#36 “Bed Bugs”
And so, the first mini-arc of Chapter 2 is complete. Time will be passing a bit quicker this chapter as we explore various moments in the lives of Tim and Shadow, so stay tuned!
Oh! And check out the fan art gallery as I’ve added a few new works!
Also, you can vote for my comic on the new link to the right —>
i really like how this is comic is going keep it up !
Thank you!
Woot! So much easier to vote on TWC now 🙂
Hehe, yeah! Apparently so! I’ve already jumped up a few spots.
Been holding solid at 42 all day 🙂 I expect that as the regular top 100 spin up their voters we’ll drop some but here’s for hoping we’ll keep on the front page all month :3
Me too! I hope I can pull in a few new faces as well! Here’s hoping! XD
I love this comic, So much I want it to update more then once a week LOL
Sorry it can’t right now, but I know the feeling. Thanks!
“The next day, kids at school wondered about my missing ear. While I had a completely plausible cover-story already thought out, I panicked at the last second and told them it was from a baking accident. Suddenly, Home Economics became the most popular class.”
Hahaha! XD
Wait a second
They are both NINE? We saw them fucking on the third page and in post coitus a few pages ago.
Go back and read it again. From the top.
or just click here for a quick answer to your concern.
I’m afraid that confusion isn’t going away anytime soon. I think you will have to redraw Tim’s face in a couple of panels, he does look young in the first pages. Great work still.
I know. I designed him as a kid first for the comic, then didn’t push him hard enough in the early pages to be older looking.
Perhaps the adult versions of your characters could have smaller eyes and a longer, more pronounced jawlines and cheekbones. Since eyes don’t change size in real life, in kids the eyes look proportionately larger. As people age, their faces sort of “stretch” — features from childhood are still there, but farther apart. Noses also become longer/more pronounced when they get older. Usually.
Maybe Tim could have a different haircut in the adult timeline? Beard, glasses? Body hair?
I found a couple of basic guides on characters aging:
http://www.deviantart.com/download/123111570/guide_to_aging_characters_by_cedarseed.jpg?token=d378415356105818d68c436cbdc0b23043806dbb&ts=1435934684
http://orig01.deviantart.net/bc52/f/2012/171/9/e/character_aging_sheet_by_deejuusan-d547x43.png
http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/human-anatomy-fundamentals-drawing-different-ages–cms-21905
At the beginning of each time shift, you could have a narration box letting us know when this is taking place?
Don’t worry about it, it won’t be a problem forever anyway. I’ll probably just end up fixing those pages completely someday. For now, the first 2 have been tweaked a bit, and I haven’t had time for page 3 yet, as I must work on page 37 right now instead.
I’ll tell you what, being homeless and getting a new house has changed my mental state so much it’s weird, now I don’t have my show tunes playing in my mind anymore, I speak less frantically, and i’ve been learning a lot more efficiently, I created my own bot that plays agario, so thats different, but one thing is still for certain. THE INTERNET IS MY DIARY
I just started reading this comic a couple days ago and I’m really enjoying this story and where it is going. Though I’m curious to see what the other “monsters” are like and their appearance, and if the others monster(s) got in a relation ship with a human. Also I’m curious who and what will be the antagonist for this story if there will be one.
There are other monsters, and there will be an antagonist or two as well, so stay tuned!
Hey what are Tim and Shadow’s signs Greek and Chinese? Are we having fun yet?
Huh? I don’t know what you mean…
Astrology like Leo and Scorpio
Astrology stuff like Vergo and Leo
Oh! I don’t know that stuff at all. I just know my own sign, not that it means anything to me really.
Everybody ask Brandon CRAZY STUFF LIKE WHERE IS SHADOW’S UNDERWEAR
What underwear? ;-P
Exactly and by the way good work love the story
Well, I’m guessing there’s a massive age jump between this panel and the first few intro panels, considering the sexual shenanigans. Only complaint I have now I guess is that you really can’t tell the difference easily. O_o
Otherwise, I’m liking this comic more and more.
10 years. Says so right on Page 5, when Tim starts telling us about how he met Shadow.
OMG just give 18yr Tim abs and 5 o’clock shadow just to make the age questions stop.
I just fixed page 3… both in drawing, and in clearly visible text box information. Hopefully, that’ll stop a bunch of confusion.
I wish you had a staff or something so you could get more pages out faster. (Followed from reddit because it is so good)
Heh. Well, maybe someday… but for now, it’s just me.
Well…. I am super duper late this week. Mr Brandon, where can I find the fan art page? *Starts pressing random buttons randomly..*
can someone play the montage song?
http://youtu.be/pFrMLRQIT_k
And then shadow was introduced to television, and video games,and they both became couch potatoes.
Hey Brandon just wanted to say your doing a great job and to keep up with it and I love the story can’t wait to see what happens in the next 48 hours!
Thank you!
Well, after reading the comments I can say that, you can’t find the fan art link on Android. And this is my only access to Internet.
I even went to your deviantART page hoping that it was posted there. will there be any changes to this for Android users?
http://themonsterunderthebed.net/?page_id=348
Honestly, I wouldn’t have any idea how to help android users see the gallery if it doesn’t already work. I can’t even figure out how to change the link text to the fan art page to a colour that isn’t black. XD I may just end up posting it up on the Facebook page too.
I can see the Fan Art link on both my Kindle Fire and my HTC One Smartphone. It’s not EASY to see, but it becomes a little more visible if you expand the screen.
The direct link helped. Thank you. I did try expanded and desktop mode.