful Name: "Mariposa" is Spanish for "Butterfly".
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The Dreaded
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The Dreaded: Bruno outright scares Ryan, Tim and Rich.
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Analogy Backfire
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Analogy Backfire: Two on this page.
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Watsonian versus Doylist
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Some of John Allison's end-of-the-year music reviews have been penned in-universe by Shelley. It turns out that she was already compiling personal music hit lists when she was still in school.
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Hell Has New Management
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Hell Has New Management: How did Erin get out? She took the place over and ruled for three years before getting bored with power.
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Attack Backfire
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Attack Backfire: Erin tricks the demon Xaffej into "scorning" her, which he does, forgetting that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" — said fury manifesting as fire breath.
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Out of Focus
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Out of Focus: Ryan in the first three arcs. He gets a bit more screen time in "The Trouble With Bruno".
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Attack of the Town Festival
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Attack of the Town Festival: The basic plot.
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It Is Not Your Time
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It Is Not Your Time: Lampshaded and denied by the (well, a) Grim Reaper. As he says, "Cliché party."
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Terror at Make-Out Point
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Terror at Make-Out Point: Kind of inevitable, really.
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Death Is Cheap
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Death is Cheap: Lampshaded by the (well, a) Grim Reaper, in a speech to Erin with regard to her and the notoriously return-prone Shelley:
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Ignorant About Fire
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Ignorant About Fire: Unit Daisy.
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Right Through the Wall
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Right Through the Wall:
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Tim and Amy.
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Macabre Moth Motif
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Macabre Moth Motif: Some early hints (and the cover art) suggest that this trope might be in play, though once the giant vampire moths show up — fairly soon — it turns out that they are an actual Moth Menace.
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Deus ex Machina
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Deus ex Machina: Used in a tongue-in-cheek way (more than once!) when a plotline full of dangling loose ends was abruptly terminated by '80s action star Mr. T. making a sudden inexplicable appearance and simply declaring everything to be resolved. This might also qualify as a Celebrity Star or Special Guest.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies:
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Science saves Mordawwa from death, The Sheriff turns out to be alive, but now Mordawwa and co are thrust into a civil war in Hell.
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Spooky Séance
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Spooky Séance: When they get a chance, Clotilde and Ludmilla insist that Maggie should run a séance, saying that she was known for these things when they were at school together. Strangely, although the supernatural is definitely real in the setting, and Clotilde and Ludmilla are genuine, active witches, Maggie is very clear that her séances are actually fake; she has studied the sort of stage magic tricks that Victorian fake mediums used. Apparently, everyone treats these events as pure theatre. However, shortly after the séance begins, Maggie is possessed by a (rather disturbing) supernatural effect.
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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: How Tim deals with Rich after Rich drunkenly tells Len about Amy ghostwriting Shelley's sex column.
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Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title
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Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title refers to Murder, She Wrote, of course.
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 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_44e350a4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_44e350a4
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4583a262
type
Shirtless Scene
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4583a262
comment
Shirtless Scene: Rich takes his shirt off during "The Trouble With Bruno".
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4583a262
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4583a262
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4583a262
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4655ec83
type
Important Haircut
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4655ec83
comment
Important Haircut: Starting out with rather long hair, at the end of the story (and the beginning of his life after leaving school) Ryan gets a hair cut and now looks much more like he does as an adult in Scary Go Round.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4655ec83
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4655ec83
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4655ec83
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4782e35b
type
Meet the In-Laws
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4782e35b
comment
Meet the In-Laws: Tim visits Iceland and meets Illeanna's parents.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4782e35b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4782e35b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4782e35b
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_47d56aac
type
Fish People
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_47d56aac
comment
Fish People: The most common category of monster which Penrose has to deal with are scaly "mermen" which emerge from the sea by night. They may not be quite as evil as he assumes, but some of them do cause trouble.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_47d56aac
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_47d56aac
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_47d56aac
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4b0ef86e
type
Advertised Extra
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4b0ef86e
comment
Advertised Extra: Ryan and Erin both appear on the cast page despite being recurring characters at best while Holly has yet to be added.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4b0ef86e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4b0ef86e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4b0ef86e
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4d8ff0c
type
Snowed-In
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4d8ff0c
comment
Snowed-In: A plot-driving issue.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4d8ff0c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4d8ff0c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4d8ff0c
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
type
Early-Installment Weirdness
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
comment
