Goblin Hollow

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Goblin Hollow is a Furry Comic by Ralph E. Hayes (also known for Tales of the Questor and Nip and Tuck). It stars Ben Bruin, his wife Lily (a mountain lion), her younger sister Penny, and a septet of goblins (Sheldon, Velvet, Slick, Zoot, Mort, Gunther and Pif) that Ben inherited along with the old mansion they all live in.

In a previous incarnation, the comic was called "Under The Lemon Tree" and the goblins weren't goblins, but aspects of Ben's subconcious brought to life (Ex. Sheldon was his intelligence, Velvet his sensitivity, Mort his pessimism, etc.)

Found here.

Tropes used in Goblin Hollow include:

• Aborted Arc: There were hints of a Mysterious Past that would explain why someone of Ben's skills and intelligence was basically working as a janitor at a Woolworth's. This seems to have vanished along with the previous continuity.
• Author Appeal: RH Junior Ben is an unashamed gun "enthusiast".
• Author Avatar: Ben, originally
• Badass Boast: Ben has one toward old man Feldspar, seen here.
• Batter Up
• Bilingual Backfire
• Bilingual Bonus: Ben speaks Navajo (see Bilingual Backfire)
• Blah Blah Blah: An interesting variation found in this ^{[dead link]} strip.
• Boxed Crook
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Or in Penny's case, "Teenage Sister."
  • Actually, I think Hayes was trying to portray her as seriously troubled, but didn't know how to convey this to a broader audience due to the Values Dissonance discussed below. Unless he believes that most teens today are seriously troubled.
• Captain Ersatz: Ookami Lobo: Totally not The Joker.
• Character Development: An odd case. When Penny first arrived, she was very much the Bratty Teenage Sister described above. But as time went on, we saw instances of her playing nice with the other kids, showing more good grace ^{[dead link]} about helping out around the arcade, moments of real humor ^{[dead link]} and, most importantly, ferocious protectiveness of her family. Most of the fandom saw her as having matured out of Bratty Teenage Sister and into a Grumpy Bear with some Deadpan Snarker tendencies and a Mama Bear right beneath the surface. The cartoonist, however, still saw her as an ill-behaved brat who needed to A) be brought up short with the kind of real discipline she's never had before, and B) get the Dead Little Sister issues at the root of her troubled personality dealt with.
• Christmas Special: Not in D&D thank you kindly. ^{[dead link]}
• Continuity Reboot: The comic dropped UTLT's Life Embellished tone to more supernatural hijinks, to the point where the older strips were redrawn to give the menagerie their goblin wings.
• Crossover: With Schlock Mercenary - though that turned out to be All Just a Dream.
  • And Ben decided to take the family to the Malarky County Fair.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Penny confronting a modern-day ^{[dead link]} money-changer in the temple, even if she doesn't quite manage to drive him out. See Values Dissonance, though.
• Curse
• Did Not Do the Research: Home pregnancy tests will tick over to positive about an hour after use, regardless of proper results. The test Zoot found in Penny's trash wouldn't necessarily indicate pregnancy by the time he found it.
  • In another instance, Ben Bruin tells a peace protester that her peace sign looks like the logo of a Nazi panzer regiment. The regiment was using the old rune Algiz which is sort of like saying that the Mercedes logo looks like the letter "Y".
• Express Delivery: Lily goes from "not even showing" to "about to drop" in the space of two panels (via lampshaded Time Skip).
• Disobey This Message
• For Halloween I Am Going as Myself: Walk about freely. It's covered
• Girl Goblins Have Cooties (And boys are weird.)
• Good People Have Good Sex: Those in the comic who have unmarried sex lives are of questionable moral character, at best.
  • And the good people have really good sex.
• Good Shepherd
• Gosh Dang It to Heck: Another Hayes staple
• Half-Human Hybrid
• Haunted House: Which Ben converted into an old-school arcade.
• Heartwarming Orphan
• Hypocrite: The Neighborhood Watch, among others. When they complain about Ben's building, he proves that all of them have extended their own buildings onto his property.
• Indian Burial Ground: Subverted, it's an ancient Indian garbage dump.
• Innocent Cohabitation: Lily briefly moved in with Ben for protection, in earlier strips.
• Interspecies Romance
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique - here.
• Literally Shattered Lives - The gargoyles, goblins' natural predators.
• Mama Bear
• The Medic
• Obvious Pregnancy: Invoked, and subverted
• Our Goblins Are Wickeder
• Overprotective Dad
• Papa Wolf
• Parental Abandonment: You can argue about whether sending Penny to stay with her sister counts or not, but if their parents couldn't guess (or if they did guess, they didn't warn Lily and Ben) that maybe, possibly, in theory, it was not inconceivable that Penny's issues just might have at least some of their source in her best friend's suicide, they were pretty useless anyway.
• Staying with Friends
• Title Drop: "Little sis… welcome to Goblin Hollow ^[dead link] ."
• You All Meet in a Cell: After the players complained that meeting in an inn was too cliche.
• Uncle Pennybags: Ben was able to start his arcade due to an inheritance from his Uncle Phineas(a Shout-Out to P.T.Barnum)... who rather than leaving him money, left him his extensive collection... of arcade games.