– So the Kickstarter ended on Saturday. It went really well. Thank so much everyone! Most especially, thank you all for putting up with a month of constant promotion! I appreciate your patience and tolerance! Anyway, I took Sunday off to go to a Lego convention with my girl friend, and then I just kind of forgot to do a comic for Monday. I didn’t even realize it until Monday afternoon! I guess I needed a break!
– I was back on the Drunk Duck podcast yesterday talking about making comics, the tools I use, my writing and drawing process and more. You can listen to it here.
– I’m featured in teh March/April issue of Fandom Fathoms. The magazine includes interview and a bunch of my art. Should be pretty cool! You can pre-order a copy here.
– Check out Lawyer Medusa! This is the art for this month’s Sticker of the Month for Patreon backers. You can check out my Patreon page here.
– Jaymz’s Split Screen kickstarter has a little over three days left and still needs just less than $700 to get funded. Split Screen is a great comic and Jaymz could really use your support! You can pledge to get the book for $25, but any pledge at all will help! You can check out her Kickstarter page here.
– I’ll be at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle at the end of the month. Artist Alley booth CC-03. Come see me!
I’m calculating a 73% chance that Friday Charles will wake up with his head bandaged saying, “Gahhh!”
Who is that? I would guess: girlfriend.
What was going to be the conclusion of MM’s statement in panel 3:
go Home? go get ice cream (not a good idea. non-mammal=no lactose enzymes)? go play Pokemon? go pay for those Pokemon games I took from the store?
Seems that Jake’s stretch goal of getting a MM tattoo was a bit too much for the supporters since the Kickstarter fell just short of that. 😉
No hugs for the lawyer? There should be hugs for the lawyer.
Crazy thought: What if this MM met another MM?
Modest Medusa: Hi, I’m Modest.
Mindmistress: I see. You can call me Mindmistress. What are you? You seem different from other serpent-morphs that I have met. Where are you from?
Modest: Jake’s toilet.
Mindmistress: What?
Modest: Yeah, there is a portal to Yurt in Jake’s toilet. I can go back and forth to Yurt from there there.
Mindmistress: Oh, so you come from Yurt. I have not been there before. I will want to examine this portal later. May I see your “hair”?
Modest: Uh, Ok. By the way, why are you all shiny?
Mindmistress: [ Examining Modest’s snakes ] It is my armour. It keeps me from getting hurt if something is shot at me. These snakes have real esophagi; they can actually swallow food. [rapid fire] What happens to anything they eat? Do they have an actual stomach? Do they have venom? What type of venom do they use? What about breathing? Do they have a lung, or do they get their oxygen from the main body? Do they have their own brains, or are they just extensions of your own nervous system? How did your species evolve?
Modest: Whoa, I don’t know those things. I don’t even know what some of those things are. You went way too fast for me. What were those questions again?
Mindmistress: Oh, I am so sorry. I just got so excited. You are so unlike others of your form that I have met before. I also ignored the fact that you are a child. Please forgive me.
Modest: Uh, Okay. You talk kinda funny.
Mindmistress: I grew up in Atlanta, a city on the other side of the country.
Modest: No, I mean you use all those big words. So what is the big deal with you anyway? It can’t just be about the armour.
Mindmistress: I am a neo-human, which means I am really smart. I basically can not forget. I invented this armour and a bunch of other things. Hold still.
Modest: But your armour feels so weird. I like it. What is with this light on your chest?
Mindmistress: Clearly not a human mind in there if she is not affected by the hypno-beacon.
crossover!
an idea for your mindmistress… the next time she tries to take over someone’s mind, she needs to reflect on this moment and make sure they have one
Ohhhhhhhhh!
There a card game you can play with Pokemon cards!?
I can’t genuinely tell if you are being honest in your question or not.
But if you are:
Yes. It has been around since gen one (that’s Red/Blue/Yellow for those that don’t understand the talk of generations).
I remember it being fun, but kinda clunky in gameplay. By now, I’m sure they have refined the rules to make the game flow easier.
Running Pokemon leagues used to be my job. Teaching kids to play,handing out badges and running tournament. pretty fun.
How long have you/were you into pokemon cards? If you happen to know, have the rules changed much since the golden (and silver; Pun!) days?
I worked for Wizards of the Coast from the original release through Team Rocket. I didn’t really keep up after I left the company. I played a game about a year ago and I seemed to remember most of the rules, so I think maybe it hasn’t changed much.
How did Medusa fit two deck’s worth of Pokemon cards into that swirly cake?
Frankly fitting ONE in is amazing.
The Pokemon cards WERE the just what they needed after all. Wow, Medusa was on to something.
Bought the magazine~! I can’t wait to see what’s inside!!! Btw, Pizza Rolls are terrible when they get cold. 🙁
I’ve been in the justice center (downtown Portland), and let me tell you, there’s no Pokémon games being played there — not even regular card games! I’d totally take a weekend in this comic jail over that one.
Yeah, this clearly isn’t the justice center. Maybe a local precinct? I’m not sure where the closest one to the house is. In fact, I don’t think my crappy neighborhood has one!
I just found out (perhaps for the second time?) that this page highlights text in red, which I only just found out and think is awesome now, anyways, can’t wait for the next strip! I can see that Charles waking up with a bandaged head thing happening, but only after the introduction of this new shenanigans.
How exactly is Charles playing Pokemon with only one hand? Does he use his mouth to play cards?
He picks his hand up to look at it, then sits it back down, draws cards from it to play, then picks it back up again.
Has child protective services been around?
Jake at what point did you take Modest around to introduce her to people like the skeptical police who didn’t believe in chainsaw unicorn’s existence so that she pretty much just wanders around like the AntiOctodad. Or does everyone just assume she’s just an eccentric five year old cosplaying as a medusa? Come to think of it how would Family Services get involved. I imagine Jake, Modest, and a Social Worker sitting in a room
The Social Worker: And why should you have custody of this young….girl…creature…snake?
Modest: If my hair bit you…. you’d turn to stone
*Modest smiles innocently as her snakes eye the social worker*
Social Worker: err right nothing strange here i’ll just be going have a nice day.
It’s not clear what people think of Modest, except that no one seems to really think she’s strange. maybe monsters are more common on the comic’s world? Maybe there’s some kind of Percy Jackson thing going on and everyone thinks she’s a normal girl? I don’t know.
I thought Charles could only play “one-handed” card games?