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I’m so confused about this one and am honestly on the fence about recommending it. A brief description: this is a webcomic drawn in a loose DeviantArt meets Nickelodeon style that is meant to be a tonal parrot of newspaper comic strips from the 1990s. BY AND LARGE it is played incredibly straight and true-to-form; the timeline is accurate and runs thirty years behind ours, the political and cultural references are specific, pervasive, and largely middle-of-the-road (I’m looking at a “Sunday” strip about the promotional McDonald’s menu for The Flintstones movie. Footnote here would be about the comments and how sincere they are. One example: “Eh, the first Flintstones movie was decent. Had a solid plot, the actors did the parts well, and it had some good jokes. Viva Rock Vegas, however, can go sink in a tarpit.” Awesome.). I was and still am a newspaper comic strip obsessee (another example of something I liked as a kid that I now like in a different way as an adult), and I am struck by how infrequently any sort of veil is lifted, revealing it as not having been written in the 1990s. It also has this really comforting mid-old-internet sense of humor that generally has been beaten to death but it’s very Portal 2-ian/Hitchhiker’s Guide-ian (a tone that reductively might be referred to as “Reddit”).
What’s most interesting to me about this webcomic is how it is at the same time a loving and unnecessarily period-accurate recreation of 1990s comic strips, and also so clearly fetish content. And both of those things remain true without diminishing one another. What is striking is how rare the fetish content is, making the webcomic not a vessel for it, but rather two things existing symbiotically. The author clearly has a thing for being submerged fully-clothed in bodies of water, and he presents that fetish tastefully and with a romantic bent. There’s like two strips where he shows boobs.
What’s most interesting to me about this webcomic is how it is at the same time a loving and unnecessarily period-accurate recreation of 1990s comic strips, and also so clearly fetish content. And both of those things remain true without diminishing one another. What is striking is how rare the fetish content is, making the webcomic not a vessel for it, but rather two things existing symbiotically. The author clearly has a thing for being submerged fully-clothed in bodies of water, and he presents that fetish tastefully and with a romantic bent. There’s like two strips where he shows boobs.
Feb 8, 2026