UPDATE!Â
The books have arrived! If you were part of the Kickstarter please check out this update on the Modest Medusa Kickstarter page. The short story is that your books will be going out the door over the next week or so, as fast as I can pack them!
Buy the book! For those of you who didn’t participate in the Kickstarter but have been waiting to order a book… the books are now available for sale! Click the ad on the left side of the site,the store link at the top or just go here! I’m offering the normal version of the book for $17 and a special signed version with a sketch for a bit more (Actually, I’ll happily sign any books you order on request. It’s the sketch that costs more). Shipping out the Kickstarter books is my first priority right now, so any new orders will go out after that, probably around the 16th.
Book Release party! Cosmic Monkey Comics will be hosting the Modest Medusa Book release party on Saturday, Jan 21st from 4-7pm. If you live in the Portland area come by, say hi and buy a book! If you participated in the Kickstarter and you’d like to pick up your book at the party please let me know.
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A twist!
Here’s a story. Yesterday I got a call from a shipping company asking when would be a good time to drop off 45 boxes of books.
Finally!
I waited around excited all day yesterday, but the books never arrived. Around the end of the day I got a second call from the shipping company. Hi, we have a bunch of your books. What day should we drop them off?
Frustrating!
So… I’m expecting the books to arrive later today. I’ll post an update when they do, so please check back!
That treat is a spy.
Nooooooooooooooo! (meant on so many levels)
1 – Stupid shipping company. Did they hire their deliverers from the cable company?
2 – How many times are we going to get the it-was-all-just-a-dream thing? This is no longer a web comic, it’s a web soap opera.
I guess I’ve done that twice in a short time, haven’t I?
Having a nightmare and then getting trapped in a delusional state like that totally doesn’t count as the it-was-all-just-a-dream thing twice.
Part of the point of the it-was-all-just-a-dream thing is to get into some convoluted situation and have the characters get out of it without resolving anything. Having JR wake up in bed at the end of the series was a it-was-all-just-a-dream cop out. >:(
This is a good twist, especially since you managed to get it to turn out as “the helpful scary monster really was scary”. 😮
It was Bobby, not JR, and he was in he shower
Oh, different soap opera…
Oh, excellent twist there! I did not see that coming. Bravo, man!
On the upside, he did give them excellent advice.
Yeah, ghosts don’t eat folks, they’re incorporeal. Monsters under the bed eat people, especially kids. Naughty kids.
So that is why I kept waking up under the bed as a kid!
But you can tell the bed monsters are there when they drool. And they are stupid.
so, it was all just random neurons firing as they are being eaten by a brain sucking monster? that is…uhh…random.
Indeed. Never let a hand of foot hang over the edge of the bed. It will at least be eaten, and you may be drug under the bed by the appendage if you’re not so lucky.
Well played, good sir. Well played.
I don’t mind the “It was all a dream” bit as long as it is done well. 😀
did not see that coming
ITS A TRAP!
The treat was a lie.
Excitement! Books! Saddly, I cannot attend the book release party : This is the second thing I had to turn down that is going on during those hours. I will be in Portland to see Myth Busters. I might have time to make it there after the showing but I wouldn’t want to risk it. Books look great though and I look forward to getting mine!
That’s to bad. Have fun at Myth Busters though!
Jake, did you just totally rip off the X-Files episode “Field Trip”? I just bought the boxset and this strip is a carbon copy of the plot for that epidode. oops, my geekdom is showing
Your the second person to mention that, so it must seem that way. I did just watch the entire show again last year, so it might have been in the back of my mind. That said, it’s not one of my favorite episodes.
Star Wars comment. And also, how did medusa get out? Did her hair eat the covering?
She had yet to be fully encased, just immobilized.
A couple of days late… but:
HAPPY 1ST ANNIVERSARY MODEST MEDUSA!
May there be many more!
Happy Anniversary Jake! On a completely unrelated note–after twenty years the new card deck I have been working on is finally done (today!) and I will be trying out my own kickstarter soon. So I am very happy. But back on topic I am really liking the brainsucker.
Thanks! 20 years? That must feel good to finish up! Let us know when your Kickstarter is up so we can all check it out!
Thanks Jake 🙂
I want my book! (when it comes in 🙂
I want to show it off to everyone–cause they don’t have one!
I’m working hard to get them all signed, sketches, packaged and mailed. You should have it pretty soon.
An fun read and an good tool for clubbing people who wish to interrupt my reading time.
That “ghost” better watch out or hes going to get stoned big time one of the snakes can almost reach him..
What just happened? One minute, they’re talking to the monster, next minute, they’re in the cave. It isn’t a good “it’s just a dream” because there’s no where for it to have become “just a dream”. It’s real confusing. >.<
BTW, I've been reading this comic for a few months, now, and I enjoy it; this is the first time this has happened. I'm just real confused.
It should become clear over the next few strips (I hope), but basically when the ghost sucked on their heads he put them to sleep and drug them back to his cave, where he;s been cacooning them in some kind of green crystal. The conversation between the ghost and Marah is what Marah is dreaming while this is happening.
Okay; thanks. Guess I’ll just await the exciting conclusion! ^_^
Oh, I get it! It’s like Plato’s Allegory of the Cave! Marah was bound by green goo, and everything she saw was just a shadow of what was real. Does that mean she was talking to a shadow-shadow beast?
….. yes.
The cake is a lie!
Wait this isn’t cave story