Crescent Blue is a webcomic created by Kenneth Lopez Jnr.
It concerns the adventures of a young anthropomorphic dog by the name of Scamp as he battles various evil foes. Of course, it turns out that he is not actually a dog at all, but the last surviving member of an ancient species of super-wolves called Lunites. Among other things, it also concerns his relationship with his eternally frustrated father Ken and his burgeoning romance with a young Saluki girl named Sarah.
The webcomic, which began on 25 June 2021, and is still ongoing, can be found here
, here and here. Update is somewhat irregular, as the artist often postpones new installments in order to focus on properly refining his art. Impatient readers are also free to catch up with the later installments of the series on Lopez's DeviantArt account.
The author, a former animation student, also creates animatics and animations featuring the characters; they can be found here, here and here respectively.
This webcomic provides examples of the following tropes:
- Alpha Bitch: Malyssa, Sarah's rival, is an example of this trope. In a scene towards the end of the first chapter of the comic, Sarah vents her frustrations about her in a very profane manner, before being told by Scamp that she should make an effort to stand up to her.
- Ambiguous Time Period: It is not exactly stated when the comic takes place, but the fact that modern technology is absent from the setting for the most part indicates that it takes place in an epoch prior to the present day. The usage of cassette players and the mention of Stan Bush's The Touch appears to imply that it is at least the '90s onwards. However, the presence of a record showing Scamp's date of birth is 1942 appears to indicate that it takes place during the 1950s.
- Amazonian Beauty: Sarah's older sister Vicky is an example of this trope — in fact, she also works at a garage and regularly trains herself in martial arts. Scamp's deceased mother Julia, according to supplementary art, was also one.
- Animesque: The series is drawn in an artstyle very reminiscent of the late Akira Toriyama's work and the narrative itself utilises a lot of shounen tropes and archetypes.
- The Big Rotten Apple: The series takes place in New York, which, prior to the start of the comic, had been "dominated" by the Royal Felines. Unlike most examples of this trope, the series largely doesn't take place within the main New York area but instead within the suburbs around it.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Julia was apparently a very supportive mother and wife when she was still alive.
- Expy: Scamp appears to resemble the character of the same name from the Lady and the Tramp films, and his father appears to resemble Tramp. Despite having perused the films, Lopez denies that any similarities were intentional.
- Final Battle-Induced Shirt Loss: Scamp's T-shirt gets blasted off towards the climax of the first chapter by a member of the Royal Felines, revealing that he is, in fact, muscular despite being only ten years of age.
- Immune to Bullets: Scamp, as it turns out, is impervious to bullets, which is why being shot in the head by Vicky didn't hurt him in the slightest. That said, as he clarifies, they are still painful. Vicky expresses ardent scepticism about this, and confesses to initially believing that he was an espionage robot sent by the Russians.
- Kid Hero: Scamp is around 10 years of age by the time the story starts.
- Large and in Charge: The leader of the Royal Felines just so happens to be the size of a giant.
- Last of His Kind: Scamp, as it turns out is the last known surviving member of a species of superpowered wolves known as Lunites, which were believed to have gone extinct during the earliest stages of human history. This is evidenced by the crescent moon shaped mark on his forehead, which occasionally appears.
- Love at First Sight: Scamp falls in love with Sarah the very second he lays eyes on her. He's still gushing about her prior to the very next time he encounters her.
- Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: The webcomic appears to take place within a world where humans and anthropomorphic animals live side by side. Nobody appears to comment much upon it, though.
- Living Toys: Luna, a sentient plush doll who resides with Scamp's family. Ken apparently purchased her from a kind of wandering shop, and apparently disbelieved in the fact that she was a living sentient being.
- The Mafia: The Royal Felines are this trope.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Vicky almost says this trope word-for-word after she shoots Scamp, thinking that she accidentally killed him. It turns out he's alright.
- Puppy Love: No pun intended. Scamp falls in love with Sarah when he first meets her, despite being merely ten years of age, and by the end of the first chapter, Sarah reciprocates.
- Tomboy: Sarah is one. Indeed, she attends a Catholic girls' school, but participates in association football, and often wears clothes which are not considered feminine.
- Working-Class Hero: Scamp's father Ken works in a factory, and the family resides in a small flat in a municipal flat block of the sort to which the working-class are typically accustomed.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Being a mere child, the letter Scamp writes to his father in the second chapter prior to going out to meet Sarah is full of misspellings and typos.
