Blank It
is a webcomic by Annette Pew note and Aric McKeown. It follows two amnesiac author avatars as they wander what is mostly a blank white landscape, dotted with increasingly bizarre locations, technologies, and civilizations.
Currently on Series Hiatus, and as of 2025, the strip has been taken offline and replaced with a series of essays about webcomic-creation. Thus, any links below are broken; the first strip in the comic can be found on the Internet Archive here.
Meanwhile, the authors have started up a Tumblr webcomic called Kaleiope.
Provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: This strip, titled "Alert: Alliteration Ahead". Appropriately, the dialogue revolves around the letter P, granting the strip Added Alliterative Appeal.
- Amusing Injuries: People certainly get their hands chopped off a lot.
- Applied Phlebotinum: Hand Juice, used for re-growing hands.
- Author Avatar: When assigning themselves names, the characters come up with the names of the comic's creators.
- Blah, Blah, Blah: The about page.
- According to Google translate, that page is in Irish.
- Body Horror: Chapter 1's hand juice incident is fairly tame as these things go, but Chapter 2 gets bodily horrifying right quick.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: "We'll be the rulers! The kings! The rulers of kings!"
- Brick Joke: Many, many examples of this, due to the cyclical nature of the comic world.
- B Side Story: "Spilling the Beans", the intermission after Chapter 1, tells the tale of how one superhero deals with his secret identity being revealed. It's really a plan by his brother- the real superhero- to defeat his arch-nemesis, the Stare Master.
- Cosmic Playthings: Aric and Lemmo, most certainly.Aric: "What are the odds of us having any say in how this turns out?"Lemmo: "I'd say a one in higher-than-I-can-count chance. It'll bother you less if you think of it as a ride."
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: "If you ruin this moment with existentialism, I'm going to cut through your optic nerve with my molars and bury my pants in your eye sockets."
- Erudite Stoner: Definitely Lemmo's archetype. Random and seemingly childish at times, but capable of surprising wisdom when it's called for.Lemmo: [Regarding the inexplicable nature of their universe] It'll bother you less if you think of it as a ride.
- Goofy Print Underwear: Both Aric (polka dots) and Lemmo (Space Invaders).
- Healing Potion: Hand juice counts!
- Humongous Mecha: The Cookie Kingdom castle, which charges after Aric and Lemmo. Who else defends them than a swarm of trap robots which form a mecha to rival it.
- Ignored Enemy: Pericles upon his return. Until mutant-top-half-Lemmo picks a fight with him. And gets sliced up for his efforts.
- I Take Offense to That Last One: In this strip.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The pilot bugs use insults as a power source for their ship's rear lights. When someone goes off on an especially nasty tirade, the light produced is bright enough to obscure their speech bubbles.
- Ontological Mystery: The driving point of the comic, as is usually the impact of this trope.
- Reality Is Out to Lunch: At the start of Chapter 2, Lemmo and Aric find themselves in a looping universe, which stops looping once Lemmo realizes it does so. It then re-orients itself vertically, and squeezes our heroes into goo through the gaps of a wooden floor.
- Revenge: Pericles wants it upon our heroes because they gave him a name, and thus disgraced him in front of his community of unnameables.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Aric has these here.
- Aric also has an earlier example here.
- Aric also has an earlier example here.
- Shout-Out: For example, the strip titled "Rising Against".
- Shovel Strike: Silly Aric, shovels are for digging!
- Took a Level in Badass: Pericles, with matching beard too. It makes up for being an initially Ignored Enemy.
- White Void Room: Also known as the "canvas".
- The Worm That Walks: Made up of tiny robots.
- Wild Mass Guessing: Not on TVtropes itself, but in the webcomic wiki. Their WMG page explicitly notes that it was named for the TVtropes pages.