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The Monster Under the Bed
“Embrace your fear.”
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Imma just drop this in here for the upcoming pages.
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It was at this moment he knew
HE FUCKED UP
He’s still not sure how he did, but he realized something went wrong.
God I hate marcy….
Then I’ll MAKE you love her.
Uuufff, whata turn will be?)
I smell a dilemma.
you can try but you’ll fail shadow has my heart no matter how cutesy sexy you make marcy
Ah yes, the good old “Iron Man” concept. A clever stratagem!
If this was a Star Wars movie then right about now someone would be saying “I have a bad feeling about this”.
Fuck her? yeah; love her, doubtful
Prepare for trouble and make it double xD Poor Tim.
LOL
I don’t quite understand why that girl all of a sudden likes Tim. It’s just out of nowhere.
It’s like she existed before she was introduced, or something.
The cheerleaders may have “a list” and Tim was next on the list. it was nothing personal but Marcy wants to win and Tim’s just collateral damage – she didn’t and coyldn’t know about Shadow & Midnight.
Am I the only one who thinks that the bottom left panel of page 147 would make a great poster (without any speech in the way)?
147? the panel with the fancy dress?
Yes.
@Funny Username:
I just had a quick peek at that page and you’re right, it would make an awesome poster or wall scroll. Say Brandon, can you hook us up with a poster or wall scroll, maybe? Just don’t make them to expensive if you can.
Thanks in advance.
Looking at it again, it’s not just the left panel but the right panel would make just as awesome poster as the left panel.
You’re right!
why is she annoyed ?
She found mysterious scissors with Tim’s name on them in her room last night, that may be why. XD
If she brings up the scissors, Tim should immediately accuse her of taking them since he could not find them after she left his house
He’s not going to think that fast. He IS going to instantly understand how they got their, and his unconscious reactions, and refusal to explain is going to look fishy.
The she stabs him in the gut with them. Goodbye Tim.
Then his powers awaken and he realizes he’s half Noxian.
His “powers”? So, he will now be able to pop out of any closet at will.
How thrilling!
(It may be time to invest in closets with doors that lock FROM THE OUTSIDE ONLY. )
There. fixed it for you
When is the next one coming
Sunday, hopefully!
So wait, Terminus is a closet monster, right? Does this mean he could nab Tim by jumping out of his school locker?
Technically… maybe.
If lockers were counted as closets then there would be many more closet gateways than bed gateways.
Is this true? I have several beds in my house, but I have no lockers anywhere, and haven’t had any since I was in high school several decades ago. Is there published data on the numbers of beds and lockers in the US (or in the world as a whole)?
I don’t have official data, but I can do an off the cuff assessment that is a little more thorough than an example of one.
According to US regulations (I realize that means something like 95% of the world doesn’t care, but I expect this pattern tends to hold elsewhere), every ‘bedroom’ reported in a real estate ad needs to have a closet. Houses tend to also have closets not in bedrooms. Hotels tend to have a closet in every guest room, although they generally have some rooms with 2-3 beds. That said, hotel beds in the US generally don’t have much of an ‘under’; they are intentionally built connected to the floor everywhere to eliminate the possibility of someone having something get stuck way under the bed. There is a little space under the beds, but it’s only enough to tuck a shoe in horizontally, more or less (I have wide feet, so my shoes won’t entirely fit, unless they’re on their sides. Most hotel rooms I’ve been in have a low overhang for these nooks, such that my shoes won’t fit in them on their sides either.)
Japanese style beds don’t have an under, either, as they are flat on the floor. I believe there are other countries that tend to do this, but I don’t know which ones. I’ve heard Japanese style bedrooms still tend to have a closet.
The pictures and video I’ve seen of African houses generally showed beds that were flat on the ground, but also no closets in the bedroom. I will admit that 100% of the pictures and videos I’m recalling which featured real African bedrooms were about the state of poverty in the third world, and so the people taking them were looking specifically for imagery that would be striking to privileged people in the US.
