Fun work expressing a story. The brief response and acceptance is just gold.

Maybe I should see if I could find the comics I drew fresh out of college called "The Coyote Contraption."

That be cool

Yes!!!!

Agreed!!!!!

The original comics of "The Coyote Contraption" have been pretty well scattered by the winds of history so badly that I have to considering re-drawing the series or at least making up a side story in the "Artist and Muse" series.

Well, he's handing it quite well, yes?

I would say so. Hawthorn's boss didn't seem to appreciate being turned into a facsimile of Professor P. Honeydew though.

Franz Kafka, call your office!

Boom BOOM Boom BOOM Boom BOOM Boom -BOOM!!

"That's no Coyote! He's a Transformer!"

"Eat... Eat... EAT... EAT...!"

Talk about dreams come true ^^

Curious. Would you want to be a Wolf in the Forest, or a "Prairie Wolf?"

The Forest wolf is the best for being the OG Wolf... I think ^^

"Guuuh, I hate it when that happens! Waitasec.. this never happened before!!"

If only they had an emoji representing a pretzel. You deserve one.

🥨 There's one

Thank you.

Woke up on the wrong side of the bed, in the wrong bed, in the wrong town, in the wrong universe ...

A lot of cool things happened in that first day though. Although Hawthorne was fired, he got a tremendous severance package and coverage for medical expenses since the incident was proven no fault of his own, and the event took place on the plant's premises. Also, when Hawthorne walked out to the parking lot, he watched his 1994 Toyota Carolla turn into a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner.

Well. now we know what too much tequila will do.

I'm just glad it wasn't Mescal.

Yeah, you might have woke up a mink.

EeeeEEEE-uuuugggghhh...! Ah-ha ha ha ha HAAAAAA!

"Feeling a bit scruffy this morning."

Uh huh. Hawthorne first thought brushing his teeth might help get rid of the "Cotton in his mouth."

I wonder though why people never seem to have any problems adjusting themselves to their new bodies in some way.

I mean, just learning to walk with a tail without tripping might take hours.

As far as I know, an infant needs months to control their bodies, let alone do things like walking and bladder control.

Waking up in a new body might lead to the person in question having to relearn doing even the mundanests of bodily functions, including talking.

Its magic so they get a boost in the adjustment department too

[ Kamida] Has a good point
My favorite transformation happened in "The Emperor's new groove" Where the young prince suddenly finds himself turned into a llama.

Well some species can walk and run witrhin hours after being born

It could have been worse...

Well yeah. If Project Latrans had been successful, and if the energy source keeping the singularity in stasis allowed the energy source to come in contact with the containment unit, the entire world would eventually disappear with a loud "Pop!"

Ahh yes the pop of nonexistents... or the God's are coming again.

Well no more shaving each morning. So what exactly happend during the Event? Heh, Taos, been 24 years since my last trip there. Yep did see a few crummy motels in that state

Just between you and I and I know you'd appreciate the knowledge, my "Fursona" Mr. Foxy has to shave occasionally, but not his face.

Gotcha. Worst is the medical shave - missing fur over large areas of the body...
Heh, your comic has me missing Taos. Been there a few times, the Pueblo there is really neat, oldest settlement still occupied in the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_Pueblo
Your 'yote might get an interesting reception there - Coyote is a big part of the south western tribal folklore and well some of it isn't good.

Schirm loaned me a delightful little book titled "God's Dog: Conversations with Coyote" by Webster Kitchell. It mixes myth, spirituality and mirth as a minister tries to deal with a mystical "Spirit" that is the personification of the Native "Trickster" of Hopi myth. The book has given me cause to rethink that old story I drew back in the late 1980s.

Oh you should read this book, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show.....i-coyote-tales
Excellent book by a Hopi author

The good news: You can eat anything. The bad news: Anything'll eat you.

Uh huh! One of the "Superpowers" the newly transformed Hawthorne discovered was that he could actually eat the egg salad sandwich he picked up at the gas station and keep down the "Chef's Chili Special" at the Motel's crummy restaurant.

Oh fun Coyote book for you http://sunstonepress.com/cgi-bin/bo.....?_recordnum=45 COYOTE TALES FROM THE INDIAN PUEBLOS
Authentic Native American Legends
By Evelyn Dahl Reed

I've heard of that book. A trip to Vroman's bookstore is in order.

I think you'll enjoy it

Heh, working night security shifts at a mall next to a wooded area - I watched Coyotes eating everything edible left in the parking lot. In N Out burger still in the wrapper - Check
Rancid chinese dinner in a foam carton Check Run over rabbit Check

Well at least your tail found an opening rather than being painfully constrained by your shorts. Guess this is what happens for waiting so long to draw a coyote

I've drawn coyotes before Beartp. Although I believe this only the second time I've added color to a drawing of a coyote.

