– Con Schedule: I’ll be at Emerald City this coming weekend and Sakuracon at the end of the March. I’ll also be doing a book signing at Cosmic Monkey here in Portland on the 9th of March.
– Back from Wizard World Portland! The show was pretty good, but the best part was meeting all of you! If you heard about Modest Medusa at the show, thanks for checking out the site! Here’s some pictures.
Here’s Barry, Nick and I. The Hereville and Modest Medusa booths were neighbors.
A Modest Medusa fan (I forgot your name!) who dressed as White Tiger one day and Domino the next!
Long time MM fan Tenzin as Batman, checking out the new book.
The Doctor in a special hat.
Another hat fan.
Hanging out with the amazing Diana Terranova!
I wasn’t sure where to put my hands, but Diana helped me out. She bought both books and then came back the next day to hang out and do pictures. I won’t lie, this was my favorite part of the show.
That guy looks like Joel Watson!
Poor Medusa! I hope thats not going to happen to Modest too. 🙁
The lesson here is to drain your snake(s) before they drain you.
Ugh…of course you would make that joke.
When I see a chance for a pun, I TAKE IT!
Damn straight, person-who-I’m-pretty-sure-I-just-saw-over-at-Between-Failures.
Oh well that escalated quickly! I feel so bad for Momdusa now, her true existence faded away like she was a tadpoles legs. I wonder if that might happen to Modest as well, and damn chainsaw unicorn must feel like a big stupidhead!
I have so many conflicting feels!!!
You mean a tadpoles tail.
“The part of her that was warm was slowly disappearing.”
Well, duh, she took her turtleneck off.
Ha!
nooo, evil snake-hair!
She seems to still care about Modest (although not the others?), so there may be some vestige of Momdusa left. That, or Modest is part of a greater plan.
Damn Jake, that face and pose you’re making in the last pic totally reminds me of a guy I knew in college, James Poma. Have not thought of that guy for awhile. I’m sure that is the same pose/face you displayed when the anime club decided to show Gravitation.
The commentary says it all. He didn’t knowwhere to place his hands but she told him. The handwe can see is in the proper place and she’s pointing something at his throat and telling him that he’d better move the other hand.
I was just joking last strip but I see I called it.
Well, you got close, but I got way closer ;D I didn’t expect her to wither away though, just to be absorbed whole. Not absorbed bit by bit until the remains wither, die and fall off like a skin flake…
What a great con! Glad you had fun! 🙂
I can’t seem to find your table on the ECCC floor plan, and I’m not confident my plan of wander around and hope to find you will work well…
What booth number are you?
I’m not sure. I’ll find out and post tomorrow. Oh, I’m with Ben Hsu, so it probably just says “Dubious Company” or “tiny Blue Dragon”.
Actually, this strip explains a lot. Momdusa as previously seen is just the hair (which has sprouted its own snakelings sincethis took place). The crowned sanke that always says “the medusa is not yourfriend” is a sort of manifestiatin of evil snakiness.
The question now this – Have momdusa’s hairs battled it out so that there is only one now or have they somehow split up and there are four independent ones or are there still four of them connected to her corpse?
I think Momdusa became the large snake, and the smaller snakes remained essentially the “hair” of Momdusa.
OH HEY WOW.
I just noticed, the snakes’ eyes on Momdusa are red (for EVIL!) but the snakes’ eyes on Modest are yellow.
Significant!
Perhaps…
We Have a Title! Also, are the hair snakes evil because evil or will you have a reason for that?
I don’t think they’re evil right now so much as cold and mostly emotionless.
… damn.
Just damn, the poor Monstergirl <.<
And I second that I hope this won't happen to Modest …
Ah, the life cycle of the medusa! Sort of like salmon that go up stream, spawn, and then die.
Sort of that.
Talk about disturbing! We go from a cute story about a 5year old Medusa living in the toilet and eating Chocodiles to her mother shriveling up and leaving nothing but cold blooded snakes. The stuff nightmares are made of!
You know, I have been wondering.
How does she get that turtleneck on with snakes that long?
she put it on as a kid and never took it off
Gross
So sad… 🙁
i don’t know anything about art appreciation, but i like panel 6 more than that painting “the scream”
Jake, if I were in your shoes, I’d consider asking Diana out for coffee at least once. I’ll leave you to decide what to do with this suggestion since you’re there, and I’m not.
*Subject change to the comic.*
I guess the snakes pooped in Gorgon’s brain a few too many times.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Jake–
I was watching American Dad during lunch and the alien (I am not a fan of the show so I do not know everyone’s names) was going apeshit over Chocodiles for several minutes. Given that no one in history (that I have been witness to) has ever made a deal about Chocodiles on TV, especially a show that reaches tens of millions of viewers, it made me think of you, MM, and the off-hand chance that Seth McFarlane reads Modest Medusa. That would be cool 😀
Unfortunately that episode pre-dated MM. Way back in the beginning I used to get a lot of people asking if I was a fan of that show, or if that’s where Chocodiles came from.
Oh by the way–this sucks. Momdusa was such a nice girl. I wonder if she ends up friends with the Bitchy Mermaids once the snakes take over.
