#working on other 2 boneheads comics

[jirlshi]

So what would happen if Brook met his alive self?

Most likely this

[coolfire333]

Now that tf2 comic 7 has been released I have three writing updates in terms of the fanfics I'm planning. So, update on that:

Bad news: my adminpauling fic is kinda out the window now that the Administrator's background/motivations have been confirmed. I was correct in predicting some aspects and very very wrong in predicting others so I'm basically tabling the fic unless I can figure out how to make the premise work.

Also, although I still like adminpauling, I really enjoy the idea that Miss Pauling has moved on from her attachment, romantic and/or otherwise, for her sake as well as for Helen's own good. It's bittersweet but also like Miss Pauling is finally free to do whatever she wants (and now Helen can rest comfortably knowing she got revenge so I guess it's a happy ending for her too)

Good news: on a similar note, I've been cooking up an Administrator/(female) reader fic because hey 'tis the season and I don't care if it's cringe anymore I'm doing it anyway. Also blame @diegutless (/lighthearted) for being an endless font of wisdom for ideas on the topic (silliness aside thanks for not only inspiring me to write this but also for being someone for me to bounce ideas off of)

I've never written (or been super interested in tbh) x reader fics but idk I've been in a very "I love the Administrator" mood and my sapphic powers are unleashing once again so it's only logical that I write something about it. Also I feel like it (oddly enough) just makes sense even if it's a bit ooc or au-adjacent. Wearing my "I heart evil old women" shirt loudly and proudly regardless <3

New news: ok last thing, I was almost out of flashfire fic ideas before comic 7 dropped but like now I'm thinking, what if Scout and Pyro in my fic universe broke up before the events of the comics (still figuring out why they would but I'm leaning towards the idea that Scout was immature and mistakenly thought that his mother wouldn't approve of him dating Pyro)

Scout goes through his own character development as in the comic re: having kids, getting divorced like three times, being on good terms with Spy, etc. and then realizes that he misses when he and Pyro used to date.

I'm thinking maybe Scout's mom is late for Smissmas (all the mercs have since left and Scout's kids have gone to bed) but she asks how it went and Scout is kinda like "yeah my former coworkers were there and it was really nice" at which the conversation becomes about Pyro. Scout says he regrets breaking up with Pyro because he realizes that his mom wouldn't care about them dating and even if she did, he is now old enough to realize it doesn't matter what other people think of you in that sense, and his mother is sympathetic (imo she'd consider forgiving Spy/maybe even taking him back if he ever came back and apologized because hey, they were both young and stupid back then and have since grown) and basically is like "why don't you apologize to him and see what happens next?" so Scout takes her advice.

I don't think Scout would regret the choices he's made in his life without having Pyro as a boyfriend (he loves his kids and loves being a dad most of all) but he definitely thinks he was a bonehead in how he treated Pyro when they broke up and wants to make amends so they can go back to being friends without any weirdness. Upon seeing Pyro again at the party he realizes he still has feelings for him but (incorrectly) thinks that there's no way that Pyro would reciprocate again after all that's happened so he thinks he's better off just apologizing and moving on. Flashfire slowburn part 2: recovery arc then ensues

That's all I've got for now. I dunno, been thinking a lot about forgiveness and growth and breaking of cycles since comic 7 and I want to write about that :)

[omnybus]

A Buncha Boneheads (Final)

Originally posted on My Patreon (Follow the link to see the full image)

Well, after drawing 88 different skeletal characters, here it is, the full series of "A Buncha Boneheads"! I was originally going to try and sell this as a poster but after looking into it, I don't think I can do that unless I want to deal with several dozen copyright laws.

This was quite the fun little exercise for me- the biggest challenge was trying to emulate the art styles of so many different series and properties. There are definitely more skull-headed characters out there that I could add, but frankly I think a nice even 88 is good enough, and there are other projects I want to work on for the future. Overall I'm pretty proud of this.

With that said, let me know if I've made a spelling mistake or something anywhere on here- I've tried my best but I just know I missed one or two somewhere.

The full list of characters is written below:

The Full list of characters are, in order:

Ainz Ool Gown (Overlord)

Astel, Naturalborn of the Void (Elden Ring)

Ben Bones (Freaktown)

Benny (Halloweentown)

Big, Little, and Dog (The Funnybones)

Big Steve (Doogal/The Magic Roundabout)

Bonejangles (Corpse Bride)

Boney (Weinerville)

Cadavre (Local 58)

Captain Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Captain Boney (Rattle Me Bones)

Captain Flameheart (Sea of Thieves)

Carmine/The Bowler (Mystery Men)

Count Moneybone (Skylanders: Swap Force)

Crypt Keeper (Tales From the Crypt)

Cubone (Pokemon)

