#72 “No One Knows”
Socks + (Infatuation) = Profit. I believe that was the missing step you guys were looking for.
Also, as it happens, this page officially ends Chapter 2. See you guys in Chapter 3: “Many Doors”!
As always: VOTE
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This reminded me of Helga’s Arnold shrine made up of, well Arnold stuff.
Yes! She needs a picture of Tim… but the opportunity hasn’t come up… yet.
Oh god. I forgot about that part of the show.
I loved that show. I hear they’re bringing it back.
Well, they are going to at least make the second movie about what happened to Arnold’s Parents and it will be made for television. They are working on it now and it will be out sometime in 2017.
Beyond that I don’t know if they are bringing the show itself back, though some of us 90s Cartoons fans can hope so.
So the socks had nothing to do with her being under Tim’s bed, then—just “Scent o’ Tim” perfume?
Yeah, essentially. A few people guessed it over time, but surprisingly not many! XD
So she has a sock fetish?… and please forgive me for my upcoming blasphemy, but with the Scent-o’-Tim, just imagine if he was using some of those sock for parts other than feet before she stole them?..
Yes………………………… Hand Puppets!
¦-)
Even better! The real scent o’ Tim.
We used to have a cat that loved to roll around in one particular unwashed T-shirt of mine. I suppose there’s something of the cat in Shadow, besides the eyes.
oohhhh that, that is something xD lol
I’m no good girl, hear me roar,
It’s an expression I abhor,
And I hear it far too often to transcend.
‘Cause I’ve heard it all my days,
In my bedroom-haunting ways,
I don’t ever want to hear those words again.
Oh, yes, I’ve got socks,
By discreet legerdemain.
Yes, I’ve dealt the shocks,
But it’s driving me insane.
When I want to, I can steal anything.
I am bad,
(Bad)
I’m not invisible,
(Invisible)
I’m no good girl.
I can jump right out and wake them,
I can go right up and take them,
They’re just waiting for me right there on the floor
Thanks to cookie-raised blood sugar,
And to Tim and Freddy Kruger,
They contribute to my beating Midnight’s score.
Oh, yes, I’ve got socks,
By discreet legerdemain.
Yes, I’ve dealt the shocks,
But it’s driving me insane.
When I want to, I can steal anything.
I am bad,
(Bad)
I’m not invisible,
(Invisible)
I’m no good girl.
I’m no good girl, I proclaim,
But to them it’s just the same,
They don’t see young Shadow any other way.
But I’m learning all the time,
Reaching for my paradigm,
And I’ll make them see me different someday!
Oh, yes, I’ve got socks,
By discreet legerdemain.
Yes, I’ve dealt the shocks,
But it’s driving me insane.
When I want to, I can steal anything.
I am bad,
(Bad)
I’m not invisible,
(Invisible)
I’m no good girl.
I am bad.
I’m not invisible,
I’m no good girl.
I am bad,
I’m not invisible,
I’m no good girl…
—from “I Am Woman,” Helen Reddy. (See? It didn’t take me as long this week.)
I notice the little meter on the back of her buckle/clasp thingy in panel 3. Is that like a “fear storage” device of some sort?
Exactly. That’s why Lady Moonlight was checking them several pages ago. 🙂
It kinda takes away from the magic. Lets see where this goes.
Shadow! Your Tim’s Socks shrine is delightfully creepy! I like how it’s not even sort of hidden. Just sprayed across the wall like hunting trophies.
And that tail wag…
Shadow is starting to look like she really is Tim’s Night Prowler:
https://youtu.be/I6TzeuxwO7A
Aaawww Shadow… Everyone is someone’s freak !
This present a very important piece of her character here . I love it 🙂
Thanks again for the new page !
You nerds wish a cute little monster would steal and sniff your socks.
nahh,, i guess im the little monster,, but with out the foot fetish.. my partner loves when she comes home from work an i peel her socks off an rub her feet,, for bout an hour..
A couple of random questions for you, Brandon.
First, we keep seeing the monsters using their aegises as clasps, but how does that work? As we can see in this strip, it looks like the only thing on the back of the aegis is the fear meter, there’s no, well, clasps.
Second, back on page 57, it was explained that the portals that the Sisterhood use connect to the shadows under beds. Does that mean that if you shine a light under the bed (thereby temporarily eliminating the shadows) the portal stops working?
Aegises (?) are a sort of multi-functional tool. They work like a key for the portals, allow the wearer to pass through the portal. Also they collect data on just how much fear a wearer is collecting.
One would suspect that without a shadow to work with, there would be no portal to open. Perhaps this plot may be explored someday!
If a light does close the portal, that could be a handy way to make sure Midnight doesn’t pop in unexpectedly when they’re “busy” later. 😛
As for the aegises, I was actually asking how they physically work as clasps, since they don’t seem to have any hooks or anything on the back to actually clasp anything. And yes, aegises is the proper plural of aegis.
Magnets!
Brandon, that’s the one thing that needs to be cleared up here….
Aegises or Aegi?
It’s like octopi instead of octopuses.
I’m honestly not 100% sure on that… but either way I know what you’re talking about.
Aeges 😀
Hey brandon will Tim and shadow be kids in the next chapter? Or will they be adults?
Kids still… mostly. Expect a quick visit back to the future when the chapter begins, but ultimately we will be dealing with them as kids again for the majority of the chapter.
In all reality, the upcoming Chapter 3 is simply the second half of Chapter 2, initially I wanted it all to be in one and it was planned that way in rough draft, however, I have changed my mind on that front, deeming the upcoming events important enough to merit their own chapter. Also, Chapter 2 was just getting pretty long… this page marks 40 pages already. If not for the split there could easily have been another 30 pages easily in chapter 2.
As of now (unless I split it again, which I doubt) Chapter 4 will be when the time skip occurs and the childhood portion of the story will end.
I have been following this comic for a while and was wondering when the sock mystery would fully be explained. Also now I know why Shadow kept avoiding the question or changing the subject whenever Tim inquired about them, because that definitely would’ve been a strange conversation.
TIM: “By the way Shadow, what do you do with the socks you take? Do you eat them?
SHADOW: “Of course not silly. I merely hang them on my bedroom wall as trophies. Also when nobody is around I like to get my jollies by putting your socks to my face and taking a big ol’ whiff.”
(Brief interlude of awkward silence in which crickets can be heard in the background.)
TIM: (With dumbfounded look) “Uh…What?”
yeah this was a much better way to reveal it.
PS Mr. Brandon Shane I have to say this comic is phenomenal, please keep up the outstanding work 🙂
Someday Tim will discover the truth for himself, but not for a very, very long time.
And thank you very much, I try my best as a total amateur. XD
What happens when mother moonlight finds out. Will she confront Timothy because her and shadow seem really close and what will happen when she confornts him
I’ll have to get back to you on that front sometime.
…huh… not quite what I would have expected… Though it does make some of those earlier scenes during her kitchen visit make more sense. Well done.
Nice placement of Beauty and the Beast, and that tail wag is adorable.
She says freak like its a bad thing… 🙁
She’ll grow into it. 😉
Oh, Kinky… I guess….
Now, are those specifically Tim’s socks or does she likes the smell of human sweat in general?
Just Tim’s. That’s why he was grounded back near the beginning. Lots of socks went missing!
… Ya know waht tehy say aboutthe innoncent.. they always have some fucked stuff to hide ( this for example is on the lowest of the list… wich is good)
I would have to agree!