Early-Installment Weirdness: Internally, as well as compared to the later works of John Allison. The constant Art Evolution plays a big part in this, of course. Other examples are the instances of blatant Fourth Wall Breaking, or the characterization of Shelley, whose legendary quirkiness only emerged as time went by. The first few strips were Gag-per-Day Webcomics. The first story arc started October 22, 1998, and most of Bobbins has been stories or arcs since then, with an occasional self-contained comic thrown in for fun.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_4f4372e9
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53c5f30e
type
Happy Ending Override
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53c5f30e
comment
Happy Ending Override: Allison is prone to tinkering with his stories and going back to stuff that seemed finished, so both happy and unhappy (and for that matter bittersweet) endings are liable to be revised later. For example, Shelley breaks up with Tim in the time between "Into The Woods" and "The Big Hiatus", citing that she doesn't want to be with a man who's blown up his life on multiple occasions, literally in one case. That said, he's still helping out with her pregnancy and will likely be around to take care of the child. Though even that ending seems to undergo some degree of revision later.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53c5f30e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53c5f30e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53c5f30e
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53f5119f
type
The Dragon
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53f5119f
comment
The Dragon: The Sheriff to Mordawaa
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53f5119f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53f5119f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_53f5119f
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_55af5099
type
Rube Goldberg Device
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_55af5099
comment
Rube Goldberg Device: Tim builds one in order to teach Ryan physics. An unplanned side-effect though is that it pokes out one of Mr. Knott's eyes.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_55af5099
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_55af5099
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_55af5099
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_590f44cd
type
Improvised Clothes
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_590f44cd
comment
Improvised Clothes: Rachel, Tessa, and Ryan do some drunk streaking and then sleep it off near Tim's house. They come to their senses the next morning, ponder how to get back to their clothes unseen, and spot somebody assembling barrels and then leaving them unattended.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_590f44cd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_590f44cd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_590f44cd
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5c5d0032
type
Eyepatch of Power
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5c5d0032
comment
Eyepatch of Power: We learn why Mr. Knott is wearing one in Bad Machinery.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5c5d0032
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5c5d0032
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5c5d0032
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03
type
Brown Note
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03
comment
Brown Note: Invoked; Brian is searching for it, but Billie thinks he's looking in vain.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_618dc1ea
type
Parent with New Paramour
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_618dc1ea
comment
Parent with New Paramour: Mariposa is violently opposed to this idea.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_618dc1ea
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_618dc1ea
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_618dc1ea
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6596a89
type
A Family Affair
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6596a89
comment
A Family Affair: Illeanna breaks up with Rich when he accidentally sleeps with her sister.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6596a89
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6596a89
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6596a89
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_670db7d7
type
Formula-Breaking Episode
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_670db7d7
comment
Formula-Breaking Episode: While still a comedy, the story is a fantastical comedy set in hell versus John Allison's normal preference for Mundane Fantastic mixed with Slice of Life.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_670db7d7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_670db7d7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_670db7d7
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6a3bedce
type
Modesty Bedsheet
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6a3bedce
comment
Modesty Bedsheet: Played straight as a Scenery Censor; however, it evidently fails in-universe as Lottie later mentions her "accidental willy sighting"
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6a3bedce
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6a3bedce
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6a3bedce
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6b11ff57
type
Soapbox Sadie
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6b11ff57
comment
Soapbox Sadie: Maggie's surprising Mysterious Past before she decided she was getting nowhere fixing the world and may as well enjoy herself in the Church of Satan.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6b11ff57
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6b11ff57
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6b11ff57
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6bf93fc7
type
FanService
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6bf93fc7
comment
Fanservice: Holly and Shelley dress up as Vampirella for Halloween. Naked Shelley. note Sorry, folks — no naughty bits are shown. Elliot goes to complain to his neighbor about her loud party, but is Distracted by the Sexy when she answers the door in bikini underwear. Holly in a sequined bra.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6bf93fc7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6bf93fc7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6bf93fc7
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea
type
Driven to Suicide
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea
comment
Driven to Suicide: Mordawwa due to the Sheriff's death. Science snaps her out of it as does finding his Supposed killer.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6d332aea
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
type
Christmas Episode
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
comment
Christmas Episode: the arc starting here.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6ef9d3fe
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6fed1f70
type
The Thing That Would Not Leave
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6fed1f70
comment
The Thing That Would Not Leave: A supernatural variety in the Sesh Gremlin.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6fed1f70
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6fed1f70
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_6fed1f70
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7280652a
type
Panicky Expectant Father
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7280652a
comment
Panicky Expectant Father: Ryan.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7280652a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7280652a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7280652a
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_738d1a0f
type
Because You Were Nice to Me
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_738d1a0f
comment
Because You Were Nice to Me: Why Brian instantly takes to Billie joining the Church of Satan.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_738d1a0f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_738d1a0f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_738d1a0f