Curly (Goosebumps)

Dead Tom (Muppet Treasure Island)

Death (Castlevania)

Death (Discworld)

Death (Gregory Horror Show)

Doot Skull (Microsoft 3D Movie Maker)

Dry Bowser (Super Mario)

Duskull (Pokemon)

General Hadias (Mazinger)

General Skelly (The Barbarian and the Troll)

Ghost Rider (Ghost Rider)

Giant Skeleton (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Gravelord Nito (Dark Souls)

Gregg the Grim Reaper (Conker’s Bad Fur Day)

Grim (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)

Grimskull (Skeleton Warriors)

Gruntilda Winkybunion (Banjo-Kazooie)

Hèctor Rivera (Coco)

The Horned King (The Black Cauldon)

Horrorman (Anpanman)

Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Jack the Reaper (Spirit Halloween)

Jacques LaLean (Beetlejuice Animated Series)

Jägermonster (GWAR)

Jawbone/The Skin Taker (Channel Zero/Candle Cove)

King (The Owl House)

King Igos Du Ikana (The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask)

LeChuck (The Secret of Monkey Island)

Lego Skeleton (Lego)

Lewis (Mystery Skulls)

The Lich (Adventure Time)

Long Horse (Trevor Henderson Mythos)

Lord English (Homestuck)

Lord Hater (Wander Over Yonder)

Lord Xykon (Order of the Stick)

Manny Calavera (Grim Fandango)

Manolo Sanchez (The Book of Life)

Martian (Mars Attacks!)

Mr. Crypt (Mr. Crypt Comics)

Mr. Skullhead (Animaniacs)

Mumbo Jumbo (Banjo-Kazooie)

The Nowhere King (Centaurworld)

Papyrus and Sans (Undertale)

Red Death (The Venture Bros)

Red Skull (Marvel Comics)

Rito Revolto (Power Rangers)

R.M.S./Real Magic Skeleton (O.K. K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes)

Santara of the Dead (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera)

SCP-1471-A/Mal0 ver1.0.0. (The SCP Foundation)

Sekhmet (Skullgirls)

Sir Daniel Fortesque (MediEvil)

Skeleton King (Clash Royale)

Skeleton King (Diablo)

Skeleton King (Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!)

Skeleton King (Team Fortress 2)

Skeleton Princess (Adventure Time)

Skeletor (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe)

Skelly (Hades)

Skull Boy (Ruby Gloom)

Skullface (Madballs)

Skull Knight (Berserk)

Skullmageddon (Double Dragon)

Skull Man (Mega Man)

Skully Pettibone (Scary Godmother)

Smitty Webenjägermanjensen (Spongebob Squarepants)

Soul King Brook (One Piece)

Spinel (Killer Instinct)

The T-800 (The Terminator)

T-Bone (Cuphead)

The Stalker (Jumunji Animated Series)

The Wither (Minecraft)

[whispedcream]

k so my intro to creative writing class’s prompt this week was fictional breakup so i decided for shits and giggles to write about the cut breakup scene from community college hero book 2 ft my self insert/male!mc x synergy 

mc is kept vague tho so like you could self insert if you want pronouns/hero name are mentioned like once

some things are kept vague for the sake of keeping it two pages long, mostly character names

only differences from canon are that tress doesn’t give the speech at the funeral and nobody shares their names at the end of book 1

tw: book 1 spoiler death mention

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Never have I thought that being a superhero, in training, would result in instant trauma. Real life isn’t a comic book after all. It’s just college, it shouldn’t have been that bad. Maybe if past me knew that he’d witness someone literally get blown up. Just maybe, he would have had second thoughts.

I’m still here now though, even after that whole fiasco. The memories are partly vivid. It still feels like a dream. My... friend? Can I even consider her a friend? I never even knew her real name. It feels like I lost someone so close to me regardless. Like a family member you hardly knew.

She ran to me about a threat the children’s hospital received. An anonymous villain somehow planted a bomb inside.

I was like, “We should get the others.”

Origami was like, “There’s no time!”

I listened to her and we drove off. At the very least I managed to send a mass text to our professors. I don’t know if I’d still be alive if it wasn’t for that. The bomb threat ended up being very real. Origami did her thing; turning paper thin, and tried flying the bomb out of the hospital. She didn’t get far. I screamed at her to drop it. Boom. Nothing but confetti.

My fight wasn’t great, but I did manage to hold my ground. Apparently the villain’s power ended up being teleportation of not only herself, but anything within her sight. She called herself the Manipulator. I still think of how she could have just teleported the bomb back into the building and left. She didn’t though.

Once backup arrived, she teleported me out the window. I remember free falling and how generally distraught I was. How boneheaded of me it was to run into something like this. How I should have stopped Origami from rushing off. Luckily, and obviously, I didn’t die. One of my professors has the power of flight. Lucky me.

