Dumb Rabbits

WARNING: This webcomic will nauseate many readers. This can be for a whole slew of reasons, including graphic depictions of gore, grossly unappealing depictions of sexual behavior, offensive descriptions of sexual abuse, and so on. In any case, this webcomic (and maybe even this review) is not for the weak of stomach.

CODE YELLOW: CHEESECAKE (MODERATE NSFW WARNING) The following comic desperately wants to be porn without actually being porn. Contains more fanservice and fetish fuel than any actual sex, usually patterned off of bad harem comedy anime. It may not even have full nudity (at most may contain exposed boobs), but your teacher/parents/coworkers will surely give you some odd glances if they catch you seeing this. View with caution.

Original review author:	ZenForce in June 2024
Forum Disccussion Threads	Link
Webcomic name:	Dumb Rabbits (shorts)
Author:	DEMUN INK, AKA Darin Munsey and Eduardo "Edeon" Melendez.
Start Date:	Oct 07, 2022
End Date:	Ongoing
Genre:	Gag-a-day, Slice of life, "Dark Humor" and Furry.
Defining Flaw:	The writing. I don't believe someone wrote this thing and is satisfied with it.

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Rating Summary

Art:	It's competent. Sincerely the cartoony style it makes more tolerable the gross outs.
Storyline:	No Stars Not applicable. Most of the pages are self-contained adventures, even if some of them are divided in multiple parts.
Characters:	Like the title says, they are extremely stupid, but to the point are not even funny, just sad.
Miscellaneous Details:	If you search a comic were inserts pop culture references really good and diegetically to the world... I recommend you to still search it elsewhere.
Overall:	I guess is true that a good art style does not compensate the storytelling or the world building of a product...

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Background

You ever heard of the phrase "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"? It was a proverb originally used in a work of Charles Caleb Colton and popularized by Oscar Wilde, often used when someone copies another but does not acknowledge that fact. Though nowadays imitation is more associated with trying to cash in a trend than admiration for the material, there still some cases that represent this phrase, and this comic is one of them... but not in a good way.

You ever see an animation youtuber reviewing an adult's cartoon where he/she says "[Name of the cartoon] is a representative of what is wrong with the adult animation industry"? Well, my time has come to become an animation reviewer and say: Dumb Rabbits is a representative of what is wrong with the adult animation industry... in comic format.

Downfall

Since day 1 is bad.

Story and Plot

The plot revolves around the lives of five furry kids between 8 to 10 years old, four rabbits and one cat, and how they pass their time in the slums of an unnamed city. These five are (and I tell you in advance that how I will call them will be in brackets and in bold, like this note):

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  Richard (The Asshole): A purple rabbit, always wearing a red backwards cap. He is the... the one with the most ballots to call him the group leader. He always searches to get what he wants with the minimum effort possible, he uses his friend for his own benefit, he is really a womanizer guy- You know what? You remember Eddy from Ed, Edd and Eddy? Well, his character is basically him, but he has success in conquering women and takes them to bed.

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  Dillon (The Oblivious): The cat with a bowl cut of the group, the youngest of the group and the only one that has a confirmed age (8 years old). He is basically the innocent and the boxing bag of the "friends" patch. He is the victim of the pranks and mockery of the other four, but surprisingly he is very, VERY rarely used like meat cannon for their plans, to the point I only remember only one time that happened. I guess they really care about his health. Also has very weird tastes, but I come with that later.

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  Conner/Connor (The Dumbass): A grey rabbit with blue eyes and a lazy ear. He’s the most hard to define, since it rarely gets involved in the consequences of the group's actions, but I believe that he is the straight man of the five. He is the only one that usually tries to convince the group to not get in troubles. But there are times where he is indirectly the trigger of the trouble, or the camera man of the antics of his friends.

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  Arthur (The Meathead): A black, green eyed and floppy ears rabbit. He is usually the meat cannon of the group, usually the one that does physical jokes. Besides that, he also is the prankster, has some temper problems and is little vengeful when he thinks someone prejudice him or gets something too easily when he worked hard on something and still get nothing.

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  Stewart (The Saint of the Stupidity): A pink, two teethed rabbit that, like his title says, is the dumbest one of the five, if that even possible. He is so dense that I start to believe that he has some mental issue, but besides that, he is the sportsman and the enthusiast of the group, and the blood-related big brother of The Oblivious (also will be detailed later).

Art Review

It's fine enough. Like I said before, the toony style and lack of details makes the gross outs less disgusting, and at least the characters are really expressive. The only things I can criticize are that in the first 7 pages are a little harder to differentiate The Dumbass and The Meathead apart since the artist was using shades of gray really similar, there are pages where the expression of some character were frozen in time and space, and there are pages where you notice that the backgrounds are photography drawn over... Alright, I know that this section sounds barebones, but sincerely I feel that try to criticize the art style is a waste of time since there nothing too outrageous. So let's go to the next section, alright?

