its not going to drain if he lays like that!
I love these

TRUTH! But he's a rebel; he does what he wants XD

Shouldn't be surprised about getting another ear infection then :b

His rebelliousness *does* tend to come back and bite him in the butt.

are turtle ear infections actually like that i'm terrorized beyond what I thought I could possibly be

It's nice to have friends like that. :3 I'm usually the grumpy one.

So sweet :3

DAAAAAMN that's a hell of an ear infection! I'd HATE if I get that kind of ear infection.

Sliders can get horrible HORRIBLE ear infections. http://www.chelonia.org/articles/tc.....abscessCT2.jpg

Oh no, that poor turtle. D:

AAAAAAA IT ACTUALLY CAN HAPPEN

XD To answer your previous comment, yes! It can. And I actually watched a turtle surgery on youtube as research. THEY LEGIT PULLED THIS HUGE FREAKING CHUNK OUT LIKE HOW WHERE WAS THIS TURTLE KEEPING ITS BRAIN IF THIS THING WAS INSIDE ITS HEAD????

I was tempted to see more videos of draining uh, growths, but this time I knew better. It *is* sorta relieving to drain cysts and things, but I don't need to see extra bonus footage all the time of it XD

Heeh! (Un)comfortably numb :D

Someone has a crush? :P

UUUUMMMMMMM!!!! 8P

SOmehow It's good to see comics about you and Raph. It's funny.

Very lovely <3

thank god this will remain as a black and white sketch .. lol!

XD Not a fan of blood and gross?

Stop making Raph adorable, even though he has a melon bursting out of his head. xD

Someday one of his ear infections is going to hatch in a swarm of little baby brains and he'll wonder; OH HE'LL WONDER!!!

>.> I'm frightened

What's to wonder about?
Krang porked him in the ear while he was unconscious.
Obviously.

Wonderful humor, excellent use of facial expression, and as touching as all of your works. Great job!
I hear turtles really do have a tendancy for ear infections.

Incidentally, did you make your boobs bigger?

LMAOOOOOOOOOO I don't think so???? I just draw very inconsistently when I do these goofball comics.

Oh you totally made your boobs bigger.

Hey now; this is FA, no one will judge you. Soon you'll be walking around with a pair of beachball floatation devices and it will be completely acceptable. In fact, that's one of my persoanl kinks.
So from my point of view you just went from one of the awesomest artists ever, to Rembrandt material. This is a good day for everyone! ;P

Incientally, I also love your hair. That you DID keep consistent with all your recent pieces.

That's funny because I'd much rather have them hacked off.

My hair has been growing!

By the by, I appreciate that FA is sex positive and you can have whatever kind of kink you want, but it is disrespectful, gross, and inappropriate for you to involve ME in them when I didn't give you any kind of permission to do so. This comment crossed the line. Not OK.

Meh, very well. Sorry to offend,

I'm not mad. I get that there's a certain culture in parts of FA where that's the norm, and if I made a fetish drawing with expanding boobs or what have you I'd *expect* that kind of commentary, but that's clearly not what this is about. What's normal for a certain kind of artwork and artist is super creepy for another. In general it's a good idea to keep fetish-related comments on material obviously related to that fetish. In my case, personally, I love to hear about other people's kinks (though some FA members don't) but super don't like to be involved in them. I'd like to tell every creepy dude that tries to make me a sex object that MY fetish is cutting off his balls and feeding them to him but I think the sardonic irony would be lost on him.

I don't think you were there because you were obviously joking around and didn't mean anything malicious, but some people are serious and I want to discourage it from the get-go. It's the reason I don't have a fursona and have not made self-depictions in the past. If it happens a lot I'm just going to have to stop doing anything autobiographical. Some people really like that kind of attention but I super don't!

Oh man, never had to do that with an animal, just human treasure troves but that is about my reaction during. Had to help a friend with no insurance back in the punk days get tonsil stones out and they still talk about the things I said and jokes about feta.

Also I think my favorite part is the roll over hand, such a typical and comfortable feeling when you're the one awake.

Dare I ask, what were the 'punk days'? 8D

Oh lord, when all my friend's were crusties back in the early 2000s, and hygiene was not our best. I was "momma" the one you stumbled over to because you couldn't afford a doctor or something for mildly normal but gross stuff (or cant read street signs drunk for care bearing). Home remedies and witchery....and extraction tools. Mostly cysts and stones and food/water/clucking.

XD I'm imagining all this written crudely on a sign outside your shack in the swamp!!!!

Not far off to be honest. It was a house a block from the beach in Santa Cruz that was apparently filled with black mold, had holes in it, and was owned by a slum loard when I was in college so yeah. Not far off at all XD

Aw man, I love watching draining abscesses. It's just so goddamned satisfying. Especially chunks yesssssssssssss

(as long as I don't have to touch it)

It's SUPER satisfying. Like, did a percentage of the population evolve to find it satisfying because drained wounds heal better?

