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''[http://baritarianboy.thecomicseries.com/ Baritarian Boy]'' is a webcomic created by married couple Fyodor Pavlov and Lawrence Gullo. As the title and subtitle would indicate, it's less of a straightforward slice of life comic, but an exploration of the (fictional) country, a small island nation in the Black Sea. The story follows two contemporary young men -- Havel, a Baritarian musician turned tour guide, and Felix, a Russian art student - and the discovery of several "missing" paintings illustrating near-mythical incidents from Baritaria's history. Gullo and Pavlov alternate illustrating chapters, the comic updates on Mondays, and [http://baritarianboy.thecomicseries.com/blogarchive/6995 a dead-tree edition of the story so far (plus an entirely new story) is now for sale.]
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* [[Dark Mistress]]: Queen Zsu Zsa's consort [http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnq13u1U1I1qkycczo1_500.jpg looks like this]. That is all.
* [[Deadly Decadent Court]]: Not of the royal variety, but the London Monster's Club featured in the second section is plenty Decadent (in the literary and artistic sense) and populated by artificially constructed humans, occultists, le Comte de St. Germain, individuals who appear to personify the Seven Deadly Sins...
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[The Exile]]: King Valliet III [[Royal Fugitive|spent his life in exile in Europe.]] His closest friends are similarly escaping Russian nobility.
* [[Fictional Counterpart]]: Baritaria is this, in some ways, to Russia and wherever the hell Pavlov and Gullo feel like drawing inspiration from.
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* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: King Valliet III, living in exile as a gossip columnist. He is narcoleptic and has difficulty remembering some of the fancy parties he's invited to, forcing him to make up scandalous details.
* [[The Lancer]]: [[Yaoi Guys|Annibale for King Valliet.]] He risks his life for the Queen's safety and (indirectly) for his country, and is wounded in the process. Not quite [[The Champion]], but still devoted. {{spoiler|It becomes plain he's wholly willing to kill in Valliet's defense.}}
* [[Narrative Filigree]]: It would be possible to tell the story of a fictional nation, or at least two young men living in one, without going into the level of exquisite detail that Gullo and Pavlov do. But [[Doing It for
* [[Punny Name]]: Baritaria's capitol (where the art institute that Felix Sokolov attends is located) is called Stendhalstadt. [[wikipedia:Stendhal syndrome|Stendhal syndrome]] is a condition which causes people to faint from viewing extremely beautiful works of art.
* [[Running Gag]]: The series is too brief to tell now, but Havel seems to enjoy the word "sexy".
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