Happy Wednesday!
I’m sick and enjoying the comforts of gurgling chest mucus, hoarse coughing and groggy, crusty eyeballs. But your page, it is still here, because we are dedicated to excellence here at Bearmageddon.com
I recently did a 20 Questions interview over at 20 Questions Tuesday. This is one long and in depth interview that goes all over the map. Congratulations if you read the entire thing.
Also, on Tuesday, March 27th I will be doing a free webinar at SmithMicro, the company that made Manga Studio, which is the program I use to draw my comics. Sign up and join in the interactive online webinar.
Lastly, I will be at Wonder Con this weekend. Hopefully I feel better by then. I’ll be at table AA-123. Come by and make me draw you something. Pay me and I’ll draw it even better.
Alright, I am going to crawl back into my bed and read your comments and criticisms of this page as they begin to roll in. I guess you will also be speculating whether all the main characters in the story just exploded. I guess we won’t know until Friday.
Ethan
I like how Gogs is both holding Keller on the ledge and being crushed by her, it made me laugh.
I love that pretty much half of them are trying to hold her back from falling over the ledge. Wonder how she’s gonna get back up on the grass XD
Man, that was a close call. The bear must think they are goners at this point.
Man I love Wednesdays!
I’m still trying to understand how the van got turned over but the cart of flammable gas it was towing is still intact.
The hitch probably broke when the bears started pushing on the van…
Or from the crazy ride through the forest.
I’m going to guess they’re all ok, but covered in explosion dust. 🙂
In the last panel the bears are either running scared from the blast or more likely laughing at the puny humans they just destroyed…
Because puny humans are violet and cylindrical. Nah, I think they’re just shying away from the explosion. They must still assume the humans are inside the van, waiting to be disemboweled.
The bears know they aren’t in the vehicle. They checked the windows before pushing it over.
My biggest problem is…. Where did that ledge come from?
…OR THEY’RE LEARNING.
I like how Gog’s goggles can flip up and down his forehead just like Sam Fisher. OH. amithatslowijustrealisedgogsnameisforareason. sigh.
In the tags, it says: “normal bears”. Mutant bears soon? Maybe the blast caused radiation? Anyone?
So all the human characters just died. It’s gonna’ be all about the bears from now on.
“From now on”? Friday is just going to be “Oh, they all died last page. The end.”
That’s a mighty big explosion, given the height of the cliff–was Nigel hiding a nuke in one of those barrels?
Seriously, though, I am glad that you demonstrated how exactly the fuel was ignited–other scenes with items exploding after falling over cliffs always leave this up in the air, and lead one to suspect that those items, (be they cars, buses, etc.) are actually manufactured with impact triggers already installed!
Hey, thanks for pointing that out. I have come to take it for granted that fuel barrels will just explode on impact because that’s the convention of TV and comics and….. etc etc. It’s nice to see attention to small details.
And good job, Nigel. If those exclamation points are accurate, then those bears were alerted to the people’s location right before the explosion.
Given the relative sizes of the fonts, I would imagine that Nigel’s exclamation was drowned out by the noise created by the bouncing barrel bombs.
As such, even though it is quite fun to roll one’s eyes and sigh, “oh, Nigel,” I doubt that we have anything to blame on him here.
Action movie star bears.
I think you meant…”Over a Bear-el”
Klonk Klank Boom
If there was a Bearmageddon drinking game, you’d have to drink the whole beer every time Gogs puts his goggles over his eyes
Dr.Mcninja crossover today?
http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p51/
Oh my god exactly what I was thinking/came here to say, I like you 🙂
YES! This comic should totally have a robot bear that can blast fire from its mouth and swing its head around on an extensible neck.
Not the lizards and insects!
What’s the current kill count for lizards and insects?
What was he running that bus on, Napalm?!?!
Nitroglycerin, actually. But a good guess nonetheless.
…^
I called it!!! But the bears can still smells them. He he heeee. We are going to have a lord of the rings nazghull moment with the bears right above them.
Ethan,
Thanks for for the plug, and more importantly, thanks for answering the 20 Questions… one of my best ones yet
–scott
Ethan, you going to bring that phlegm and crust eye to the convention? That’s the only way you can prove you’re human and not a cyborg from the future sent back in time to conquer us using inhumanely awesome comics.
I bet Keller takes the brunt of this, saving Gogs, plus plenty of singed eyebrows that need to be kept up with in future pages to keep continuity.
I think it’s amazing that you are willing to start with a whole new cast of characters right as the action gets started. I do feel bad that they all had to blow up though. It won’t leave much for the bears to eat.
Oh my holy fricking cow. Given the size of that explosion, I don’t really see a way out of this for them… Unless the really fat lady somehow becomes a shield/airbag of sorts and protects (at most) two of them.
…I’m a horrible person.
Anyone for roasted bear guts?
Did I miss something….how did they get on the ledge? I feel like an entire page is missing.
I was wondering the same thing! I went back a page, pondered, and became confused.
I decided not to get all Annie Wilkes about demanding Misery Chastain be buried. As long as its not abused, I give action writers a little license for the sake of suspense.
It’s all in the suspense of a story. He left us with the van at the edge of the cliff, they all breathe a sigh of relief, but in the time it took for the bears to catch up, they slithered their way toward and over the ledge. If you get to see every angle of the story at all times, the CLIFF-hanger effect is gone and it’s not as fun.
^ iw as about ot ask the same thing as mr New above
threw me off bro
You know you’re a brony when you read the title of this comic and immediately think of the My Little Pony episode of the same name. Now I have an image of Pinkie Pie dancing on a piano stuck in my head, heh.
A My Little Pony episode called Bearmageddon?? Now that is intriguing…
That ledge doen’t seem too solid…
I feel like this page denies the laws of physics in almost all possible ways 😛
Me too. AND I DON’T CARE A LICK. That’s gotta be a first. 😀
1st panel, the tubby chick is holding onto a hand coming out of Noel’s shirt ?
Just a random hand ?
Oh yeah, just found this comic, love it, it’s great.
Not Axe-Cop great, but it’s up there. And, I read a lot of web-comics so big praise from me.
Do you know what’s REALLY crazy? A barrel just blew up, and it WASN’T EVEN A RED ONE.