These are reviews of various PMD comics originally posted in /pmdg/ thread in /vp/. Some of these have been updated, either because I felt like I had more to say, the comic progressed further, or because I just wanted to fix something.
Each review will include the following information: name of the comic, author, and where to find it; number of pages and status; main character species, any humans, games it's based on, game spoilers, and general setting; genre and theme; artstyle; and finally the review. I'm going to skip "PMD", "Pokemon" etc in the titles.
As a foreword: I'm a pro-creativity person, I'm making these reviews because I want to spread awareness and help people read more comics they'd enjoy, and I'm in general not out to put the creators down. This can cause me to overrate the comics sometimes. I'm also not particularly bothered by whatever else the artists do and in general have pretty high tolerance for shenanigans as long as the comic is good. There are some comics I really didn't like, and I'm going to try to be objective with these and say what is good about them.
Here's a few of my top picks if you're just looking for a recommendation, if you're looking for:
Comedy: Abridgestery, Drillbur, Team Detect
Adventure: Milos from Home, On Borrowed Time, Team Rowanberry, Shadows for Hire
Something deeper and unusual: Anamnesis, Alva
- Abridgestery Dungeon (ThatOneAceGuy)
- On Borrowed Time (Wooled)
- Adventures of Team Sunflower (UmiKit)
- Start! (Tatu Wani / Tatsu Wani / 光國)
- Shadows for Hire (TrueScorn)
- ICMA (Makotoo)
- Bloodied Hands/Pure Soul (NovaArtz3699)
- Yet Another PMD Comic (Flavia-Elric)
- In the Sunset We Saw (Makotoo)
- Anamnesis (borzoiteeth)
- Tales of Elysium (slydragoon16 [story] + Haychel [art])
- Alliance (HipsterFlamingo)
- Gleaming Hearts (Fidchell + a bunch of people)
- Another Perspective (MRZoet)
- The Human Connection (EnergyLuxray)
- The Rogue Team (Teeterglance)
- Eeveelution Squad (EV-Zero)
- Rising Ashes (RustyEevee)
- Chasing Daybreak (Questmaster)
- Ancient Revival (KazzMcSass)
- TERMINUS (sutihukka)
- Milos from Home (ReagentNein)
- Wanderlust (collab)
- Alva’s Dietary Misadventures (Diabeticus)
- All We Like Sheep (Diabeticus)
- Market of Shoes (Diabeticus)
- Drillbur With Two L's (Diabeticus)
- Panic!! Mysterious Dungeons! (Virmir)
- PMD: Light and Ruin (Bokurei)
- Team Rowanberry (ShrubSparrow)
- Victory Fire (sulfurbunny)
- Team Ballad (Slap_Cycle)
- Team Detect (REE-Quester)
- FLOODWATERS (Mango Cat)
Abridgestery Dungeon (ThatOneAceGuy)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=abridgesterydungeon
220 pages, finished.
Mudkip human, Pikachu partner. Follows Rescue Team fairly closely. Spoilers for Rescue Team.
This one is mostly humor. You're going to see a lot of memes, and the characters around the MC (who's the source of all these memes) react how you'd expect. Has some feels moments too.
Has a pretty good, if simple, artstyle, starts out b/w, later gets color. Pokemon mostly look like official art.
I quite enjoyed it, it stands out from many other comics for being ACTUALLY FINISHED. The writing's pretty good, the artstyle is pretty, there's a nice Q&A, and it wraps up nicely. Also, I really like that the MC being a water type is actually relevant (e.g. him staying underwater), which a lot of comics don't bother with.
On Borrowed Time (Wooled)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=onborrowedtime
~600 pages, ongoing (Oct 2025).
Alolan Vulpix human, Shinx partner, later joined by a Meowth and a Nidorina plus a few on-and-offs. Relic Fragment is also a character of unclear identity, probably not a Spiritomb. Based on an Explorers Nuzloke (so theoretically anyone but MC can die). Generally spoiler-ish, though the story is changed significantly, and the world has its own lore.
About 60% character interaction, 40% story. The characters are pretty good, with distinct personalities. Despite being Explorers-based, it has a fairly original story and gives different takes on some events in the game, but it doesn't stray off so far that it loses its PMD identity.
Has a cute artstyle where most characters look like a fluffy loaf or a spiky loaf. Author has a bit of an obsession with hybrids, so you'll be seeing a lot of these. Also, art gets better over time.
Another comic that I like, cute artstyle, good writing, interesting worldbuilding. Re-imagines quite a few of Explorers characters and generally makes them more believable. Two of main characters are gay (for each other) and one is trans. This isn't really explored (which I would consider a downside...) but if you're one of the people that start convulsing when seeing that, you might not enjoy it. Started in 2019, the story has just reached Amp Plains. Also has two pretty emotional side stories.
