Comic #499½

Well, that took forever to make.

We’ve seen Poa’s knack for keeping track of June’s heroes’ deaths before. In unrelated news, remember when I was terrible at making comics?

Last Maple and Poa strip was mostly superhero discussion, so here’s a sprinkling of jokes, philosophy, random thoughts, and gossip. I pretty much let my train of thought ramble from one thing to the next, so hopefully the conversation has a natural feel to it. It might not be screamingly funny, but I hope you can still enjoy Maple and Poa being bored together!

See you for comic 500!

-Jesse

Edit: Yep, Maple is a girl. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that there’s confusion, since it’s kind of hard to tell with those tiny sprites– but since I’ve always known that Maple was female, I didn’t really think about the fact that some people might think otherwise. Figured I might as well chime in and put an end to the mystery!

165 thoughts on “Comic #499½”

    1. Wait, we have guards? I never knew we had guards! Nobody did! Quick, call the council of the Elders! New discovery!
      Ok, lets leave them there until we forget about them again. It’ll be at least 100 comics till we remeber them!

      1. June's Psychopath Dad

        It’s blood, no, tree sap.

        I don’t know…

        Also Maple is my brother’s daughter and Poa is my wife’s cousin

      2. Look, we cant just go round editing the characters! If Maple was June’s sister, then why would a ROYAL be on guard duty, not on the throne?

    2. Hmmm, I have noticed that Jessy has been posting his comics pretty late, (this one was posted 2:23 am). Unless our timezones are different…

      1. I was wondering that too, Mr Flower… guess that makes us the second semi-inanimate objects in the comment section

      1. Technically, they’re always dating. Because they are (probably) unrelated members of the opposite gender, and Maple has said that she would offer if she didn’t like Cyril.
        Why does half of all the girls in this comic fall in love with Cyril, anyways?

  1. Aww.
    Welp, Cyril’s not gonna want to stick arohnd for long, if at all, when he’s in the jungle now.
    Also The creation of Guiness

      1. She said she hadn’t eaten in years. that probably means she was younger than nine when she set up the dungeon death traps. Adorable little serial killer, indeed.

    1. Ok, I went back to when they first met Sophia, she said she hadn’t eaten in years. She also said she had been shipped out by her family. Where did she learn to mechanic? How do I know I can trust my mechanic’s stuff? Why do bunny heads keep falling on my roof? These are questions that can never be answered.

      1. Yeah I’m not kidding, my house is in a valley and for some reason bits of bunny keep falling on it. Either that or the bunnies land on my traps and get blown to bits.

      2. I used to have a similar problem. More specifically, bunnies nearly invaded my place until I moved to an artificial floating island that I built.

    2. lol what they are doin XD HELP ME GET NEW GRAVATAR OR DO IT FOR MAHHH OR I CALL MOON LORD TO KILL YA!

    3. Oh… this makes her personality makes a biiiiiiiiit more sense.
      On a side not, I think me and Sophia are suffering from the same mental disorder 😛

  2. I wanted to learn which one was moron and which one was stinkwad… Ah well, it doesn’t matter.

    Or does it?

    1. He’s done more tthan that! The Maple & Poas, the holiday ones, the marmoset one, the April Fool’s one, the website special.

      1. Welp, I do know about those, but hey! It doesn’t matter actually, he won’t answer bro, I’m here since page 55 and I don’t think he’d ever replied one of my comments, and they aren’t the usual “FIRST” comments, so, yeah, thanks for pointing it out I guess.

    1. June's Psychopath Dad

      Maybe its like that other guy’s theory, or Jesse has extremely good taste in dubstep.

      1. Tristram could also be a reference to the last village in the first Diablo game: Tritram Village.
        Also, I just began commenting here a week (or so) ago, and it’s not easy to remember ‘Shoguntrooper’.
        Also, Yeah I was VERY surprised that actually the name of a previous hero fell.

    2. Maybe that’s the name of the only guy who crossed the ocean. Or maybe that’s the name of a sea monster or something that claimed the lives of the other 13. Or maybe….actually, those are my only two theories.

      1. Didn’t Poa refer to Maple as a “she” in this strip?

        Also, isn’t Maple generally a feminine name?

        We could both be completely wrong, of course.

    1. As all living being, Maple is bless with authentic freedom. Maple may be of any chosen gender at any time 😛

    2. NO! No tumblr gender BS! Please!
      Also, leaves cover Maple’s chest and not Poa’s, therefore Maple is female.

  3. Hmm… you know what, 499.5 “technically” rounds up to 500… so, here:
    blob:https%3A//drive.google.com/35ea46b3-f139-4b40-b871-cd5f137f0718

    I made a (somewhat) animated recreation of the very first Legend of Maxx comic. I hope you like it!