Not saying you haven't just saying you haven't done it recently enough or maybe you haven't drawn enough coyotes

(Laughs.)

At least he wasn't shaving when he realized that.

Agreed, He could have garroted himself.

Could be worse. he could've ended up in a hotel, in California...

Still one of my favorite songs by The Eagles.

Species and pelt, check. At least he hasn't changed gender.


_Yet.

That sort of thing only happens when Hawthorne gets too close to the reactor. Kind of like in Ranma 1/2 there is always the possibility/danger of an instant sex change now that the forces of the original magics have been turned loose.

"6:30 in the morning: got up too early - it was a terrible mistake. I'm sitting there, face to face with a 75 cent glass of orange juice about as big as my finger, and a bowl of horribly foreshortened cornflakes, and I said to myself, 'This is the life'..."
- Frank Zappa (couldn't help thinking of that bit) 7@=Q

I have unanswered questions about the liquid in that glass next to the alarm clock.

It's just a glass of "Jack" to dull the pain.

Twilight Zone-esck stories are always the best.
There WILL be more RIGHT ROY??!(evil grin) :D

I dunno. "The Coyote Contraption" was a comic story I penned fresh out of College and has some flaws in my early drawing style that I just don't like looking at. Besides, I was trying to draw "Marvel" style, so little homages to Doctor Xavier and Magneto were included. Still, IF I can find those original pages, I might be tempted to re-do them into digital media.

That look in the last panel, after he just realized: "Dammit, I forgot my Razor!" (Again...) 😂

Mmmyup, accidental furry apocalypse? That's more of a story I want to hear... ;) :D

Well... Not ALL furry, mind you. Yes. Quite a few of the staff in close proximity to the Latrans Project reactor were transformed into anthropomorphic animals, and some were turned into Muppets. Some became monsters, and some became like superheroes. Closest I could figure out was it could have been what mood or memories the victims were expressing at the time when the transforming energy wave hit them. Either that, or the forces behind the transformations had a weird sense of humor.

I just realized, this is kind of like the transformations in 'Wild Cards'? 🃏

Interesting! What is this "Wild Cards" which you mentioned? Is it a cartoon series or Anime? The last "Wild Cards" I remember was a crummy TV game show in the 1970s.

Ahh, this was an anthology Novel series, edited by George R.R. Martin (which actually evolved out of a series of long-running campaigns from the old Superworld RPG, that Martin GM'd with some of the original writers - this was also before the Game of Thrones book series), the stories varied widely, but they were basically Superhero/Mutant stories, with a less 'sanitized', ("gritty") realistic approach in most cases (with a lot of aspects being based on real world historical & political events). In a nutshell, a genetically engineered alien virus gets released, and effects a portion of the population, causing mutations, ect. Though it was alluded to that the virus may have transformed them based on they're subconscious, thoughts, emotions, memories, ect.

(The Wikipedia page gives a decent overview of the premise, ect...)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Cards

Ah! I believe I saw a few of these when i was collecting "The New Mutants." (I had a crush back then for "Wolfsbane.")

Ahh yes, the Scottish Wolf Girl! (Wish they would've had her make an appearance in some of the newer X-men movies honestly?) ❌️🐺🙂

First thought:

"What else in my dream was true? Did I really win 1 million dollars and marry a popstar?"

Now there's a good idea.

it took him awhile to notice anything was different, didn't it? But even if he hadn't finally seen what he looked like in the mirror, I bet he'd notice some things had changed when he went to the bathroom :P

(Big grin hare.) You're one of the few who have figured things out. Yes. Most of my male canimorph characters have to learn how to pee up and forward, plus protect a certain bone that is so essential to that act.

That would be awesome! Waking up to discover I became my fursona, it would be a dream come true.

So is your "Fursona" a raccoon, or a coyote? I somehow give the fans the impression my "Fursona" s a coyote instead of a bespectacled fox. I guess a lot of it has to do with the fact that most of my journals here on FA are about my involvement with the coyotes that roam the hills near my home.

It's a raccoon as I love them and their are scavengers like me. And I'm also a nocturnal animal as I stay up late a lot like raccoons.
My fursona, James Decker is a merc who works for, Shady Associates and writes on the side like me.
That's nice to see wild life within your area, I had a few raccoons come by here where I live in, Canada.

I originally wanted to go with a Raccoon "Fursona" but Mr. Foxy proved easier for me to draw.

It took me a while till I figured out what my fursona should be.
Could always draw up an raccoon character for yourself.

Ahh, yes Poor Zonie we all knew him well..
Nice work Roy..

Well... Not quite "Zonie," but by strange coincidence, I was thinking of Michael-Scot McMurray this morning.