Adventures of Team Sunflower (UmiKit)
https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=AdventuresofTeamSunflower
Pending a re-read.
Start! (Tatu Wani / Tatsu Wani / 光國)

https://www.pixiv.net/user/2227472/series/42431 original / https://e926.net/pools/31010 translated
~300 pages, ~100 translated (Oct 2025), finished.
Pikachu human, Totodile partner. Plot is carbon copy of Rescue Team. Spoilers for Rescue Team.
Character interaction + humor. Both MC and the partner are quirky, in a good way.
Manga, b/w. Characters look like official art.
It's a pretty enjoyable read. No surprises, but it's funny and I like the characters. The comic itself is finished (as far as I can tell), but it's in Japanese. There's an English translation in progress, currently at the start of chapter 5 out of 13. Unfortunately, the translation is pretty sporadic.
Shadows for Hire (TrueScorn)

https://www.deviantart.com/truescorn/gallery/94687012/shadows-for-hire / https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=shadowsforhire
~150 pages, ongoing, 3 pages every week (Dec 2025).
No humans. Lucario + Sneasel. Original story.
Character-driven adventure/story. A bit edgy, but not overwhelmingly so. Feels like a fairly good mature take on PMD.
Very well-drawn, mostly monochrome with some bits of color like eyes and flames. Characters are close to official art, a bit anthrofied, plus with a focus on more humanoid-looking pokemon.
Follows the adventures of a pair of bounty hunters. The main body is them doing detective work while also presenting the perspective of the criminal, so you, the reader, know what's going on. I'd compare it to Columbo in that regard (they even have notebooks). Worth reading as-is, but hard for me to make further judgement because of the length.
ICMA (Makotoo)

https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/4788939 original / https://e926.net/pools/31151 translated / https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pokedanicmaenglish another version
~600 pages, new chapters released periodically.
No humans. MC is a Fennekin, there's a bunch of supporting characters. Original story.
This one is pretty much shonen with pokemon. "I need to get stronger to protect my family/friends/etc" etc being repeated so many times by different characters it gets jarring.
B/w manga, official art-looking pokemon.
I enjoyed the read, but I dropped it at some point because it got too repetitive. It has a decent number of cool moments and a decent number of feels moments, and some good jokes. Lots of fights, fairly violent, with blood and deaths or near deaths. It might be worth checking out for the artstyle, if nothing else - it's quite well-drawn.
Bloodied Hands/Pure Soul (NovaArtz3699)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=bhps
~100 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
Riolu human + Raboot partner. Original story.
Edgy Mary Sue adventure, complete with an OP MC with dark, mysterious past. Has blood.
Flat artstyle, anthrofied, though Espeon is still on all fours.
Riolu MC who's a hitman in his past life, can beat anyone, is immune to psychic moves, can do a cool protagonist glare, and is the best flirt in the world. Raboot partner who's actually a Mew and has a Mewtwo dad. They're an OTP. That should give you a fairly complete picture. Is it fun to read? I'd say yes.
Yet Another PMD Comic (Flavia-Elric)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=yapc
~400 pages, ongoing.
Eevee human (probably) + a huge cast of characters. Original story that references a mishmash of all PMD games. Mildly spoils all of them.
It's just talking and talking. Endless talking.
Very basic but cute b/w artstyle.
Incredibly boring. It's the kind of a story that tries to be so comfy that nothing antagonistic ever happens. I think I stopped at chapter 12 and the story has been nothing but endless talking, PMD protagonist jerking, and the story acting like the main characters are about to encounter some kind of an antagonist only to turn around and actually nobody's allowed to be bad and they just join the main characters, making the cast grow bigger and bigger with every chapter. I did not like it at all. Some people do like it, apparently. I'll give it some credit and say that the artstyle is pretty cute and Bayani is somewhat interesting (though it still feels like jerking to me).
In the Sunset We Saw (Makotoo)

https://e926.net/pools/19900 or https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=inthesunsetisawwithyouenglish
32 pages, finished.
Eevee human (implied) + Shinx partner. Post-explorers. Mild spoilers for Explorers.
Short cute story.
B/w manga.
It's a short, complete story, it's cute and has cute character interactions, and also a very funny moment where the MCs get ambushed by a group of hostiles, and since we're talking about a post-game MC duo, they get beaten in less than a page. Either way, a worthwhile read. The art is also pretty nice.
Anamnesis (borzoiteeth)


https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmd-anamnesis
~280 pages, split into stories around 10-30 pages long. Currently seems to be on hold (Dec 2025).
