Comics tagged with 'contemporary setting'

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    Title Unrelated
    Creator(s): G. Pike
    Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
    Content Warnings: violence/blood
    Update Schedule: Alternate Mondays/Sporadic

    Summary: When their sister goes missing, a queer family must travel to another world to find her - but what else will they discover along the way?
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    True Colors
    True Colors
    Creator(s): Tripp Gustin
    Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
    Content Warnings: blood/injury, domestic abuse, homophobia, racism, transphobia, violence
    Update Schedule: Tuesdays

    Summary: It's the first day of freshman orientation at Trueman University, and Iro, Kit, Ben, and Sonia are all looking forward to fresh starts. But when a room assignment mix-up throws their plans into disarray, they're forced to reexamine their relationships, confront their pasts, and dig more deeply into who they want to be for the next stage of their lives. Their dorm's R.A. is eager to help whether they like it or not. At least there's free pizza!
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    Damsels Don't Wear Glasses
    Damsels Don't Wear Glasses
    Creator(s): J. Alice Bown
    Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Urban Fantasy
    Content Warnings: none listed
    Update Schedule: Tuesdays

    Summary: Damsels Don't Wear Glasses is an action/urban fantasy series set in a city populated by mythical creatures and magic. It follows a tough, dry-humored woman named Lave Faraday, who spends her days investigating and occasionally fighting rogue magic-users and necromancers. After taking down a horde of zombies (slightly unusual for a Monday), Lave is tasked with looking after a 12-year-old boy named Jake for reasons no-one will tell her.
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    Sun Princess
    Sun Princess
    Creator(s): Georgia Henderson
    Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Urban Fantasy
    Content Warnings: cartoon violence, racism
    Update Schedule: Release Chapter at a Time

    Summary: CURSED to faint anytime she gets anxious, Alizetti "Zettie" Alarcon feels trapped in her fears. Determined to make something of herself, the young girl decides to apply to a competitive school for... monster hunting?! While terrified to make eye contact with humans, she's NOT afraid of what lurks in the dark!!
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    Black Market Magic
    Black Market Magic
    Creator(s): Emily Brady
    Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
    Content Warnings: fantasy violence, hate speech
    Update Schedule: Sporadic

    Summary: Kim is a human unregistered magic user. As the government of England uses its state-sponsored magical girl army "The Soldiers of Fortune" to persecute non-humans, she, her girlfriend, her grouchy Fey mentor, and a Werewolf girl who just wants to order pizza form an unlikely resistance cell in the suburbs of London. A dark satire of the magical-girl genre, set in a contemporary dystopia.
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    Crossed Wires
    Crossed Wires
    Creator(s): IrisJay
    Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
    Content Warnings: cyber crime, discussion of dysphoria+dysmorphia, drug use, late stage capitalism, sexual harrassment, strong language, transphobia, violence real and simulated
    Update Schedule: Sporadic

    Summary: Alan, alias "Ultra Drakken", is a hotshot young hacker-- or at least he thinks he is. But when he crosses paths with mysterious cyber-activist Theresa (aka "Vrrmn"), he enters a world of danger and deceit. Can Drakken and Vrrmn save the grid? Can they even keep from terminating each other? CROSSED WIRES is an action-packed comic about queer identity and community, set in an all-too-familiar dystopian cyberpunk present!
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    Puppeteer
    Puppeteer
    Creator(s): Eightfish
    Genre(s): Drama, Urban Fantasy
    Content Warnings: none listed
    Update Schedule: Sundays

    Summary: A self-proclaimed minor goddess offers Eli the ability to leave his body and take control of people.
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    Corner the Maze
    Corner the Maze
    Creator(s): Morgan Lees
    Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
    Content Warnings: blood/gore, violence
    Update Schedule: Completed - no more updates

    Summary: Corner the Maze is a black-and-white urban fantasy comic following Chimalli Ram?rez Zapotitla, a racing driver who finds himself stranded in another dimension after veering off track during a sudden rain storm. He's not sure whether he hit the wall or actually went through the strange glowing green portal, but either way, he's determined to fight his way back home and finish the race. The second volume deals with the aftermath of the first.
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    Spare Keys for Strange Doors
    Spare Keys for Strange Doors
    Creator(s): Lucy Lyall
    Genre(s): Comedy, Horror, Slice of Life, Urban Fantasy
    Content Warnings: death
    Update Schedule: Biweekly

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