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_74f57438
type
Cell Phones Are Useless
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_74f57438
comment
Cell Phones Are Useless: Bad mobile phone reception because of the storm and the mansion's remoteness prevents anyone calling the police. Lottie and Shelley manage to call them after solving the mystery, surprising everyone by finding a landline — hidden in a cupboard because no-one uses it any more.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_74f57438
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_74f57438
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_74f57438
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_754df088
type
Put on a Bus
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_754df088
comment
Put on a Bus: Literally. Unit Daisy is impounded due to being an unlicensed android.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_754df088
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_754df088
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_754df088
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_76a5eaf8
type
Spotlight-Stealing Squad
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_76a5eaf8
comment
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: The "cover" splash panel originally described Murder, She Writes as "A Shelley Winters story", but Shelley appears to have passed out of the Competence Zone, and mostly takes a back seat to Lottie's investigating.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_76a5eaf8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_76a5eaf8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_76a5eaf8
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a0a54b1
type
Mighty Lumberjack
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a0a54b1
comment
Mighty Lumberjack: The trope is invoked, in somewhat ironic form, by Amy, to describe Tim after he's gone to live in the woods. It turns out that Shelley, always a woman with a healthy appetite for the macho, finds the image quite appealing.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a0a54b1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a0a54b1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a0a54b1
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a17d1ca
type
Eagleland
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a17d1ca
comment
Eagle Land: Shelley attempts a Rousing Speech based very literally on this. It kind of works, but doesn't make the guy who can't shoot straight any more competent.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a17d1ca
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a17d1ca
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7a17d1ca
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7ad0e492
type
Imaginary Friend
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7ad0e492
comment
Imaginary Friend: Holly comes back from her her ordeal in the Himalayas somewhat worse for wear, and also with a companion named Molly. Molly is, alas, a malicious sort, and turns Holly mean for a time.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7ad0e492
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7ad0e492
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7ad0e492
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d30a8fa
type
But We Used a Condom!
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d30a8fa
comment
But We Used a Condom!: Shelley and Tim conceive through carelessness; Shelley gets to find out when the fact is noticed by her sister, who as the Queen of Hell, presumably has supernatural senses. How much care they were taking is unclear, but Shelley is certainly stunned. ( She subsequently decides to keep the baby because her clock is ticking.)
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d30a8fa
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d30a8fa
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d30a8fa
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b
type
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b
comment
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Shelley's speech to Ryan's father is rather short, but turns out to be quite effective:
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_7d89315b
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_808cbaeb
type
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_808cbaeb
comment
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In fact, Lottie claims her extreme love of mysteries protects her delicate lady-brain from "deth", "horror", "blood" and "accidental willy sighting".
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_808cbaeb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_808cbaeb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_808cbaeb
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_815d5a99
type
The Three Faces of Eve
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_815d5a99
comment
The Three Faces of Eve: Billie is the naive maiden, Maggie the seductress and Mrs Clovis the domestic "wife" (although given her age, acerbity, and the mysterious absence of her husband, there's some overlap with the Crone).
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_815d5a99
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_815d5a99
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_815d5a99
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82b48dc
type
Stupid Jetpack Hitler
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82b48dc
comment
Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Robot Hitler is King of Hell.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82b48dc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82b48dc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82b48dc
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82fc5bdf
type
Bratty Half-Pint
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82fc5bdf
comment
Bratty Half-Pint: Mariposa.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82fc5bdf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82fc5bdf
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_82fc5bdf
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_864aa9
type
Hellevator
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_864aa9
comment
Hellevator: You can ride it straight back to Earth, if you can get past Xaffej the Indefatigable.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_864aa9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_864aa9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_864aa9
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87504252
type
The Big Board
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87504252
comment
The Big Board: Used by Lottie for explanatory purposes.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87504252
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87504252
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87504252
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87af3e94
type
Start to Corpse
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87af3e94
comment
Start to Corpse: the "corpse clock" is lampshaded in The Rant.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87af3e94
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87af3e94
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_87af3e94
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8970d739
type
The One That Got Away
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8970d739
comment
The One That Got Away: Esther, for Eustace
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8970d739
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8970d739
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8970d739
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8a1215e0
type
Bratty Teenage Daughter
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8a1215e0
comment
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Amy is revealed to be 17 when she starts working at City Limit. She turns 18 at the beginning of "The Trouble With Bruno".
