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I drew this *20 years ago*

That's it, that's the Tumblr post

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Reminder.

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We'll Always Have Sonic

This combo of a Sonic fan comic and the Back of Beyond was doodled the other afternoon at a local coffee shop. The gloomy weather, theme of the shop, and my recent pull back into the world of the Blue Blur/Edgy the Hedgy in anticipation of the Sonic Movie 3 made for the perfect storm of concepts.

Phil the Possum is a huge Sonic fan. He visited Seega World as a joey and tried to play competitively for a prize. In this comic, he wears a Sonic and Knuckles tee. Selma the Tassie Devil also loves Sonic games, and is suspicious of Phil's adoration of the Sonic x Shadow ship…could this be a subliminal hint toward Phil's preferences? Only time will tell… :)

Also yes Phil stole Selma's Sonic figures, lol

Since this Back of Beyond mini comic includes Sonic fan art, I'm sharing it here without the usual pay wall on my Ko-fi page--feel free to bring down that wall by donating at least $1 USD one time to get access to locked posts and art for 30 days! :) 

Enjoy! 

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(and by the above GIF I mean xoxoxo lol)

he panicked

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Selma is Burnt Out...

...and in technicolor! :)

Want to see more of my in progress original comic series? Feel free to send a Ko-fi my way! :)

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Look At These Weird Dogs

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Constable Heliodoro Sunstone wasn't always an uptight, law abiding and enforcing police officer...oh no. 

According to Phil, this dapple gray stallion loved to join in on his uni parties...in a rather unexpected way. For Heliodoro used to be...

That's right…Heliodoro was a male model in the past!

Heliodoro used to be quite the show off at parties, prone to over drinking and allowing the uni kids to play goon of fortune to their hearts' content (or until their livers gave out). Sometimes he'd arrive only to bail on the party an hour in, and bust some folks hours later in his day job uniform. 

Phil keeps Heliodoro's secret...it's a tangled web of blackmail and uni days intrigue that Phil doesn't dare let Selma know about...for now. 

Heliodoro isn't nearly as exciting these days...a confirmed bachelor who'd as soon rip you a new one for driving without a proper license much less under the influence, he's keen on pulling up in his car to give drivers side eye whilst in traffic. Sometimes he's even riding around Queen Street Mall on a motorized scooter, eyes narrowed in suspicion at those you'd least expect to be lawbreakers. Don't mistake him for your average Paul Blart--Heliodoro uses his stern, loud, Chilean-Aussie inflected accent to intimidate even the meekest of teens on a trip to Macca's. Most folks despise Heliodoro, but he doesn't seem to mind...in a twisted way, he might get off on it. 

More details on the characters and their backstories in the Back of Beyond comic will be revealed in later posts, so stay tuned!

Until then,

~DLP

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An endangered Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) runs happy and free in the feral predator-proof fenced area in Pilliga National Park, northern New South Wales, Australia. (Larger 1, 2).

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Ugh the colors <3

Backroads

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A Short Sonic Appreciation Post

This isn't directly connected to the Back of Beyond, *but* Selma used to be a Sonic fan character sooooo....

I really love the Sonic movie franchise and I am very excited for Sonic 3. I've been playing the Sonic games since Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis and my fave modern Sonic game is Sonic Adventure 2, so I'm thrilled at the new Sonic merch and stories on the horizon! :)

I'll be developing a video essay on the blue blur and will release it on Ko-fi first...so feel free to donate to be there and hear me out before everyone else! :)

Also I made these trading cards in the early 2000s, oof

I cannot explain the above image at all, enjoy the Chao related cringe lol

More old art and Sonic musings will be posted soon, as will more of the original comic series that began with a Sonic spin off...thanks for reading and viewing my art! :)

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William R Wallaby-Backstory and Character Sheet

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In the original storyline for The Back of Beyond, Will was more of the main character than Selma. William is a yellow footed rock wallaby--browsing and grazing marsupials that thrive in rocky fields, competing with goats and other livestock for food and space, and often killed by cats and foxes. They are currently classified as a vulnerable species on the Endangered Species List, and only two wild populations remain--one in South Australia and the other in New South Wales.

In the initial version, Will was set up to be the leader of his wallaby family tribe/clan. He rescues Selma from Tigeria, and Ophelia's necklace is part of the story from the beginning. 

Will in the reboot of the Back of Beyond knew Selma from joeyhood, both having played together as kids in primary school (Selma loses a necklace and Will finds it, similar to how Chilli returned Bandit's hat in Bluey, only to meet again years later...). They remained distant friends throughout those years. 

Will struggled in primary school, longing to return to the bush rather than study in a stuffy classroom all day. He often escaped during recess and was brought back time and time again. He met up with an older cousin one afternoon while on a walkabout, and discovered his calling--his older cousin had become successful in finance, utilizing his love of mining to help him find a niche field to work in. Will emulated his cousin and eventually surpassed him, becoming the CEO of the company his wallaby cousin founded decades later. 

Will's focus in life has been work. Definitely a workaholic, he can lean into power hungry motives, making his role in the story currently more of the rebel/anti-hero than the other characters we've met so far. One of his flaws is a propensity to overspend and gamble, and the other...? Well. That's where Selma re-enters the story...which you'll read more about in the first issue of Back of Beyond, due out next year! :) 

I hope you've enjoyed this glimpse into Will, the last of the three protagonists of the Back of Beyond, my Aussie creature slice-of-life comic I'm developing! Please spread the word if you can about it and thank you for supporting it!

Until next post,

~DLP

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Who I identify with lately--it's Unicorse. :)

Also the funniest bit from this episode:

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Messing around in DaVinci Resolve led to...well...this. Enjoy!

Sound warning-loud chewing-misophonia

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10 posts already! Huzzah!

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Phil the Brushtailed Possum-Character Sheet and Backstory

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Phil is a brushtailed possum--a golden one--and these are different animals than the American opossum. Nocturnal marsupials that forage in the trees and on roofs of homes, these creatures are considered pests by farmers and city dwellers alike, thriving in any environment from the top end of Australia to the neighboring country of New Zealand. 

Possums are noisy, running from roof to roof at night, causing fights and clearly very active--so it made sense to me that Phil (originally Philbert, after Rocko's Modern Life) would be a possum.

Phil's grown facial hair and a mullet ('they're back in style!'), and I've made his eyes a little larger, more blue/gray than before. A footy player in uni, he now plays for the Lions on occasion as a back up ruck-rover, a role he is very proud of. As a joey, he loved playing the Seega Genesis (it's a play on how Sega is pronounced in Aus, lol) and despite his gaming addiction, he went on to excel in uni, earning a PhD in bioengineering. Phil's fascination with dolphins (which are strangely not human level sentient in my stories) led him to research their echolocation and how their bodyminds were affected by mining run-off as well as oil spills in the environment. Selma shares this fascination with Phil in terms of dolphins--this will be explored in later posts! :)

Phil experimented with love interests in uni, and while he is newly single, a past love interest named Seth--a pissed off wombat--is extremely nosy and possessive of him. Phil manages to keep his distance from Seth, but that 'type'--an androgynous, thick and curvy body--is what draws Phil to Selma initially, besides the unique circumstances in which they meet. 

I hope you've enjoyed reading about Phil, one of the main characters in my anthro animal comic The Back of Beyond! Next up is Will the wallaby, Selma's best friend...

More posts are to come,

~DLP