Like you see, the art of this page is alright. The content of the same however...

Writing Review

Well, let's start of why I written what I written in the Background section. For an example, I will transcript a page of the comic, without the names or the nicknames I assign them:

Scene starts.

We see the pervert friend standing outside with an open box with two half circles in the side of the face with two signs that read "Free Mammogram" and "Place Boobs Here".

The Insipid Friend and The Stupid Friend enters the scene. The Insipid one asks – "Pervert! What the fuck are you doing!!"

"What? I'm just trying to see some tittys man!" - Replies the pervert.

"Bro! You're gonna get into trouble!!" – Warns the Insipid. "No I'm not! Stupid's mom is over there doing something similar" – Points out the pervert.

We suddenly change scene to the Stupid's mom with a similar device of Pervert's, with a sign in the wall that reads "free testey inspecty".

We come back to the three friends, where the Stupid one greets her with a "HI MOM!!" while we see the Insipid one has a confused/disgusted expression in his face.

Suddenly a 6-titted anthropomorphic blonde mature female dog with a slutty outfit arrives and says "I'm here for the free mammogram?"– We see the shocked and scared expressions of the three friends.

End of the scene.

Now tell me: This page and all the scene sounds like a gag scene of Family Guy, don'tcha? Not only that, the fact that this comic has a group of 5 kids involved in adult situations is really similar to the scenario of South Park's 4-main, only that the authors added Butters like a main character. Man, I even can hear the South Park’s guitar rig every time I pass to a new page. The entire comic feels like Darin or Eduardo saw one of these shows and tried to replicate their humor, but didn't understand it and it turned out how it turned out. I mean, they did so bad job that one of their main cast it don't even have a defined personality, aka The Dumbass, hell, he not even has a consistent name. Sometimes they called him Conner, other times they called him Connor.

Talking about comedy shows, lest analyze the humor of the comic. It can be divided in the next type of jokes: sexual, gross outs, slapstick, meta references, pop culture and internet references, "dark ones" and PG. Usually most of the jokes are a combination of two or more of these category. Let's start from the mildest to the most outrageous.

PG is basically all the "jokes" that I can visualize in a series for all audiences, except for the fact that the kids are using a lot of swear words like Fucker and Pussy, like this one where they are playing Cowboys and Indians. They are not particularly funny, and sadly they are the rarest ones. Then we have the slapstick, where the mayor representatives are: the pages of 4th of July, where they tie themselves fireworks and ignite them, one time even shove it one in the ass of The Meathead; and their parodies to Jackass. All of them has the only punchline of "ha ha, what idiot".

His halloween costume is a penis... Real classy, Darin.

Next we have the "dark ones", aka "dark humor", which their only themes is someone that is not the main cast dying, like a turkey from a Thanksgiving celebration or a dead horse next to a "potable oasis"; or racism, like The Oblivious using the N-word, or The Saint warning about Mexicans trespassing the wall. They also are not particularly funny. Fourth we have the meta jokes, the characters breaks the 4th wall not too often, but neither too rarely. One the running gags are that the characters are worried of being cancelled, like more often than you thinks. And I say, if you want to finish this comic so much, why don't do it? I mean, it doesn't contribute anything anyways...

Whatever, next point is pop culture and internet references, and we have the usual ones here: Cardi B, that 70’s show, Fallout 76, Eminem, cancel culture, Justin Beaver, Star Wars, Playstation 5/Xbox Pro, Guitar Hero, Jackass (like said before), Karens, Only Fans, Pink Floid, Joe biden, Nintendo Switch, NFTs, between others. This not only still not funny and a little annoying, but also makes this comic really, REALLY dated. The penultimate type of joke is the gross-out jokes. There's one of the thanksgiving pages, where the possible father of the brothers throws an American's football ball to the stomach of The Saint and he becomes a puking rocket, or the time where The Meathead gets revenge of his work buddy by fucking up the sewers system and making explode the toilets. Like I said before, the art style makes these things less disgusting, but I don't means that they are not still gross.

Finally, we have the sexual jokes, and they are the most prolific of all. Some of them are: The Saint entering in a strip club for ladies; the fact that The Saint and The Oblivious are related because their mother is figuratively and literally the bitch of the town; that when The Saint and their mother are not in home, The Oblivious see videos of tips of masturbation and chooses to being nipple-sucked by two baby cats that comes from nowhere; the fact that The Asshole is really sexual active with adult womans; the time where The Oblivious gets the job of being a fluffer; a time where The Saint disinfects a BDSM dungeon; and I will stop there. Apparently the authors encounter really funny kids getting molested and groomed, hell, even in one page is confirmed that in this universe Hollywood made acceptable pedophilia, like... I'm not even sure if that is even a joke. Sincerely I’m not even feeling disgusted seeing this, more like I feel pity. I mean, when I read these things, I only think "Really? This is really the best you can do? You are alright with this? Not even a proof read by someone else to assure that the joke even works? What is your problem?!"