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8a1215e0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8a1215e0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8a1215e0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8b68d9a7
type
Stalker with a Crush
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8b68d9a7
comment
Stalker with a Crush: Tim's teenaged neighbor Vicky has a crush on him and threatens his girlfriend.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8b68d9a7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8b68d9a7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8b68d9a7
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8e20979
type
Wham Episode
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8e20979
comment
Wham Episode: John Allison fills the "Into the Woods" plot-arc with several of these: Shelley and Erin personally meet again for the first time after Erin has vanished into Hell, Rich Tweedy reappears, many years after he has been fired from his job at City Limit, allegedly "so hard that he ceased to exist". And then he REALLY ceases to exist. Followed up with Erin giving up her humanity to save Eustace, Shelly and Tim cohabiting and Eustace getting himself killed anyway.
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8e20979
featureApplicability
1.0
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_8e20979
featureConfidence
1.0
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Chubby Chaser
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Chubby Chaser: Erin apparently prefers her men on the portly side. When Eustace is worried she will be uninterested in him because he's put on some pounds since high school, she tells him, "I like a gentleman of heft. Beef and beer lend a man weight."
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Hive Mind
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Hive Mind: Amy's mind has been taken over by an ant queen.
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Half the Man He Used to Be
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Half the Man He Used to Be: Alas, poor Eustace.
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Chainmail Bikini
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Chainmail Bikini: Maggie discusses making herself a suit of "holy battle armour" in which "almost my entire arse will be on show, but tastefully". Mrs Clovis looks so shocked at the sketches she can't even tell Maggie off.
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Kill It with Fire
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Kill It with Fire: Or rather, A Large Pile of Fireworks.
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Summation Gathering
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Summation Gathering: Like in any self-respecting Closed Circle murder mystery.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: In one of the print comics, Brian warns Mrs Clovis not to bother with some new-age witches (Clotilde and Ludmilla, as it turns out), because he went to them once and they "only did half a job". Later on, an online strip reveals he was trying to get them to cure his lycanthropy.
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Time Travel
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Time Travel: Tim's future self does the Set Right What Once Went Wrong variant to avert a disaster.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: Ryan is wearing his Captain America shirt from Bobbins and early Scary Go Round. Shelley's Parents, who previously showed up in Bobbins NOW and Expecting To Fly appear. Linton's brother Paul shows up in Erin's class. Ryan's still working at the Pea Cannery job he got at the end of Expecting To Fly.
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Get Out!
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See Get Out! above.
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Casanova Wannabe
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Casanova Wannabe: Surprisingly, Tim turns out to to have been one in his teenage years.
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The Friend Nobody Likes
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Shelley's Boyfriend Bruno. She's the only one who truly likes him, with everyone else being repulsed, annoyed, or scared by him, if not some combination of all three. Rich also has shades of this: The rest of the group tolerate him, but most of them don't really seem to like him, to the point that Amy wonders why Tim hangs around with him.
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Odd Friendship
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Odd Friendship: Billie and Maggie. They start off a Church of England curate and a Satanist, and later on swap places, but their friendship is a constant.
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J'accuse!
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J Accuse: Lottie can radiate accusation; it’s depicted like Spider-Man’s Spidey-sense. She uses the words aloud once the truth is out.
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Robot Girl
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Robot Girl: Unit Daisy (not to be confused with Daisy Wooton from Giant Days), built by Tim as girlfriend for a lovelorn Rich. (But things don't go as planned, and Hilarity Ensues.) Unit Daisy's Story Arc was later retold in Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers.
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Gag-per-Day Webcomics
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The first few strips were Gag-per-Day Webcomics. The first story arc started October 22, 1998, and most of Bobbins has been stories or arcs since then, with an occasional self-contained comic thrown in for fun.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Mordawwa.
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Town with a Dark Secret
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Town with a Dark Secret: Tredregyn is a parody of this trope, being a pleasant-seeming fishing village which turns out to be infested with monsters and (basically fairly amiable) Satanists. When Charlotte is trying to find out what happened to Shelley there, she hits the problem that everyone looks like a suspect.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Mordawwa spends most of the story in rather skimpy outfits.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Billie seeks the aid of the demon Baphomet when she needs money, and — being basically selfless — asks for good things to happen to the rest of the village as well. One storm that wrecks every part of Cornwall except Tredregyn later, things start getting strange.