      1. Hey that’s pretty cool. I like how the bunny sticks its head out from behind a rock, like; “Whats this guy?”

      2. Hey megamage, you should do a legend of maxx animation series!
        Since the legend of maxx video voiceover project is cancelled…
        I could help you!

      3. I’d love to do more… But unfortunately, this one comic took forever for me too make, and anything more would be beyond me. I might make more another time if I get better at animating though.

      4. You’re welcome Jesse! I actually made it with GIMP, by making each frame of animation as a new layer and exporting the whole thing as an animated gif.

        Of course… doing it that way took a pretty long time, there was a lot that I wanted to do but couldn’t, and I’m pretty sure that theres much more efficient ways to animate… But, I managed make it work for this!

  4. It’s only now that I got they are girl and guy and not two guys. Well, it’s not that obvious sometimes so excuse me!

  5. How cool would it be if maple and poa ran at dryad speed to the eastern coast in time for them to hop on the boat and join the crew?h

  6. How would they know Sophia? The only time they saw her was when the group walked through the jungle and said hi.

  7. I like the way time just seems so fast to them, even though they seem to experience it at the same speed as people. I just can’t stop pointing things out that I like about them. There’s nothing to hate.

  8. Also, with 84 panels (unless I missed any long panels that take up two panel spaces) this is longer than the last “The Amazingly Boring Adventures of Maple and Poa” and, I believe, the longest comic yet.

    1. Chickenfromthefront

      Just so you know, I don’t mean that in a mean way, pun intended, but more in a teasing sort of way, y’know? You know.

      1. I counted 81 panels, but it’s entirely possible I miscounted. This one is longer than 399.5 either way.

  9. Does this count towards my guess with xane coming back, because this is 1/2 a comic according to the count, and if it doesn’t count then my guess will hold at 500

  10. Guys… from what I’ve thought about for the last 7 years or so, so far my answer to “What is the meaning of life?” is that there is no meaning of life. Life is a sandbox game. One without limits and with infinite space. Choose your own limits. Don’t let what controls others control you. Dare to be different.

      1. No it’s 42, the meaning of life,the universe and everything. Haven’t you read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

    1. Gunging - The Nerd XD

      heh, well, recent discoveries point that when 2 particles of light containing rally high energy can destroy each other and create a piece of matter and antimatter, and so, when these 2 pieces of matter and antimatter collide they destroy each other and crea te 2 particles of light with a charge of 13 times a nuclear bomb’s.

      I heard it un a museum. xD

      1. Sorry I didn’t get back to you because LoM ended temporarily. Matter and antimatter annihilations do not violate the first law of thermodynamics. Instead, they simply convert matter into energy, like Einstein’s famous equation says. c

  11. I am so happy about this.
    SO HAPPY.

    And also, obligatory Red vs Blue reference:
    ‘Hey’
    ‘Yeah?’
    ‘You ever wonder why we’re here?’

  12. Nyrg gig!!!!!!! STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER STEAMPUNKER SSSSTEEEEEEAAAAAMMMMMPPUUUUUNNNNKKKEEEERRR!!!!!!! STEAMPUNKER

  13. If there where already 14 other heroes who got this far then what happened to the swords they gathered? How did the Naiad get the Muramasa back or if there is more then one why can’t they use one of those instead of going into the dungeon to get it from them?

    1. The Naiads use the cloning potion to make more Murumasas, but since no one else has murumasas only the naiad can clone them

    2. June's Psychopath Dad

      Maybe there’s that whole sword champion thing if it get’s lost it goes back to it’s original owner

    3. June took the Blade of Grass back to the Jungle, the Lights Bane disintegrated, and Xane used super speed or something to get the Muramasa back, and killed the previous Dryad guards. Sorry, Maple and Poa, but your on the chopping block.

    4. I had assumed June took back the Blade of Grass and the Light’s Bane doesn’t matter in this story. I guess Xane does recover the Muramasa but finding it could be hard, unless they are the reason why the heroes never get past the ocean stage.

  14. The one half comics are always really really really long. I’m glad this one keeps that trend flowing!

  15. Never mind that Maple is a girl, I looked at her colors and thought she was one of the Djinn, assigned with Poa to guard the border between their realms. Well, still reading….

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