(Rhetorical sarcasm–keeping in mind that according to MM S1 they just moved into the area and so therefore “probably not”)
Looking back, I notice Momdusa only has three snakes.
So it looks like one of them just sorta took over as head snake (heh) and poor Gorgon withered away.
Poor poor Gorgon. *petpets*
…Though I can’t help but wonder who the father to all of the minidusas is.
;_;
Okay, morbid curiousity has been kindled! I wanna see nowadays “Mom”dusa’s husk body! Show meeee~!
Also, tis sad, but a fantasy world is nothing if not a horrible place! I mean, how fun would fantasy games be if there was no chaos? No evil? No darkness? BORING! It’d be BORING AS…. well not hell, hell is entertaining….. It’d be as boring as an apple sitting in a basket!
I am… sorta sad to see momdusa go, one could’ve almost done a WHOLE series just for her. Hopefully at some point we’ll fastforward to see adult Modest and she’ll be equally or moreso adorable… or… a giant group of evil heartless snakes…. so… fingers crossed.
ok, i´m thinking positive here: momdusa stated modest is different from her other children, and her hair so far, while moving/eating, has never spoken to her let alone tried to manipulate her or showed any other symptoms of being evil, so…maybe whats so different about modest is that her snakes will remain docile pets and NOT grow to be intelligent and take over.
I just noticed that this horse’s eyes are white, whereas the Knight of Chains had red eyes.
WHICH CLEARLY MEANS…
He doesn’t get much sleep after this because he feels guilty for what he said. Totally couldn’t be something else.
Totally.
Nice con pics. =D
Also, awwww, Gorgon, that is one of the many “saddest things ever!”
One wonders if Chainsaw Unicorn is now full of remorse for his careless words, if they haunt him now and forever more.
Callousness and thoughtlessness toward others, and in fact lack of empathy can be perceived as evil, even when it isn’t. Necessarily, anyway.
Which is why I am a benevolent dickhead, instead of totally heartless (and thus lacking empathy.)
Also, now I kinda want snake hair. “What? It’s not my fault! I’m not the jerk here, blame the snakes!”
Huh, no mention of the fact that CU can talk. Given that, why hasn’t he said anything before? Well maybe he has, I just don’t remember.
Perhaps as his anger and hated of the cold cruelty of Gorgons hair grew over time he two was warped by anger and gained the chainsaw and lost the ability to speak.
Or it could just be talking to good guys makes killing them that much more difficult.
Or it could be, {Considering that we’re now learning he hates her snakes and the the part of her he loves is almost gone. } That he’s Gorgon’s knight not by choice but by force.
All sound plausible, though number three is most likely.
I guess we’ll have to wait and find out.
But at the same time he could just be shy around other people.
OR… And this is infinitely more likely.
Noone has asked.
Remember Jake’s reaction when he learned Modest could talk?
But while this story arc is sad maybe the human part of Medusa doesn’t wither away because it’s just how their race evolves. But merely because she allows the cold emotionless logic of the snakes to take over. Perhaps that withered husk can grow and the snakes can shrink if she feels love again, hope, and other asundry positive emotions. {The best part since this is a response to last weeks comment by the time it’s read by people in a few years we’ll probably know if it was accurate or not.}
Artists’ representations of horses in general tend to always throw me off a bit. In WoW, I always thought it strange how over-animated the legs of horses are. In reality, horses’ legs appear stiffer because they don’t bend their joints quite so much.
There was a cartoon movie about the Spaniards looking for the lost city of gold. I forgot the name of the movie and the explorers, though it’s quite famous, historically. In that movie, the horse is depicted as sitting on its haunches a few times. Horses pretty much can’t do that.
In today’s comic, the horse is speaking through his mouth. Of course, I only learned about 5 years ago that horses can’t breath through their mouths at all, so it doesn’t seem as strange as the other things. Still, it seems a bit off to me for that reason. I found out about this one because one of my parent’s horses got bit in the nose by a rattlesnake, and the vet we called had to push thick plastic tubing into his nostrils to keep his airways open enough so he could still breath.
All that nickering, whinnying, and breathing happens exclusively from the nostrils. Oddly enough, no one would accuse a horse of having a nasally voice.
There’s my mostly useless trivia for the day.
Neat. I have a lot of trouble drawing horses. What, you could tell? I used to have a few good reference books, but I lost them in the great bathroom flood that birthed this comic. About two strips after introducing the Chainsaw Unicorn to the comic I decided that it was a huge mistake (drawing wise, at least). Oh well.
i dont comment here as much as i used to…
What happened?
i dont know… on spinnerette i am all over the place. i used to be one of the only commenters here when you were at like 10 pages or something… we used to chat a bit. now… i dont know! I AM FAILING AT BEING A FAN!!
also get your butt to a con near ny that i can go to geez…
Move to the West Coast!
Time for a haircut
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
YOU CAN’T DIE ON ME!!!!!
YOU F**KEN SNAKE I HATE YOU!!!!
Now that I’m done… the Con looks so fun *sniffle*But I can’t go….
Have fun for me at the next one!!! 🙂
I will have all of the fun.
That awesome moment when the chapter title makes sence
Hey, you, it’s Domino/White Tiger. Name is Rachel. =^_^=
Oh, hey!
aw cmon that was kinda uncalled for