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Retcon
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Retcon: By the truckload thanks to Continuity Drift. Ryan is present from the get go despite only moving to town recently late into the original Bobbins, in line with Expecting To Fly making him, Shelley and Tim childhood friends. Shelley and Amy's friendship starts a lot sooner. Bruno and Shelley met in University rather than High School. Bruno looks entirely different and how he meets Holly is an entirely new scenario.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Both Rich Tweedy and Eustace end up qualifying as examples of this. Literally.
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Interquel
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Interquel: Takes place between the end of Erin's time in Scary Go Round and her time in Sheffield, explaining how she escaped hell.
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Briar Patching
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Briar Patching: "I bet you couldn't even... scorn me."
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Hot for Preacher
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Hot for Preacher: Maggie towards Penrose. According to Mrs Clovis (who may be projecting somewhat...), he gets this from a lot of his female parishioners.
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Blood Knight
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Blood Knight: Mordawwa's former general, before the Sheriff took his job. It's what convinces him to go to war with her.
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A Good Name for a Rock Band
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A Good Name for a Rock Band: Shelley is compulsively frivolous.
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Remaster
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Remaster: John touches up the colors of a few of his older comics, plus adds some commentary.
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Weaksauce Weakness
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Weaksauce Weakness: Shelley finds a large supply of mothballs, which repel the moths and allow the humans time to set up the Kill It with Fire trap.
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The Bro Code
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The Bro Code: Rich breaks the Bro Code rather hard when Tim's ex-girlfriend moves in with him immediately after they broke up. Worse, we find out later that Illeanna had been sleeping with Rich before the breakup.
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: Clotted Crime is a Sunday evening TV mystery series with a bit of a Cozy Mystery aspect and similarities to Midsomer Murders but set in Cornwall. Mrs Clovis and, more surprisingly, Maggie, are big fans; Penrose despises it, calling it “churchsploitation�, because any vicars who appear in it are milksops or murderers, or both. After a hurricane devastates every other village in Cornwall, the production comes to Tredregyn to shoot some episodes.
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Big Blackout
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Big Black Out: Required to make the plot work — and, it's clear, caused by the giant moths.
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Xanatos Gambit
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Xanatos Gambit: The Sheriff's murder... was caused by Mordawwa's former General's second-in-command to start a war and leave his superior with the blame, so he'd have no choice but to wage the war anyways.
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: Tim appears to convince Eustace not to mess around with a literally Satanic computer the latter has cobbled together, in an attempt to get in touch with the demon Erin. Then Eustace goes and turns on the thing anyway, and, well, see Half the Man He Used to Be above.
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Church of Happyology
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Church of Happyology: "Trident" is a seemingly cult-like movement which is in competition with both the Church of England and the Church of Satan, targets people working in media, and offers "free mind evaluations".
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The title and general theme are clearly homages to the classic '50's monster-movie Them!. Plus, as noted, every Attack of the Town Festival movie ever made.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth/Ignored Expert: Stock horror stuff, but see Twist Ending below.
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Everybody Lives
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Everybody Lives: A one-month-later epilogue shows that everyone who seemingly died during the story is in fact still alive, though quite seriously chewed up and in one case surely brain damaged. Presumably the moths are slow eaters and not excessively hungry.
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Moth Menace
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Moth Menace: The threat turns out to be giant vampire moths.
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Blanket Fort
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Blanket Fort: Rich gets bored at work and builds a box fort.
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What the Hell, Hero?
 Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_d39e327f
comment
What the Hell, Hero?: Rich gets this a lot... Ryan tears into him for getting Amy drunk. Tim frequently tears into him over his crush on Amy. See Get Out! above. After Tim finds out Shelley's secret got out, he gives Rich this for not only letting it slip but not owning up to it and trying to fix the problem.
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Waxing Lyrical
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Waxing Lyrical: When Amy is pregnant at Christmas, Shelley describes the child as "Our own personal Jesus! Someone to hear our prayers. Someone who cares."
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Angst? What Angst?
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Angst? What Angst?: invokedDespite Shelley's fears, 12-year-old Lottie takes the bloody murder scene in her stride and immediately starts looking for the killer. She explains with a diagram that her "extreme love of mysteries" protects her "delicate lady-brain" from horror.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Fallon Young works as a spy for some British secret government agency or other. Her competence is questionable, but she remains employed because of how good she looks in a catsuit.
