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Leif&Thorn is a fantasy drama/comedy webcomic about a knight trying to have a romance in his second language.

The premise: Sir Thorn is a magic knight assigned to guard a foreign embassy where he meets (and falls in love with) Leif, a gardener working for said embassy. It gets complicated from there.

It is ongoing, with a new page every day (main plot on weekdays, bonus art and shorter side stories on weekends). The entire main archive is available online. There are Patreon-locked side stories and more NSFW comics, but they're nice extras, not an obligatory part of the experience.

The comic has a large ensemble cast, most of whom get some time in the spotlight (and the majority of whom are queer). It’s mostly a lighthearted comedy, but does not shy away from the darker moments – some of the characters are in very unpleasant situations or have pretty fucked up pasts. Darker storylines get content warnings in the beginning, so they’re not just sprung on readers.

Why should I read it?

Do you enjoy some combo of

• earnest and smart knights,
• queer romance,
• magitech fantasy world,
• people trying very hard to communicate across language barriers and massively different starting assumptions,
• iron woobies with awful pasts,
• mysterious secret agents pursuing mysterious secret agendas,
• extremely hate-able vampires in the background,
• worldbuilding that’s a combo of “because that’s cool” and well-reasoned (magical girls and knights with Utena-style magical heartswords are both reasonable career choices in this world; and the author certainly has thought about its influence on the society over the centuries),
• occasional pointed social commentary (Sønheim is shown to share some of the United States’ more interesting viewpoints, and that is not a good thing)

Well. You may like this comic!

 

( characters with pictures + a little about the plot )