The new kids in town
Mathias notices there are a couple of new students in his school.
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Mathias is a sleepy little spider. He definitely needs more caffeine if just listening to lessons causes him to pass out like that. I know how it feels to zone out in class, something I really wish wouldn’t happen.
WAHOO! WAHAHOO! I was not expecting the Romero twins to be showing up after I heard this was a backstory comic. Now Mathias can bet tutored by a smart, half Italian, half Dragon boy who’s very patient. Fair warning, little bugaboo, the new kids breathe fire and the girl can also start fires by turning on an induction stove.
P.s. I drew some gift art for your birthday, Mr. Robin, you can view it on DeviantArt.
he doesn’t like caffeine he love milk chocolat
Ye he’s my cameo
Didn’t realize someone else made that mistake, though I’d say it’s more on Robin for putting in a steaming mug.
I remember it was hot chocolate, I was referring to the caffeine content in chocolate being insufficient for little Math if he falls asleep pike that in class.
If they were Down Under, I’d say add more Milo to the drink – many use tablespoons instead of teaspoons to put it in the mug…
What is Milo? Think hot chocolate, but malted. OK, I don’t know what that means, but it’s very nice but I can’t have too much or I get “uncontrollable”…
Yay!! Celebrity cameos!!!
And the spider is about to meet the dragons. Spiders have quite a few interesting tales in mythology, it’s that way with most creatures. Anansi, from African mythology and folklore, and Aracne, from Greek mythology (and the origin of the word arachnid), are the two most well-known mythological spiders; and boy, are those stories a ride.
On another note, in several cultures from around the world, the Owl is a Herald of Death, might be amusing to see the twins meet an owl hybrid that decided to go Goth without knowing how several cultures see owls and only so they could get away from the jokes about being a beacon of wisdom and all-knowing because of Athena’s owl, Bubo, from Greek mythology.
There’s also Kumo Onna from Japanese mythology.
There are actually quite a few different kinds of spider yokai, and they’re all deadly for different reasons. But the Kumo-Onna, which literally translates to Spider Woman, is pretty high on the list
Mathias thinks it better to be green?
Easier than he’s had it any way.
He sees the twins being as smooth as ice
and better than him on any day.
It seems that this school isn’t challenging;
he isn’t being driven to succeed.
Sometimes genius is worse than the fool.
Schoolwork can give neither what they most need.
They’re not ‘similar’, they’re identical…
well, given that they’re a boy and a girl.
They might just give him the fire he needs
C’mon, Mathias, give some hope a whirl!
I want to see this meet-up
So Kaya offers to tutor him and Kai ends up doing half of it.
At least half! LOL Actually; Kaya’s smart enough to volunteer Kai to do it in the first place. 😉
Probably wouldn’t be so boring and wouldn’t be doing so poorly if he put some more effort into things. Mental outlook is important after all, many good students are good from the mental outlook and effort they put in rather than having an aptitude for it.
Agreed. I was think more-or-less this too. 🙂
He just needs a properly woven learning environment.
Panels 1 & 2: Should I use male or female voices for the teachers?
Panel 3: There should be a comma at the end of “this”.
You could alternate between male and female voices. Or, considering how much Mathias is paying attention, you could use Peanuts style muted horns.
Right? 🙂 That’s likely all he’s hearing anyway.
Well : “nice” way to call the students back to classes , in the last panel ……. ^_^”
I was concerned at first i’d see an actual spider but now that I see he doesn’t look like one I am relived since I do feel uncomfortable around spiders.
I am interested how webs would work for him though since my dad has spiders and tarantulas and so I know their butts or whatever the big parts are called is where their webs are made and come out. So for him how do the webs work since I did think I saw some webs in prior pages with him, is it like the Toby Maguire spiderman and he has a small opening on his wrist that the webs come out of ? And that makes me think on if he has something like spider sense or if he can use his webs to brings things to him.
Spiderman’s webs are artificial, not part of his radioactive-spider mutation. So they could come out wherever he wanted.
Daniel here. In some versions of Spiderman, his webbing IS produced from his wrists organically, while the Symbiots can also produce their own webbing. But most versions use the wrist mounted launchers, the firing paddle thing needing a double tap to prevent accidental web launching…
He’s 1 of my favorite Marvel characters, learned a lot about him growing up, plus for a while I knew a Spiderman mega-fan… 😛
I liked the versions where it was organic.
Also do you think the spider boy can do something similar ? I mean I’m his room I think we saw webs so he has to produce them somehow.
He definitely does have spinarettes, the amount he can produce is still up in the air. Webs are rescorce intensive for spiders to make (some even eat failed webs to regain some of what they spent producing it) in all honesty I doubt Mat can produce enough with enough force to shoot webs. Depending on his specific spider species he might still be able to wall crawl to an extent
Originally Spidey used webshooters. Sometime in the early 1980;s iirc he got retconned to have organic webby (altho he may have ‘grown them’ and ditched the mechanical shooters). The Raimi movies have him using biowebby, the later ones have him using mechanical webby.
