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…And that’s a wrap on Crab Court. This is the “canon” ending, as determined by a reader poll on Twitter and Patreon. There is an alternate ending where Davy Seamore actually is a witch available to patrons only. Both versions will be available in print once I get that going.
Also, as I mentioned on social media but may have forgotten to here, before the next story (called Double Dealing for those wondering) there will be a short hiatus lasting until July 10th. I have been trying to avoid going on hiatus, but the last semester completely drained me of all my back up pages for this as well as mentally and the next semester is looking to do the same since it’s both the last one before I graduate and the highest amount of credits I’ve taken yet. I just need to spend some time focusing on getting a bit of a backlog built up and the only way I could get the amount of pages I need to get done in order to not get destroyed by the coming semester was to take some time away from actually posting main content. Sorry for any inconvenience. If you want to keep up with me, I will be posting digital landscape paintings I did as part of a daily challenge a couple months back over on my twitter starting tomorrow. Stay spooky everyone.
…That’s it for Egg Funeral. If you are a patron over at my Patreon you can snag the PDF of this comic, see the snazzy cover and read it all in a single file.
Next up is Strange Sound, which will be a collaboration between myself and the band Age of Monsters. You can check them out here: https://ageofmonsters.bandcamp.com/
Finally, Strange Sound will be released at a reduced schedule of one page per week on Wednesday instead of twice weekly on Wednesdays and Fridays. I just am not going to be able to keep up the regular schedule while I finish my last semester at college. Thanks for keeping with me guys.
Alright, so we’re back. There was no page on Friday for a number of reasons, most of them political, and which I won’t get into here. I made a post about it that included a short comic about Superman 4: Quest for Peace, which you can read here. Stay safe everyone.
Well, that’s it for Feeling Very Still. This one is probably too short to get a commercially available print edition outside of a collection, so look forward to that in a couple hundred years.
Next up is Ethical Consumption. It’s going to need some content warnings due to some of the subject matter, but I feel it’s some of my best work yet.
Anyway, hope you all liked this one. It was nice to explore and expand on something I did as a throwaway.
These have a more interesting shape that shitake and they grow in really dense clusters, which is pretty cool. They are generally fine to eat, but there are some varieties that are pretty tough.
The texture of these is horrifying to me. They’re slimy and feel filled with goo. I can’t even stomach thinking of how the canned ones feel to the touch.
Never eaten one of these, but looking them up online it looks like you can. There’s a lot of mushrooms that looks similar to these at the park near my house, but I wouldn’t trust my identification skills enough to cut some off a tree and fry them up. If you live in the American Mid-West you probably know what I’m talking about.
From that same search it sounds like they poison and feed on roundworms, so that’s potential horror material for anyone out there. There’s probably a good story about someone being possessed to feed a oyster mushroom covered tree dead bodies or something.
Surprise, you can eat these ones too.
Most of my interest in these is in how they look; I’ve never seen one of these in the wild. They just seem like a kind of plant you’d see on an alien planet, you know? Could be something in a subterranean nest full of goo, or just a surface plant on a dead world with very little light. Pretty versatile in my opinion.
I guess all of these are edible. Who would have thought. Like with oyster mushrooms, I still wouldn’t trust eating one of these that I found in the wild. This is another one I’ve never eaten but people claim they taste kind of like chicken, which is where the name comes from. I can believe that. This could work as the basis for the design of something more eco-utopian. I’m thinking something like using this as the basis for buildings made of some sci-fi material that re-grows, causing building to have arcing flairs that could be balconies or bridges.
Mushrooms are in part of a lot of folklore, with so-called “Faerie Rings” being one of the most prevalent links between fungus and the supernatural. According to myth, these circles of mushrooms can be anything from portals to the court of fae, to a place where the Devil himself has churned butter. They are said to blind or cripple people, strike women sterile, cause children to vanish, and many other ill effects.
As much is it pains me to throw a wrench into your plans to get rid of your neighbor’s annoying kid, the truth of these Faerie Rings is much more mundane: when a mushroom lets out spores they generally shoot out in 360 degrees and the spores can only go so far. The area near the originating mushroom is too filled with mycellium for new mushrooms to have much space to grow so, unless there is something obstructing the spores in their launch, new mushrooms will typically grow in a ring pattern. When the original mushroom dies, the younger ring remains. Since a forest floor generally has a lot of things that could get in the way of a ring forming, they typically show up in glades which adds to the mystique and legend.
Taking all this in mind with composition, I wanted to keep a circular motif in mind. This ended up manifesting as sweeping arcs that are repeated in smaller forms elsewhere in the drawing, nested within those arcs when possible.
Mushrooms are already good shapes for this, and I managed to fit in some goblins by repeating these motifs. The goblins are also heavily inspired by the designs used in the show Hellier, which is the only interesting thing that actually came out of that show.