Journey to the Skyline



Journey to the Skyline is a 2018 web comic by Mike Girardin about a young lizard girl inventor named Cora. She lives on the skyline a series of floating islands above a planet that's been vacant due to pollution. She wants to explore the planet but runs into many obstacles along the way.

She builds robots including a robot buddy called Blip.

Later Cora meets Arlie, a former witch snark girl who wishes for a better life in the Skylines.

They eventually team up to reach their goals.

Can be viewed here. As of August 2023,it is still actively publishing.


 * Animesque: This comic has things like cross-popping veins and other anime effects (see cross-popping veins below for link).
 * Cranial Eruption: Cora gets one after her sister slaps her for being reckless (see cross-popping veins below for link).
 * Cross-Popping Veins: Cora's sister Rhea gets one when slapping the former for being reckless seen here.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Cora who says lots of snide remarks to those that annoy her or get in her way.
 * Does Not Like Shoes: Cora and Arlie aren't seen wearing shoes often if ever.
 * Mini-Mecha: Cora built one but it got stolen by a thief named Berry.
 * Nature Hero: Arlie is one considering she survives well in the forest away from the urban areas of the Skylands.
 * No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Arlie rescues a kid from a rampaging bear in the forest. But when the kid's parents catch up to him they blame her for their kid being in distress. He tries to speak up for her that she saved him but is merely hushed not to do so by the mom.
 * Pokémon-Speak: Cora's robot sidekick Blip just says its name.
 * Polluted Wasteland: What the planet under the skylines has become.
 * Robot Buddy: Blip is Cora's sidekick whom she built.
 * World in the Sky: The premise of the lore with the skyline being its name.
 * Wrench Wench: Cora being an inventor serves as this since she builds robots and cars.