YMMV
Happy Birthday.
Cripes, that reminds me, I have to get my brother a card…
I loved school, pretty much, but not geography. (I didn’t have a class called that; it was part of social studies or something.) But nobody explained to me why geography matters, e.g., why Europeans ended up ruling the world because that’s where the climate supported low-tech agriculture. They just wanted me to memorize the difference between a steppe and a butte. (I now have no idea what either of those words means. But don’t bother explaining; I have a computer if I ever need to know.) So I’m guessing Mathias’s geog teacher isn’t explaining why it matters either.
I confess I can’t see how anyone could be less than excited about algebra (that seems to be what’s happening in his math class), but I know I’m abnormal in that. And it doesn’t help that a lot of math teachers don’t really understand the math themselves. Only in America, of course, where we don’t pay teachers anything, so the ones who /do/ understand the math get jobs programming computers, at twice the pay (or more) for half the work.
I bet Mathias would be surprised to discover how many other kids in his school feel the same way he does about it.
Yup, Geography belongs to the majority of classes where what is actually taught matters a lot. For some reason, lot of economy somehow ends up there – and not the important part of economy, but the “who produces what”.
Hmmm … actually, given recent shortages and supply chain issues, who produces what can be also important if you focus on top producers only.
Geography is everything! Defensible positions, farmable land, mining resources, transportation and clean waterways shaped everything about pre industrial cities and civilizations
Tutoring isn’t going to help unless he figures out how to stay awake and pay attention.
Not to mention figure out that this stuff is important.
This stuff is important in the sense that /someone/ has to know and care about it. But the truth is, it certainly won’t all be important to Mathias, even when he’s in the job market. (If he’s really worried about getting a job, he’ll learn to program computers, which lots of kids do outside of school. 🙂 ) If he can read, which he can do or he wouldn’t be able to navigate his phone, that’s really all he needs from school. I’m not saying his life wouldn’t be enriched by learning other things, but that’ll happen only if it’s something that matters to him. It’s his teachers’ job tp excite his enthusiasm about their subject.
Ppl whose favorite phrase “I wont need that in real life” was mumbled before going to sleep in class, is where we get anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and your general run of the mill conspiracy theorist whackjobs from.
You don’t learn this stuff just because it’s nice to learn them, the point of school isn’t just to get ready to do job but to understand how the world works. Nobody can truly predict what they will need in real life and what they don’t, especially with what profession they want to do in the future.
And if you want to learn to program, guess what is important to know and understand? Math. And it can get advanced math with programming depending on what you are working with. Learning purely from online tutorials is not the best way to learn to program.
Yes, teachers should try to make the material interesting and engaging but it is also the student’s job to try their best to engage with the material themselves.
Mathias! You’re too young to shave! 🙂
Naaa, I don’t think he’s really trying to shave…
..Hmmm… *Looks harder*
…Yeah, definitely a phoney attempt at shaving… 😛
They have an app for that??
I wouldn’t say that, he’s already got facial hair. … And thick body hair… He’s covered from head to toe in fuzz. Some Hybrids seem to have beards before they start puberty/turn 10, and not just the boys!
That’s a point, how would the fur-covered Hybrids shave if they start growing beards? They might not, but since they’re still basically Human, the guys (and some girls apparently. You Humans are amazing…) will most likely start growing beard type facial hair, even if their Hybrid type already gives them face or even body fuzz. Some might blend in with the fuzz they already have, but if their beard type hair is anything like Daniel the Human’s stubble, then it will stand out as soon as it even starts growing past the skin and be a LOT thicker & stronger than their fuzz…
Daniel the Human calls his stubble” weapons grade”. He can & has given people sandpaper like scratches on their faces just by sliding the side of his face against theirs. Instant carpet burn I think 1 person called it…
And then, one day, he got bit by a radioactive human. His grades dramatically improved to complement his spider-powers, and so he became…The Amazing MAN-SPIDER!
Extra points for you, Silverwolf! 🙂
You monster.
>:)
Narcolepsy is terrible. Especially if it’s not diagnosed.
Part if me wants to make a big donason to have carrater put in that has a crush on the chocho crazy dragon who is a absursly massive anthro. It will make its move on valintines day by creating a life sized ultra realistic choco sculpcur of kiya in a pose repasenting how she sees her. Perhaps as a crazy love knight fearcly beating the crap out of a hunter to prottetect a helpless little bunny.XD
be fun? a secrit triplit they two did not know they had.
allto witout the backpack it be impossable to tell what kind of anthro this guy was ment to be.