– Sorry for the late update. I probably won’t be posting the next page till late Monday or Tuesday, because…
– I’ll be at Emerald City in Seattle all weekend long. Find me at the Dubious Company booth with Ben Hsu. That’s booth Q-10 in the artist alley. Look for a big Medusa sign! I’ll have Season 2 books, coloring books and some other cool stuff. I’ll also be doing sketches for anyone who wants one. And if you haven’t gotten your Season 2 Kickstarter reward yet, come by and pick it up!
– Speaking of Season 2, Cosmic Monkey Comics in NE Portland is hosting a Modest Medusa signing on Saturday the 9th at… lets say 5pm. We’ll be going out for food an drinks afterwards, so come by and hang out!
– Kickstarter rewards are still shipping out slowly. I think we mailed three this week! Sorry for the delay everyone. Between Wizard World, Emerald City and actually drawing the comic I haven’t had a lot of extra time. Your stuff is coming. Eventually. I swear to god!
– My downstairs neighbor Sydney (who is about 8) has been keeping up with the current storyline and was pretty shocked by the last strip. She made a drawing about it (featuring me):
wait so if sadness she grew into a huge snake but what happened to her hair snakes?
She didn’t grow into a huge snake. Check the last page again, she shriveled, leaving only her snakes behind as the dominant personality.
He visited her from time to time but didn’t stay long – just long enough for her to fasten his cloak correcetly. Eventually, he learned to do this with his hooves and stopped visiting all together.
Meanwhile, in a small Yeldian village, the local rodents got sick of there only being eggplant to steal from the fields and decided to get a ship and become pirates…
How a snake and a horse figured out how to tie a string is pretty amazing.
Each of the tiny snakes could do as well as hands with mittens I would think.
This is how they did it: http://i.imgur.com/a0a7m0Q.png
What the shit?
It is official. You can find ANYTHING on the internet.
ikr! such a coincidinc!
Well Jake, if you ever need someone to cover for you while you’re away, I think we’ve got the perfect choice right here.
Yup.
That’s some loyalty. She became something he despised (though it seems as though she became it in the process of trying to save him), and still he came back, even if only to check she was okay.
Maybe he didn’t realize the price she paid o save him, which makes her that much more awesome to me as well. Selflessness.
Manly tear and such.
what price?
I don’t think her transformation was related to what she did for him. Back in part 10 her snakes tell her
“This won’t change anything.
Even if you save him…
You can’t change what you will become.
You are your mother’s daughter.
And we are part of you.”
WHAT THE SHIT INDEED!
Indeed!
I also feel the need to echo your 8 year old neighbor’s reaction!
Mom’s a giant snake. So did Modest and her sisters come from eggs laid by momdusa? Who was the father? Disturbing questions, no?
this is sad!
That must be why you left. Its topped being funny.
Yep sad but it also answers the question of why mommduse eats her young, could you imagine the destruction caused by an army of giant hydra-snakes?
Poor Modest…
nah. i always have been reading. just not commenting. the art is good as is the story. just havent found the right thing to be cliche about here… 😛
but really i still like it a lot.
also i cant move to the west coast… gotham needs me!
It was topped funny?
There’s topping on this comic?
Where’d the sprinkles go!? D8
and the fudge too!?
*crying* I love *hic*this comic because it was*sniffle* funny…now it’s a drama!*crying*
(how do you get your gravatar image to show?!)
I have no idea how, but yours shows up to me. Also, I’m deleting your email fro this post for safety!
next to your name it should say get a gravatar. click that ^_^
not to knock your art, but question:
now that she’s a snake, where do her hair snakes come from? also, GET TO THE CHAINSAW.
The kind of sprout out the sides of her middle. you can actually see this way back at the beginning of the season.
* as seen on pages 557, 558, and 561.
I’ve always wondered why they’re numbered funny. Is it some function of the publishing software you use?
It is.
If I’m seeing it right, one of her hair snakes became the dominant huge snake as she withered away, while the rest remained relatively small?
That’s it.
LOL Sydney
…and this is a really sad story.
CHAINSAW UNICORN!!!!!!!!!