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
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Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: A habitual problem of Lottie's when she's in her mystery-solving flow. She even cheerfully lampshades when she manages to go an entire interrogation without doing this.
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Spinoff Sendoff
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Spinoff Sendoff: Allison says he considered starting Steeple with one of these but rejected the idea. The first major crossover, designed to introduce newer readers to the strip, is in "Author Unknown" when Shelley comes to Tredregyn on a book tour and goes missing, and Lottie comes to investigate.
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Ship Tease: Rich has a crush on Amy while Amy flirts with Tim in the final strip of "Sex and the City Limit".
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The Matchmaker: Mr. Knott encourages Ryan to befriend Shelley, and in the end it turns out that he had the same conversation with Shelley about Ryan. It is unclear though if his insistence about abstaining from behavior that "might inspire a nocturnal manipulation" was sincere or an attempt at Reverse Psychology.
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The Shangri-La
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The Shangri-La: Fallon Young needs to get back into shape, and chooses her old training ground and former teacher.
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Call-Forward: Fans of Scary Go Round know of course that Erin Winters will end up spending some time in hell. This is alluded to whenever Erin appears. Some of John Allison's end-of-the-year music reviews have been penned in-universe by Shelley. It turns out that she was already compiling personal music hit lists when she was still in school.
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Art Evolution
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Internally, as well as compared to the later works of John Allison. The constant Art Evolution plays a big part in this, of course. Other examples are the instances of blatant Fourth Wall Breaking, or the characterization of Shelley, whose legendary quirkiness only emerged as time went by.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Vicki, previously Tim's stalker.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Tim's reaction to Bruno is one of abject terror, in direct contrast to his normal suave attitude.
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No Ending
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No Ending: When Allison concluded that the strip was no longer viable, with no publisher interested in printing it, he had a whole bunch of plotlines still in reserve. Rather than finish with some kind of rushed ending or lose those ideas entirely, he ran a series of strips that set each of them up, then left things there, on the principle that fans would thus have at least have some access to his ideas. The effect was something of a Downer Ending for some readers as many of those set-ups involved the town and most of the characters in danger, in prison, or out of work; at best, this became a wide-open case of "And the Adventure Continues".
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All Just a Dream
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All Just a Dream: Shelley believes so when she wakes up, but is quickly disabused of the idea.
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Big Creepy-Crawlies
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Big Creepy-Crawlies: The moths.
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Guns Are Worthless
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Guns Are Worthless: A single juvenile moth is dispatched with shotguns, but other than that... yeah. Not helped by the fact that the guy with the gun in later scenes seems to be a terrible shot.
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Crossover
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Crossover: A crossover with Goats starts here. The corresponding Goats arc is not available online, and the provided link is thus broken, but it may be in e-book Silver Book 5 or Silver Book 6. note No date ranges are provided for the two e-books in question but the arc starts on 2002 Feb 08, if that helps.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Science saves Mordawwa at the climax.
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Put on a Bus to Hell
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Fans of Scary Go Round know of course that Erin Winters will end up spending some time in hell. This is alluded to whenever Erin appears.
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Distracted by the Sexy
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Elliot goes to complain to his neighbor about her loud party, but is Distracted by the Sexy when she answers the door in bikini underwear.
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The Alleged Car
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The Alleged Car: Shelly bought her transport for her tour off eBay. It breaks down, leaving her stranded in town for the plot.
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Darkest Hour: Happens in "The Big Explosion". A drunk Rich reveals to Len that Amy's been ghostwriting Shelley's sex column, resulting in Amy getting fired, Shelley getting demoted into a spiraling depression and Amy fearing she's about to get sent back to her mother.
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Series Fauxnale
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Series Fauxnale: Into The Woods was supposed to wrap up the franchise, but John Allison changed his mind afterwords.
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Gadgeteer Genius
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Gadgeteer Genius: Tim. While he sometimes is a Bungling Inventor, often he's actually quite good. For example, both the Teapot That Reverses Time and Unit Daisy worked unexpectedly well. note The Teapot works well enough that it has shown up in later series, causing problems by its very existence.
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Dark and Troubled Past
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Dark and Troubled Past: Billie, prior to joining the Church as an overcorrection. Inverted with Maggie, who was a frustrated Soapbox Sadie before joining the other Church. Confessing these backstories to one another is what convinces them both to convert.
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