Collection of surreal stories. Many characters, some human. Spoilers for all games.
Details vary by story. Each story explores an unusual concept. Lots of deconstruction. No happy endings there; it's between bleak and bittersweet.
Very interesting artstyle. Different stories are drawn differently.
So, this one is definitely not for everyone. If you're looking for a regular PMD story, move along. If you're easily unsettled, also move along. The stories aren't bloody, per se, but as I said, they are mostly dark. I think the first story isn't very representative of them in general (it's very meta), for the first experience I'd recommend Zaffre or DEADLiNE. The stories can be read in any order. Personally, I enjoyed this comic greatly and hope to see more. It's probably the most unique PMD comic out there. Far too many PMD comics jump straight into adventuring and spend too little time dwelling on the whole "you are suddenly turned into a completely different creature and thrown into an unknown world" thing that, you'd think, would be a pretty important thing. And this comic delivers on that in spades. If you're sure you can handle it, I would highly recommend that you take a look at this one. Plus, each individual story is pretty short, which makes it easy to pick it up, you don't need to read 100 pages of intro to understand what's going on.
Tales of Elysium (slydragoon16 [story] + Haychel [art])

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=talesofelysium
~1100 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
No humans. Riolu + Totodile. Original story.
I guess I'd call it "adventure/mystery". Many fights, a lot of blood, many deaths.
Colored and well-drawn.
To be honest, this one feels like an original fantasy story that has nothing to do with PMD, except the characters are pokemon. It doesn't really use anything from PMD (closest we have is that there's a guild, which has very little relevance to the plot), and does many things that would never happen in PMD. It is also EXTREMELY drawn out; 10 years, more than 1000 pages, and it's still at chapter 3 and only fairly recently it became understandable what's actually going on. The comic has lots, lots, LOTS of torture. Also, anyone who's claiming the story is super gay hasn't read it and bases that opinion on Haychel's other comic with these two. MCs have like three moments in the entire comic where they as much as nuzzle at each other. Now, despite all of that, I do like the comic; the story is interesting, the artstyle is nice, but I feel like at the current rate it's going to get to a resolution in about 30 years. The story also handles its themes very well, in my opinion. This is also probably the most high effort PMD comic out there, if that makes sense.
Alliance (HipsterFlamingo)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdalliance
~400 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
Noibat human, Fennekin partner. Set some time after Super, occasionally references it but I wouldn't call it spoiling. The setting is also modernized, basically having 21st century Earth level of technology. This might be a turn-off for some. It's a somewhat unobtrusive at first, but becomes more notable as the story moves on.
Adventure, fights, character interaction. Very game-y, with stats, levels, IVs, EVs, moves, etc, being a thing that clearly exists and taking game mechanics literally. Generally maintains a serious tone aside from that.
Toony artstyle that gets better over time, though it remains kind of blobby. Also somewhat anthoified.
I'm personally not a huge fan of the level of silliness it operates in regards to the game mechanics, but that's a me problem. Unlike most comics that do this, it doesn't use them for jokes, it's treated completely seriously and actually used for drama. (Do you still call it eugenics if the characters are pokemon?) But it doesn't really dwell on it too deep except for one chapter. The story was intriguing enough for me to binge-read the whole thing, which took me a few hours. It wasn't amazing, but I am looking forward to more. The characters are fairly good, they feel distinct enough, they have their own personalities, interests, and goals, and meaningfully contribute to the story. The story was supposedly halfway done after chapter 9, so there's hope that it gets finished.
I originally wrote "I think the central mystery is being dragged out a bit too much, because the questions posed in the first chapters made very little progress so far, and I hope it's not going to be just a big infodump in the last chapter - so far, the fact that MC is a human is only important in that it makes him a McGuffin" in the review. Well, since then chapter 12 came out and chose violence. The plot very quickly went insane and I have no idea how this tension is going to last until chapter 18. I guess we'll see. I'm giving the comic a few extra points for having an uncommon pokemon MC. Also, don't look at ref sheets in bonus pages unless you want spoilers.
Gleaming Hearts (Fidchell + a bunch of people)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=gleaminghearts
669 pages, finished.
Early spoilers for MCs: Riolu human, Fennekin partner, plus Sandslash that hangs next to them; I can't call him a main character, sorry, he's literally a space filler. Original story with an occasional reference to the games.
Adventure, comedy, more comedy early, more adventure later. There's a story, but it's given out in teaspoons until the last chapter, and the rest of it is just moving from point A to B. And I feel like I have to note "pokemon eating food" as one of the genres because a lot of time is spent on it.
