The KAMics
The KAMics is a webcomic by Keith Alan Morgan. It is a collection of stand alone cartoons & cartoon series.
Tropes used in The KAMics include:
- A Load of Bull: Poor Bob
- Absolute Cleavage: When Gertrude & Brunhilda got some "space suits" Gertrude's outfit demonstrated this trope.
- Acid Trip Dimension: Here
- An Axe to Grind: Nikki's weapon of choice
- An Ice Person: Frosty Freisin
- Anal Probing: But it was a mistake!
- Angels Pose: This picture
- April Fools' Day: A few times, in 2005 KAM quit which actually started off a short storyline; in 2009, to wrap up a humorous disagreement between him & the author of Magical Misfits, did this; and in 2010 turned it into an April Fools Month turning his various characters into ponies.
- Art Shift: Some series are done in different styles, although sometimes an art shift happens on an artistic whim.
- Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: The creator has a problem writing & drawing the same characters over & over & over again.
- Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: Gertrude suffers from this here, here and ... ooh, cool!
- Author Vocabulary Calendar: As you may have gathered from this page, KAM really, really likes ampersands.
- Bag of Holding: Inside Gertrude & Brunhilda's helmets.
- Balancing Death's Books: Saved either Gertrude or Brunhilda's life (also a Take That)
- Baleful Polymorph: Several, but usually to Gertrude & Brunhilda.
- Beat Panel: Has done this a number of times, sometimes as punchlines or inverted.
- Bigger Is Better: Gertrude's gun
- Black Comedy: Occasionally.
- Blessed Are the Cheesemakers: It was important to Prince Jason's summoning of Ygrassnoj.
- Blinding Bangs: Rick
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Gertrude, Brunhilda & Nikki
- Brain Bleach: Referenced
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Occasionally.
- Breast Expansion: Why indeed?
- The Cameo: Has lots of cameos of other webcomic characters. Then again the author is a self-confessed Cameowhore.
- Canis Latinicus: The dinosaur Teinoknemesaurus kamus, the magic spells Petrifacto, and Unpetrifacto
- Catgirl: Demonstrating a meme
- Catapult Nightmare: A twofer with a twist of Mind Screw
- Censor Box: Here & there
- Chainmail Bikini: Gertrude & Brunhilda, mostly...
- The Charmer: Albert Quad
- Compliment Backfire: Not a fan, apparently
- Crossover Punchline: Once or twice...
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Gertrude & Brunhilda.
- Cut and Paste Comic: Used to do a lot of it, but not so much now. However the creator prefers the term Copy & Paste as it's more accurate.
- Die Laughing: Those poor enemy soldiers...
- Drunk Duck: Hosted on
- Dumb Blonde: Gertrude
- Earthshattering Kaboom: God shows how it's done
- Everything's Better with Dinosaurs
- Everything's Better with Penguins
- Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels
- Expressive Hair
- Eyepatch of Power: Ratatosk (self-proclaimed) god of the squirrels
- The Faceless: Cousin Lenny
- Fan Disservice: Sten in a speedo *shudder* and in the lower left panel of this comic
- Fiery Redhead: Nikki The Red
- Flash Back: Shows up on occasion
- Fourth Wall Mail Slot
- Frankenstein's Monster: Apparently Dr. Frankenstein was quite busy here.
- Fun with Acronyms: S.M.O.G. (Semi-Mystical Otherworldly Gate)
- Funetik Aksent: Sven & Oli
- Funny Animal: Some of the series, anyway. Mr & Mrs. Rockhound & related toons are set in a universe where dogs take the place of humans, Big Bad Rockwolf has anthropomorphic wolves & pigs.
- Funny Background Event
- Girl Scouts Are Evil: Well... pygmies disguised as Girl Scouts, anyway.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Gertrude, Brunhilda & Nikki, usually.
- Goggles Do Something Unusual: Obbie S. Myth's glasses allow him to see electrical & magical ability as well as compensate for a missing eye, Ms. Terial's goggles allow her to see in the dark & see far away.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Emsi
- The Grim Reaper: Hela from Norse Mythology is the official Grim Reaper (although for a while it seemed to be Steve of Life and Death). She doesn't dress very traditional though. She describes her job as a guide for the dead type. though. She describes her job as a guide for the dead type.
