Webcomics United

"Webcomics United: It's Awesome"

- Actual slogan of the Webcomics United syndicate

A webcomic featuring webcomic characters living their lives and working, you guessed it, in webcomics, focusing on the life of Zip M. Stiff, a young chibi Filler who has no idea how his work works, despite being one of the best qualified fillers in the whole syndicate. Together with a bunch of friends who are also Fillers and some bureaucrats, they poke fun at Webcomic Tropes and have relatively normal lives in the funniest way possible.

The comic started as a gag-a-day comic without many aspirations, and now has a big underlying plot that spans between other smaller plots. Not to mention the author is quite fond of Foreshadowing and Cliffhangers...

This comic provides examples of the following tropes:

 * Art Evolution: Lots of it. Zip, for one, gets eyelids over time, and Theo's hair is always changing.
 * Art Shift: Other comic's styles are mimicked as good as can be when featured.
 * In-story: Miss Ribbon undergoes "de-cheesecaking procedure", going from Fauxnime to a more rubbery style.
 * Awful Wedded Life: The briefly featured Lockharts, from the Funnies Syndicate.
 * Cameo: Lots of extras in the background are actually characters borrowed from other comics.
 * Cerebus Syndrome: Known as "The Aardvark Flu". It's a very serious disease.
 * Chekhov's Gunman: Flora, Jello's girlfriend, mentioned en passe in a very early strip, then becomes a permanent addition to the cast. The same happens to Ribbon, who starts as a random stall worker, then informercial hostess and, finally, VP of Human Resources and another addition to the regular cast.
 * Cheshire Cat Grin: Ohm and his "sharky" grin.
 * Closer to Earth: Ella to John, but smoothly being subverted.
 * Crossover: Part of the premise of the comic.
 * Cute Mute: Mim, Zip's current girlfriend.
 * Distracted by the Sexy: SEX!
 * Embarrassing Middle Name: Zip M. Stiff. The "M" stands for "Maid".
 * Fan Service: Elevated to the category of holiday within the Webcomic World.
 * Ms. Fanservice: Ribbon, until she decided to put a stop on that. It's unsure whether this worked or not.
 * Gentle Giant: From the looks of it, Theo's father.
 * Guest Strip
 * Halloween Cosplay: Used once, averted in the next year.
 * Hit You So Hard Your X Will Feel It: September threatens to fire Zip so hard even his kids will be born fired. Given the current economy, that's one harsh threat!
 * Hot Mom: Ella, given you have a thing for sprites. The fact that she never ages helps a lot(and might make her the first GILF to ever exist).
 * Lampshade Hanging: Well, duh. It's a meta webcomic.
 * Filler Strip: Sometimes in Incredibly Lame Pun form.
 * Only Sane Man: Jello for the fillers, Ribbon for the bureaucrats.
 * Meta Guys: Zip sometimes wonders why they make comics, and who reads them, but that questioning is quickly dismissed.
 * Ms. Puchok exhibits some odd Fourth Wall awareness.
 * Noodle People: The aptly named Noodle.
 * No Fourth Wall: Actually, there is one, and it's called... The Wall. Some people are said to come from beyond it, including . The people within don't talk much about it, though.
 * The Noseless: Zip takes that after his mother. To avoid the dreaded "snoutface" effect, though, his nose is described as "mostly invisible", appearing in full profiles.
 * Painting the Fourth Wall: Puchok gives a course on "Panel Dynamics", which consists in moving in a single panel. It's easier done than said, really.
 * Stealth Pun: not wanting to give them away, but there's the one in, and the title of , which was admittedly unintentional.
 * Spinoff Babies: Spoofed.
 * Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: John and Ella, a stick figure and a previously starlet and muse of sprite comics. He isn't bothered and loves messing up with her admirers.