Flat artstyle that makes everyone look pudgy. Peculiar. I'll just say it, the main artist draws vore and it leaks into the comic. This is something I'd normally not mention but it's pretty intrusive. It's one of those "one you see it, you start seeing it all the time" things. YMMV on how much that will bother you.
I have a lot of things to say about this comic, which means most of them aren't good. First, there's a tendency that as soon as the main characters run into a problem, something very convinient immediately happens to either resolve it for them or give them an easy way to resolve it. Second, antagonists turning out to actually have good reasons to be that way or just being misunderstood then befriending the MCs happens way too often. Literally the only time that doesn't happen is the stupid fire birds.
Third, I think the comic spends too much time in a state where the main antagonist is completely untouchable and has all the cards, and doesn't really use that time to advance the plot nor for character development. The epitome of it is (chapter 7 spoilers) the scene where MCs evolve. Very little build-up, the evolution just happens through a purely physical effect, and then there's no resolution either, a couple of people shrug and go "oh, cool" and nothing really changes. Oh, and also in that scene the MC reveals to his partner that he's a human... which gets completely ignored. All of that leads to the story having too little tension, too few stakes to be exciting.
I'm also disappointed in the last chapter. Not only is the way the story is going to end was completely obvious from the moment where MC was told that he could let Hector disappear to save his own life, there isn't really an emotional wrap-up (a running theme at that point). MC pretty much just says "yeah I did a bad thing, but I'm sorry", and that's all we get, we don't even learn what exactly he did beyond vague hints. I mean, why waste time exploring that any deeper? Just throw in a heroic sacrifice and skip all the complicated stuff, you're going to get brought back by yet another convenient deus ex machina anyway. This sacrifice doesn't serve any purpose, it's just a way for Jake to make things up to Hector without actually DOING anything. And even then he's presented as not really being at fault (also a running theme, you may have noticed) because he was pressured.
This one gets such a long write-up not because it's bad; there are many far worse comics out there. It's the opposite: it's on the verge of being really good. But unfortunately, poor pacing, lack of proper build-ups and resolutions, and boring character development really sink the story. It's also finished, which is a milestone many comics do not make.
Another Perspective (MRZoet)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdap
~130 pages, ongoing but unreliably (Dec 2025).
Purrloin human, Cyndaquil partner. Loosely based on rescue team; no real spoilers so far.
Comedy, character interaction, some fights. Makes jokes about game mechanics (The Stairs Joke).
Traditionally drawn, sometimes pen and pencil, sometimes watercolor. Sticks to official body style.
This one's gimmick is that the MC is a team rocket grunt intentionally sent to the pokemon world. It's pretty nice to have an MC with agency and their own goals, and she and the partner make a good duo. Unfortunately the story is only starting up and the updates are irregular. It's a nice read as-is, but any kind of resolution is nowhere in sight.
The Human Connection (EnergyLuxray)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdthehumanconnection
~250 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
Tepig human, Riolu partner. Post-all games, references them and isn't shy about spoiling them; ch1p26 and Q&A2 (which straight-up gives out one of the biggest spoilers of Super) in particular. Whyyyy.
So far almost entirely character interaction.
Pretty well-drawn, better than I expected looking at the title card. Most of the comic is b/w, manga-styled, with an occasional colored page. Also, most pages have alt text on hover.
I like this comic. The chapters that currently exist mostly deal with introducing and examining the characters, and the MC is both struggling with the fact that they've been turned into a pokemon and being in an unfamiliar world, something my soul yearns for. It gets a silver medal just for that (gold is still taken by Anamnesis). The dynamic between the MCs is also quite good and well-written. Pages release with reasonable frequency during the chapter, though the artist usually takes fairly long breaks between chapters.
The Rogue Team (Teeterglance)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmd-trt
80 pages, likely dead in the water.
Fennekin human, Treecko partner. No direct references to the games.
Unfinished adventure.
The artstyle is pretty nice, fairly anthroified.
This comic has been on a hiatus since Jan 2024. The author assures it'll continue some day. At this point this is pretty unlikely because the author has diagnosed schizophrenia and spent 6 months in a psychiatric hospital. The good thing about the comic is that what is written makes a neat self-contained story and doesn't end on a cliffhanger, so you can read it if you'd like, the art is good and the partner has a fun personality.
Eeveelution Squad (EV-Zero)

https://www.deviantart.com/ev-zero/art/Eeveelution-Squad-Cover-603963316
1023 pages total, finished.
No humans, one of every eeveelution plus eevee. More characters appear later, including more eevees and eeveelutions and the time jumps back and forth which made it very difficult for me to follow who is who. No direct references to the games.
Starts as a gag-a-day comedy, except decompressed so not every page gets a gag with a dash of will they won't they. Later turns into... I don't even know how to describe.
