3 things!
1st, The Kickstarter is going great, but I still need your help. We’re stalling out around $8, 300, and if we want to see some of those extra comic stretch goals we’ve really got to pick up the pace. I know a lot of you have gone out of your way to donate and help spread the word. Thank you so much. You’re the reason we got this far! I know some of you just can’t afford to contribute. Please, don’t worry about it. Don’t spend any money you can’t afford to spend! Just talking about the Kickstarter with your friends, or on your facebook or blog helps a lot. I also know that some of you are on the fence. You’re not sure if you want to get the book or not. Let me win you over!
The Season 1 book, which came out early this year and is currently available from my store, is the very best way to read Modest Medusa. Sure, you’ve already read the comic here on the site, but the book something else.
– A fair amount of the strips have been updated. Some have been redrawn or recolored. A lot of spelling mistakes were fixed. This isn’t really a huge deal, but it means that the book version of Modest Medusa is just better than the webcomic version.
– Most strips include commentary. Some of this is stuff you’ve read on the site, but a lot of it’s new stuff, and I’ve been told that at least some of it is pretty funny.
– The Season 1 book contains a 10 page bonus comic called Ghost Story. This is a comic, not a series of strips. It’s about how Jake meets the Ghost that haunts his mother’s house. This is the same Ghost we later meet in Season 2, and this story will become even more relevant in Season 3 and 4! You don’t NEED to read this story to get what happens in the rest of the comic, but it’s a good story, and it’s important to the overall plot.
– Even more important are the five extra 3 page strips included in the book. The strips featuring the Snakes and Charles are mostly just for fun, but the strips featuring the Chainsaw Unicorn take place right after Season 1 and introduce two character that will become important in Season 3. The Mermaid strips and the “Momdusa” strips are even more important. These take place directly after Jake is pulled into the toilet at the end of Season 1 and explain what happened to him and why we haven’t seen him in Season 2 at all! I talked about this a bit in the comments section earlier this week, and then went back and edited the comments because I realized that only about 500 of you have read those strips, and for the rest of you it’s a pretty big spoiler.
Anyway, the strips and comics from the Season 1 book together are over 25 pages of content, which is like a quarter of a full Season! Now ask yourself, do you want to miss a quarter Season of Modest Medusa? And the Season 2 book will be similarly packed with comics. In fact, the big 10 page story for this book is so cool that when Marah and the Pirates finally show up in Season 3 you’re going to be glad you read it! That’s why you should buy the books!
2nd, we’re having an art contest! WHOOOO! Draw any character from Modest Medusa, post it somewhere along with a link to this site (you can mention the Kickstarter too, if you want) and send me a link to it! I’ll choose the three I like the best to appear as pin ups in the Season 2 book (complete with the artists name and contact info)! My favorite of the three will win a signed copy of the book! The deadline for the contest is the 18th of this month. I’ll announce the winner and post links to all the entries on the 22nd!
3rd, here’s another Kickstarter you should support. It’s a cool comic that needs your help! Catgirls and stuff! I dig it the most! Only 48 hours, so don’t wait! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1072708010/caribbean-blue-volume-one
Lends credence to the idea that medusae and mermaids are closely related.
I’ve never had that problem. In fact, I’ve never met anyone with the same name as me.
Ha! I new it, when you wrote this did you think about nameing them all medusa from all our coments.
But the thing is I want to draw the characters, and I’m embarsed at my drawings. So should I submit them anyway when I’m finish?
Yes, please.
I know the problem, Man, do I ever know the problem.
To Timothy and The Other Other Timothy – we should be friends. Either of you got any snake shampoo?
Ironically, my name is Medusa as well.
Really? I hope so.
I have met people with the same name as I and it bothers me especially when they spell it differently from mine. I dislike anyone adding/removing letters to/from my name because they spell theirs’ differently. I wonder how the heads put up with their host when she, herself, seems to be lacking in intelligence.
btw, how many fingers does medusa (medusas?) have? I figure the fingers-turning-into-nubs is more of a artistic thing than part of the abilities.
She has kind of a flesh mitten. There are finger bones under it though, and as she gets older she may form fingers. Who knows?
Hey Jake i’m gonna go reread the archives if i don’t spot medusa ever getting her skin cut shall we assume the flesh mitts are to protect her hands as they develop?
Sure. That makes sense.
Just re-read the archives over the past day and some, and that certainly helped clarify the plot in my mind. New Season, bring it on!
As for Jake being blue…. I got nothing. ‘Fraid I haven’t yet placed an order for a season 1 book (damn my broke-titude-ness), so I haven’t read the additional stories that don’t make an online appearance. I am quite pleased that unasked question received an answer in this update.
Had honestly thought he was merely in the shadow, honestly. Anyway, keep up the good work, and sorry I am currently unable to help support Medusa et al.
Shadow was actually the intent. I wanted to reflect that he wasn’t really in Season 2, but he still had a presence.
Hey, Medusa’s my name too!
… Naw, I’m kidding… it’s Chaos
Woo, yeah! I knew it! This is awesome. Oddly enough, This week I found about somebody who has the same* name and age as me who murdered his family in Lake Oswego. (*okay, so he spells it “Adrien” thats just one letter and it sounds the same)
Yeah, I knew you knew it.
Sounds like an alibi to me… you sure you ain’t hiding something? ‘:3
That’s what I thought.
Wait a minute…. If there’s Hundreds of Medusae… *Snatches one and runs off*
careful, they might send the Knight after you xD
Medusa and her sisters are so funny, I can only imagine what Jakes life would be like had more than one shown up at his house. I wish I had a medusa, they are so cute and funny, I’d never let her go.
I need to start selling Medusa dolls.
I think that would be a hit!
I Just Had a most excellent idea. If there is hundreds of Medusas out there what if Jake isn’t the only one to end up with one? Can you imagine up and coming young webcomic artists making their own webcomics about finding adorable Medusas and they all link together from Modest Medusa. Like how Aubrey from Something Positive was BunBun from sluggy freelance’s owner {and he stole her switchblade] It could be a massive web of Medusa comics crossing over.
But i’m assuming for right now Medusas the first one to leave home for an extended period {maybe i’m wrong} But even so maybe at the end of season 3 all of her sisters end up in our world meeting new people and such setting the stage for a giant medusa web.
But it’s up to Jake
Hmm…
I have this idea for a comic called Maddest Medusa, about one of the other Medusas who is always mad. She got kicked out, so now she wanders around Yeld beating stuff up, Conan style.
Not sure if joking or awesome
aghhhhhh! Why must you do this to me? I SOOOOOOOO want to contribute, but I’m broke! AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
I understand. There’s a few Kickstarters right now that I really want to help out on, but I’m totally broke as well.
Dear Science Medusa.
I Am currently Incredibly Addicted to the Sniper Elite V2 Demo. I can’t stop playing it. Naturally I can’t afford to get it because i’m saving that money for your kickstarter {P.S. You should get Scribblenauts for your DS with part of your share it’s fun}. How do i kick my addiction?
Deer Jerus! Wait, are you a deer? That’s so cool! Okay, so science says that it’s better to want something than to have it. Jake says that too. Like, I want to buy Scribblenauts, but Jake says I’d never play it and my snake would just eat it anyway! Anyway, the science answer is to stay up all night playing your demo and drinking Capri Suns, and then spin around really fast until you feel sick. And then you’ll just want to go to sleep!
– Science Medusa!
It’s Official! Her name IS Medusa!
Okey Jake, now lets get a name for the Chainsaw Unicorn.
But what if it *IS* Chainsaw Unicorn?