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evenings i would sit outside on the patio, concealed by the privacy wall, with something to read, sip, and maybe smoke. here is a beer, perched on patio privacy wall, mixed media on watercolor paper

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recent tape, spray bottle, sharpie, hairdryer paintings. wite out correction fluid, mod podge, hairspray, chalk marker, bic pens, spit, acrylic..

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world scabbed over

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Mighty Lyon, Mutantslayer

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death of salamander

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Peanut Butter Ain't Cheap, mixed media on 5x7" canvas panel, 2024

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bear the dog glares against the sunlight

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just finished reading Protector - so what were the Devas? Much of the supplemental materials avoid saying what they are. Aliens? Martian terraformers? Martians? Uploads?

WELL the Devas, in my mind, are perhaps purposefully hard to pin down, especially given the great cultural remove our iron-age heroes see them from. They're derived from mankind, and we've got a bit of a sly reference to them being recognizable as some sort of mars terraforming device (or adjacent to such machines)...

but they also have the capability to upload human minds to their gestalt...

but they could just as well be grey-goo computer gods, set loose to terraform mars, who have returned to try and give earth a factory reset. (below - some folk art, depicting a certain cannibal cyborg leading a slave revolt against the devas and their polar slave-taking fanboys)

Of course, before "protector" became "protector" (and before we were forced to change the name to "First knife" for frustrating and expensive copyright reasons), the devas arose in a wonky art school project about aliens coming to earth, and retelling earth history with the artifacts. (the following are the components of that project, reformatted for the back-matter of "First Knife")

So long story short, the answer to your question is "yes".

If any of this looks cool, consider finding a copy of First Knife (a book I helped make with @ohotnig @danbensen and Jason Wordie) at your local comic shop or online! IT's a fun, weird book, and one that I am very proud to have been a part of.

FIND IT HERE

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Condensation snakes down the window in little veiny rivulets, racing itself down to a finish line marked by dead bugs and dust bunnies. An empty plastic bag from a convenience store flutters lazily in the slightly too warm nighttime breeze- ‘THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU’ it says in bold red blocky letters, as it lifts past an island of garbage and up to the heavy green sky. Insect halo whirls around a dim yellow streetlight, dunes of dusty debris below. Sound of a smoke detector in one of the adjacent units intermittently pierces the sticky haze, begging its owner for a fresh battery. A cat yowls, an empty aluminum can rolls along the pavement.

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knife. knife knife.

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foam and wood and stuff..

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drawing on trash cardboard

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homunculus / acrylic on canvas / 2023

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i don't know what i'm looking for here. totally forgot how to think while i make. used to flow freely like urine from a relaxed bladder but now it just doesn't happen. fear of pen and ink and paint manifested as a total creative constipation

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Commission for sunterelle (twitter).

A drone who survived the fall of his hive and escaped with his pupating younger sister (future Queen) and a larva (future worker).

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