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Creeptid City, USA: Introducing Creeptid City, USA

I hate to repeat myself, so I will begin by immediately telling you that I have already explained Creeptid City, USA, creeptids, and creeptid dot com to you. But if you aren’t the sort of person who can spare a click, I will summarize: It’s a comic about weirdos in and around Covington, KY, although not by that name. And creeptid dot com is the website OMGJeremy and I have made of it — only it’s not currently up, don’t worry about it!

For some reason, I introduced you Junior Sneerists to the idea of it by way of tooth clowns. I probably was in a tooth frenzy. Tooth Clown on the brain. It’s not an uncommon situation, really. But maybe I should have stepped forward and shown you the more mundane set up of where Creeptid City is. And WHAT it is.

This is a short 8 panel comic. Each panel is the same size and they are two across and four down. Panel one: street scene. Words say: "Every city has a robust population of city animals." Panel 2: Close up of a light pole that has stickers on it. The focus of the panel is a sticker that announced Creeptid City USA. It has yellow monster eyes. Panel 3. An under-train track scene with many cats. The words say "feral and stray cats." Panel 4: A street scene of a deer crossing a residential block. The words say "city deer." Panel 5: A curb with several kinds of bird gathered: starling, sparrow, robin, pigeon. The pigeon has on a little bowler hat. The word says "birds." Panel 6: a little back alley with a wooden fence. About 4 ventriloquist dummies are strewn about. The words say "a thriving community of ventriloquist dummies." Panel 7: The words say "these guys" and it's not any scene, just a depiction of a bat, opossum, raccoon, squirrel, rat, mice. Panel 8: "The indescribable Octo-Man," say the words and there is a head and tentacle emerging from a river onto a river bank.
Feel welcomed.

I chose to first examine the animals of the city. There are the usual bunch, but there are also plenty of new faces. New ones keep popping up all the time! Even I am still discovering them. Ventriloquist dummies count as vermin. Marionettes are as common as spiders. Various cryptids are occasionally seen. The birds sometimes wear little suits and conduct business — but you should watch out for the big, ugly, scary birds. They might cut you up real pretty.

This comic is wordy so I won't go panel by panel, but I will write out a kind of summary. Two friends are in one of the friend's back yard, looking at a scarecrow. The friend whose yard it is explains that there were too many varmints ruining their vegetable patch and so decided to make a "turbo-fied scare-all figure." So a scarecrow that will scare everything. It is revealed that they made it out of meat which is now rotting. Now there are vultures everywhere. The visiting friend remarks "I'm about to be driven away, myself." The garden friend said that they were going to ask it to leave but it turns out to be really pleasant. The last panel is this grotesque meat scarecrow wearing a Creeptid City, USA shirt, remarking that it is a beautiful day.
And it gives off a fragrance, too!

I tried to capture the old feeling of my Unicorn Valley comics. I don’t want to depend on my real conversations anymore, even though there is an enormous backlog of snippets and our dialogues are naturally perfect and pristine comedy. I don’t want to be afraid of long meandering fictional dialogue between characters I have made up in scenarios that only happened in my dreams anymore. So what if it’s sometimes a wall of hard to read handwriting? It’s still important to get these things OUT of me sometimes!

Meat Scarecrows are part of Creeptid City, USA. They have lives and opinions. And they vote!

A comic where Amandoll and c chris interact. In panel one he is saying to her, "I don't think you're ready for what I'm about to tell you." She agrees "probably not." Next panel is him holding up a ventriloquist dummy and saying "I have created the perfect companion." All three of them are standing in front of a sign announcing Creeptid City, USA. It's a way back view. A lot of the setting is shown. Panel 3 is horizontal all the way across the line. C Chris explains "Mr Chatterjaws is an emotionless dummy that can only wordlessly chatter its jaws when spoken to. Watch -- " Then he says hello to it and it chatter chatter chatters its jaw. Amandoll covers her mouth and says "Oh it IS perfect!" The next two panels show Chris asking how it is, and it chatters. And he says "It's unable to verbally express how it's feeling!" Chris looks delighted. The dummy looks frustrated and upset. Amandoll says bye and enters a house, looking a little uneased. Next, in a panel marked "later", Chatterjaws is chattering on a chair while Chris exclaims with enthusiasm: You're so FUNNY! Mr Clatterjaws you're going to be a star someday! We'll make a million dollars! But there are silhouettes gasping, looking in through the window! The last panel shows two dummies outside of the house saying "kidnapped!" "We have to save chatterjaws!"
Cliffhanger!

Of course, I still want to include real chats sometimes! This was a conversation cchris and I had, but I embellished it. I made it part of Creeptid City! I can DO that! Much like Unicorn Valley, all of us regular Sneerists live in Creeptid City, whether we do or don’t.

Stay tuned for the next installment and tell me how much you want me to make new Creeptids City, USA. Whisper it to me.

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