Monster Manual - Tumblr Posts

The Very Hungry Rust Monster is a mini-comic I made a few years back. I’ve seen it floating around Tumblr without attribution recently, so I’ve uploaded a higher-resolution version, properly credited.

TW: Bugs

A farmer works at their field, the repetitive motion of back-and-forth hacking at the long stalks of corn serving them a kind dissociation from another day’s monotonous work. They look up, wiping the sweat from their brow, before freezing. In the distance is a cloud, but not of the white, fluffy kind; the kind that buzzes and clicks, a peppering of malevolent dots across the sky. What was once a subtle buzz crescends into a great roaring of wings, until the swarm surrounds the farmer now bracing for impact-

but no impact comes. 

Instead, out from the cacophany of wings and cantennae clicking together emerges a horribly sweet voice, overlapped a thousand times over:

“OwO, um, m-mway I fweast on dese cwops mwaybe? (´･ω･`) O-ow not, I dwon’t want to bwothew yow... unwess?”

The farmer shrieks in horror.