However, the comic books do not simply revolve around the stories of Monica and her friends. In , a manga style spin-off series, Monica Teen, was created, featuring the characters as teenagers. The Monica's Gang series has an extensive amount of main and secondary characters. Other characters from other series created by Mauricio de Sousa are also included on Monica's, making crossovers or quotations from each other in several stories,among several other characters.
Most stories focus on the daily lives of the main characters and occasionally on the secondary characters; the humour usually uses various types of repetitions, allusions, appeals to the nonsense, paranomasias, sarcasm and metalanguage. The stories with Monica and Jimmy Five revolve around the conflict between the two. Jimmy Five is a troublemaker and bully who always tries to scold Monica or steal her stuffed bunny to give knots in its ears usually having Smudge or another boy accomplice , always having Monica get her revenge by hitting him with her stuffed bunny, often leaving him bruised and with black eyes.
Often Jimmy Five makes plans against her with various traps, sometimes using Franklin's inventions or talking Smudge into helping, but he always loses to Monica at the end. Smudge's stories usually focus on his penchant for dirt and mess and his fear of water, without ever having taken a bath in life, and constantly being threatened by villains or his friends to take a bath whenever he gets away with a result at the end of the story.
The stories with Maggy generally focus on her gluttony, with a superhuman ability to eat more than a normal person without ever getting fat and sometimes stealing food from her friends.
Among the villains are Captain Fray , a supervillain with the power to control garbage and dirt, and Lord Big Rabbit , a space bunny whose first appearance was in the movies. Lord's design was inspired on the iconic Star Wars' villain and main antagonist, Darth Vader. A joke often breaks the fourth wall. Blu - Based on the first character of Monica's Gang it shows the character Blu as acting as a mere actor in a studio of comics.
Chuck Billy 'n' Folks - Focuses the comic daily life of Chuck Billy, a lazy caipira boy and his friends who live on a farm in Brazil's countryside. He most often appears in contact with Monica's Gang. Bug-a-Booo - Focuses on comedy stories involving monsters of horror films ghosts, vampires, werewolfs, frankesteins and even the Death in a cemetery.
Tina's Pals - Shows a daily routine of a group of teenagers and their daily lives as dating, college, among other issues. In it received his own spin-off comic book series. The Funnies - Focuses on the comic adventures of Bubbly , an astronaut at space filled with aliens.
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