Annotated Guest Comic – Matt Schanuel
This cultist… gnome-goblin, I think?… sure is confident in his abilities. “How could you, a being three or four times my size with muscle definition visible through the fur, possibly have defeated me, a blob of snot roughly the size of the orphans I was torturing?”
Imagine being so devoted to being the Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples that winning the wrestling competition, beating down Peacemakers, and generally doing victory laps every moment you’re conscious just isn’t enough for you and so you also fantasize yourself a hero after hours… some special, one might even say super, hero, wearing a different mask.
I’d say this was overkill, but I edited a comic that featured a masked hero whose secret identity was a vampire slayer, so…
Matt’s done some work as a writer about games and drew the comic Embers at Night for a bit. I don’t see anything too recent save for his Twitter account, but I could be mistaken.
Imagine being so devoted to being the Champion of the Fuzzy Peoples that winning the wrestling competition, beating down Peacemakers, and generally doing victory laps every moment you’re conscious just isn’t enough for you and so you also fantasize yourself a hero after hours… some special, one might even say super, hero, wearing a different mask.
You mean Auraugu doesn’t dream about this stuff??
100% – this is the canon-est guest comic, admit it 😄
The first time this one ran, I assumed that it was showing a young Auraugu, who was still in the process of growing into the hero he’d become. Though it’s also pretty cute and wholesome if it’s later in his life.
Other than this guest strip, are there any other comics where we see his face without the mask? Or is this the only one?
Just after Penk was introduced, he and Auraugu have a conversation about masks while Auraugu retrieves his from a tree. Here…assuming it’ll let me link…I have had bad luck with linking the comic, here, somehow.
Very cool, thanks!
> I edited a comic that featured a masked hero whose secret identity was a vampire slayer
Is there a full bibliography of your work in webcomics anywhere, T? I’m sure I’ve missed some of your side projects over the years.
I should probably make a better one at some point. In fact, I’ll see about doing that later this month and announce it here.