MorphE



""Oh, don’t worry, my new little Sprout. His frail mind can’t handle all the wonderful things coming out of yours. He would be left to wallow in some madhouse, or to wander the streets. Really, this is so much kinder.""

- Amical

morphE was a horror webcomic with a distinctly Visual Novel style. After their rescue from a madwoman’s hellish subterranean caverns, five humans have their eyes opened to the dark truth lurking under normal society. A "benefactor" takes them in, but he’s a cold-blooded killer with a deadly fixation on the new mages. In a world of magic, vampires, werewolves, ghosts and far creeper creatures, can he be trusted? Can anyone?

morphE ran for 514 installments from March 2013 through October 2017, first on SmackJeeves and later on its own site, the now-defunct morphe.thewebcomic.com. It eventually ground to a halt mid-story due to problems coordinating work across the creative team.

An archive of morphE can be found here at the Wayback Machine, but it is unreadable since the strip was presented in Adobe Flash, for which support ended on virtually all platforms at the end of 2020.


 * Apologetic Attacker: Asia Ellis.
 * Code Name: The seedlings use them to hide their true names.
 * Crapsack World: A World of Darkness staple.
 * Character Blog: You can find ask blogs for several of the main characters on tumblr.
 * Dysfunction Junction: And how.
 * Fingore: In a dream flashback someone has no fingers.
 * Five-Man Band: The seedlings.
 * Flashback Nightmare
 * I Know Your True Name: Amical taunts them with this.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: Everyone has their memories of the caverns blocked via something...
 * Memetic Mutation: "I'm More Important!!" is an in-universe example.
 * IT WILL NOT BE PAINLESS.
 * Mind Over Manners: Asia Ellis.
 * Papa Wolf: Ken Ellis
 * Show Within a Show: Billy Thatcher's Pawnography.
 * Supernatural Angst: Where to begin?
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Billy Thatcher gives these out like they're going out of style. He's just passing 'em out!
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: Chess is serious business in the morphE world. REALLY serious.