Necessary Monsters

"Spy-Horror Thrills By Sean Azzopardi & Daniel Merlin Goodbrey"

Necessary Monsters is a adventure webcomic that combines a MIB-style covert agency with the world of eldritch horror: the story of a team of cop-monster monster-cops.

Tropes used in Necessary Monsters include:

All in the Eyes: Jonathon's pale unworldly eyes. Charlotte's never-seen eyes. Tuesday's all-black eyes. Knife Mother's sewn-shut eyes. The Ju-Ju man's eyes.
An Offer You Can't Refuse: Tuesday's Shackling.
Badass: everyone.
Black Helicopter: Frequent mode of fransport for Chain members...although something about the chopper is a little off.
Body Horror: all over the place. A crowning moment would be the poor mook Jonathon Gravehouse utters unholy truths to: he is so horrified he tears his own skull apart via thumbs in his own eyesockets.
Brown Note: Jonathon tells a man on the safehouse front desk something that causes him to pull his own skull apart. Also, looking into Charlotte's eyes is instant death.
Conspiracy Redemption: there is this flavour to the Chain.
Cosmic Horror Story: It's almost our world, save for the massive conspiracy upheld by monsters of every kind -from slashers to Eldritch Abominations- to keep humanity in general safe, ignorant and complacent, until they use us for their needs and wants. Cattle herds have to be properly tended, you know.
Eldritch Abomination: Thomas Harp and Jonathon Gravehouse. What a name.
Epiphany Therapy: Tuesday's showdown with Harp.
Let's Split Up, Gang!: in the safehouse, but hey, we're the terror in here.
The Faceless: Charlotte. Though it's only her eyes that we never see.
Heroic BSOD: Tuesday, upon finding her true face has stuck.
Immune to Bullets: Cowboy 13.
Initiation Ceremony: the shackling of Creeping Tuesday.
Lovecraftian Superpower:
- Both Thomas Harp and Jonathon Gravehouse are shells for titanic horrors.
- Knife Mother's Mook Maker abilities come from the thirteen stab wounds in her back. they've become cysts where embryos form, then fall off and grow rapidly from orange-sized to fully grown, clothed, sewn-shut eyes, knife-wielding identical killers.
Made of Iron: Cowboy 13 again. Fitting considering he's a Jason Vorhees/Michael Myers-type slasher.
Mook Maker: The Mother of Knives' specific power.
Motive Decay: Discussed by Charlotte. She started out killing the people who killed her. Then she started killing bad people. Then, she realized everyone is bad, in their own way...
Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Almost everyone. Jonathon Gravehouse, Charlotte Hatred, Creeping Tuesday, Harp's Bane, Jack...
New Meat: Tuesday when she's drafted into the Chain.
One-Winged Angel: see Lovecraftian Superpower.
Putting the Band Back Together: Jonathon getting the crew back together is part of the opening act.
Resignations Not Accepted: the Chain.
Serial Killer: Cowboy 13, as mentionned above.
Smug Snake: Jack and Gravehouse.
Spy Fiction: Martini Flavoured.
The Spymaster: Jack.
These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Jonathon Gravehouse utters unholy truths to the mook on the front desk of the safehouse: he is so horrified he tears his own skull apart via thumbs in his eyesockets.
What Have I Become?: Tuesday. She gets over it.