Hammocks count as beds, according to a previous strip, but most houses do not have a hammock.
Many professional buildings will have some closets, but no beds. (By professional building, I mean buildings which are intended for the performance of a profession other than homemaker, not just buildings for the employment of people expected to live up to a significantly higher standard than average.) Hospitals tend to have many more beds than closets, as patient rooms tend to have cupboards rather than actual closets. That said, the modern hospital bed is a mass of technical. While all of the ones I’ve seen have an under, it’s a low ground clearance that enables the bed to be rolled up a ramp and bind at the top. Many of these beds lock into place by lowering such that their weight is no longer on the wheels, but instead is on posts that touch the floor, which also eliminates most of the under the bed space. The hospitals I’ve been in tend to have more closets than the other professional buildings I’ve been in.
Given this, it seems like the closet monsters probably have a bit of an advantage even without having any extra closets. I would imagine that the lockers that my middle school had would not count, as they were designed to be too small for a middle school student to fit in them. They were stacked three high, and short enough that only the shortest kids in my middle school couldn’t reach the top locker of a stack. The lockers in my high school were too skinny for a person larger than a premie to get their head in them, so would also probably not work.
Sports clubs generally have lockers, but they tend to be of the ‘too small for a person’ variety. I know nothing of the bedding situation at YMCAs or other places that are or act as homeless shelters. College dorm rooms that I’ve been in tend to have both closets and beds, but many have bunk beds. I’d think those would generally count as one bed regardless of the number in the stack. Otherwise, the lower bunks would likely be much more popular among the critically lonely. I’ve seen multi-person dorm rooms that had students share a single closet, but all of those rooms I recall had bunk beds.
These lockers appear to be too short for Terminus to use. The fact that the locker door locks could also be an issue, though it’s conceivable that the lock is designed to be easy to jimmy from the inside. (I have been in a high school that had such lockers; the back of the lock had a button that would simply open the door. This was that high school’s “solution” to their problem with bullies stuffing kids inside lockers. I am lucky to have only needed to visit that high school, as I mostly fit the profile that bullies tend to go after.)
I’m still in high school and I can tell you that there are well over 200 lockers where I go.
Your a pro at making comic you should do it for a living you have skills i wish i had
It generally takes more than just artistic skills to make a living as a web cartoonist.
Brandon has a Patreon account, a merchandise link, and a Paypal donation link, so I feel confident this has been assessed, and the time is not yet. There’s currently 562 patrons for this comic, which is generally about an order of magnitude too low for just Patreon to be viable. There’s not a lot of merch listed, so that’s probably not more profitable than the Patreon account.
There’s no way to guess how effective the Paypal link is. That said, the web cartoonist I personally know gets most of their income through their Paypal account, but tends to view it as much less dependable than the Patreon money, as Patreon money is generally pretty steady, while Paypal donations fluctuate wildly. I would guess it’s similar for Brandon, as Paypal doesn’t really do reoccurring payments.
I see that Back To The Future reference (which I have brought up about 100 times by now) in the background there! Brandon, you make both great pages and great easter eggs!
Hey Brandon have you considered making a anime out of this when the story is done.
I mean, yeah… that’d be nice, but… it’s not entirely up to me, you know. I don’t exactly have access to a lot of resources I’d need to even begin the process.
Will hopefully you will have the resources you will need in the future
Ahh, the memories of consecutive problems creating colossally horrendous school days, far beyond their original proportions…
…thank gods I’ve graduated.
Sooo, Marcy is going to complain about Tim being late and not even bring up the fact she found his scissors in her room, isn’t she?
Has anyone suggested that Marcy may actually be another monster from Nox? Perhaps slipped into his school by Mother Moonlight to see what sort of guy her “darkest angel” is getting involved with and keep an eye on him?
She’s not a monster, this comic needs some normal humans too, you know?
She’s a monster, just a different kind.
Explain why she is monster. With evidence.
If it wasn’t no nut november, I would totally fap to pg 147…