I know that on every page for the last few I have said something like “now THIS page is where it all starts”… but this page. THIS page is where it all starts. Well, for our characters anyway. I know that’s pretty gross on that last panel. I apologize, but I don’t know how else to draw a guy who was mauled to death. It’s never going to be pretty.
If you ordered a commission from me, I finished them all on Saturday and shipped them off yesterday. They are on their way. I scanned in my favorites. I will be sharing a few here and there. So here is one…
Yep. Axe Cop VS. Teddy.
I spent all day today cleaning my room and my apartment. My life went into super-neglect when I was working on those commissions around the clock. I needed a fresh start. Now I need to hammer out some more pages before Christmas hits so I can take time off with my family. That’s all I have for today. We’ll see you here on Friday.
Ethan
OH CRAP. SERIOUSLY.
I wonder if the guy tasted like asparagus?
In memoriam of Random Hippie! Nice work on the gore. Kill count is at five!
oh dang that’s crazy… i don’t even know what the body’s like… is that like… half the body with ribcage shown? eeer… i like his reaction though. his eye’s so huge i love it.
and i can’t wait to get the commission! i wonder if i’m the only guy who asked politely (hopefully politely) for captain falcon
yep, and I politely googled him and drew him. Hope you like it!
Ohaha damn who wouldn’t react like that to such a thing. That is some gross business right there.
How did they sleep through that?!
That was my thought too — was the dead guy killed instantly before he could scream or anything? Did the bear sneak up on him and then silently sneak off?
Still, yay bears. :^)
I am guessing he was so stoned he never woke up to scream.
I love Gogs’ expression in the last panel, it’s hilarious. The color on the guts and the dead guy’s hands and everything is awesome!!! Thank God, no thank Ethan Nicolle and Noah Maas for this awesome comic!!!
Andrea’s line is very appropriate.
And the McRib is available for purchase, and as saucy and delicious as ever!
The Latin root of the word “decimate” comes to mind.
I wonder what’s wrong with the legs. Meat must have spoiled.
On a completely and totally unrelated tangent, the Axe Cop comment section is acting wonky.
Nice irony in that section, too.
how are the comments acting wonky?
I type in the word+number combination to post and it is typed in correctly and, when I click “submit” it will tell me, with increasing regularity, that I typed it in wrong.
It happens even when I have signed in.
You know, with the thing that keeps viagra spam from entering the comments.
hmm weird, I just tried it and it worked fine. I wonder if it is on your end some how?
On the plus side, with all the bulk of that guy gone, they’ll be able to wriggle out of those chains before the bear(s) return. Maybe there’s an extra key in the hippie wagon or something.
Did that random dirty hippie just save their lives? Why would the bears only kill that one guy, unless they are killing people to eat them and he tasted SO BAD they didn’t even want to risk trying the others. Or, maybe he didn’t taste bad, but the drugs in his system effected the bears, distracting them.
Of course, that’s predicated on the idea they are killing people to eat them, which I doubt. Hmm…why kill just that one guy?
Great page!
Perhaps it was only one bear. And he was full after the first one?
The bear just ate a stoner. That bear probably got dizzy and then went off to follow something shiny.
He must definitely have the munchies now. Those other dudes better watch their backs…
Sooooo…is this a new Metal Gear Solid character? “Silent Bear”…”Shadow Grizzly”…”Swift Kuma”? Freakin’ ninja bears man. Ninja. Bears.
I think you flipped the ‘6’ in the page number upside down.
Oh yeah woops, I had just been discussing page 39 with Matt (one of the color flatters) so I got mixed up when I was posting. Fixed!
I have been curious for quite some time as to just how violent this comic would get… Looks like I can expect all out gore from now on. Sweet.
I’m impressed with the incredibly rapid evolution the art style has gone through since the start of the comic. The scenery is more detailed, the character designs are cleaner and more detailed, it shows you really enjoy doing this comic.
Thanks! the first 24 or so pages were done pre-Axe Cop. Then I drew lots of Axe Cop for a while and didn’t touch Bearmageddon for over a year. Then I got back to Bearmageddon, so all the growth that happened in my art during Axe Cop popped into Bearmageddon around page 25 or so.
Oh MAN. This page is BEAUTIFUL! I’ve been waiting for this page the whole time! Is it creepy of me to admire how you did that guy’s spine and rib cage and the organs spilling everywhere? 😀
Oh I forgot to mention that the first panel is not digitally inked, it’s real ink and brush scanned in.
