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This comic is rather subjective; many readers enjoy it for the messages they receive from it, and others dislike it for how hard Winston tries to hammer in his morality. In this comic, you do just as much reading as you would if you were reading a book, it just has pictures to go with it. Somewhat of a [[Light Novel]], except the art style is more reminiscent of western comic books than Japanese Manga.
Rowntree also writes an irregularly updated sister comic for ''[[Cracked
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* [[Alt Text]]: Occasionally.
* [[Alternate History]]: Various popular counterfactual scenarios are displayed in the [http://www.viruscomix.com/page533.html Museum of the Theoretical].
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* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: The Sphynx, apparently. It's fine for her to kill and eat people since she's not human, whereas a human cannibal is shown to have ended up in Hell.
* [[Bi the Way]]: One of the recurring characters, who is a demon from hell. Since she dates humans, this could also be a case of [[Interspecies Romance]].
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Seen [http://www.viruscomix.com/page403.html here], panel two
* [[Brick Joke]]: [http://www.viruscomix.com/page499.html Sexy Theodore Roosevelt]. [http://www.viruscomix.com/page557.html We know. He was sexy to begin with.]
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Exemplified by a great many of the characters in "[http://www.viruscomix.com/page466.html The Service]".
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** He's been accused of this again with his critique on the [[New 52]].
* [[Disturbing Statistic]]: There's a game show called "Not Worth It" which uses this trope in its quiz questions.
* [[Divide
* [[Easter Egg
** An even better example is [http://www.viruscomix.com/page533.html The Museum of the Theoretical] which has a bunch in every panel.
* [[Equal Opportunity Offender]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Sure, the Sphinx kills and usually eats passerby, but she would never dream of [[Oedipus the King
** And serial killers ''can'' be civic-minded. [http://www.viruscomix.com/page462.html "I may have killed and eaten five people, but I damn well cleaned up after my dog!"]
* [[Exactly What It Says
** See also [http://www.viruscomix.com/page410.html the No-Bullshit emporium].
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: In [http://www.viruscomix.com/page522.html this strip], the pink-haired girl's decision to quit her soul-crushing waitressing job results in her instantly getting her pink hair back.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: The entire point of "[http://www.viruscomix.com/page518.html Can't Win]", where a sinner insists he'll be the one to best Hell, much to the chagrin of Devil #76. {{spoiler|He doesn't.}}
* [[For Halloween I Am Going
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Rowntree likes to fill the background with various signage and headline gags. As with ''[[Mad Magazine]]'', these are often funnier than the main dialogue or situation of a given comic.
* [[Genre Blind]]: The man in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131204025106/http://www.viruscomix.com/page404.html this strip] thinks it a good idea to buy a newspaper with the headline "Local Man Devoured by Newspaper Box" ''from a newspaper box''. No points awarded for guessing what happens next.
* [[
* [[Going Commando]]: [[Ms. Fanservice]] [http://www.viruscomix.com/page487.html casually admits] she lost her underwear while trying on a swimsuit and just decided to go without. "But is underwear even really necessary these days?... Maybe I'll just go ahead and 86 the panties in the future."
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: The Sphynx kills humans all the time, but it's played for laughs. It helps that she seems to dine mainly on [[Jerkass Victim|Jerkass Victims.]]
* [[
** [http://www.viruscomix.com/page382.html "I mean, you kind of have to wonder!!"]
* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: Subverted, as the Horsemen presented turn out not to be the biblical ones, but the [http://www.viruscomix.com/page433.html Horsemen of the "Atheist" Apocalypse], respectively [[Belief Makes You Stupid|Science, Progress, Reason, and Equality.]] Rather than heralding the end of the world, [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions|they create a utopia.]]
* [[Humans Are
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: A guy that ends up in Hell admits to having been a cannibalistic serial killer, but [[I Take Offense to That Last One|denies not cleaning up after his dog]].
* [[Implausible Hair Color]]: The pink haired girl... unless she's working at a soul-crushing job in which case it spontaneously shifts to a dull brown.
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* [[Monster Clown]]: [http://www.viruscomix.com/page325.html "Heyyy kids! It's me, Sweeny the f***ng clown! Who wants to see what the inside of a larynx looks like?"]
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Found [http://www.viruscomix.com/page429.html here], [http://www.viruscomix.com/page487.html here] and [http://www.viruscomix.com/page526.html here]. Although, because she seems unaware of her effect on the opposite sex, it overlaps with [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]. In the third one, it shows that she is saddened by the fact that every man she might like disappears. She's wearing the man's hat when she sighs at the bus stop.
* [[Suicide Attack]]: Lampooned in one strip with the demon girl; while receiving new arrivals at the Gates of Hell, she asks one - a fat, ugly guy - if he's a virgin. When he responds "yes", she tells him to wait with a bunch of other fat, ugly guys, saying that "once we have 70 of you guys, we'll need you in Suicide Bomber Hell".
* [[No Name Given]]: One of the central characters, initially pictured with pink hair, has always gone unnamed, and according to the artist in one comments string, always will. Her official moniker is Pink Haired Girl, abbreviated as PHG.
** Most of the other characters have been named, but only very subtly. Sometimes so subtly that their names are only found in the titles of the comic's image
* [[Odd Friendship]]: The Sphinx and Pink Haired Girl. It's working out quite well for them.
* [[Organ Autonomy]]: Played straight [http://www.viruscomix.com/page509.html here], [http://www.viruscomix.com/page420.html here], and a variation can be found [http://www.viruscomix.com/page494.html here].
* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]] / [[Belief Makes You Stupid]]: Let's just say that Winston is definitely one of ''those'' Atheists.
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: Discussed [[In
* [[Platonic Prostitution]]: Played with in [http://www.viruscomix.com/page473.html this strip].
* [[Pointy
* [[Post Modernism]]: Experiments with everything from [[Genre Savvy]] characters (as seen [http://viruscomix.com/page507.html here]) to [http://www.viruscomix.com/page474.html bizarre, artistically-inclined layouts], and [[Deconstruction]] of say, [http://www.viruscomix.com/page479.html videogames]. If this comic doesn't qualify as "Post-modern" then somebody has redefined "Post-modern" behind my back.
* [[Protagonist
* [[Psychological Horror]]: Used for plot basis on occasion, notably in [http://www.viruscomix.com/page473.html Ethel Blackmoore; Horror Fiction Lady of the Night], [http://www.viruscomix.com/page505.html A Christmas Eve in the Future] and [http://www.viruscomix.com/page525.html Choose Your Own Adventure].
* [[Shout
** Her skirt itself is very reminiscent of [[Expressive Shirt|The]] [[Newspaper Comics|Yellow]] [[Older Than Television|Kid]]
** The first panel of ''Monsters Playing Poker'' is a [[Picture Pastiche]] of C.M. Coolidge's "''Dogs Playing Poker''".
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: Moscow Metro is [http://viruscomix.com/page488.html portrayed] rather accurately, with proper Russian words and even with an allusion to a cult Russian film. (Though only the country of residence, Canada, seems to be known about the author, not the country of origin... So, it might be not “work” at all.)
** ...or maybe he went on vacation there.
** One of the other comics on Virus Comix site is about a Russian comicbook artist who is working in secret on a 1000 page masterwork. It's "[[Very Loosely Based
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]]: Meanders all over the scale, often multiple times within a single comic.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: A man is selected by his religious organization to travel back in time in order to conduct an experiment in storytelling. He eventually comes to the realization that he was the founder of this religion.
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