Audrey’s Magic Nine – #06
Of all the puppets, I think I would use Opon’s power the most. Nema is a close second, but I think it would always tempt my mischievous side. Backstage Concerts would be first on my list. Kidding. 😛
On a side note, I have some pretty cool news to present next week.
Something here triggered a lost webcomic memory. There was a mini-comic I now remember following for a while, about a little girl who had some plushie animals or other such toy who came to life to help protect her from the evil nekkid woman who was always chasing her. But it turned out that she wasn’t a little girl but grown-up and crazy as a drunken monkey and the whole story was just some psychotic dream about the toys she had when she was young before she killed her parents and they locked her away nekkid in a padded room (her adult self was the villain in her dream), because her toys were the only things that had loved her as a child and they weren’t even real. Downer story, which was probably why I forgot it.
And please don’t tell me that now you have to think up a new ending to your own story. So now I wonder – is a webcomic a spider that tells jokes?
Wow, what webcomic was that.? I’m curious. As interesting (and sad) as that premise seems, I can safely say that I don’t have to change up the ending. I may have dodged the bullet there. 🙂
I actually had no reason to expect that you were going to try one of those ‘twisted endings’ I’ve seen enough that I’ve come to recognize the set-up for the distortion of reality.
I actually keep a ‘dormant’ folder for comics that ended naturally or ceased updating. The comic in question was called ‘Fading’. She followed that with a second comic called ‘Ashes’ something of a post-apocalypse story with a twist of its own because it followed some time after the world was invaded by supernatural creatures, replacing almost all traces of civilization with dark, endless forests. The main character was another ‘nekkid girl’ who insisted that her mother was a tree, suggesting that she was something like a dryad, but the comic ended in the second chapter. The art style in both comics was very sketchy, vague forms with little details on incomplete backgrounds with no color, as if you were always looking through a dense fog for a very dream-like quality, which I found interesting. Unfortunately the links to both comics died a long time ago.
Not to sound like I’m waving my cane and yelling ‘In My Day…’ but it seemed like many early webcomics had a more experimental quality that could almost be described as ‘awkward’, like artists with looking at how digital comics could be different from print and they not yet influenced by the webcomics that others were doing. Sheesh, I went on the spankin’ new Mensa Forums, one of the first Internet entities, back when I had only just turned 11. Then in 2003 I was given the chance to spend two years in England finishing my Doctorate. When I came back it seemed like all the old comics I had followed were gone (Except Sluggy, Freefall and the original Walky) and the new comics were more like they are now.
Ha! I’ve been reading webcomics for several years myself, and I too am right there with you…cane and all! It’s unfortunate that the link to both comics are gone, as I was quite curious. Thanks for the info though. Every time I see (new) post by Uncle Bilbo, I know I’m either gonna learn something new or get a cool story. Though it’s usually both. 🙂 I’m sure it’s just everyday chat for you. But for me, I’m thinking: A doctorate in England? Driving Air Force donated military trucks? Speaks Tsa-la-shi and Cherokee in sleep? Animal rescue for the city? Captures mountain lions? 7th degree blackbelt in K. Karate? 🙂
I’ve always loved to learn new things and I’ve been lucky to have known many people who were willing to throw the chance for new experiences in my direction. But I’ve done a lot of things that were not what I’ve wanted. My parents put my sister and myself in martial arts because we kept skipping years in schools where we were the only Native Americans and they were worried that we needed to be able to defend ourselves, and for a long time I was resentful about the time it required of me. My contacts in Mensa got me a really great scholarship at a major university, but I had always expected to go into science and linguistics was what was available, and I spent a lot of time wondering if I was doing the right thing. And making dubs of TV series to teach the Cherokee language to students had been my grandmother’s last big project on the tribal council – my sister and I actually hate acting but we were about the only kids of our generation who had grown up speaking the language. I even have the unavoidable battle just with resenting the responsibilities and expectations that go with being Native American. But I dunno. Many times it turns out that the unexpected things turn out being the biggest adventures.
Sometimes. The question is can a spider be everything between kind and heart warming to psychotic and sadistic? Yes? Then yes.
I’m starting to think of spiders as more than just radio active insects that create super heroes.
*claps* Gotta love Spidey.
I’m suuuper loving this comic so far. It hits ya right in the feels, and…
The Magic Nine.
Like…
They’re all so feisty and adorable! Especially Opon and Nema. *whispers* otp~
Wonderful job with all of this!
THANKS!!!! I’m so glad you’re finding entertainment in Audrey’s Magic Nine!
Spiders are also a kind of serial murderer….
Good thing Peter Parker didn’t pick up that trait. Or did he?
Hmmm. Nah. Maybe an ‘Anti-Spidey’ or an alternate world spider that let venom take over. On the other hand, having a reverse of that trait would make him a great detective.
Let me guess… Opon teleported her (accidentally) inside the house instead of away from the house.
That would have made for an interesting scenario, now that you mention it. But that’s not quite what happens.