Poppy

Poppy 7, page 33

In which Poppy has to consider an uncomfortable possibility.

Poppy 7, page 32

In which Poppy and Friedrich engage in completely normal friend behavior.

Poppy 7, page 31

In which Poppy knows how it feels to lose people.

Poppy 7, page 30

In which I begin to regret giving Flora a wacky tweaked alphabet.

You can read a clean transcript of the letter on the website , if need be.

Poppy 7, page 29

In which a dangerous dame walks into Poppy's office.

Poppy 7, page 28

In which we have one last little fun time montage.

Poppy 7, page 27

In which Kit's got bells on the mind.

Poppy 7, page 26

In which Poppy develops a devastating new technique.

Poppy 7, page 25

In which Friedrich has a drawer full of babies we're just supposed to not think about.

Poppy 7, page 24

In which we get to see Operation Mousehouse in action.

Worldbuilding Wednesday #11: Teleportation

Teleportation is the most common of the complex magicks, used as the primary means of transportation for most people.

There are many different forms of teleportation, but they all follow the same general concept. First, a destination is designated, either by choosing a predetermined signal or by transmitting a signal to the desired location. A pocket of magical space disconnected from physical space is created between those two locations, and the user or cargo passes through it. Sometimes the ...

Poppy 7, page 23

In which I'm feeling less sick but not completely not sick.

Poppy 7, page 22

In which Lala's PR team has long since embraced her tendency to break things in entertaining ways.

Poppy 7, page 21

In which I save the person who makes all of the hyper-realistic photo edits of the comic some time and effort.

Worldbuilding Wednesday #10: Funzie Frogo

I went through like, five drafts describing the Floran internet before hitting a wall and realizing it really wasn't that interesting a topic once you get all the communications history out of the way. 

They have about the same chaotic mess of an internet we have, but there's a lot more animal puns, I guess.

Something that actually is interesting: TV SHOWS

Funzie Frogo  is an Anuran c...

Poppy 7, page 20

In which they spend the next ten minutes amazed at Hopperfield's terrifying ability to magically guess their card.

Poppy 7, page 19

In which this character wasn't written with assistants until I played the last Ace Attorney game.

Poppy 7, page 18

In which Poppy sets a tone.

Poppy 7, page 17

In which I shamelessly reuse a joke I made on Twitter like two years ago.

Poppy 7, page 16

In which relationships have their ups and downs.

Poppy 7, page 15

In which Petunia plays hardball.

Worldbuilding Wednesday #9: Communication

The earliest forms of long-distance communication on Flora were about what you'd expect, crude mail and courier systems that were slow, inconvenient, and unreliable. Many major conflicts began because of a slight miscommunication that couldn't be cleared up, as they often do. Magic was not well understood at this time, and very few species, such as the bats, had the ability to naturally infuse it into their messages, giving them a major edge over their competing cultures. 

It wasn't until...

Poppy 7, page 14

In which this is clearly not the first time Poppy's had to reset her jaw.

Poppy 7, page 13

In which Petunia's usual anger management routine isn't quite doing it.

Poppy 7, page 12

In which Chicadino is trying to be more conscious of the fact that black and red makes you look SUPER evil.

Poppy 7, page 11

In which I channel my 6-year-old drawing abilities.

Worldbuilding Wednesday #8: Videogames

Awesome Games Done Quick '17 is running as we speak, so it only seems appropriate to discuss the computer entertainment industry of Flora.

An ongoing trait of Flora's technological advances is its abstract path development when compared to ours, as the addition of magic leads to certain... shortcuts that would not obviously occur to us. For instance, teleportation and hologram interfaces via charms have been commonplace for them for centuries, whereas the concept of escalators and fullcolor li...

Worldbuilding Wednesday #7: Souls and Ghosts

Souls

In the Poppy universe, souls are a tangible concept that have been proven to exist and can be rendered visible to the naked eye via magic. There are NOT magical in nature, however, and opossums do not exert any influence over them.

When most people think about souls, they think of some singular mass representing an individual, but this is a highly misguided view. A living creature usually contains, at any given moment, somewhere between 50,000 to 70,000 so...

Wallpaper #1: Dec 2016

The first wallpaper update. You can download both an HD 16:9 resolution and a Standard 4:3 resolution with the provided attachments.

Thank you for supporting the comic, and have a Happy New Year!

Snow Thanks 2016 Special (FULL), news

The Poppy 2016 Holiday Special short story is now finished and compiled on one page.

Enjoy reading!

For $3 and up patrons, the first wallpaper update will be going up tomorrow.

For everyone else, there will be a short break from all Poppy updates until the New Years while I get over a cold. Thank you for supporting the comic.

-I. Everett.