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The Monster Under the Bed
“Embrace your fear.”
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=D Kewt, and I’m loving that you’ve included both the NES and SNES, or Super Famicom, on top of the tv. The SMW screenie is awesome too.
Awesome choice of word there, mom !
I know right?
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that Brandon is trying to tell us something in panel 3…. and in panel four, how unusual is it that the placement, you can’t see her eyes. Nice touch with the change of clothes…and color choice.
Wishing to have a monster girlfriend?
The cake is not a lie. Right mates?
End of this chapter?
the ears!!! how would he fake the ears???
Nope, the chapter continues a bit longer. 🙂
“Do you think I’m some kind of monster?” That’s a little on the nose, don’t you think, Brandon? 😛
I just wanted to poke the fire a little bit, since it’s fun and the line just naturally popped into my head in a nice, fitting way.
I wonder what Shadow is going to give him for a present?
A dead rat with a bow tied around it, of course!
a SNES sitting on top of a NES next to a VCR…that must have been standard in all homes in the 90s XD
Unless you had a filthy Sega Genesis too. Heh, I kid.
nope. the first console i owned that wasn’t Nintendo was the PS1, and i only got that for FFVII. after that it was back to Nintendo for the N64, then PS2 for GTA3…mostly been PS or Xbox since then though. i’m not a fanboy. i go where the games are that i want to play :p
Whispers: *pc master race*
Kinda makes me think that his mother is hiding something that she doesn’t want her husband or son to know about!
I feel like the husband might know….
Oh, I’m sure her husband knows.
That tattoo on her ass was a huge mistake!
The bigger the ass, the bigger you can make the mistake!
Gotta love a dad who’s cool enough to play video games with his son
I know, right?!
I see a flying koopa
Am I the only one who thinks that monster ladies tend to have a sweet tooth? Tim got Shadow with cookies (And Midnight likes them well enough too). Anyone wanna bet that the line “everyone gets cake on their birthday” helped Tim’s parents get together? That moment where she “knew” he was worth more than the monster world?
Heh, an interesting observation! 😉
Wishing…that I could get the wish I’d make.
Wishing…on a candle on a chocolate cake.
Thinking…though the weekend party’s fine.
Wishing…that the wish’s secret’s mine.
I’ve been waitin’, all along, Shadow in the night.
If I could make a birthday wish, then I would wish it ri-i-ight…
Wishing…that I could share with Shadow now.
Wishing…that I could find a way somehow.
—from “Wishing,” Buddy Holly.
Subtlety is not your forte but its not a bad thing 🙂 so … does that make him a half breed?
I’m not being subtle here, I’m actively messing with you guys on purpose now! Mwahaha!
See! I knew Blackheart’s real name starting with an R, possibly being “Ruthless” (because that is definitely a Noxian name! based on the pattern we’ve seen), was a red herring! 🙂
Yet another clue to the timeline, the SNES suggests early to mid-90’s. So, that would put adult Tim in the early Aughts, considering he works at a photo development store. So much for Monsters, Inc. On the other hand, still hoping for Shadow to go outside to Trick or Treat, ideally with Midnight in tow.
I’m still not sure what Monster’s Inc has to do with anything… at least you guys stopped talking about Little Monsters!
I have a feeling that if I pop a tag here it’ll affect all the comments below it.
Never mind, I fixed it. 😛
-Brandon
…which it did not.
On Firefox, it did. Not sure about other browsers, though.
Actually it did affect *everything* down to the bottom of the page… Firefox 49.0.1 if you wanna try.
I was hoping to get Shadow’s reaction to the movie, but the timeline clues would put them in their mid to late teens by the time it was released, much less on home video, and I would imagine they do other things besides movie night by then. Still, Shadow would probably like The Nightmare Before Christmas, thus inspiring her to go out on Halloween. I can only imagine how overwhelming seeing the open sky would be for her.
Whilst having some chocolate-like snacks I came to two conclusions:
1) His school work has probably improved as he has to make sure he learns stuff in order to talk about it with Shadow.
2) Given that 18 year old Tim doesn’t want to jinx it, I assume it’s something that hasn’t happened yet. I’m guessing that it’s that he and Shadow marry.
Well we know that he and Shadow are mated / married.
So what’s normally next?
Sex, steady relationship and marriage are different things. It looks like they’re bf and gf but we have had no indication that they are married. For one thing his father would probably know about them if he had got married.
Hehe, good guesses!
I agree with Dark At Hearts. Panel 4 makes the mom look a lot like Lady Blackheart. The only true difference is the chin (Lady Blackheart has a smaller chin profile). It makes me think more that the Mom is Lady Blackheart because the hair color, the beauty mark, the flashback of Lady Blackheart…
I am sure Brandon is “playing games” with us on the foreshadow.