Let's Create A Connected Comics Universe

[Donald Darf]

This doesn't necessarily have to be about superheroes, mainly just a shared setting containing a bunch of different comicbook series ideas that occaisonally interact with eachother

Rule 1: You can post up to 5 ideas about the setting, once you do, you must wait until someone else posts before you continue
Rule 2: All facts are canon unless they contradict the rules or previously established facts
Rule 3: This is supposed to be a comics universe, any cool or interesting stuff have be related to different comic storylines, crossovers, et cetera, you can't have a Werewolf running around without them being a character in one of these comic storylines

I'll start us off

1: Downtown Damnation is a storyline about one Marella Lacrois, who discovers shes got blood relations to a powerful crime family with demonic ancestry, one of multiple groups called the Infernal Houses, descended from daemonologists that immigrated from Europe
Now she has to figure out her weird new demonic powers which make her want to barf cause she really doesn't like how much gore her abilities use, navigate cut-throat half-demon politics, and keep herself alive and sane throughout it all

2: Roommates is a absurdist comedy comic series mainly just detailing random shenanigans in the lives of 3 roommates that share the same apartment
Knife Ghost: A random spectral entity wearing a sheet and highheels alongside carrying a knife, somehow the straightman of the group, a horror movie enthusiast
Goonsly Mcgee: A green skinned man dressed like a mobster, helpful, agreeable, easily manipulated, and tends to go along with crazy stuff other people suggest, a common gag is him knowing lots about economics, he does their taxes
Chuck: A haunted dummy that keeps on tricking people, hatching schemes, and generally trying to take advantage of everyone and everything, basically useless beyond gaslighting, gatekeeping, or girlbossing

3: In Downtown Damnation, there are multiple times during various scenes taking place on the street where the 3 main characters of Roommates are seen in the background as a easter egg, just doing random stuff like grocery shopping, drinking coffee, or just watching one of the fights with confusion
There was a christmas special where Goonsly and Marella actually fought over a christmas present that was on sale at the mall, which ended with the gift being split in half and them having to wrap up their halves as gifts

4: THE BEAST BEHEADED, a horror thriller series about a former PMC contract killer named Pasha Irakliy, betrayed by his colleagues and left for dead in the russian wilderness after he messed up one of their missions, he encounters a strange wolfman forest spirit and accidentally cuts off it's head by knocking a big sharp rock onto their neck
Now cursed to be forever pursued by the now headless beast, he uses the creature's severed head, capable of releasing howls that blow away tanks, biting through steel, and sniffing out anything no matter the distance to hunt down his former colleagues before the beast gets its due

5: Starstruck is a fantasy storyline about a world of bird people that use star magic that takes place in a universe that is 0.5 dimensions away from the Earth of the main setting (A common joke is that Chuck's toothbrushes, which frequently go missing as a running gag in Roommates, keep teleporting to the land of Starstruck, cause the mc of that storyline has a small collection of the "Mysterious featherbrushes")
The main character is a young small Owl person named Hootley, last of the Owl Clan who is trying to stop the Sparrow Clan's plans to take over other weaker Clans

Magic in the land of Startstruck is related to stars, each star is made of wishes, you invoke their names either by speaking them, handsigning them, writing them, interpretive dancing them, morse coding them, or some other way to get what you want, most of the time the results are weak unless the star's wish matches what you truly want within you
Hootley mainly uses scrying spells cause he invokes the names of stars with wishes of knowledge-based stuff, which helps him find directions to new allies and helpful tools on his quest to stop the Sparrow Clan

 

[Humaan]

1. In Downtown Damnation, whenever a story involves a lot of research into the nature of demons, the wolfman forest spirit from THE BEAST BEHEADED occasionally appears as a background picture in one of the books. Going further, all depictions of the wolfman before the release of THE BEAST BEHEADED always depict it with its head, while all appearances after will always have its head missing.

2. In THE BEAST BEHEADED, background images with birds will always depict an owl, along with birds corresponding to Hootley's current allies in Starstruck as an allusion to their allies. Conversely, if a scene depicts a bunch of sparrows, one of Pasha's former colleagues tends to be nearby.

3. Nemesis Sun is a sci-fi thriller series, set in a decaying space station slowly approaching the titular Nemesis Sun, a red and black star that dominates any background images from outside the station. The main character, a disk-like flying robot named Elmsley, is trying to fix up the station to ultimately escape, while other maddened robots and forgotten experiments impede their mission.

4. In Starstruck, occasionally the Sparrows call upon the "Nemesis Star", which looks very similar to the Nemesis Sun when it appears. When invoked, the star warps an individual into a frightening monster based on their nature. Hootley and allies then have to use their intelligence and magic to outwit the snarling monster, usually with great difficulty. Thankfully, the star itself only transforms the caster of the spell, though the more aligned the star was to the caster, the smarter the monsters seem to be.

5. A small story arc in Roommates has Goonsly purchase an unintelligent robot similar to Nemesis Sun's Elmsley from a mad scientist, who touted its ability to do chores. The robot, dubbed "Oaksley" by Goonsly, rapidly angers both Knife Ghost and Chuck by attempting to "clean" them, who decide to try and get rid of it. Despite their attempts, Oaksley manages to escape any trap they set for it, usually by sheer luck or by one of its "secret features". At the end of the arc, they finally manage to get it to the dump, where it is ultimately seen flying away into the night.