- Groin Attack: Ding!
- Heterosexual Life Partners: Gertrude & Brunhilda
- Hurricane of Puns: This comic
- I Call It Vera: Gertrude & Brunhilda's swords.
- I Have Many Names: Nikki
- Institutional Apparel: Gertrude & Brunhilda starting here.
- Invisible Streaker: Here & the next comic.
- Ironic Echo Cut: This comic
- Leotard of Power: Athleta
- Loads and Loads of Characters
- Lovable Rogue: Gertrude & Brunhilda
- Malaproper: Malaprop Minerals
- Marshmallow Hell: Gertrude did this to Brunhilda.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Participated in the Crossover Wars as well as several Halloween Cameo Capers.
- Mechanical Horse: Gertrude, Brunhilda & Nikki have mechanical pegasi.
- Milestone Celebration: Several, usually sarcastic
- Mock Guffin: Gertrude & Brunhilda thought they had found something valuable, then were told otherwise.
- Modesty Bedsheet: One girl uses it, the other uses a pillow.
- Modesty Towel: Nikki wears one here
- Monochromatic Eyes: All the characters in the Rhymes With Witch universe. Zog & Sten from Drunk Aliens.
- The Multiverse: Tourist trap
- Naughty Tentacles: Look out, there!
- No Fourth Wall: Several series do this as do some characters. Nikki was told she was fictional, but she knows better now.
- Norse Mythology: Gertrude, Brunhilda & Nikki are ex-valkyries, Loki & Ratatosk have appeared as characters.
- Off with His Head: Seen here & here
- Pixel Art Comic: Mostly the Rockhounding cartoons the artist did for his club newsletter. Originally because of the programs the artist was working with then, but later to keep a consistent look to the series.
- Pixellation: Sharp
- Polar Bears and Penguins: Averted... mostly...
- Police Brutality: The Pun Police
- Punny Name: Occasionally
- The Rant
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Gertrude, Brunhilda & Nikki are several thousand years old.
- Red Shirt: The Redshirt Bearer Brigade
- Relax-O-Vision: Parodied
- Remix Comic: Remix Theatre where the author takes various panels & creates new comics.
- Retcon: Nikki was told by the author that she was a fictional character without a name, was later named by a reader, then it was retconned that she was a sister to the ex-Valkyries Gertrude & Brunhilda & her name had always been Nikki & she didn't realize this because of amnesia.
- Rummage Fail: Gertrude has done this once or twice...
- Scenery Censor: Done every now & then.
- Schedule Slip
- Self-Deprecation: Sometimes
- Shapeshifting Squick: Loki during the Squirrel Wars.
- Shower Scene: Yep!
- Sinister Silhouettes: Loki usually
- Snowlems: Frankie the Snowman
- Some Call Me... Tim: Sten's name is the only part that most people can hear.
- Speech Bubble Censoring: Covered here
- Stick Figure Comic: Occasionally
- Split-Screen Reaction: Seen here when Zog gained webcomic awareness
- Stylish Protection Gear: Athleta & Ms. Terial in this comic.
- Superheroes Wear Capes: Ms. Terial
- Swiss Army Weapon: Gertrude's Swiss Army Sword
- Take That: This comic gives the doomed guard the same name as another cartoonist who had done a comic trashing other comics characters & authors.
- Taken for Granite: was turned into a statue temporarily.
- Talking Animal: The Penguins
- Technicolor Science:This comic
- Time for Plan B: Plan B
- Total Eclipse of the Plot: It was a part of the summoning of Ygrassnoj
- Valkyries: Gertrude, Brunhilda & Nikki are ex-valkyries
- Wanted Poster: Several are seen in this page
- Webcomics Long Runners
- Whip It Good: Brunhilda
- Wingding Eyes
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Poor Clem, Poor Ima
- Whole Costume Reference: The man in the Mountie outfit starting here.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Doc Unopoculum of SMOG experienced this.
- Your Universe or Mine?: Brunhilda is dating Bobby from the webcomic Life and Death.
- Zombie Apocalypse: As part of the 2008 Halloween Cameo Caper