Last-Name Basis/Web Comics

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Examples of Last-Name Basis in Web Comics include:

  • Parley from Gunnerkrigg Court is called by her last name, because everyone's too nice to call her George.
  • Johnathan Gabriel from Penny Arcade usually goes by "Gabe."
  • Most of the pilots in Angels2200 are referred to by their callsign or last name.
    • Nicknames instead of first or last names are pretty common among enlisted troops of all services, especially to enforce a One Steve Limit if there's more than one soldier of the same last name and rank.
  • Nolan from Regular Guy.
  • The title character of It's Walky! goes by Walkerton. He doesn't actually LIKE his nickname Walky (At best he tolerates it, there are only a few characters he actually doesn't mind calling him that). Almost no one calls him "David".
  • All of the government-employed characters in Doomsday, My Dear refer to each other by last name: Zahra, Bowden, Young, et cetera. A few characters refer to Khepry and Chet by their first names, but no one uses Cyril's.

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