Hi-rez Magdolene and Exclusive Info!

This is going to be your new $5 and up reward, and I'm sorry I hadn't even thought of it sooner! Not just full-size art uploads, but all the details I can think of that I haven't really shared before!

FOR INSTANCE:

-Magdolene is literally exactly as old a concept as Doctor Phage. Both of them were doodled on the same exact sheet of paper many years ago while I tried to think of character ideas for a friend's game concept.

-Initially I thought Magdolene would be "funny" entirely because she's got a stereotypically Sexy Lady sort of shape, but made out of what people tend to regard as the absolute creepiest of all possible "bugs."

-I can't honestly remember why I decided she would have a sort of "country gal" personality, but that wound up bleeding into Awful Hospital's other maggot character, Maggie, which kind of was a super-subtle hint that Magdolene would also show up in the same setting.

-In Awful Hospital continuity, Magdolene qualifies as Hospital staff because maggots are, technically, something that has been used as a medical tool.

-The human skull in Magdolene's core has no particular origin, but I think of it kind of like Phleboto Mizer's humanoid body or Gynnie's tongue and eyeball; most of the doctors have at least some organic anatomy beyond just the "tools" they represent.

-Magdolene's maggots and flies are sort of only quasi-literal. They are the "idea" of maggots and flies, not restricted by the same biological needs or vulnerabilities or physics.

-The maggots Fern found in Jay's corpse stash did in fact originate from Magdolene, remnants of her mass surviving where they could after they were separated from her skull.

-Years ago when the comic first started out, I'd actually had an idea for Magdolene to permanently join Fern at some point. This was before I even came up with Eyeslob/Isaac, so the main party would kind of be too crowded now.

-I had also planned that if the players had overwhelmingly chosen Magboil maggots to rebuild Magdolene, she would slowly become more monstrous and dangerous to Fern. I was going to illustrate this by having her get larger, and I hoped it was going to be just slow enough that people would take a while to notice anything up. I'm spoiling this now because the window for it to happen is now permanently closed!