#ace webcomics

Way back when I did a bunch of short ace webcomic reviews, I said that I didn’t see any ace content in Title Unrelated, despite it having the ace tag, and the author saying there was an ace character.  Well, Title Unrelated went on hiatus, and when it restarted I couldn’t remember what was going on.  So I rebooted my comic rocket feed, and I’m rereading it one per day.

And how did I miss this?  The ace character is obviously Twapa.  I must have skimmed the first few chapters before or something.

In Supernormal Step’s creator commentary, Mike discusses the choice to make Fiona explicitly identify as aromantic asexual.  He says in his research, he found that the list of explicit asexual characters was very short, and the list of characters who could potentially be interpreted as asexual was very long.  He didn’t want the comic to be in the longer list.

Also, apparently some straight guy on his forums complained extensively about the choice to make it explicit.  The guy said that if he were gay he wouldn’t go around telling everybody.  Mike said that’s part of the reason he closed the forums.

I wouldn’t call it erotica, but there are a couple webcomics I read with sexual content & themes, which I later discovered have aro & ace authors.  Namely, Rainbow Mansion by @wandaluvstacos and Demon of the Underground by @bob-artist.  It’s funny, they’re not written for aces specifically, and I wasn’t reading because I thought they were written by or for aces--I just read some gay comics, with sexual content ranging from none at all to erotica.

Earlier, Sara gave me the idea of writing about tropes that appear in ace webcomics.  Suddenly I feel that this is a great idea.  What tropes would I talk about?

-The queer ensemble cast -The ace/non-ace relationship -The asexual explanation scene -The internet research montage -Ace by word of god -Modeling polite behavior