– You may have already heard that Chocodiles are back. Just a week after I finally got around to doing a story about how they were gone forever (dammit). they’re calling them “Chocodile Twinkies” and they don’t actualy look like Chocodiles, but it’s mostly the though that counts I guess. I’ll have a full report once I get my hands on some. But hey!
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Woot! Woot!
Chocodiles! (This was all Jake’s doing)
Or maybe…
Sharp-Suited Senior Acquisitions Analyst: Sir. I have rechecked the situation regarding the Chocodile brand, and all those debts, liabilities and serious profit warnings have vanished. Just rumours and phantoms in the system… apparently. With the current forecast, I can recommend immediate acquisition and resumption of production.
Mr. Big-Shot: (reading report) Agreed. Pass this on to the Acquisitions Team, flagged with my approval.
Meanwhile, in the Prince’s throne room…
Mother Medusa: *examines last batch of Hostess Brands financial paperwork, flicks tongues over screen of tablet PC* And… that’s the last of the damage that I can undo… but it seems that it was enough. And of course, I have plenty of chocodiles to keep me going. After all, those policemen who arrested my prince could only take back what they could carry… *ophidian smugness* and they can’t return without my daughter to guide them. My… daughter. What she has done… But… perhaps I should make her a peace offering anyway…
Later, back at the house:
Charles: It looks like a whole case of chocodiles, and it’s sitting on the toilet seat. And it’s got a note saying “To Modest, from Mother”.
Modest: Keep back! It could be booby trapped!
Jake: Yes, we need someone from Bomb Disposal…
Modest: *exits, returns in “borrowed” police armour* Bomb Disposal Medusa to the rescue!
>:=)>
I continue to love this.
Bah! f they’re called “Chocodile Twinkies” then they’re probably just Twinkies dipped in chocolate and not real Chocodiles.
I think so too.
Heard they were taking them national…
Can Medusas get diabetes, if so then Modest might celebrate herself into a diabetic coma.
Hostess ought to pick up your endorsement for their new chocodiles, because even I am tempted to go look for them now! All that subliminal advertising, I think, is starting to work.
Think. How awesome would it be for Modest Medusa art on the packaging of a Chocodile? Maybe of Modest doing a tug-of-war with a hair-snake over a Chocodile?
And I confess, even I have been swayed by this comic to try a Chocodile.
Apparently snakes can slither quickly.
I’m so excited that I may finally be able to try these. I’ve been DYING to try one ever since I started reading. Please note, had they not miraculously come back on the market, I would have harbored some serious resentment….. 🙂
Return of the Mutated Chocodiles….dun dun DUNNNN
I like the news ticker on the bottom of the first panel:
“Local Polic baffeled by chainsaw murders, horse suspect sought for …”
I had to drop a link to this web comic on the blog site. I remember being infuriated at my aunt when as a kid she insisted on including Twinkies in my lunch bag but never the Chocodiles. I also hated that she’d sully my peanut butter sandwiches with butter and jam.
My mother would NEVER give me twinkies. I was lucky to every now and than get a cookie.
According to Wikipedia (with a big ol’ [citation needed] tag), the original Chocodile really was just a chocolate-covered Twinkie; the difference in texture was, apparently, due to the chocolate forming a moisture barrier which prevented the cakes from drying out as much.
I have no idea what Chocodiles used to look like but maybe they’ve just decided to put both confections into the same mold to cut down on their process overhead.
There is a certain level of irony in that. LOL. I guess that woman didn’t burn down the factory.
First panel Modest = Almost too adorable for words.
Refrain from man-squee-ing, Davidicus, men don’t squee! >.<
Ooh boy. OK, don’t overdo ’em Jake–remember you have a circulatory condition.
I hope the new ones are good, though.
Clearly the medusa’s influence is wide.
The black mamba can slither faster than a man can run. The green medusa is potentially even quicker – if that man is carrying a Chocodile.
Probably still won’t find them in my area
These Chocodile Twinkies I bought right after I got off work(A&P) today are highly tolerable. One might even say they are delicious.
However, I cannot say how they compare to the original Chocodiles, seeing as I never had any.
…
Mmmmmmmmm…. Wait, where’d they all go?
It’s magic power of Modest Medusa!
Yes! Now I can try the chocodiles for real. 🙂
I have a question… I know Modest can’t control her snakes but are they fragments of her personality. Is that why each snake acts differently? And when a Medusa turns into a snake it’s because one of her fragment personalities took over?
That’s a good question. The short answer is that we don’t know.
The long answer…
The snakes may have their own personalities and be completely separate entities. They may be fragments of Modest’s personality, or represent a split personality, or something like that. They may not have any real personality of their own at all, instead just unconscious projections of Modest’s own desires. Maybe. The Gorgon’s snakes could talk, but it wasn’t clear if they had their own separate intelligence (although it looked like they might). The Knight of Chains described the Gorgon as still being the same person after her transformation, but he may have been wrong. Her transformation may have also been influenced by outside forces (the Prince), and may not be typical of her species anyway. Or not. So I guess we’ll have to wait and see?
But, I can’t wait that long!
I bought some of these the other day at a nearby Wal-Mart.
They taste (as far as I can tell) the same as they used to! Which is frankly amazing, given that all of the other Hostess snacks they’ve brought back taste…differently, in some ways.
To me the Chocolate tastes different. Less waxy. It definitely has a different texture.