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is a humor Webcomic hosted on ComicFury. It primarily focuses on the exploits of Jack, a geek with a "questionable grip on reality", and the angst it brings to those around him, particularly his sister, Louise. Although it had very little content for its short life, it was noted by members of the ComicFury community for rapid characterization and Art Evolution. It updated weekly from May to June 2011 before undergoing a three-month hiatus. Its final strip was uploaded on October 18th of that year, and the comic hasn't been heard from since.
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- Art Evolution: Very rapid Art Evolution. The first and second strips are rather poorly drawn. The following strips are much more presentable.
- Badass Longcoat: Subverted. Jack's flowing brown longcat would make him look like a badass if he wasn't an idiot who threatens his life on the daily.
- Beat Panel: "TMI": Between Jack describing his day at school and his dad's reaction to it, there's a single wordless panel where his dad is shocked at how it was.
- Chaotic Stupid: Jack shows complete disregard for any sort of rules and common sense. He rushes into a busy street with his sister in tow, tries to unplug a cord with a wet hand, and attempts to catapult himself over a pool of sharks.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Jack does not understand this thing you call "reality". He rampantly violates common sense just for the sake of it, typically doing so in an outrageous fashion (such as catapulting himself over a shark-infested pool), and even when he's not he often does blatantly silly things like licking a knife and claiming it tastes like bananas.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Louise's job is to make sure Jack doesn't get himself, or anybody else, killed.
- Education Through Pyrotechnics: Jack blew up his school's chemistry lab. Considering how he is, he probably hasn't learnt from his mistake as much as most examples of this trope.
- Funny Background Event: During strips 7 and 8, in the background of the lockers during Jack's speech, a blond-haired guy is seen getting uncomfortably close towards a purple-haired girl. In the final panel of strip 8, the girl got rid of him in a manner so shocking that a red-shirted boy has a comedicaly surprised expression.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Jack, ostensibly the hero of the comic, often puts others' lives at risk, and like everything in the strip it's Played for Laughs.
- Informed Ability: Jack claims to have "mad Frogger skillz" which he applies to crossing the street, but we never actually see the skills in question; all we see is him dashing into the road, and the strip ends.
- Licking the Blade: Parodied in "Knife Shop". Jack isn't a villain, but he threateningly licks a knife... and declares it's banana-flavored.
- Shark Fin of Doom: The pool Jack aims to launch himself over has sharks seen only by their fins, emphasizing that his idea is a really stupid one.
- Shout-Out: When Jack runs across a busy road, he shouts "LEEROOOOOY JEEENKIIIIINS!!".
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Louise is a completely normal girl with a normal train of thought, unlike her brother Jack, who acts utterly insane most of the time.
- Straight Man: Louise's opposition to Jack's chaotic antics is what sets them up to be humorous.
- Too Much Information: Jack's dad finds out he really doesn't want to know what his son does in school, in a strip appropriately titled "TMI".