Coming Up Violet

Coming Up Violet is a Furry Comic written and created by Brian Daniel and illustrated by Misty Caldwell (background art by Kevin), and the sequel to Fur Will Fly. The comic also was a spinoff, switching the focus from Brad and his antics to Violet Oaks and her circle of friends in high school.

A more consistent art style leads this comic to be better than the original graphically. It's also way more PC. However, the artist and the writer had a falling out leading to the comic being canceled and taken down. The canceling didn't last long as the artist continued the comic on May 17th, 2010 with a new writer (Bombur). Looks like things turned out okay after all.

Tropes used in Coming Up Violet include:

• Art Evolution
• Barefoot Cartoon Animals: All the characters except Brad and Dawn.
• Batman in My Basement
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Bishie Sparkle: Lampshaded. ^{[dead link]}
• The Chessmaster: Abby
• Cloudcuckoolander: Brad and his daughter.
• Contemplate Our Navels: Why are we here? Brad doesn't know exactly, but he does know that he and Dawn are there for a purpose.
• Cousin Oliver: Dawn is the second human in the comic and a rare example of this trope done well.
• The Dark Side
• Defrosting Ice Queen: It's less of a defrosting and more of an evaporation, but you get the general idea.
• Diary: The title character keeps one of these, and it's used as the intro for the comic proper.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The pretty boy Jerk Jock who spreads lies of memetic proportions about his and Violet's completely non-existent sexual escapades is on the school's lacrosse team.
• The Dog Bites Back: Abby doesn't like being abused.
• Domestic Abuse: Not the spouse-on-spouse kind, but still . . .
• Enemy Mine: Racquel and Wendyl
• Et Tu, Brute?
• Everytown, America
• Fan Service: Misty once drew three two of the male characters in swim trunks.
• Fish Out of Water: Dawn
• Furry Confusion: One of the filler comics showed that Melody owns two dogs.
• Gender Equals Breed: Slightly subverted in that every cross-species example seems to take after the mother, regardless of sex
• The Girl Behind The Girl: Abby helps keep Racquel popular, in exchange for immunity from taunting by Racquel's group.
• Go-Go Enslavement: Page owns one of the classic examples of this trope for use in her and Brad's bedroom games.
  • The roles latter get reversed between Brad and Page as to who's wearing it.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: Violet has two of these, both modeled after the classic Warner Brothers versions of the trope.
• Good Samaritan: Violet is quickly becoming the Anthropomorphic Personification [no pun intended] of this trope.
• Groin Attack: See "Wedgie Messiah"
• Half-Human Hybrid: Beatrice, Brad and Page's daughter, who has her mother's species and gender, and her father's . . . everything else.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: Very much subverted with the school bullies.
• High School
• Hoist by His Own Petard
• Interspecies Romance
  • Bat/Rhino
  • Human/Mouse (yeah, they're still around)
  • Cat/Squirrel/Bat/Chinchilla Love Dodecahedron
• Jerkass
• Jerk Jock
• Kids Are Cruel
• Law of Disproportionate Response
• Like Father Like Daughter
• Love Dodecahedron
• Malicious Slander
• Maligned Mixed Marriage: Brad and Page, complete with the various difficulties of said trope. Most of those difficulties usually turn out to be trying to hide Brad's real identity (he's an alien from a Mirror Universe), while also resulting in a lot of Angst? What Angst? at the same time due to Brad's Cloudcuckoolander nature.
• Medium Awareness: In strip 231, posted on 8/30/2010, Brad contemplates why he and Dawn were sent to the comic's universe. In the full version posted on Misty's DA profile he concludes that not only is there a higher power guiding their lives but that there's a good chance that the world is just a template with certain differences being like toys in a game of make believe, thus hanging a colossal lampshade on the entire writing process and fiction in general in the process.
• Naive Everygirl: Oh so very much subverted and played straight with Abby.
• Neat Freak: Melody, who prefers to keep everything organized.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Skylar was perfectly happy pseudo-dating Melody, then his best friend Wendyl reminded him that he had originally started hanging out with her to get to her friend Violet.
• No Biochemical Barriers: Brad and Page's daughter
• Only One Name: Besides Brad's family there's also the background artist for the comic, Kevin.
• Out-Gambitted
• Parental Substitute
• Promoted Fangirl: Misty Caldwell started out as a fan of the original comic and is the illustrator; she still claims to be a fan and dislikes spoilers.
• Schedule Slip: Because of the details of Misty's work the comic usually doesn't get the chance to update.
• Shout-Out: The 2009 Halloween filler featured Melody and Violet as characters from Team Fortress 2 [the Sniper and Scout respectively], which makes sense considering that Misty is a fan ^{[dead link]}.
• Spin-Off: Of Fur Will Fly.
• Squee
• Staying with Friends
• Straw Feminist: Subverted: Violet does not want to be the Wedgie Messiah.
• Studio Audience: Played for laughs ^{[dead link]}. Literally!
• Super OCD: Melody; it certainly doesn't help that she's a chinchilla.
• Third Person Person
• Triang Relations
• Uncanceled: It's aliiive!
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Subverted: Skylar's step-dad really tries to be a good parent.