The artstyle is about as simple as it can get. It is, however, fairly clean.
It has 1023 pages including all the bonus chapters, but this ain't Tales of Elysium; many pages are really small and simple, particularly early. Anyway, the start of the comic is basically just cute without any serious thought. There's some really basic humor. The dialogue often veers into pure nonsense. It's not uncommon to have several pages in a row where nothing happens that could have been one PANEL. No real plot, just eeveelutions beating each other up, being horny for each other, talking about random nonsense, or all of those things at once because tsundere. It then takes a sudden pivot to a hard-to-follow plot about secret labs and viruses, which is still kinda nonsense but now suddenly has a lot of close relatives being killed. It's hard to take it seriously when the same page has a flashback to a character learning that his parents are dead and also "I wish you were a girl because you're girly, then I'd have a girlfriend". Somewhere at that point the comic becomes mostly walls of text of nonsense dialogue. If you need a perfect example of why "show, don't tell" is a rule, look no further. I didn't finish reading it because I got bored, but I glanced at some later pages and it seems to just get more insane.
Rising Ashes (RustyEevee)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=risingashes
69 pages and seemingly on a hiatus (Dec 2025).
No humans; HeartGold nuzlocke, except instead of humans it's just pokemon characters in a sort of Johto Mystery Dungeon setting.
Adventure, feels.
The artstyle is a bit derpy (totodile in particular), but it's cute and I like how the cyndaqil is drawn. Close to official art, but takes liberties.
The concept seems very intriguing and the dialogues are well-written and flow nicely. There's not many pages yet, but I like what I see so far. Unfortunately, the author stopped posting unexpectedly in September AND it's on a cliffhanger. It's still cute enough for me to say that what exists is worth it, but maybe stop before the big fight in chapter 2 if you're worried about the cliffhanger.
Chasing Daybreak (Questmaster)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=chasingdaybreak
~100 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
Seemingly Explorers-based and seemingly Riolu human + Pikachu partner. Spoilers for Explorers (yes, this early).
Not far enough to determine with certainty, so far mostly character stuff suggests heavy focus on characters and the story blurb suggests upcoming adventure.
Simple cute artstyle. Alt text on every page.
Nervous wreck Pikachu who's already in the guild and a Riolu who seems to be a human (mid-Explorers spoiler) from the dark future who hasn't lost his memory. The dialogue hints at deeper lore. It looks interesting so far, but there's not much to really review yet. This kind of thing is hard to predict because it's entirely possible to lay down the basics with this amount of pages; here the main characters haven't even established rapport yet. I'd say it is already worth reading as is. The page for the hiatus announcement is also pretty gorgeous. Also a side note, I like Pikachu's Raichu tail.
Ancient Revival (KazzMcSass)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=ancientrevival
~300 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
No humans; MCs are a Slakoth and a shiny Umbreon. A modernized PMD-ish setting, no references to games.
There's some adventuring but mostly it's character interaction.
Almost full-on anthro; quadrupeds are still quadrupeds and fishes are still fishes. Simple but neat artstyle.
So. The premise of this one is that the MC is a doctor reseraching cure or at least treatment for "the feral sickness", a disease that manifests as sort of progressively worsening manic episodes until eventually driving them insane, and that he also has. If that's not enough for you to be either instantly turned off or sold on the story: it's not like Omori where it occupies the entire plot, it's an important backdrop but plenty of other things happen. For the most part it's just The Quest. The characters are pretty well-written, the foundation of the story is pretty solid, though it has a tendency to have random things happen. I'd say the pacing is pretty good. The only thing I'd really criticize it for is the MC having an always-encouraging super-rich mentor figure, which I think takes narrative pressure off unnecessarily, but he doesn't pop up very often.
TERMINUS (sutihukka)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdterminus
~100 pages, unreliably ongoing (Dec 2025).
Main characters are Eevee, Riolu, and Zorua, though the degree to which each of them is going to be a protagonist is a bit unclear at the moment. No references to games.
Adventure and humor, some character interaction.
Very pretty art, especially later on when it becomes borderless. Generally close to official art, though the artist makes everyone pudgy, more noticeable later on.
First of all - glacial pace, ~100 pages over 3 years. Posted randomly and with long breaks without any warning or explanation. Which is a real shame because it looks pretty interesting so far. The very early (like 5 pages) spoiler is that Eevee is Giratina, which is the main focus of the story. I'd say the parts that are already made are worth reading by themselves; the artstyle is pretty to look at and the characters are pretty funny. I think we're unlikely to see it progress to a resolution given the current rate, though. When I posted this review, it got a lot of heat because of the fat characters and because of the silliness of the plot. I don't think the artstyle is distracting, and the plot is not supposed to be taken seriously, but I guess YMMV.
