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– Here’s the illustration from last Saturday’s livedraw. Thanks to everyone who came to watch and chat! I’m slowly working on a new Ghost Kiss story which I’ll hopefully have finished… not soon, but soonish. Before the end of the year at least!
The monthly live draw was a Patreon milestone goal. The new milestone goal is a regular “Ask Medusa” feature where i’ll draw Modest answering reader questions. That’s less than $100 away! Patreon is helping me make a living making Modest Medusa. Every dollar helps. If you’re enjoying the comic and would like to help out please check out my Patreon page!
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Well that explains alot. Eggplant based economy. I bet Yeldans have some kickass Eggplant parmesan recipes
Also Medusa imagined a toothfacer as being a big bulky tooth eating monster when toothfacer is pretty slim. Toothfacer imagines the Serpent Oracle [which explains the prophetic visions] with six eyes when she really only has two [that we’ve seen] Peoples mental imaginations arent always accurate.
It’s possible that Medusa’s mom and the snake oracle are different creatures. Also, wouldn’t the toothfacer be pretty thin anyways? Can’t be easy to get your fill of teeth with all the security systems and stuff we have here. He would have to live off bar fights and kids waiting for the tooth fairy.
Well Jake’s world isn’t exactly ours. keep in mind. And noone in my neighborhood has security measures. Also it could be that some toothfacers could get big if they broke into a house and ripped the teeth out but another equally likely answer is Toothfacers eat animal teeth too. And if the teeth dont make them big the bugs might remember “Teeth AND Bugs” twelve teeth ahundred bugs. But kinda the point is Medusa imagined the shopkeeper woman as burning down the choodile factory, Marah as a corpse bear, and a fat toothfacer. None of which are accurate. I was pointing out that in some comics when someone has thought bubbles they imagine exactly what happened but in reality our memories are tainted by our own biases and personalities. Which is how Jake illustrates the thought bubbles. Which is a nice little detail
Yeah, Medusa is an unreliable narrator.
Modest’s is very accurate. Her faktore was spot-on. http://www.modestmedusa.com/?p=652
An eggplant-based economy? Well, that explains a lot.
So you can literally grow your own money in Yeld.
Too bad eggplants don’t grow on trees. I can’t make a clever pun out of it. 😛
So is this weird “guys plan on kidnapping Medusa for no real reason” plot just some twisted way to forcibly inject some exposition into the story or is all of this a bunch of useless nonsense happening right now? Because neither is being handled in a very entertaining way.
Sorry about that.
I don’t want an apology. I just want to know what the heck is going on. @.@
Normally your comics are funny, so I’m really at a loss for what’s happening at the moment.
And for the record, exposition and useless nonsense aren’t bad things. I like knowing stuff about Yeld and/or indulging in silly humor, but this isn’t really pulled off in a way that engages me, I guess. I can already see the “punchline,” if there is going to be one, and none of these characters that we’ve been introduced to seem very interesting or relatable on a personal level, so we’re really just going through the motions until Medusa comes back so the punchline can happen and then we can move on. I suppose I should have worded my first comment in a more constructive sense, and for that I’m sorry.
No, its okay. It sucks to hear you aren’t enjoying these strips, but yhat happens. Maybe I can turn it around for you before its over.
Nothing wrong with killing time with sight gags and joke plots between massive story arcs. We’re still recuperating from Marah’s Death. And besides you never know the story might end with Medusa telling it to Jake and Jake saying something like. “1. That didn’t happen those are Will’s friends. 2. You werent even there you were inside getting your stuff how can you hear about them talking about toothfacers and your mom if you were inside. And 3. i just saw you asleep on the couch with an empty box of chocodiles so it was just a dream.”
man i would be so poor in that economy i would be eating all of my money
And if you don’t eat or spend it fast it rots away and gets gross. Probably fills your house with fruit flies.
Am I the only one who thought about the old Kid Icarus game on NES and the guy who turned you into an eggplant?
Pit would hate it there. ‘.^~*
Trying to ransom Modest back to the Hydra probably wouldn’t go well for them.
She could give them a case of “classic” chocodiles from the stockpile in the throne room.
Toothfacer: Hey…! We could sell these for good money on eBay. Or hang onto them and wait for them to appreciate in value. What’s their shelf-life like?
Baldy: Damn near indefinite!
Modest (on mobile): Yes, Mom, they’ve picked the chocodiles up from by the toilet, and they’re happy with them, and they’re not going to eat them ‘cos they appreciate them so much, so they won’t need to go on that extra diet for kidnapping me… wait – you said extradite?! What does that mean?
Later:
Modest: Jake! I’m back! And Mom taught me a new word! It’s “extradite”, and it means “to shove into the toilet so she can grab them”!
>:=)>
Ha. Extradite.
Ha! my grandma would love the Yeld economy. 🙂
But I hate eggplant…
Okay just gonna say it. Teethfacer is the new breakout star. I didn’t like him at first but he’s just getting funnier the more I see him.
Also an eggplant economy is pretty smart. Unlike the american dollar eggplants have a base economic value.
It would make long-term investment really hard. Eggplants go bad pretty fast. Also it’s hard to fit more than two or three in your wallet.
Hey Jake next time I order food i’m going to give Eggplant Parmesan a try just for you.
God, I wish there was somewhere in my neighborhood that I could order food from. All we have is pizza.
That’s just sad… 🙁
You gotta keep an eye out Jake. None of the places are in my area or places i’d stumble across even if i could leave my house. But they show up in our local business magazine called “Money pages” who knows just what is in your delivery radius? And plus new restraunts open up all the time one just opened up in my money pages magazine has calimari and free delivery.
All of Portland’s good delivery is clustered in one tiny little area, and most of it refuses to deliver to anywhere more than a half mile away, or after 6pm. It’s frustrating. And getting anything after midnight is impossible, except for a single pizza place, which is good but expensive. I’ve lived in Portland my entire life and I’ve never understood why everything closes early and no one delivers.
Maybe that should be a topic for the comic. After all what good is having your own comic if you cant vent a little frustration. I wish i could order something tonight but i have no food or drinks till the first of next month so i can imagine not being able to have good delivery places would suck. at least you hopefully have transportation so you can occasionally go to nice places and enjoy dinner.
There’s lots of great places to eat in the area, but everything in Portland closes really early (and I’m nocturnal), so sometimes I get stuck without options.
Jake:*Poke Poke* Charrrrrrllllleeeessss
Charles: nnnh what?
Jake: I’m hungry
Charles: So get some food
Jake:I want something tasty and everythings closed.
Charles: What do i look like Gordon Ramsay?
Jake: well you do have your own cooking show.
Ha! Nice skit Jeremy. 🙂