Anders Loves Maria

Anders Loves Maria is a webcomic by Rene Engstrom about the lives of Anders von Silfersked and Maria Holm, starting from the time they decided to have a baby. Take Finagle's Law, Dial it Up to Eleven, toss in a Love Dodecahedron, and as a finishing touch sprinkle Swedish royalty on top. Began 9/11/2006, ended 2/5/2010.

It can be found here. Spoiler Alert!!!

The first page. Start here.

Tropes used in Anders Loves Maria include:

• Art Evolution
• The Alcoholic: The Holm parents
• All Love Is Unrequited
• The Baby Trap: Tina does this in an attempt to hold onto Anders, hiding the fact that she's miscarried
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Johnan.
• Bi the Way: Anna and Madame Von Silfersked
• Bittersweet Ending
• Bottle Fairy: Maria, pre-pregnancy
• Butt Monkey: Anders, Maria, really anyone who gets involved in this hurricane.
• The Casanova: Anders, to the misfortune of Maria and most suitors
• Convenient Miscarriage Tina with Anders
• Dead Guy, Junior: The younger Maria.
• Death by Childbirth
• Dogged Nice Guy: Bjorn to Maria
• Driven to Suicide: Tina
• Fan Disservice: Anders sleeping with Little Shit. It seems implied that they don't actually have sex; Anders just needs to cuddle. Still.
  • Anders' aged mother sitting around without a shirt is certainly not put in for titillation.
• Finagle's Law
• Fridge Brilliance: The title.
• Funetik Aksent: In flashbacks, Maria's thick northern Swedish accent is represented in English by a phonetic representation of a Yorkshire accent.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted: Tina goes through with the procedure as a teenager. According to Rene, Maria also had one with Bjorn
• Has Two Mommies: Played with. Anders does not approve of his mother's new lover.

Anna: I'm going to be a grandma.
Anders: No you bloody well aren't!

• Identical Daughter: Aside from Anders's hair color, Maria looks and has a similar mannerism to her mother Maria.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Johan and Bjorn are classic examples. Anders (usually) means well, but poor impulse control paired with worse personal judgement gets you here.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Johan to Maria, having had to look after her since childhood.
• Ladykiller in Love: Anders to Maria
• Longest Pregnancy Ever: Maria is pregnant for nearly all of the comic's run.
• Love Dodecahedron: Anders
  • Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content suggested the title "Anders Has Sex With Everyone".
• Noodle People: A single character example: Anna is unrealistically thin compared to the other characters.
• Series Hiatus: Every now and then.
• Slice of Life
• Social Services Does Not Exist: Averted; Johan and Maria were placed in a foster home as children due to neglect.
• Twist Ending: Anders does love Maria, his daughter.
  • He does truly love Maria, his girlfriend, it's just... complicated.
• Wham! Episode: The ending caught a lot of people off guard.