Milos from Home (ReagentNein)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=milosfromhome
~750 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
Eevee human, Torchic partner, soon joined by Magnemite. Based on Rescue Team, but very loosely from the start, and goes pretty much completely off track after the Skarmory mission.
Worldbuilding-heavy, character-driven adventure.
Close to sketch-level but well-drawn, mostly monochrome artstyle. Many pokemon are drawn noticeably differently from official artstyle. The first chapter has a simple cute style, followed by a sudden shift to unsettling realism in chapter 2 (picrelated), followed by more gradual shift a bit closer to earlier cute style. Most pages after a certaint point have alt text, but it's usually not about the comic and instead just author's random thoughts on whatever they're doing at the moment.
Great characters and a lot of worldbuilding is what mostly defines this comic. It goes for a much less whimsical and a lot more grounded approach to a PMD world. The tone, while generally pretty light-hearted, goes into dark themes at times. The disasters that are only vaguely mentioned in Rescue Team are a pretty big part of the comic, you'll see pokemon being affected by them, refugee camps, and so on. Also, the main character is much less of a "stick carried by the water" style that we often get with PMD protagonists, and, in fact, tends to be the one pushing the partner around to do stuff despite his amnesia. The plot gets pretty intense later.
Wanderlust (collab)

haha nope
not counting the pages either, cancelled and continued as fanfic
Large cast with no specific main character because it's a collab.
Porn.
I have no particular thoughts about its artstyle. Plus, it varies from artist to artist.
I'm going to try to be serious. First of all, there's the main comic, which goes nowhere because it ends at chapter 6 because the guy who did most of it left the project. I am shocked, shocked that this kind of a project exploded into drama. It has been continued as fanfic that I haven't read and do not care about. Then it has a bunch of side stories, many of which also go nowhere and end abruptly. And then there's just random art and Q&A. First, for the central plotline. My overall impression of it is that it tries to be ABSURDLY horny to justify porn and also have a serious plot at the same time, and those two things are at odds with each other. Like, the first plot point is that some of the guild members are so horny they literally can't stop having sex in the guild lobby, and that causes actual problems for the guild, am I supposed to take it seriously? Apparently, the answer is yes. Second, the characters. I think the characters are actually mostly fine, but trying to follow any of them would require you to trudge through loads of poorly organized comics, images, and writing, some of which is non-canon, with unclear timelines and made by different people. That requires more effort than I'm willing to give it. And third, the sauce. I have no strong feelings about it, but even if I did, I don't think my opinion would be useful to anyone. Either you like it or you don't. If one of those three things appeals to you, you might enjoy it.
Alva’s Dietary Misadventures (Diabeticus)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=adm
422 pages, finished.
Not really PMD, since it's set in a regular pokemon world, but the main characters are pokemon. We've got Ampharos, Granbull, and Sobble.
Adventure. Philosophy. Dread. Poetry. Short description won't do it justice.
It starts out very rough - "my first MS paint comic" level - but improves over time. Later pages are quite pretty, dare I say. Also, the text is hand-written and gets incredibly hard to read in some places, especially Alva's yellow cursive on white background. (Her dialogue is sometimes posted in the description because of that.)
This is an experience that's hard to describe. First of all, the early pages aren't really representative of the main happenings later. Early chapters might set you up for a comedy adventure, but the bulk of it is actually a psychological thriller. As the comic unfolds, the focus shifts more and more from what happens to what kind of effect it has on the characters, mixed with philosophical musings on the state of things, group and individual psychology, behavior, difference between Alva's human-like thinking and the other two, and some pokemon-specific things like evolution. It's fairly heavy reading, and if you're interested, I'd highly recommend taking your time reading through it and always checking the description. One interesting quirk is that almost all chapters start with a synopsis that details what's about to happen in the actual chapter. They don't contain any information that you won't get by reading the comic, so you can skip them if you'd prefer to be unspoiled.
All We Like Sheep (Diabeticus)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=allwelikesheep
192 pages, finished.
Not PMD at all, only gets here because it's related to Alva's, and the focus is still on pokemon. We have a human, Ampharos, Spinda, and later Litwick.
Character-driven adventure that happens over a few days.
Better than Alva's, still a bit crude, but the text is much clearer. In the middle parts some pages are rotated, and towards the end the frames are compiled into an animation. Both of these I found pretty annoying.