But the fact that the jokes are not even remotely funny is not the most outrageous thing of the webcomic, instead that the comics has multi-parts stories, and not even with that resort of develop a little more the world makes it better, I believe that makes it worst. So with all we have online, these are the "sagas":

1. Jobs: The cast see an ad where the new Playstation/X-box is announced, and they want to get one but no one have a cent, so they decide to get jobs. The Oblivious gets a job of Fluffer (like before mentioned), The Asshole like a toilet-cleaner in a construction zone, The Saint like an exterminator with his possible father, The Meathead like a movie theater employee, and The Dumbass like a gas station employee. After 3 months, they buy the console and plan to resign their jobs, until they discover that the console has no games, so back to work... Wooooo...
2. Beaver Forest: The Dumbass discovers a reward sign where they have to enter a forest to get a juicy reward, and the group decides to try it. The entire story is a big and absolutely not subtle allegory to get inside of a woman's pussy and getting STDs.
3. Airsoft Wars: The group plays airsoft with the possible father supervising. That is all. The most tolerable of all.
4. Dumbass: The group does stupid, dangerous shit and records it to post it to internet. Between these is the 4th of July, firework-to-ass page before referenced.
5. In Too Deep: The worst of all, because the authors wanted you to take it seriously, but I will elaborate later. This starts with The Asshole awakening in a hotel, pleased after a sexual night with a woman that probably doubles his age, until the girl tells him that she filmed them without consent and plans to sell it to Hollywood... Yes, Hollywood. Like, in general, like a concept... Allow me to stop for a moment because... HOLY SHIT, authors! You two are brave enough that literally one post later of ending the saga, they do a joke of a McDonalds place with menus names parodies like Bill Cosby and Cardi B; but both are not brave enough to put a name of a Hollywood executive in this saga... Bravo! Bravo! What balls you two have, you sons of bitches! Sigh, coming back to the theme, The Asshole asks for help to his friends, The Oblivious tells them that the girl probably went to a porn studio where he worked (and apparently is the only one that exist in the city). The fluffler guy does a Predator reference, his ex-workbuddy tells that the girl is in a hotel filming another film. The group arrives tries to bribe the girl with $100, but she says that the video worth over $10,000. So The Asshole threats that will call the police and wins the argument. Gets the CD and when they are heading to home he enters in an argument with The Dumbass, where he reveals that he is a latchkey kid and his parents are constantly traveling. But everything calms down and every one becomes friends again and it does another joke about the comic being cancelled, the end.

I... I have no words. Ju-just let's go to the conclusion of this, please.

Author Biography

Darin Munsey and Eduardo "Eldeon" Melendez are the integrants of the Demun Ink group. Darin is the writer and the artist is Eduardo. According to LinkedIn, Darrin is based in Bronte, Texas, is a self-employed computer technician, writer, concept artist, videogame developer and had a work in Stripes (that explains the what is was parodying in the job of The Dumbass), and apparently is married. About Eduardo, I can't find anything because are dozens and dozens of Eduardo Melendez ONLY in Latin America.

Both are the authors the webcomics The Rouge and The Journey of Daedeus, and the written stories of Wicked and Worrisome: Tales of Darkness (why the hell a text story is hosted in a webcomic site?). In some pages, they did some collaboration pages with other webtoons like this one with Mello Marsh Comics; and this one with Nicki and Blicky.

Coming back to In Too Deep, the reasons I believe that both authors wants you to take the story seriously are: First, the sentimental bullshit they put in the last two pages; Second, when they started to sell physical books of the comic, they are so secure about it that they sell the story apart from the collection, they even advertized it with uncensored version, with an alternative book cover and all; and Third, I recently discovered that at least two more names appear in the writing section since this story started: Cheyanne Gandy (apparently his wife) and Barry Stoy. Sincerely, I refuse to believe that this thing it was created by more than one person. I refuse, for me Demun Ink is only one person that has no idea what is doing.

Conclusion

Long time since I saw something so badly written like this, not since Bongo and Luna and Living with Gamer girl and Hipster Girl. But at least these two has a little, little self control with the limits of their jokes. This thing is in a new low. And sincerely, if you want this type of humor, go to see South Park or the first three seasons of Family Guy, that are basically the same but at least they are written with a little thinking in the jokes.

Links

• The comic in Tapas
• The comic in Facebook
• The comic's Instagram
• The comic's Twitter
• The comic's Webcomicsapp
• The comic's Threads
• The comic's website, where you still can buy the physical books, if you ever are interesed.
• The comic's Reddit user, where I found out the comic.
• The group's Youtube channel
• The LinkedIn of Darin

Also, if you're curious, I'll give you the factoid that in LinkTree of the group, the only other project that has own social accounts is The Rouge. I guess there are favorites when you create something...