I think this is the closest I have ever seen in a webcomic or pretty much else where a character becomes dedicated to someone who is destined to be a lost cause. I raised the point in a roleplay i’m part of where we met a stone with a human face that talks. Me and another player have begun a discussion on how sad that is. It leaves me to think of things like Fatal Frame. Where the brother chose to stay behind with the bound girl. Not because he loved her. But because he didn’t believe anyone should be forever alone like that. I’ve often hoped to be able to create or play a character willing to sacrifice everything for love or friendship even if it can never be reciprocated.
That’s hard thing to play, especially because it requires another player to buy into it equally as much. A lot of rp groups are scared off by that kind of thing, and a lot of game systems just have absolutely no structure for it. Not that you need an rp group in the traditional “sit around the table” sense or a game to get a good rp, but I think that’s the kind of situation that many role players find themselves in.
So sad, and so beautiful…
Go Sydney! You gotta admit she does pretty much sum it up.
So sad, this isn’t going to happen to our favorite gorgon, Modest, is it?
8:: (
I wonder if Modest will suffer the same fate eventually and her mom calls her back to avoid the same pain she went through?
“Snake? Snaake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Also, I don’t know what depresses me more: the fact that the 8 year old kid draws better than I do… or that he put the word “shit” in there? I fear for the new generation.
Also also, I come here often enough! Methinks it is time I join for really reals. How do I get my own face icon and sign up, I don’t see a place for it? Please and thanks yous for assistance given.
I just realized today that I’ve been spelling “sorcerer” wrong this whole time! There is no second o in it at all! Why has no one corrected this?! :O
No one else knows how to spell it either.
Well, Wikipedia includes:
“Sorcerer or sorceror may refer to:”
“The Sorceror (film), a 1932 German film” and
“Sorceror (horse) (1995–1998), American Thoroughbred racehorse”.
Also, on Discworld there are “sourcerers – wizards who are sources of magic, and thus immensely more powerful than normal wizards”.
So there is precedent for at least occasional variation in the spelling.
as bakaneko said: next to your name it should say get a gravatar. click that ^_^
Just did, still not seeing me as my gif here, just that empty shell. >3>
Also, just gonna stick with “Sorceror” it is how I’m used to spelling it.
AHAH! Nevermind… tho it isn’t moving. |:/ For someone who wants to be a game designer, I’m terrible with computers!
I can see it.
Did you teach Sydney that word >:(
No, it came from her Mom.
I didn’t know about Modest Medusa until I saw my girlfriend near your booth at Comic Con Portland and decided to buy both books. I just finished reading them and looking at the comics online.
I’m very pleasantly surprised with it all. Thanks so much for the sketches you put in the books!
Hey, thank you!
The front legs on him are quite right, for a horse, if he’s a horse.
Oops! aren’t quite right.
Crap.
I just reread this comic. This part is making me cry T.T
Which of the four took dominance? Was it the one that holds the candle and keeps sticking out its tongue? I never liked that one. I could tell it was the most conniving.
Hmm, that’s a good question.
So he stayed until she withered away to nothing? Must have been painful to watch each day. Sort of like watching your grandparent’s mind slip away until he/she doesn’t remember you at all.
In this case Gorgon still remembers him, she just doesn’t care.
but the question remains: where did he get that chainsaw – especially in a medieval mythical country with no technology….and where is that thing stored before it sprouts from his head?!
Came to our world and got one attached?
Whither, away?
Gah, it’s been a while since I posted. Love the steady improvement of the art, and the new story progression! I’m surprised no one has sent guest filler featuring Indiana Jones meeting Modest, or Samuel L Jackson (I am sick and tired of these…). Maybe I’ll have to bust out the Inkling and do it myself. keep up the awesome work!
That’d be cool. I have an Indiana Jones thing I’ve been working on for awhile. Maybe I’ll finish it up for the next kickstarter.
Where you disappear to? Think you could post something to explain what’s going down?
Who, me? I’m just running a little late. Wait, why are you posting this question on a three week old comic?
Wait.. you’ve posted since this one? Excuse me while I go have a serious talk with my internet browser…
Like 6 more strips.
Okay, all caught up now! Strange.. it would seem that the auto update for this comic stopped for three whole weeks. Looks like I’ll have to just flip forward manually from now on. ^-^ Thanks for letting me know!