Animal Pens
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| Animal Pens | |
|---|---|
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| Author(s) | Skyfire |
| Website | |
| Update schedule | Weekly |
| Launch date | February 8, 2006 |
| End Date | Ongoing |
| Genre | Humor |
| Rating(s) |  |
Animal Pens is a slice-of-life webcomic created by Skyfire and updated roughly 1-3 times a month. The work is strongly influenced by 80s anthropomorphic cartoons such as The Raccoons, the Berenstain Bears and Maple Town. As of January 2008, the comic is updated every Thursday.
[edit] Premise
Animal Pens tells the story of a young fox named Bleu who lives in the Cedar Grove Forest, a large albeit fictitious forest located somewhere in North America. The energetic Bleu makes his living as an artist. Therefore, the title is a pun.
Bleu lives as a houseguest with his childhood friends, Warren and Lori Fox, a married couple. His impulsiveness often leads him into adventures and exploits, some of which get him in over his head. Warren and Lori act as voices of reason. Though they do get annoyed with Bleu's antics, they care about him a lot.
[edit] Other Characters
- Chaos, the cartoon's antagonist. He is a mole who is also a powerful warlock and his magic threatens to destroy and/or disrupt the Cedar Grove Forest. He is often at odds with the foxes. When Chaos first appeared, he was a sentient tree but consumed a potion to change his form. Chaos would debut in his mole form two days later.
- Seymour, Bleu's best friend, a skunk, and an apprentice wizard to Chaos. Being an apprentice to Chaos and a friend to Bleu will sometimes divide his loyalties. He is smarter but is rather introverted compared to Bleu. He also has confidence problems and since Seymour is still an apprentice, his magic doesn't always work.
- Dana, a female skunk and Seymour's girlfriend. She loves Seymour a lot but wishes he would stand up for himself more.
- Gordon, a snake who is a friend to the foxes. He also acts as a voice of reason to Bleu and is always there to listen when there's a problem.
[edit] Story Arcs
"The Basketball Game" - Chaos plots to build a temple to a dark god on the forest's basketball court. With the help of their friend, pro basketball player "Doctor" Erwin Josephus, the foxes challenge Chaos to a basketball game for ownership of the court. Chaos creates a team of golems to use while the Doctor summons his teammates from the Madville Firebirds.
"Rat Island" - When Bleu Fox disappears after exploring an island, his friends go in search of him and stumble across a tribe of rats. Can they find Bleu and escape?
