Far Out There



Far Out There is an often cute, sometimes-dark-humored ensemble webcomic by Simon Ladd. It's the comic where things happen... IN SPACE!!!

Tropes used include:
 * Absent Aliens - Made clear right at the start.
 * Air Vent Passageway - Trigger is good at using these.
 * Aliens Speaking English - Technically, there are no extraterrestrials, but everyone speaking English is still true.
 * An Asskicking Christmas - "Bridget and Alphonse's Horrifying Christmas"
 * April Fools' Day - The ol' "fake ending" gag was employed in 2009 and again in 2010.
 * 2011's April Fools was a little... unusual.
 * Author Avatar - Ichabod is occasionally accused of being this. The author denies it, saying he just wanted Ichabod to look like him to for cosplaying purposes.
 * Bad Santa - And ugly, too.
 * Badass Adorable - Bridget the Zombie.
 * Be Quiet Nudge - Bridget shuts Alphonse up in this page, lest he should give away . (Of course, neither of them can talk so one wonders why she bothered)
 * Big Damn Heroes - Occurs when Sophia and Clare finally respond to Ichabod's call for help.
 * Seen again when Tabitha saves Bridget and Alphonse from Santa.
 * Blank White Eyes - Layla, while experiencing an exceptional level of stress.
 * Brain In A Jar -
 * Casual Interstellar Travel
 * Cat Smile - Trigger does this on occasion, especially if pranks are involved.
 * Character Blog - Borderline example: the most prominent characters have their own personal Pandora Radio stations.
 * Cower Power - Alphonse, most of the time.
 * Creating Life Is Awesome - Creating Bridget and Alphonse seems to have worked out pretty well for Tabitha.
 * Cursed With Awesome - Avatar. Immortality and indestructibility sound great on the surface, but what good is Eternal Life when you have no life?
 * Cute Bruiser - Bridget again.
 * Does Not Like Shoes - Trigger, ever since he let the Jesus Freaks dress him.
 * Enfant Terrible - Megaweapon is bad enough just judging from what is actually shown. The stuff that's only talked about is even worse.
 * Face Doodling - Happens to Ichabod once... among other things.
 * Fiery Redhead - Layla. Oh boy...
 * Fish Out of Water - Trigger.
 * Flat What - Avatar's reaction to this.
 * Fruit of the Loon - Ichabod really seems to like apples.
 * Fun T-Shirt - Trigger is easily amused by these.
 * Halloween Cosplay - See below.
 * Holiday Nonupdate - Averted to an absurd degree (especially at Christmas).
 * Like Brother and Sister - Trigger and Layla are most emphatically in this kind of relationship.
 * Mad Scientist - MANY in the cast: Tabitha, Dr. Caligari, Dr. Vanderslice, Avatar's creators, and so on and so forth.
 * Mama Bear - Tabitha
 * Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy - Bridget and Alphonse
 * Mismatched Eyes - Skye and her x-ray eye.
 * Motherly Scientist - Tabitha. So VERY much.
 * My Suit Is Also Super - Avatar's robe. See this page.
 * Names to Run Away From - "Megaweapon."
 * Nerd Glasses - Ichabod's massive eye-wear.
 * No New Fashions in The Future - At least where the main characters are concerned.
 * Noodle Incident - Ichabod tells Kiki about one of his previous adventures, but we only hear part of it. Where DID that epileptic pig come from?
 * Ichabod brings up another several pages later. SHOULD he have known those Space Whales had "mommy issues?"
 * Not Growing Up Sucks - Avatar.
 * Odd Shaped Panel - This comic lives by this trope, seriously. The most jarring thing it can do now is a normal layout.
 * The Perry Mason Method - Ichabod unintentionally pulls this on Trigger. It's "unintentional" because
 * Serious Business - Ichabod makes a career out of it.
 * She Is Not My Girlfriend - in this early page.
 * And again, under more awkward circumstances
 * Shirtless Scene - Trigger has had several.
 * Space Clothes - The main characters tend to look pretty normal (see No New Fashions in The Future) but background and secondary characters tend to be a bit more fanciful.
 * Space Is Noisy - The Exposition actually makes tire-squealing noises when it stops abruptly.
 * Space Whale - Mentioned by Ichabod in one page. Apparently, they can have "mommy issues."
 * Techno Babble - all the freaking time, though there's usually at least a little lampshading going on.
 * Technopath - Alphonse
 * Terraform - The explanation for all habitable planets (and Trigger's backstory, see below)
 * The End of the World As We Know It - Trigger was trained from birth to prevent this (not that he actually needed to)
 * Avatar was also created with this in mind.
 * Thrown Out the Airlock - Cap'n Crosby is known to threaten people with this. And he'll do it, too.
 * Tsundere - Layla would seem to qualify.
 * Undead Child - Bridget and Alphonse (though, as far as the undead go, they're quite adorable)
 * Unsound Effect - including but not limited to:
 * Look Look
 * DOES NOT COMPUTE
 * BegBegBeg
 * REALIZATION'D!
 * EMOTIONAL SNAP
 * DOOR OPENING SOUND
 * Eerie Silence
 * ANGRY ROBOT NOISES
 * HEYGUYSISOUNDLIKEI'MGONNABLOW!
 * SHIRTLESS'D
 * Wall of Text - Way too many examples of this, especially on early pages.
 * What the Hell, Hero? - Layla gives this to Ichabod once she realizes