#57 “Moving Forward”
Well, well… as it happens, today is the one year anniversary of The Monster Under the Bed comic series!
When I started this project, I never thought I’d make it this far, that nobody would care enough to bother; but luckily I have been pleasantly surprised by the turnout!
I’d like to thank everyone, all 4,293,942 of you who have come by time and again to read my little story since it launched this time last year, and I welcome you all to the second year of the comic where things really get cracking. Expect great things this year as I continue onwards with Chapter 2, and eventually Chapter 3 later this year, which will see Tim and Shadow leap forward in time to the very beginning of the events that really kick-start things.
But all in good time… first, enjoy the new page! I realise it’s not much of a page on the surface for celebrating a milestone such as today, but, well, it just kinda turned out that way in the scripting of things. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy learning some interesting factoids about Shadow’s world and forgive the lack of cavity-inducing artwork!
See you next time!
Oh, and don’t forget to vote for me! LINK
I’ve added a pretty nice incentive, I think. It’s a giant, textless, uninterrupted view of the hug from page 56 you can use as a background maybe? The power is yours!
This, ladies anddrinkWWemen, is beautiful plot unfolding before. *tearing up*
What will she think of human music, custums, history, war, technology, medicine. SO many questions. And thats from what she already doesn’t know.
And a new world opens for us. Will we get to see somekind of map? I am hopeing its an immense Resident Evil Umbrella hive type structure. Is it growing/new paths being dug or found? Is it alive?
“As it turned out, she was especially thirsty for….” Water? Grape drink? Fear? Laughter?
Guessing someone is a Greek fan?
Here’s to another year… and some more… R/X rated material hopefully. Personally, I think would be excellent if the mother walk in on them doing the dirty deed! Like him shirtless (& shortless) and Shadow ready. Ruth gets her comeuppance!
Boy oh boy, I wish you had shirts. I would be there in line and flunting this webcomic.
Finally, had a feeling the class was the key to cross dimensions.
Correction, Ladies and gentlemens**
Clasp** not class
Yowza, holy text wall Batman, it’s an info dump! 😀
Also happy birthday comic! Congrats you’ve kept me here for about 10 months now.
Slightly surprised there’s no special birthday anniversary page, but I guess the Halloween page wasn’t too long ago.
I couldn’t think of anything really good, so… you get a wallpaper instead!
Wallpaper is admittedly awesome. But you really couldn’t think of anything good for the comic’s birthday?
Shadow and everyone enjoying cake, Shadow jumping out of a cake, Tim jumping out of a cake, Shadow Tim and grumpy Midnight in party hats, those 2 background gals from the bath jumping out of a cake. Midnight laughing at Tim stuck into a cake, Tim’s mom doing something secy with cake, cake with little chibi cast member toppers, cake shaped like character faces, a cakefight, really pretty much anything involving a cake would work 😛
Darn it, now I want cake…
Well, I ATTEMPTED something, I should say, but it wasn’t really working out… so no, nothing special. XD There’ll be lots of special events in the future though. 😉
Aww, that wallpaper is adorable. Thank you!
Congrats on the one-year mark. No idea why you thought you wouldn’t get this far, the story and art is too good to avoid.
I just thought I’d be lost in the shuffle. There’s already so many comics out there. Glad that wasn’t the case though! Very glad!
It’s already been a year???? CREEPER WE NEED TO THROW BRANDON A PARTY CALL ALL THE HOOKERS, I’ll get the drugs
Haha, and what’s an anniversary without Potdad blowing the doors off their hinges? XD
And I’ll distract the inevitable SWAT team.
Congrats on one year, Brandon! And this info-dump clears up a LOT of questions. There’s still one question that remains unanswered:
What is the deal with the socks?! 🙂
And Shadow is a pop-culture junkie? How does she react to the classic stuff, like Star Trek TOS or Gilligan’s Island? Is she more into the series with season/series plotlines, episode-du-jours, or (un)reality shows?
A lady must keep some secrets, surely!
When are we gonna learn about the socks!? O_O I neeeeeeed to know.
What socks? What are you talking about?
….. °w°
Congratulations on making it to the one year mark. Its been a very good ride and Tim and Shadow make a cute couple, in both their younger and more mature versions. I started reading around #33 and I’ve been hooked over since.
I think today’s info dump was well done. The drawings were great and I had no trouble understanding what you had told us about the Nox. I had wondered where Tim would start in explaining his world. Geography sounds like a good start. I imagine that living on the surface of a world must seem strange to Shadow. I wonder if she ever goes outside.
She will go outside eventually, yeah. 😉
Congrats on your first year anniversary! May you continue for several more years. The wallpaper is wonderful, I might need to switch to it.
Thank you!
It reminds me the Deamonata world
I’m not really sure what that is. °_°
Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you
Actually, my real actual birthday is in 11 days, but let’s not quibble over details! Thank you!
Wow, 4,293,942? Now even I am surprised even though good history + good drawing aways attract people, congratullations
Thank you! I’m sure it’s not that many actual people, just a dedicated bunch of folks coming multiple times over time… but it’s still a nice number!
Even if you assume that each person visits 1,000x (which I suspect is a gross over estimate) then the figure is still not bad.
So.. devoted to the art of fear, eh? Doe that mean others are devoted to other emotions or other skills?
I think that with her new human pop culture references (TV, movies and eventually games.. like F.E.A.R) Shadow will make her “fear productivity/quota” explode. She has her targets willingly show her what scare/interest them. If her training in “scary” is any good, she should connect the dots fairly quick.
No idea if others of her kind pushed their research as far as she did.
Good page!
Noooo, they mostly just thrive off the fear. Mostly. XD
A thirst for pop-culture.
Let me guess- it is at this point that they finally watch The Evil Dead trilogy?
Probably!
I’ve been lurking here since the beginning, decided now’s a good time to come out my shell. These comics are awesome, and it’s genuinely the biggest thing I look forward to each week. Keep it up, man! Also, for an anniversary picture, I vote Shadow stumbling around questioning every party item (the cake, the pointy hats, etc.)