Well at least with that guy gone they should all be able to slip out of the chains and get this adventure going.
Why is everyone so confident that this is the work of a bear? Sure the name of the comic is “Bearmageddon,” and we know that bears have already killed some people within area, but all that we see here is half of a hippie, which is not enough evidence by any means to conclude that this is the result of ursine mischief.
Perhaps this poor fellow was the victim of some other kind of animal, such as a cougar, rabid chipmunk, or, for that matter, the dreaded saber-toothed rabbit (which is unlikely, as the bunny would have left no survivors).
Or Perhaps . . . it was even something which -they- don’t want you to know . . . Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, aliens, secret government superweapons, spontaneous human explosion . . .
The truth is out there . . . in Ethan’s head.
Considering what “Girl Sleeping Next to Joel” said, she could also be the culprit.
Or Gogs is a were-wolf? Or perhaps Gus had some ultra powerful “stuff” and it not only blew his mind but his whole upper torso too.
What makes me sad is that I will cringe far more if Nigel ends up pooping out that key.
That’s the moment in every horror movie when you realize what movie you’re really in.. it’s not a slacker drama, it’s not a stoner comedy, it’s not some political thing.. your friend just got eaten and everything else in your life has to take a backseat to making sure you don’t also get eaten. You’ve gotta love that moment..
The coloring for the guts should not be that good. I hope you aren’t drawing it from experience….
YAY! I think that’s my commission! I cannot wait!
Also, I applaud you for placing your unsuspecting heroes in the ABSOLUTE WORST possible place to be when shit hits the fan. Let’s see them try and live through this nightmare chained to a freakin tree!
Once Gogs picked up that hand–I knew some epic mauling had occured.
WHy are the bears so angry?
Wow…those people are pretty heavy sleepers out in the woods. How do you not wake up from soemthing like that occuring next to you?
There is a solid, disturbing horror vibe on this one. Well done.
Hey Ethan!
Just stumbled to your comic through Twitter, I really like your drawing style! definitly my thing 🙂
will definitely be keeping up with your GN/Webcomic, caught myself up on the story back to back non-stop haha!
Nice.
As for how they slept through it…
*sneak* *sneaK* *CHOMP!* *Sneak* *sneak*
haha McRib thing made me laugh so much when I got to the last panel
This song jumped into my head…
Friendship is rare
Do you know what I’m sayin’ to you?
Friendship is rare
My Derriere when you find out much later
That they don’t really care
Oh shit there’s a bear
Could you hand me that shotgun buddy, also that chair?
We’re fighting a bear
Now your life’s in grave danger
And you don’t even care
I think that song’s been in my mind for this comic from the very beginning. It’s perfect for it.
Oh wow, this is a super page. Love the range of expressions he goes through.
Also, super excited to see how my commission turned out. Hope it was one of the fun ones to draw…
*Raises a glass for poor old Gus.
Now the horror really hits home! Can’t wait to see them all locked in and scared for their lives!
I want to see that intestine that’s going off into the bushes to start getting slurped up, like a spaghetti noodle.
been lurking since the beginning – loving it.
just a question though – On the 3rd row the far right pic – Did the right hand just turned into a left? But in the last panel the left hand is beneath the body….
it’s… uh… ambidextrous… hand.
i see whatcha did there. lets say Gogs threw the hand over there while he was freaking out…
That tube of intestine is kind of trailing off behind that bush, I’m hoping it doesn’t lead into a bear.
Don’t pull on those guts, dude, you might get a bear!
As a fan of absurdly explicit, uncensored gore and violence (and swearing), I was wondering what “rating” would Bearmageddon receive were it to be published by, lets say, Marvel…? MAX would be my choice, obviously, but the case here is more like 15 years and older (which in my perspective is limited amount of swearing, but lots of wonderful blood and exposed entrails)… either way is fine with me, i love the slow build up, art, script, and the fact that there is no way to see where its all heading
How in the hell does Teddy Eat!!???
Teddy desires honey as i recollect. perhaps, theres a straw?
i must say, its gotta be a mutant bear that could strip all the meat of those ribs cleanly. granted, it looks the upper ribcage is missing entirely so i’m guessing those are the floating ribs?
i’m currently studying anatomy and physiology so i’m nerding a bit.
I’m still wtf at why they would only kill the one hippie… If this really is a war on humans, not just bears feeding, then they should have killed everyone.
Gogs eyes in the last panel look straight outta Dragon Ball Z. Great comic.