Nowhere University



"I graduated from High School, and got accepted on this one college scholarship. Now that I've arrived here, there's one thing I've realized. [beat] I'm not in Kansas anymore."

- Alice, about the titular Nowhere University

Nowhere University is a Web Comic by Allison McMullin about students a rather unusual school. It can be found here.

"Himeno(?): A real live Japanese Bishonen! In our dorm! With a British accent!"
 * Art Shift
 * Bishonen: James.


 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Of the annoying the author kind.
 * Comic Genesis: Hosted on.
 * Embarrassing Middle Name: John, supposedly.
 * Extranormal Institute: Nowhere University.
 * Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Could be turing into this.
 * Fairy Tale Motifs: The dorms are all named after Fairytales. The girls live in Rapunzel and the boys in Frog Prince.
 * Fiery Redhead: Diedre
 * Five-Man Band: The boys in the Frog Prince Dorm.
 * The Hero: Ben
 * The Lancer: John
 * The Smart Guy: Edward III
 * The Big Guy/The Chick: Theodred. (The Big Guy because he is the oldest, and The Chick because, well, let's go with he's more expressive of the fact that he likes Diedre than the others for who they like.
 * High School: What happens before the strip starts.
 * Hot Witch: Diedre, after Letting Her Hair Down.
 * This leads to Theodred's crush, which leads to almost anything to do with Edward and Diedre together.
 * May also be applied to Theodred for female fans, because his is, after all, a witch.
 * Jedi Mind Trick
 * Series Hiatus started December 17 of 2010 and we are still waiting for the end of that stupid school dance and what the heck is going on in the Dorms with Hyde
 * Comic Book Time indeed
 * Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Every teacher at the university is a literary character. Every teacher.
 * Only Sane Man: Most of the characters have gone through this.
 * Naive Newcomer: Alice.
 * Teen Genius: Edward III. The Characters page states he's seventeen.
 * Terrible Trio: James, Hera, and Ishmael pull this off with their alter-ego's. Guess who's who.
 * Wacky College