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This is the last day for the Kickstarter. We’ve raised more money than I could have hoped. I really appreciate it, everyone!
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This is the last day for the Kickstarter. We’ve raised more money than I could have hoped. I really appreciate it, everyone!
And so our own thoughts are transferred into the characters dun dun dun
first post maybe?
also i’m still advertising jake. Never give up never surrender
Shiver me timbers, them’s some great ifnomartion.
But the first thing anyone ever ate in this comic was a Chocodile (and it was snake (#3?) that ate it, so even if this is troo, it is okay.
Yaay early update! (Vote now!!)
I never would have thought about snake poops before this…
Nah, my thought is that the throats of the snakes all converge and connect with Medusa’s throat.
This would explain why she would cry when the lower left snake (Keps, as I have dubbed him (they stare at boobs, they be male snake hair)) ate the toilet “Chocodile”. Then again, I would cry too if my hair ate poop regardless of if I end up tasting it or not, ourdo.
Further, I think, if my notion is correct, and their throats do converge with her’s, then that *MIGHT* mean that if they tried to speak, they would probably end up speaking with her voice, as they *MIGHT* use her vocal chords.
Then again, it is also possible that they might each have their own vocal chords with which to make noises (speech or hissing)… so that’s debatable.
Interesting topic, this…. but it just made me have a TOTAL nerd moment…
One that ALL of you can revel in.
Revel in my nerdity, humans! REVEL!
Ok so here’s my new theory Medusa’s brain is like a computer although more cluttered. each of the snake brains serves as an unique program to help medusa however because she’s only 5 she doesn’t have Root Access and there’s only so much that she can do as she gets older she’ll have more and more control until they become similar to an appendage or whatever a computers appendage may be the metaphors getting away from me. also unless Queen Momdusa was halfway in the toilet the snakes will also get longer. and on the topic of Momdusa. We might be jumping the gun assuming she’s evil Snakes in general are vicious, territorial, and protective of their young it could be that every day of Momdusa’s life is like having PMS while having to watch out for and daughter who likes to wander off. And quite frankly if Momdusa watches the nightly news she has every reason to kill everyone who comes near her daughter. Our world is not safe place for human children monster children are at risk from the usual threat and dissection.
BTW fun fact the series finale of ALF {a show about an alien being hid by an normal suburban family from government employees who want to run him through worse then guantanemo experiments then vivisect him] had the family move away and Alf went to meet his people but instead finds it’s an ambush by the same agency who spent the seasons trying to capture and torture him. Cheery Finale Eh?
I like “Momdusa” I think I’ll stick with that pet name as well, until names are thrown down. (Like Keps for medusa’s lowerleft trouble making snake)
in another webcomic ‘spinnerette’, the main girl has six arms. and ‘bottom lefty’ has a habit of causing trouble too! like groping at awkward moments
Okay I asked something like this on the last page, but… HOW do those snakes work again? Now you HAVE to answer it man. 😀
I’m not answering that. or rather, I think this strip is the most answer you’ll get.
Hey gaboris unless medusas have an society like humans it’s unlikely they’ve done autopsies and therefore probably have no idea how their body works. Why can’t medusa explain how it “feels” well if you really want a challenge imagine you have a child who is born colorblind and now try to explain colors to them. i’m just saying finding out in the strip will be unlikely and whether jake knows how it works or doesnt he doesn’t have to answer because there is no way the answer would be known in his universe..
Yeah I can understand how you mean it, but I looked from the creation angle. Just thought that if Jake made medusa AND brought this question up maybe he(unconsciously) also thought about the right answer. 😀
Since he already said he’s not answering it more then he already did… :p
Oh lord. This made my day!
Thanks for the comic and the (on the floor) laugh xD
wow can not believe i never thought about this before now this is going to be bugging me all day but it would explain her actions and also hurray jake for early update thanks man
snake poop on the brain, priceless
I just had a look at the kickstarter, and not only has the thing crossed the $10K mark, it’s just $250 away from being %500 funded.
Now you’re just $225 away from %500 funded. Had I known Kickstarter used Amazon payments, I would have jumped on the proverbial wagon sooner when I had a bit more to spend on it.
Wow I just discovered this comic. you do great work and it’s all soooo cute ^^. So keep it up and happy I stumbeled by read the whole thing in one go untill now~nods~
Welcome!
hey jake… it’s ten thousand. sorry if my advertising has cost some sleep.
Sigh… at this point 3 more pages is almost nothing. anyway, I appreciate all the effort. When I pass away from exhaustion I’ll make sure to haunt you.
So jake which do you think helped more. the front page kickstarter description about your semiautobiographical story about finding a toddler medusa. or me going all over the internet spreading links and also telling everyone i know in real life about it making some flyers and leaving them at random locations and such
Did you really make flyers? Anyway, it was totally you. Well, you and everyone else who really helped spread the word. I mostly just told you guys, and then you went out and told everyone else. Once again, thank you (and the rest of you) so much.
