+EV

"A Poker Comic with Positive Expected Value." (Hint: +EV is the common abbreviation for "positive expected value".) About professional online poker player Corbin, his family, his poker buddies and several prominent poker players.

You can find it on Keenspot here.


 * Anti-Poopsocking: Averted (yes), here.
 * Beginner's Luck: Seems to be the explanation for the successes of, if not Scarlett, then at least for Harold and Clancy.
 * Catch Phrase: Violet's "I think I want a divorce" qualifies to the point she lampshades it when Corbin calls her a "dink" in a text message.
 * Cam Whore: OK, so Violet presents her bikini photos in her blog. See here.
 * Child Prodigy: Scarlett, who's following in her father's footsteps.
 * Dystopian Edict: But why are people punished by hanging just for *mentioning* poker??
 * Everything's Better with Llamas: here.
 * Everything's Better with Princesses: Princess Amazia.
 * Cute Kitten: Dolly
 * Fan Disservice: here. With Harold, of course.
 * Fan Service: Sometimes, here with Violet.
 * Fat Idiot: Harold. Oh God, Harold.
 * The Fool: Harold and Clancy.
 * Funny Foreigner: The Finn-lander Konsta.
 * GIRL: Corbin knows this trope. See here.
 * The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: How it begins...
 * Godwin's Law: Kind of. See here.
 * Goofy Print Underwear: here.
 * Heroic BSOD: Scarlett declares that poker and Princess Amazia are her two favorite things, and she couldn't do without either. Then Amazia comes out against gambling.
 * House Rules: Be careful to play against Konsta with his own deck.
 * I'm a Humanitarian: Fortunately, just a dream.
 * Jerkass: Corbin, occasionally.
 * Katanas Are Just Better: here.
 * Kevin Smith: Has a kind of cameo here.
 * Konami Code: Referenced here.
 * Las Vegas: Of course.
 * Mouth Flaps: A peculiar aversion despite this being an animation trope: The characters' mouths are usually closed when they speak in this comic's particular style.
 * Mushroom Samba: So, Harold owes the Goombas hundred dimes, and they'll kill him if he can't pay?
 * "Um, Harold, those are fictional characters in a video game."
 * Oktoberfest: here.
 * Perpetual Poverty: Harold and Clancy win millions in poker, but shit it all away.
 * Pink Girl, Blue Boy/Princesses Prefer Pink: Scarlett's computer.
 * Primal Scene: Seems to have happened off-strip, since Scarlett knows about the game that only mommies and daddies can play. See here.
 * Professional Gambler: Corbin, and several members of the supporting cast.
 * Rickroll: Done in Real Life here. Yes, there is such a thing as a real life rickroll.
 * Scary Black Man: Clancy knows about this trope, but doesn't really understand it.
 * Shout-Out: To American Idol here, Heroes here, A Boy and His Blob here
 * Snap Back: Harold wins a lot of money and loses it again, loses weight and gains it again... and so on.
 * Soap Opera: Violet is a fan of One Life to Live.
 * Speed Sex: Corbin can do it twice in five minutes!
 * The Stoner: Harold and Clancy, apparently.
 * Stylistic Suck: Corbin's comic.
 * Take That: Is Gold Coast really that shitty? No idea.
 * Theme Naming: Corbin's wife's name is Violet. Her first daughter is Scarlett, which is a shade of red. And violet is a mixture of red and blue. So it was logical to give their second daughter a name that's a shade of blue, and thus she was named... Ultramarine!
 * Third Person Person: Konsta.
 * Title Drop: Here.
 * Toilet Humor: Especially if Harold is involved. See here.
 * Wacky Cravings: here.
 * The War on Terror: See how Phil Ivey helps to win it!
 * Webcomic within a webcomic: "The Degenerate."
 * A Worldwide Punomenon: Many Incredibly Lame Puns, usually poker-related. Big Blind, Pocket Pear...
 * Writers Cannot Do Math: Play poker too long, and you'll forget how to count to twenty. Even if you were a mathematician before.