FOOD-THEMED VOTING INCENTIVES!!!
The Patreon bunch voted on various food choices, and the results were … this. So…
VOTE TO PARTAKE OF THE FEAST!!!
As for this comic…
I will just say this: it’s actually quite hard to draw a creepy forest. Like, we all know creepy landscapes but do we really know what makes them creepy? Kind of hard to pinpoint. I did my best but honestly, a lot of the creepiness comes down to lighting (or in this case, the color palette) and things like fog. Hopefully it works because this is one of those rare occasions where the punch line rides entirely on the atmosphere of the location.
Which brings me around to my usual conclusion that I would find it a lot easier to make this comic if I were just a lot better at making this comic.
I give you 10/10 points for spooky conveyance. (But if this ends up being something silly like a dream sequence *ahem* I’m taking them back, with interest!)
I’ve said before that any narrative is allowed one — and ONLY one — dream sequence. So I can guarantee that this one is set in reality.
First clue discovered. Keep going, meddling mixed-age group!
Yeah, that’s the most disappointing element here. They can’t be labelled ‘meddling kids’ because most of them aren’t kids. Okay, half of them are kids. Though none of them are very mature, intellectually speaking.
And that’s the important thing.
Just saw the incentive. RAWR!
I am going to take ‘rawr’ as a sign of approval.
Wow, this is early. And nice work on the spooky.
Yeah, I was taking the family on a star-watching journey and where I live, you need to drive an hour and a half just to get sufficiently out of the light pollution. So I was going to be on the road during the normal posting time.
not bad on your 1st time drawing a Spooky Valley/Creepy Forest.
JINKIES! I thought I was the only one! ZOINKS!
I’m a spooky newbie.
Am I the only one who can’t help reading this comic in Velma and Fred voices?
JINKIES! I thought I was the only one. ZOINKS!
Accidently posted this in the previous ppst.
That’s the correct way to do so.
Must’ve crossed a border between provinces. Or something.
Like with the borders between states in the U.S., the borders between provinces in Canada were kind of arbitrarily drawn in straight lines so they never really feel different from one side to the other. But there are pockets of land within each province that just … feel different. I’m assuming this is one of those places.
Good stuff 🙂
Yay!
Well, the trees will start growing in lines for one thing.
Also, poor Puck. The river’s just going to soak her tights.
Also, proper marketing is important. Had I paid attention to it, my app would have had a much less unappealing name.
Lines are spooky.
They’re also very French. Compare French to English landscaping.
@ Frank Harr
The only river in Dougie’s Valley is the STYX.
The next valley over has the Cloud. The giant lizards in both valleys are REALLY creepy.
I much prefer the first panel where Daffy’s (Daffy was Susan’s invention. One I support) ears have become HORNS.
Here is hoping, as we travel futher into “Dougie’s Valley”, that Daffy becomes more Satanic by the mile.
And, perhaps, Phoebe becomes more Angelic.
Phoebe is already angelic enough.
They’ve gone into the scary parts of Canada. Where the Tim Horton’s stop appearing.
No word of a lie: that’s a good indicator. I remember driving the ‘highway of tears’ in BC (quite accidentally) where hundreds of indigenous women have gone missing over the decades. I wasn’t aware of the history of the place at the time, but after finding out the story behind the road, it made sense. I was terrified the entire drive without really knowing why. And there are NO Tim Hortons along that highway.
Yikes.
<8 (
I loled at the last panel, so mission accomplished.
Goal achieved!
* forges into unknown territory. Or more usually “forges ahead”.
Yeah, I’ve got the river one. I need to change it.
Pointy trees and ground fog. Spooky Valley is so….Tim Burton-esque.
…in a good way
Because there definitely is a bad way to be Tim Burton.
I would say that this is shaping up to being one fine Shaggy-Dog story. and I can’t wait for the punchline..
Except Scooby-Do is a great dane.
Well, there’s a Shaggy, and a dog. So Scooby-Doo is the perfect shaggy dog story.
I think I mentioned a looong time ago how the great Dane seems to be fiction’s favorite dog breed.
There’s Scooby (of course), Goofy (Mickey Mouse’s best friend), Pluto (Goofy’s pet). Astro (the Jetsons’ pet), Marmaduke, and many, many more.
That’s disregarding the most famous dog is a beagle (Snoopy).
hmmmm… Snoopy and Scooby I see a pattern.
Interestingly, the favorite breed for sitcoms is the english sheepdog (or the St Bernard).
The reason for that is Lucille Ball. She swore she’d never work with a great dane again. Because a Great dane lays on the couch and everyone laughs, but nothing you do after is funny.
Great Danes are charming dogs. Too bad their hips are made out of peanut brittle and their average lifespan is shorter than a guinea pig’s.
@EG
Truth.
However cats can be quite nasty, and can live long lives.
It’s their EVIL that sustains them.
Ask any Witch.
Ahh, the famous Scooby-Doo fog. You get that a LOT driving along Hwy 7 to Ottawa, and Hwy 60 through Algonquin Park.
Re: TWC incentive. Even though it’s not technically chocolate, WHITE chocolate can be dyed every colour of the rainbow. As a matter of fact, I saw “white” chocolate in the exact same shade as the Schnorffs. If Satan ever discovers this, Tracee may have to change her body paint… lol
I just ate some chocolate of that exact shade in the form of some green tea KitKat bars from Japan.
Oh, come on Gecko!!!
A group dressed as “those meddling kids” in a ‘Mystery machine’ copy now driving into a ‘spooky valley’/
Can you make it any more obvious there’s somebody in a monster costume about to wish he/she had never been born?
Well, now that you’ve made it obvious, I don’t have to.
Ok… you got me.
It’s like crossing state lines in that area south of you.
Ah. You mean Lake Erie. Never knew Lake Erie had state lines.
Needs some nurple action.
@Joe Fonebone
Sadly, you will need to visit a different comic for that.
The line between Alberta and Saskatchewan for decades was noticeable. Driving along in Saskatchewan, then suddenly, the drive is much smoother. I’m convinced Alberta Highways measures the Alberta/Saskatchewan border with a micrometre, that’s how sharp the division was. Was, as Alberta may no longer be able to afford such precision.
Yeah, now the Saskatchewan roads might be in slightly better condition.
New York into Ontario was the same way. That and that pesky river in the way.
Nothing is more dramatic than the shift between Niagara Falls NY and Niagara Falls ON. The American side looks like Mad Max-style wasteland and the Canadian side looks like Vegas’s cleaner Canadian baby.
Yeah, I’d like to object, but I’m a proud New Yorker and boy do I know the truth of it.
Also, Canadian highway signs are extremely attractive.
Here’s the crazy thing about upstate New York: all the crappiest towns are along the border. There’s beautiful, thriving communities all over the place in New York State, just … not on the border. I’m looking at you, Buffalo!
Is the voting incentive a sweet chocolate or a bitter chocolate?
Could go either way …
On the one hand, it looks toot sweet. On the other hand, Puck. So yeah.
Bittersweet, like everything in this comic.
My boy we are pilgrims in an unholy land.
Or unholy pilgrims just messing up a pure, unsullied landscape.