There's a major theme of difficulties in communication, both literally in the sense that the pokemon can't speak human and have to do pantomime, and figuratively. Aside from that, it's an adventure. Characters go on it. We learn things about them. It's focused on characters, but it's not a deep examination in the same way that Alva's is. It ties to Alva's, though you can just read it as a separate story. Like in Alva's, we have synopses at the start of most chapters, and again, they don't contain any extra information, so you can skip them if you prefer to be unspoiled. That said, I don't think they reveal any really important plot points, and they help understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. You can read it without reading Alva's; the only thing you really get from reading Alva's first is that it sets you up to wonder if Ampharos in this story is Alva, and if yes, then is it set before or after Alva's.
Market of Shoes (Diabeticus)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=adm2
52 pages, hiatus (Dec 2025).
Still not PMD, but I can't not review the sequel if I'm going to review the other two? Unclear main characters; from Alva's we've added a human and a second Sobble.
It's a comedy so far but so was Alva's 50 pages in; though the tone is notably less serious. It's a pretty sharp contrast to Alva's, there's no philosophy in this one.
Much improved compared to the previous two. Regular black-and-white comic.
Direct sequel to Alva's, and both the description and the intro page contain a spoiler for it. Wouldn't recommend reading it separately. The pages that exist currently are pretty funny, but with 52 pages and the last update in March 2025, I don't have much to say about it.
Drillbur With Two L's (Diabeticus)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=dwll
~120 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
Uhhhhh-
Absurdist comedy.
Toonish, well-drawn artstyle that's not gunning for realism. It fits the comic.
Drilbur, sorry, Drillbur goes around interviewing pokemon. I already said it's absurdist comedy, so there's that. If you like funny nonsense, you'll like this comic. If you don't, you'll just get confused. That's about all there is to it, though I want to call out pages 63 and 64, especially 64, as the funniest PMD shit I've seen the year I made this review, so maybe at least check those out?
Panic!! Mysterious Dungeons! (Virmir)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmd / https://pmd.virmir.com/
~100 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
Transformed Eevee and native Axew. No direct references to games. Despite there being a school, it's not based on Super.
Parody/comedy adventure.
Pretty well-drawn, close to official artstyle, a bit toonish.
I was unsure how to approach this one; usually I just evaluate the comic and try to isolate it from whatever surrounds it as much as possible, but here? Heck, there's a decent chance that seeing the artist's name or the artstyle will make you go "wait a moment..." So I'm going to start with the review of the comic itself first, and then put extraneous information under a spoiler.
So, the comic is a full-on parody. We've got moves, stats, levels, The Stairs Joke, the quiz, all being a part of the universe and both the narrative and the characters being self-aware. There's also an actual plot and characters, it's not gag-a-day. The characters are pretty good; the comic manages to do the main character with overinflated ego without overdoing it to a point where it becomes annoying. I'd say they could even carry a serious plot. The jokes are alright, especially when you consider that Rescue Team came out 20 years ago and low-hanging fruit (The Stairs Joke) have all been done many times. As an aside, I am shocked that "pmd" was still available as a domain name on comicfury in 2024.
Virmir is a TF/vore/inflation fetish artist who has drawn PMD fetish pictures and comics before and the main characters are his and (best as I can tell) his friend's fursonas (turned pokemon). Now, to be fair: this comic does not appear to be a fetish comic based on what I'm seeing right now, one joke on page 16 aside, and the MCs are not Mary Sues. But that context is pretty hard to escape from. And I will not be held responsible if the next antagonist starts turning pokemon into balloons or whatever.
PMD: Light and Ruin (Bokurei)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmd-lightandruin
~110 pages, ongoing (Dec 2025).
Shinx human, partner Eevee, post-Explorers. Spoilers for Explorers.
Confusingly written adventure. I think it's trying to be a light-hearted comedy.
Black-and-white manga-styled, official style pokemon.
I thought it was going to be longer for some reason, but it's still in the intro phase. Intriguing premise: it's set post-Explorers where the human disappeared at the end, and then came back five years later. The art is unremarkable but clean and pretty. Unfortunately, the writing is bad. The dialogue flow is incredibly unnatural, all the time. It's the kind of dialogue where the characters just state the information that you, the reader, needs to receive, without considering that it's spoken in a way that no human or pokemon being would speak. The author also made a puzzling decision to have a character Q&A at the end of chapter 1. Q&A should happen, at least in my opinion, after the characters are established, not be used to establish them.
Team Rowanberry (ShrubSparrow)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=teamrowanberry
560 pages, finished.
No humans. Chikorita and Mareep, later joined by a shiny Corsola.
Early parts are mostly one-off quests, and the later part of it is a character-driven adventure. It's fairly grounded and touches on some heavy subjects; the first page of the comic will give you an overview.
A good chunk of it is traditionally drawn, switches to digital art later. Uses official style for the pokemon.
