Alright, we’re back! I know that the mauled corpse was not enough for you guys so I worked in a gratuitous vomit moment. I acually didn’t have that in the script, I just realized as I was drawing this that Gogs has a hand full of barf in the middle of a bear attack. Who wouldn’t throw it in a bear’s face?
I’m glad to be back. My Christmas trip started off a little rough but it was a good time and now I am home with my shiny, speedy new computer. I love it. It’s so weird to work without taking breaks for load time and freeze ups. I feel so efficient.
I came home to plenty of work. I came home almost broke so I need to focus on the next Axe Cop miniseries for a couple weeks since that is the only project I am working on right now that actually pays money. I’ve always been drawn to the projects I make no money on. That could be why I am running low on money again. That and Christmas.
Anyway, I haven’t received questions for quite a while so that is one reason I have not done any blogs featuring reader questions in a while. That, and I have been pretty busy. Feel free to send them to me via email. Best to email them. If you put them in the comments it is harder for me to find them when I need them.
A couple cool things… Bearmageddon was Web Comic Alliance’s Pick of the Week. Also, Culture Bandit gives it a great review. I really appreciate all reviews, interviews and forms of promotion.
Alright, you probably want to know what happens next. Friday you will find out. Things are JUST getting started.
Ethan
P.S.: Also, this happened.
HAHAHA!!! Stomach acid to the eyes! This comic is so unpredictable.
Also, I think the key would have moved far beyond the contents of his stomach at this point…
Do we see that it was succeesful? Is that the key in the lower left splatter?
Nah, I think that’s just more puke….
no its a key its definitely a key look HARDER
Gogs, Man of Action! If he makes it through this comic, I think he may need his own spinoff.
I hope he does, I like his attitude!
Are you implying that he’s not the hero of this story?
😀
Touche’
Haha, awesome. Good move, Gogs. Nigel needed that anyway.
Oh gods.
This goes against everything they teach in survival classes.
Throwing vomit in a bear’s face and just not giving a damn about it!
That’s a great line for a song – The Ballad of Bearmageddon.
Though with a little trimming, it could also be a line for “My Favorite Things”
When you watch your – Friends guts eaten
and it makes you sad
Throw puke in a bear’s face and not give a damn
and then you won’t feeeeeeel so bad.
Let’s retool that to fit the tune of “Mac the Knife”
I guess that bear received a *puts on sunglasses* corny retort.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Vomit Rainbow! Happy New Year!
Maybe the key came out along with that vomit!
I just discovered and read all the pages so far. I’m really enjoying the comic.
In regards pages 21, 26, and 28 Q&A:
“You can’t get good THEN do comics.”
This really applies to everything, not just comics. A common rule of thumb is that whatever skill you want to acquire, it takes 10,000 of hardcore work – not just scut work, but the kind where you’re constantly trying to improve on your work. That’s 27 years at one hour a day. If you only like something enough to do it one hour a day, you’ll basically never be amazing at it. I may be mis-remembering, or the story may be apocryphal or just made up, but I once heard that someone asked Bobby Fischer to teach him chess, his reply was, “buy the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, play 100 games from each side of each opening. When you’re done with that, I might consider it.” He wasn’t just being mean or dismissive (if this story is indeed true), he was giving good advice: you can’t get good at anything with a few hours from a magic teacher or a lot of thinking about it. The other thing I’ve heard, usually in a dismissive note about people aspiring to be writers, is someone saying, “he doesn’t want to write. He wants to have written.” A lot of people want the end result of getting good at a skill but do not love the skill enough to put in the work. They focus on the fame and money of success stories, and they think that fame and money is what motivates people to do what they do. Yet for every Michael Jordan there’s a hundred thousand people who play basketball a few hours a day just because they love it. They might not ever be famous, but they don’t think about that. They just love the game. Michael Jordan himself played constantly long before anyone heard of him – he had to, to quell some passion in his heart for the game. He was one of the ones who got good then also got lucky, but not everyone who is good at something will ever be recognized for it. There are no montage sequences in real life, and even if you put every montage ever put into a film together, with all their implied time, you’d still maybe have enough hours to get good at ONE skill (Groundhog Day excepted, because I believe it’s implied he spent literally decades if not centuries in that little town). I myself spend 4-8 hours programming every day, and additional time reading about it. I’ve been doing that for 20 years – and I’m not as good as I would like, and I’ll never be famous for it. But there’s nothing else I could do (when would I have the time?) because it’s what I have to do not just for a paycheck, but to satisfy my heart. As much as I would love to have written a novel, if I were a writer, I’d be writing not programming. So if you’re ever wondering if you should be a musician, a writer, a sports player, a programmer, a doctor, or even a comic book writer, the answer is… you already know. It’s what you do, all the time. It’s what you think about when you go to sleep, it’s what wakes you up in the middle of the night with some new idea. It’s what you dream about. It’s what you wish you were doing when you’re wasting time eating or talking to people. It’s what you were really doodling in school when you pretended to take notes. It’s what you don’t want to say when your date asks, “what are you thinking about?” and you’re stuggling for an answer that makes you seem like you’re paying attention.
Heh, and after I wrote this, I noticed you covered some of it in the page 29 Q&A.
In regards page 4 comic and question:
Sure, a bear has claws, but next to a tiger, a bear barely has sharp finger nails. A cat will swiftly and surely jump upon another animal, bury fangs in their neck, rake their chest with their front claws, and, if in a really bad mood, can swiftly disembowel their foe with their back claws while doing all of the above. It’s not really a contest, it’s a slaughter. Cats are predators, evolved (or designed if you prefer) to kill as efficiently as possible. The reason other animals may seem more deadly is because they outmass a lot of cats, but if you go equal weight, I’d bet on the cat against anything.
In regards the lady friend:
Thank you for drawing a hot woman who doesn’t have The Most Common Super Power. It’s nice to see that some people still find beauty in women as they actually exist.
You are on the nose regarding expertise. In my area of expertise (Software engineering), some of the best and brightest ‘programmers’ spent 3-4 decades honing their skill.
Any any field, one can expect to be proficient in 5-10 years of hard work, an expert in double that or more.
Regarding claws of big cats, lions and tigers both have claws around 4 inches, the same as a grizzly. Cats are shaped for ripping and holding rather than digging for roots, rodents and other underground goodies.
TL:DR
Another failure of American public school education.
that’s how sea birds do it!
Pssst. Ethan. Panel 1 has a missing apostrophe (it’s), and panel 3 has a missing “is”.
This is the best web comic ever…
Hahaha, awesome first comic for the year. Really didn’t see that one coming.
Good thinking, Gogs!