I imagine it pleases our lizard brains which know that abscesses need to be drained to avoid a worse infection. The same reason probably that we suck on a cut finger - saliva probably washes away some of the dirt/infectious agents that could be on the wound.

Or a bunch of us are just freaks and enjoy it for some reason. Uaaahhh so good.

It's kind of tied in with our grooming habits. It feels satisfying because we're "fixing" it or making it better. Like some sort of little victory, the more that comes out the more we've beaten.

Yeah, the best feeling is when you lance something and it just keeps draining and chunks keep coming out. It's such a foreign substance that it's got to be evolutionary to get rid of it. Like a parasite :B

These are amazing :D

I laughed too hard at "Abby Normal" and now I need to see if Netflix has the movie! lol

Also, hooray for draining abscesses! I've had to open up a few on some rescues.

It's soooooo goood. Such a good movie!!!

Bless you for rescuing animals :) Or... people.... Or turtle people. 8D

... RAPH + HIBBA OTP??
What have you done!? Haha!

Goddamn I just let all the air out of my lungs like I was punched in the gut ha ha ha ha ha. You have given me ultimate lulz.

How does he even lay like that? Does he balance on the side of his shell? Is it going to drain all over the front of his face now, and he'll wake up looking like someone gave him a facial?

I imagine he has a VERY squashy bed. And it'll just hang out until he rolls over. :P

Never stop doing these. XP

I demand more of these! So good! Hahaha Keep up the awesomeness! :D

Seriously, these are great. I love the way they all turn out - little slice of life, one-shot scenes and situations are great. THANK YOU FOR DOING THESE AND SHARING THEM WITH US! Simple and they really let the script tell a story and convey emotions and feelings and tell you so much about the characters without having to come right out and hit the reader over the head with a clue bat (Seriously, clue bat). They elicit feelings and I really enjoy them!

This is supremely sweet.

"He just pulled your brain out" XDXD I just about died. XDXDXD

Owch...and also ewww at the same time. Being a turtle with ear infections must SUCK.

And here I complain about my ear-pressure problem and ringing...(It's not infected...it used to be, a year and a half ago, but I got that treated and the infection is gone now. It just never went back to normal pressure-balance.) It's annoying mainly. And I can put up with the ringing...for the most part anyway. It's the dizzyness that I REALLY can't stand, but that might be an eye-issue instead...the doctors STILL haven't figured it out completely. I've been to the ENT, they sent me to a neurologist, and it looks like I'm gonna need to go to a 'vision therapist', whatever that is. That still doesn't explain the ear-pressure thing though.

Raph, it's not going to drain that way...@ last panel.

HMMMM!!!! I know that with sinus infections you can sometimes get scar tissue that blocks up your sinuses and gives you pressure and forever mucus problems. Maybe there's a similar kind of things with ears. And in my experience, doctors super don't give a shit to figure out what the real problem is behind health issues. >8(

You guys keep picking on the drainage thing when I was sure everyone would be screaming that Donnie didn't disinfect before he stuck the needle in (WHICH HE DID, JUST OFF PANEL OK) XD

actually technically it WAS a sinus infection..I just felt it in my ears more than my sinuses. The one side of my nose does get plugged more frequently (slightly TMI, I know XD; ) than the other, but I feel it mostly in my ears.

Confession time: I've read just about all of these comics/sketches, and I just noticed the boobs....

I'd magic them away if I could!

But they're so perfectly wee! XD
Oh crap I just defended boobs what's wrong with me; I must go eat some summer sausage in shame.

Sweet relief! XD

These make me giggle. I gotta show em to a nonfur friend that adores TMNT.
She is going to die of the giggles. XD

Ha ha ha ha ha ha I actually imagine TMNT fans grinding their teeth in pure hatred at how non-canon and horrible these are. 8'D

HAHAHA... you're too good of an artist, this is uncomfortable to look at! :P I have a small phobia of incisions, to be honest. Needles like yardsticks I don't care... but thin slices... D:

Woah! Have you ever had to be cut with a scalpel for any reason? Or is this just potentially being cut ?

nah I was just traumatized as a kid haha. They used to like... broadcast surgery on tv or something when I was a kid (wtf were they thinking) and I'd watch that stuff like I was watching a car wreck. I couldn't turn away no matter how much it horrified me. There is just something about slow incisions and sometimes the callousness in which it's done that just feels inhuman to me... like it isn't a person under the knife. Uhg, I can't talk about this rationally, haha. Sorry :C

Ugh. this was wonderful to see first thing n the morning. while eating oatmeal.

"True love is when you still think someone's beautiful when they're leaning over a toilet horking their guts out."

True love is holding their hair back! XD

That's a good one! =P

Fun comic! Typical Raph, grumpy and impatient but needing a friend as much as anyone, underneath!