This comic has something of a rough start. It was created as a part of PMD-Explorers group, which is a can of worms I won't dig into, but in short, it was a collab project with fairly strict rules on what you could and couldn't do and specific prompts for missions. Because of that, the early chapters don't really serve a greater purpose and also have random things happen directed by what was happening in the group (like Chill leaving, which was due to IRL drama). Some chapters also had to be rushed to meat deadlines. That isn't to say that the early parts of the comic are bad, I still enjoyed reading them, but they are sometimes janky due to rush and often feel like fillers. Now, the reason why I'm saying this is - if you start reading it and think that the early parts are bad, don't be discouraged. The author has decided to continue the comic after PMD-E shut down, and despite PMD-E stuff making up missions from 3 to 8 and post-PMD-E being only two more missions, those two missions make up around 70% of the actual pages.
With that out of the way, to the meat of it. It's a small-scale story that's not trying to be an epic adventure of saving the world, and instead focuses on the characters, their backstories and personalities. And this focus serves it very well. It has good characters, good art, and a good story. I'd highly recommend this comic if you're looking for a complete, down-to-earth story.
You might wonder if it's a good idea to skip straight to mission 9. I wouldn't recommend it. The beginning of the comic is still pretty important for establishing the main characters and laying down some basic rules for the setting.
Victory Fire (sulfurbunny)

https://mspfa.com/?s=42766&p=1 / https://www.deviantart.com/sulfurbunny
734 pages, abandoned.
It has a very cozy, soft, somewhat anime style. Drawn mostly in MS paint, funnily enough.
There's a human Audino, but she's just one in a large cast of characters. Really, the main character is Mewtwo. It's set in a world that combines multiple pieces of pokemon media, including Rescue Team, Explorers, Black/White, Colo/XD, anime, and maybe other smaller references I'm forgetting or missing. Rescue Team gets spoiled pretty heavily, and is the only thing I really recommend you know the plot of before reading this; for others it's mostly passing references and no deeper spoilers than "good guys win in the end".
Character-driven adventure.
Probably the most well-known PMD comic. Despite combining a lot of unrelated work and having mostly canon characters, it manages to create a coherent and believable story with them without breaking character. It also successfully manages to juggle a large cast in a way that most characters are relevant. The background is laid down sufficiently so you don't need to know all canon works it's based on, though it will enhance your experience.
This comic focuses heavily on its worldbuilding and the way different sources and characters interact with each other. It starts off as a journey with occasional interjection of side characters, which get more importance over time, evolving into separate story threads that sometimes intersect, and ultimately converge. The story stays easy to follow, the characters are distinct and have clear motivations.
The elephant in the room is that the story has been discontinued. There's supposedly a revival project, but so far it has produced nothing but yearly journals saying they're working on it. Despite that, I think the comic is still worth reading. The story is mostly complete, and I think you can make a pretty reasonable guess about what was supposed to happen after the comic ends.
Team Ballad (Slap_Cycle)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=teamballad
~150 pages, ongoing (Nov 2025)
The artstyle is alright. Pages are way too big for no reason.
Squirtle human, Chespin partner, as well as a plush (ugh) Meowstic and a few supporting characters. Loosely based on Super, is set post-Super, and goes over the main points of the plot.
The main character is a squirtle vampire with heterochromia. But, like, a cool vampire, he doesn't burn up in the sun, he just becomes weaker. There's also magic in this world, and the MC can summon ice swords. Is it fun to read? No. The problem with thie one is that it is BORING. The entirety of the first chapter (minus a very short mystery dungeon trip) is the MC telling the partner that she needs to study for a school test and her saying "I will" and then not doing it. That may sound like an exagerration for comedic effect to you, but no. It isn't. Incidentally, if the author is going to include a page where they explain that they just graduated from high school, then I will include that information in the review.
Team Detect (REE-Quester)

https://archive.org/details/smackjeeves-185670/185670/comic/pages/chapter_01-1.png
39 pages, abandoned (or is it deliberately left unfinished?).
Well-drawn, close to official style.
Are the main characters a) Eevee, Vulpix, Riolu, Shinx, or b) Gliscor, Marowak, Alolan Marowak, Kliklang? Answers on a postcard.
This is a full-on parody of PMD comics, particularly comic cliches. It's great. Go read it, it'll take you 10 minutes, 15 if you're a slow reader. Ends on a cliffhanger, which may be by design.
FLOODWATERS (Mango Cat)

https://comicfury.com/comicprofile.php?url=pmdfloodwaters
52 pages, finished.
Simply drawn, with a certain charm.
Omanyte and Eevee. No spoilers.
A short complete story. It's... a story. Has a melancholic tone. It's hard to describe without spoiling it because it's really short. I enjoyed the read and it was short enough to read it in one sitting, that's all I can really say.