Comics tagged with 'contemporary setting'

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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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    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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    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: True Colors is a comedy, drama, and coming of age story about new beginnings and personal growth. A room assignment mixup on the first day of Trueman University's freshman orientation thrusts four incoming college students together, catalyzing new friendships and conflicts. Iro, Kit, Ben, and Sonia are all looking forward to fresh starts, but first they must face their pasts, futures, personal demons, and family legacies as they figure out who they want to be for the next stage of their lives.
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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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    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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    Specialities include visitations, disappearances, compulsions, manifestations, transformations and removal of uninvited guests.
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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.