Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose/YMMV

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  • Anvilicious: Issue #65, "The Last Mermaid", is just one long, long whine about the Gulf Spill.
  • Fetish Fuel: Breasts, naked mythological creatures, breasts, bondage, and breasts. Did I mention breasts?
  • Fetish Retardant: As the comics become more and more like hardcore pornography (not that it was a big step), it's easy to become desensitized to it all. Scenes of tortured naked women, spiders crawling out of vaginas, and naked dead/undead women don't help.
  • Guilty Pleasure
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: In between tits, author rants and more tits, the creators sometimes find room to be terrifying.
    • Every time Raven cast a spell wrong and didn't fix the problem, a horrifically mutated version of herself was created.
    • Tarot gets herself trapped in a magical world full of dreams people have abandoned, which become mad and monstrous for lack of someone to believe in them.
    • A doll creator gets killed in a car crash, so her creations fix her the same way she'd fix one of them.
    • Several nurses are killed in a car crash, their body parts are used for transplants, and they come back for revenge - namely by taking back said body parts from the unfortunate women who have them now. Since one of the living girls got vaginal reconstruction, you can see how this gets nightmarish.
      • Which led to Skeleton Man giving the weirdest and most unintentionally funny lines in comics ever: "Samantha Brown! You've got to get out of here! YOUR VAGINA IS HAUNTED!!!"
      • The onomatopoeia used when a ghost cuts out someone's vagina with a scalpel: "Slit!"
    • A gingerbread woman who ate her creator and is about to bake Tarot and Raven alive.
    • The deaths of Tarot, Raven, and Tarot's mom in the Norse Gods arc. Tarot is quartered, spit over a fire, and eaten by giants. Seriously, what the f***?
    • In issue #71, a eel bites off a woman's nose. This is followed by an image of her and her companions being eaten alive by sharks.
  • Mary Sue: The extraordinary resemblance between Jim Balent and Skeleton Man makes this pretty obvious. Considering how useless is he most of the time, it might be a partial subversion.
  • Memetic Mutation: "You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!"
  • Narm: "You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!" Yes, you read that right.
  • Squick: In one arc, Tarot is 'milked' and is forced to secrete sexual fluids by the villain. He then drinks the fluids and makes butter out of it, which he then spreads across his toast. He did this because he believed drinking her 'life-fluids' (as he calls them) would give him her knowledge.
  • Straw Man Has a Point: Non-witches have criticized Tarot for her lack of modesty, with the typical retort being that she's 'proud of her body'; this applies to other characters on occasion. However, Tarot seem to ignore the fact that strippers wear more then she does, and don't parade around outside.
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