Random webcomic question

[brooksmoses]

It just occurred to me that, of the half-dozen-or-so webcomics that I'm regularly reading these days that have storylines, exactly none of them have chosen to include the present pandemic in their storylines in the past year.

Admittedly, there are only a couple of them that are set in approximately the present day (and both of them have fantasy / science-fiction elements that make it not precisely our present day, and both of them also move at a pace of a few weeks of story-time per real-time year), so this isn't too surprising.

Nonetheless, I'm curious: Are there any webcomics that you all follow that have the pandemic showing up in their storylines, or being reflected there in some fictional-setting-appropriate way? And how well do you think it's working for them?

Comments

[artan]

Something Positive is more real-world current-timeline and does. Seems to be working well.

[sraun]

Kevin and Kell is in pandemic lockdown, and have been most of the year.

[noahgibbs]

Weirdly, Penny Arcade spent months doing pandemic-flavoured comics - the two main characters are talking on the phone or online together, or once one comes over in a hazmat suit in an emergency. But, like, Tycho will make a "Gabe" with a pac-man shirt on a broom with googly eyes and his phone mounted on it, that kind of thing.

Eventually, after enough weeks, this stopped being funny to the authors who finished up with a sort of grand finale to say they were done drawing social distanced comics, even if they were still doing that in reality.

[baratron]

Leif and Thorn has had two pandemic stories: Quarantine with the Vampire and Quarantine with the Vampire (Part 2). These stories are their fantasy world's version of a pandemic rather than what we're actually going through. They're definitely making very strong parallels, though.