#mantisworm

I know you don’t like anthology horror as much but

if you could make an anthology series, serious, comedic, or horror

what would you do? Would you use your own characters for it? Or make new ones

I ask because I got into Heavy Metal recently

I don't dislike anthology horror, I don't think. If I remember correctly, that's like a series of short stories, right?

Like the stuff written by Junji Ito counts, right?

Or the "scary stories to tell in the dark" book series?

I like those! I guess I just don't talk about them as much. Because I don't always know what to say? Not sure.

But if I made one? Hm...

Knowing me, it would likely be one of those horror/romance comedies. I love horror comedies. Things like "The Upturned" (underrated game!) Or "Cabin in the woods" (I think that's what it was called?)

To be honest, I already have some characters that could work for something like that.

Characters like Jack and Cole from my comic "My Boyfriend Eats Roadkill"

Or Frostbyte and Scorch, my ghost characters.

Or Mantisworm. The strange creature that I dreamed of one time and then drew and made a character of.

I have an answer.

I do have a character that I could imagine doing something like this.

If any of you have been following me for a while, then you know that I have constant nightmares, and because I have said nightmares, and will sometimes draw the things that appear Within them.

One of my most popular of these nightmarish creatures was a certain arthropod man. And something strange happened...

I had another dream about him, I don't normally have recurring characters in my dreams not counting people I know in real life. But sure enough, it was him. But he looked...

Different.

Here's a teaser.

So there you have it. My answer is my Nightmare turned Character:

I do now, thanks to Mantisworm

I think I just made these two significantly less scary

I might draw this guy more, he really stuck with me for some reason.

I'll explain what the nightmare was about under the cut.

Edit: the parasite coming out of the cat was from the same dream but it's not the same guy. That little worm was one of his employees. I think his name was Pillford? He kind of came from a part of the drain that was a bit more fuzzy

Also made a sorta step by step gif:

Individual frames under cut

How would you guys/gals/nonbinary pals feel if I made enamel pins of some of my characters at some point (not sure when, as I want to see how people react to the idea first)

For example, if I made enamel pins of Mantisworm, Sinthia, or Dr Damus, would y'all want that?

(Note, these character aren't the only options I'm thinking of, I'm just considering characters that are easier to simplify and make pins of first, because I haven't done this before. I could probably do Fachnan or Vega or Irene or whatever as well at some point)