Webcomic / Bury Everyone

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Bury Everyone is a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy webcomic created by OneGrumpyLumpy and published on Newgrounds since October 2023. It is a rework of Death Clown, which ended in February of that year. The webcomic follows Epper, an undertaker who becomes fused to an undead monster.

As sprout attacks become more numerous, Epper begins to realize the true extent of the power she's been endowed and just how difficult it is to bring change to a corrupted and broken world.

Following the release of the third chapter, the comic received its own website at buryeveryone.au where it's available in both English and Spanish.

Bury Everyone contains examples of:

• 20 Minutes into the Future: Downplayed. Despite taking place in the 2120s, technology hasn't progressed since the 21st century, effectively being frozen by the outbreak shown in early flashbacks.
• Abandoned Area: Epper's old school.
• After the End: The prologues of the first and second chapter take place a century before the main events of the comic, showing a world ravaged by the monstrous sprouts.
• Apocalypse Not: Civilzation seems to have (mostly) bounced back from the outbreak of sprouts shown in flashback.
• Arc Words: variations on "I see through all of them" are uttered by certain characters.
• Bloodier and Gorier: More grotesque than its predecessor.
• Body Horror: Epper becomes the main source of this after her infusion. Some panels of her using her powers can get pretty gnarly.
• Country Matters: Voca calls out a fellow party-goer for not having the courage to drop a C-bomb.
• Crapsack World: Death in Bury Everyone is treated as matter-of-fact and quickly forgotten, with scenes of horrific gore littering streets and characters reacting as if it's no big deal (granted, many of them are dedicated to the trade of removing said bodies). There's even infrastructure dedicated to the quick disposal of corpses in the form of body-slides, effectively gravity sewers for transporting viscera.
• Create Your Own Hero: "Hero" is a stretch, but applies to Misery and Epper. In chapter 4, Misery panics and kills a man attempting to adopt a then homeless child Epper before giving her a lesson in fatalism and the apathy of society. Once Misery becomes a sprout, he has a change of heart, believing himself to be the only one that can change humanity's ways, only to be shut down by Epper who has inherited his old philosophy.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Chapter 4 shows a young Epper fleeing from her abusive household only to find the outside world is just as cruel and uncaring.
• Death-Activated Superpower: Sprouts, undead abominations who Came Back Strong.
• Disposing of a Body: The Undertakers.
• Distant Prologue: The openings of chapter 1 and 2 show the final moments of an apocalyptic Sprout outbreak and the establishment of Crust's island. Later chapters include clippings celebrating the 100th anniversary of these events.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: During the New Years party in chapter 1, Voca acts belligerent towards those around her, even letting out a "hic" in the middle of her tirade, experiencing a massive sugar crash.
• Dream Land: Epper visits a few to cope with stress.
• Establishing Character Moment: Epper is introduced answering a house call to dispose of a dead body with little enthusiasm or even disgust. Her reading and tuning out of the paranoid witnesses (complete with their dialogue devolving into static) immediately establish her as experienced, desensitized to violence and introverted.
• Even Evil Has Standards: A common theme amongst the series monsters, rejecting Crust's world (and by extension their humanity) because the status quo is too horrific. Embodied best by Misery.
• The Evils of Free Will: Inverted. The opening flashback of chapter 2 sees Crust promising the surviving humans an island paradise "where all living things can be free." He spends the next century living off the resulting corpses.
  • Played straight with Misery.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: In spades.
• Ignored Expert: Tam, despite presenting the head of a sprout in the first chapter is ignored by both Epper and Voca, who both think he's trying to trick them, though his beads of sweat when questioned on its authenticity and his later admission that he gets his information on sprouts from podcasts portray him as more of a Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
• Meaningful Release Date: Going off of Australian Eastern Daylight Time where the series is published (as opposed to the Newgrounds standard EDT):
  • Chapter 1.1 was released on October 31st 2023
  • Chapter 1.4 was released on January 1st 2024
• Monster from Beyond the Veil: Sprouts.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: The Sprout in chapter 1 became one intentionally by committing suicide.
• New Year Has Come: Chapter 1 is set during New Year's Eve.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Epper's decision to hunt down Vivi and Misery herself caused untold destruction when she let the latter escape. He wastes no time pointing out her error when they meet again and even thanks her for setting him free.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Epper, Tam and Voca. Tam (despite being fond of the occasional dark humor) is generally laid back and friendly, a stark contrast to the far more abrasive and unhinged Voca. Epper falls somewhere in-between the two, being generally apathetic.
• Not So Extinct: Sprouts are assumed to be extinct after they were exterminated by Crust in flashback. Though encounters are said to be rare, they're beginning to re-emerge.
• Parasitic Horror: After being impaled, a dying Sprout fills Epper's abdominal wound in an effort to save both of their lives. Despite being understandably shaken, the worst it has done so far is take over her body specifically to get her out of danger.
• Shout-Out:
  • One of the many firearms pointed at Crust in the chapter 2 prologue is a shotgun with "Doris" written on the barrel.
  • Several metal song lyrics appear as graffiti in the background of panels.
    • "Shifty are the eyes of the gambler" taken from Fair to Midland appears in chapter 3, along with their arrow/anchor symbol.
    • "Take hold of my hand, for you are no longer alone" appears on a piece of cover art.
    • "Through swollen eyes see enemies" appears several times, referencing the song They'll Pay With Their Own Blood by lesser known band Werewolves.
    • The title "Bury Everyone" also qualifies, being taken from the song Unfathomably Fucked from the same band.
    "Eternal crypt, and a worshipped sun baked to grey, in a world designed to bury everyone"
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Misery's "tragedy is inevitable" speech to a young Epper in chapter 4.
  • Epper gives him one right back in chapter 7, believing Misery's plan to "fix" humanity to be a waste of effort.
• Wham Shot: Epper being skewered in chapter 1.
• Wham Episode: Chapter 7: Airpocket. Epper runs off to face Misery when he enacts his plan ahead of schedule and arrives only to be told that she allowed the ensuing destruction by killing Vivi. Once he reveals his goal of saving humanity by taking their freedom, Epper furiously and tearfully shoots him down, screaming at him that humanity doesn't deserve to be saved, coupled with a shocked look from the sprout. The chapter reveals the true extent of Epper's disillusionment as well as setting up a point of conflict with her undead companion.
• World of Jerkass: Most background characters are dicks. The main cast isn't exactly perfect either.