Digital Media Concepts/Wonderlab

Overview

Wonderlab is a spin-off webcomic based on the ProjectMoon series, Lobotomy Corporation. It is illustrated and written by MIMI, an artist based in Korea. Wonderlab narrates a story of the O-5681 branch, one of the many branches that are apart of the Lobotomy Corporation. It was serialized on ProjectMoon's official Posttype profile, a site for publishing various media such as comics and manhwas. There are 55 episodes that were published between February 14, 2020 to April 9, 2021. Wonderlab is no longer accessible as per request by the author's notice on August 18, 2023.

Wonderlab

Author	MIMI and ProjectMoon
Publication	February 14, 2020 - April 9, 2021
Status	Complete

Story

The webcomic series introduces a new perspective of the events that take place during Lobotomy Corporation by telling a story about a sub-branch, where their problems are similar but unique. A group of colleagues in the Disciplinary department are faced with the dangers of managing abnormalities while introducing new lore to the ProjectMoon universe as a whole. Abnormalities, which are known to be the manifestations of the human mind, are put into containment units where they are researched for energy production. Wonderlab introduces the concept of aberrations, which are variants of abnormalities that tend to be unique but weaker than the original.

Chapters (episodes)

Episode	Title
0 (Prologue)	Prologue
1	Dingle-dangle
2	My Sweet Home I
3	My Sweet Home II
4	White Lake I
5	White Lake II
6	Variations
7	Red Queen
8	Tangle I
9	Tangle II
10	The Road Home and Scaredy Cat I
11	The Road Home and Scaredy Cat II
12	The Road Home and Scaredy Cat III
13	The Road Home and Scaredy Cat IV
14	The Road Home and Scaredy Cat V
15	The Road Home and Scaredy Cat VI
16	Hookah Caterpillar I
17	Hookah Caterpillar II
18	Hookah Caterpillar III
19	Hookah Caterpillar IV
20	Hookah Caterpillar V
21	Hookah Caterpillar VI
22	Bottle of Tears
23	The Servant of Wrath I
24	The Servant of Wrath II
25	The Servant of Wrath III
26	The Servant of Wrath IV
27	The Servant of Wrath V
28	The Servant of Wrath VI
29	The Servant of Wrath VII
30	Titania and Nobody Is I
31	Titania and Nobody Is II
32	Titania and Nobody Is III
33	Titania and Nobody Is IV
34	Titania and Nobody Is V
35	The Drowned Sisters
36	Blue Smocked Shepard and Reddened Buddy I
37	Blue Smocked Shepard and Reddened Buddy II
38	Blue Smocked Shepard and Reddened Buddy III
39	Blue Smocked Shepard and Reddened Buddy IV
40	Piscine Mermaid I
41	Piscine Mermaid II
42	Piscine Mermaid III
43	Staining Rose I
44	Staining Rose II
45	Staining Rose III
46	Staining Rose IV
47	Gone with a Simple Smile
48	A Party Everlasting I
49	A Party Everlasting II
50	A Party Everlasting III
51	A Party Everlasting IV
52	A Party Everlasting V
53	A Party Everlasting VI
54	Flower (Epilogue)

Approach to the world of ProjectMoon

MIMI had the liberty of designing her characters when covering newly introduced lore to the series that was requested by the company ProjectMoon. All of the characters that participate in Wonderlab have ambiguous genders and are speculated to be minors, which is part of MIMI's approach to making a spin-off story. MIMI posted information regarding the process and development behind Wonderlab through Evernote, a program dedicated for notes.

Legacy

Wonderlab received mixed support from fans of the ProjectMoon series. As it garnered new fans due to MIMI's distinctive approach to writing a spin-off for Lobotomy Corporation, the webcomic received scrutiny for similar reason. The webcomic is recognized for its approachability as a comic compared to a companion media known as Distortion Detective, which uses a format of a webnovel to tell its story in the ProjectMoon universe. Several characters such as the Servant of Wrath and Scaredy Cat are seen in a later game known as Library of Ruina. ProjectMoon created a live service game known as Limbus Company in February 26, 2023, which followed up several elements that Wonderlab initially introduced such as aberrations.