Mandatory Roller Coaster
Mandatory Roller Coaster is a weekly webcomic that describes itself as being about "loneliness, alienation, and pizza". Earlier strips generally featured depressing or Black Comedy while later strips incorporate traditional comedy, sight gags and absurd situations.
Tropes used in Mandatory Roller Coaster include:
- Bread and Circuses : Politics, when mentioned at all is generally disdained.
- God and Satan Are Both Jerks : As is religion.
- Heterosexual Life Partners : Two guys drinking at a bar, two guys playing video games.
- If I Were a Rich Man : A character has a fantasy of being able to afford to see a doctor.
- Off-Screen Breakup : Never played for comedy.