#208 “Ready to Believe”
She’s ready to believe!
Oh, and the sports team is the Ellis High School Manticores, before you ask.
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I know him. The bully from chapter 3.
Bingo!
We appreciate your efforts, no matter how long it takes you. I always look forward to the next page. 🙂
I can imagine what he would said…
I found Tim with a girl and I decided to introduce myself
– Wow, wow! Tim Newton with a girl! This is new..
But he said nothing … he had look … lost. So I asked.
– Too many candy, huh? Hey dude… are you ok?
– My boyfriend is fine! -said the girl possessively.
I didn’t like her behavior so I said something like …
– Hey … I’m talking to him.
And when I said that to the girl, Tim went crazy.
– DON’T TALK TO MY GIRLFRIEND, Craig! – and He tried to hit me
I struggled and threw him to the ground.
– Dude! Are you crazy?
– No. You will be crazy. Right, shadow?
– Shadow?
– It’s the name of the girl … or what I thought was a girl, because when he said that, I looked at her.
And then it happened.
The girl’s skin changed. It became dark and textured like black stone. Her teeth sharpen like blades. Her eyes seemed to emit light and turned yellow, large and with a pupil like a cat’s. Her ears grew. Her legs turned into animal legs, just like her hands became sharp claws.
I’m a brave guy, but I wasn’t prepared for that. I went into shock.
she jump against me and I could barely block her. Before change she was a girl and then she had the strength of a man. I could hardly hold her.
– Run away, Tim! – I told him
– No. You should run away and leave us alone – he tolds me
He was like under a spell.
– I have your smell, Craig. – the monster told me – If you try to get back in our way I will go for you.
I fled. I was in shock. What I had seen was absurd. Impossible
I refused to believe it so the next day I thought someone drugged me or something like that. That everything had been some kind of bad joke.
So I went to see Tim.
– Dude… What happened last night? I have … blurry memories.
– Have you forgotten Shadow so soon? She won’t forget you!
When he told me that, I went frenzy. If someone had played a joke on me, it should be him!
– So that’s why you messed with him.
– Yeah, well … You know. I was expelled for a few days for punching him, but … I refused to believe it! Tim would have drugged me … hypnotized or something.
But the worst was later at home. When I entered the room, the monster was there! She was tearing up my shirts and my sneakers!
– You! – I said as I tried to understand how she got there.
She snorted like a cat, and fled under the bed.
I went after her and she was gone! Dissapear! And it was a second ago! There was no place to go!
– Magic?
– Something supernatural, without doubt.
And then, a few hours later, when I was in bed trying to sleep, I heard her voice clearly.
– Craig … Craaaaaiiiigggg … I’m still here. If you go back to messing with my boyfriend, I’ll cut your throat when you’re asleep.
Her voice came out from under my bed! But when I looked, there was nothing!
– That’s why you were crazy that week.
– Week? I couldn’t keep an eye on a month! That’s why I want to know nothing more about Tim. And you shouldn’t get involved with him either.
Sorry for my bad english.
Haha not bad, not bad at all! Kinda twisted, I like it. Haha!
Hey Brandon Shane are Macy and Craig. Are brother and sister or what.
No, they aren’t. I just have a stupid amount of Blonde-haired blue-eyed human characters, completely by accident. XD
Must be somewhere around Michigan or Wisconsin then, if I had to take a guess.
Canada, actually.
Or an alternate history Earth where Germany won WW2.
Why not Sweden? About as possible, but more fitting the result.
Sweden wins alternate WWII, ABBA becomes the top band in the music charts worldwide, nylon body suits are permanent fashion items.
Fermented fish dishes become the alternate timeline “McDonald’s” product.
Whole world becomes swedish.
Rallycross driving is even crazier, nobody knows why or how.
Finland gets blamed for it, Finns continue not giving two hoots.
Pretty sure there’s a lot of Swedish heritage across the Canadian border from Michigan. Settlers don’t care about non-existent borders that will be set up in the future, just if there’s room to settle down.
How many people in this town have Monster heritage?
Not just the town, but all Canada?
Well Marcy and Craig brother and sister, that sounds funny…
Well done again as always ur artistic talents sure dont go to waste
Holy Shit! She was dating him to learn his secrets! The bully put her up to it!
Then would he warn her?
The fact he warned her proves it. He told her beforehand about shadow, she just didn’t believe it
From what I’ve seen, I don’t think so. I suspect it’s more subtle and subconscious – the fact that he scared Craig (remember she doesn’t believe the story) probably made her feel that Tim is a good protector. Not only that, that idea probably gave her the warm fuzzies.
“…and the sports team is the Ellis High School Manticores…”
We want the graphic of that, too, Brandon, for another merch T-shirt (or tablet case)
Umm, please.
Maybe pose Marcy cheering with the team manticore?
I mean, it’s not a terrible idea. Haha.
Honestly, its brilliant, I would buy that!!
If Tim is a hibrid he could go to the “monsters” land?
(If somebody asked it before me sorry)
Haha, only a hundred others, it’s fine. And yeah, he can go there, if invited. It’s possible.
And i forgot that :
This is the best webcomic i have ever read.
On his own? He doesn’t have an “aegis” (portal key), for one.
I did say if he was invited. By a monster girl!
Are you really sure the name isn’t Ellis High School Manwh*res?
Yeah, really sure.
Wow. A Wednesday page
I know, I’m all discombobulated.
Beats no page at all. Was starting to worry about your health there, for a bit. Glad to see you’re still in the land of the kicking.
Whats the name of his basketball team in the background?
So much weirdness around that it’s hard to tell where Tim’s weirdness ends and Shadow’s weirdness begins.
Too bad you blurted it out in the description, you could’ve made the team name a running gag where you never actually show that part of the name
Still can make a running gag of various partially obscured texts having perfectly innocent meanings “before you ask”.
The school stuff isn’t that much of the story, you really only see it a few times… so, not much opportunity to do so.
Could still be stuck in other places outside of the school. Like, if Tim’s talking outside, holding his arms out, there could be a poster in the background for an upcoming Manticore game, and have his hand covering the middle of the word.
Well… I think someone other than Tim, his parents and Craig is about to find about about Shadow…