Fundraisings in my blood my dads done it and my grandad i think did it. and my great grandad probably did it to pay his bar tabs. wait till book two and i’ll see about hitting 20 thousand or higher
Oh god, book 2…
poop for brains? well, she definatly not alone there.
Oh hey Jake heres a question that might get lost in the shuffle. Did Momdusa psychically project that dream into your head or are you a psychic medium?
I don’t think i’m a psychic medium. It’s also not clear if the dream came from.. her mom, or… well, nothing is clear.
Almost 11000
I support the one-throat theory, mainly because the alternative would be a ghastly mess in any regard. Not that they’re not already dealing with such…
Jake my pledge didn’t go through i have no idea what happened i thought it took the money out already. What’s going on?
I don’t know what is going on has anyone else had problems?.
My impression is that the money isn’t removed from your account until after the kickstarter.
I got an e-mail from Kickstarter saying my pledge had been processed and that the project was funded, plus an e-mail from Amazon payments saying my payment to Modest Medusa had been processed. My credit union’s computer is showing a payment to Modest Medusa as pending, but that’s not unusual within 24 hours of a payment. Jerus should see something similar, depending on the method of payment he selected when he pledged.
Wait a second… If you’re captured by Momdeusa, how do you know all of this happened?
‘Cartoon Jake’ was captured.
‘Real Jake’ is still living outside of the toilet (and is the one drawing MM).
They’re two different people, eh? Like… twins or something. 2D and 3D… TwiddleDee and TwiddleDum?
guess im going out to put more money on my card. hopefully itll still accept it
That medusa has poo brain!
too funny for words! It explains so much!
But personally I like to think that the snakes consume 99% of the matter they eat and don’t excrete at all, except maybe hair oil. That is, um, snake oil…
Snake-hair oil! A whole new type of beauty product, on sale as soon as they can kidnap Medusa.
$11k+ on the Kickstarter; Congratulations, Jake! Looks like you’ve got one heck of a fan-base.
Oh, and, you owe us a Momdusa arc. ;-P
Thanks. Ill be drawing the Momdusa strips this weekend I think.
on the note of snake poops and where they go, if they ended up in her head, wouldn’t that mean the pokemon game ended up there too?
having my hair eat my game would make me cry ^_^
Jake on monday ill put more momney on my card to pay if kickstarter tries to stop me is there another way to get the money in?
I’m sure we can work something out.
good then i’ll give the kickstarter money and my eternal soul. and i’ll throw in my best aquaintances soul as well
Take the cash-value, Jake; souls lose 30% of their resale value the minute you drive them off of the lot!
But… I think if I collect 13 souls I get a wish.
I’m assuming some sort of advanced, highly symbiotic relationship, to the point where the two are essentially born fused. They probably begin forming as separate embryos within a single egg, then fuse during the later stages. This would, of course, require the reproductive systems of the medusa and the snake’s to be tightly intertwined. But I could see this working. Initially, the snakes simply helped the medusa aquire prey. Eventually, the symbiotic relationship advanced until we see them as they are today. I suspect the snakes have semi-independent vital organs, with digestive and nervous systems connected to the medusa’s. That would serve to explain why the medusa seems to be able to control them actively to a degree, as well as why they show some responses to emotional or subconscious cues. I suspect they do have their own brains, though, which is why they also are shown to act independently. Finally, I propose that the medusa’s body structure is the dominant one on her world. Perhaps instead of four fin-legs, the first lungfishes of her world instead developed only the forward two. It would explain the mermaids, as well.
Theory!
kickstarter keeps locking up when i try to put through a new payment option what should i do
I really don’t know. My best advice would be to contact them and tell them you’re having a problem. Worst comes to worst we can work something out between us, but I’m sure Kickstarter can help you solve any technical problem. You can find contact info for Kickstarter at the bottom of their site, although really you probably want to be talking to Amazon Payments. here’s their help page: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/helpTab
i found the problem i put 22 on the card and amazon charges 23 a 1 dollar transaction fee
That’d be it.
would you like my credit card number infor and ssn then?
Nope. I wouldn’t know what to do with them.
what do you reccomend jake?
I’ll send you an email in a bit.
Maybe snake poops is a natural hair conditioner.
I’d think she has two sets of veins going to her head, one set for the brain, another set for each of the snakes. (I wonder what organs each snake has?)
Silly readers!
MM’s snakes are like tentacles on an octopus or squid: They’re part of her body! Not a ‘symbiotic’ attachment.
They have mouths which connect to MM’s throat. MM could breathe through her snakes if required… but she can breathe underwater, or hold her breath a really long time! So it’s rarely required.
Each snake head can independently blow bubbles with bubble-gum. Little known fact!
Each snake would have it’s own vocal cords, if they have any. They can all ‘hiss’ independently. If MM yawns? All 4 heads will yawn too. idk about sneezing…
MM can “see” through each snake’s eyes, and taste through their tongues (yuck!) as well as smell & feel. I assume each head has ears too: all 5 senses!
I should charge $$ for all this schooling…
…which comes YEARS after the comic was published… *sigh*
Well, not years. Like a year and a half.