The Manipulator escaped, but at least the children were safe. Everything after that was a blur until the funeral. Knowing that Origami’s parents couldn’t attend their own daughter's funeral hurt. There wasn’t even a body to bury, just paper. My ‘friends’ were there to support me as I spoke about Origami to the small crowd. Consisting of hospital staff, some families of patients, and the rest of the class. I remember looking at that coffin and feeling nothing but the warmth of my boyfriend’s hand on my own. It felt like I was coming up with a fever.

The semester was cut short a week early; and we were all sent home. I remember my mother running to hug me as soon as I got off the bus. I cried really hard as soon as she held me. Nobody cared enough to bother us, it’s New York City after all. I had a lot of time to think about school over break. Mostly about my relationships with my other classmates. Especially about my boyfriend, Mob. He’s a really great guy. I have zero complaints. We had so many fun study dates with color coded flashcards. Watched some movies in our dorms. I love how he wears glasses over his mask, how dumb it looks. Using his power, absorbing the strength of those around him, he would gently play with the kids at the hospital. Lifting them to the sky so they could pretend to have powers.

Christmas was lonely though. I had no way of contacting him. Imagine not being able to say, “Merry Christmas!” to your own boyfriend. He can’t even meet my mom or tell me happy birthday. I asked my mom for some motherly advice. She told me, “Do what you believe is right.” I don’t know what right is. We don’t even know each other's names. I feel like a fever is overcoming me again. Looking down I see that he’s holding my hand.

“Hey, are you okay?”

I watch the January wind whip around his wild hair without remorse as I bring myself back to the present. Trying to calm myself down I look at my surroundings. We’re at the park, we have class in seventeen minutes, and as of right now we’re safe. My head snaps in his direction too quickly and he flinches in surprise. The feeling of sickness spreads as he tightens his grip on my hand and looks at me with concern. Why does he care so much? Stop caring so much.

“I don’t think this is going to work out.”

Mob swallows hard, but his grip doesn’t slacken. He breathes in while closing his eyes before exhaling. He looks at me and smiles, but it’s so sad. “It’s okay. I get it.” Using his free hand he adjusts his glasses. “Maybe it’s best for the both of us. Considering everything that happened. I’m not mad. I don’t doubt your intentions are good. I never had.” He squeezes my hand one last time before letting go. “No hard feelings.” He moves to flip his parka hood with both hands. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to take a walk. See you in class Eclipse.”

I watch him go, focusing on the sound of crunching snow. I don’t know if I feel sick or not. My hand, however, feels sweaty.

[loopy777]

About the Kataang divorce theory, there is evidence to counter it.1) In the game Welcome to Republic City, the description for Katara is "She misses her husband Aang", if they had divorced it would've referred to him as ex-husband. Also the art book describes her as loving & missing him after he died, odd for a divorcee.2) Kya says "where were you after Dad died and Mom was all alone?" If they had divorced, Katara would've already been alone in the SWT, Aang's death should've made no difference.

Well, first of all, I feel like I have to clarify something. I don’t actually think that the LoK storytellers intended there to be a Kataang divorce in the backstory. My advancing the theory, and inviting challenges, is a form of criticism. THE most important member of the gAang only has an impact on the LoK era through the children she mothered, and spends the entire series quietly working in the healing huts while her home and world are under immediate threat, despite the similarly-aged Zuko and Toph getting in on the actual fighting. (Never mind that Iroh and Bumi in the previous series were among the best fighters in the whole world at their advanced ages.)So the theory is a way of highlighting how a bunch of boneheaded decisions, and maybe a little unconscious sexism, came together to make Old Katara’s treatment throughout LoK into a travesty.

Conveniently, that allows me to dismiss any counter-evidence not in the actual cartoon! :P

The website is supplementary material, not information from the story that was told, so it doesn’t count. And besides, this wouldn’t be the first time that an official website had outdated backstory or just plain got it wrong. Likewise, what’s in an art book is not part of the story, just summaries of what we’re supposed to think about the characters and/or ideas that were kept in mind while developing the visuals.

Kya’s words are a bit more relevant, but unfortunately they come from an episode that outright stated that the Kataang Spawn are all unreliable narrators of their own backstory. They alter their own memories to fit the narrative they want for their lives, like Tenzin somehow turning a bunch of Father&Son special trips into family vacations. The Kya outburst that you quote is in direct response to Tenzin’s assertion that he’s the responsible one of the three. And Tenzin dismisses her attempt to play the martyr by saying she was looking for someplace to settle down, anyway. If we go by what’s in the comics, Kya also admits to being gay, and reveals that the Southern Water Tribe is the most LGBT-tolerant of the remaining nations. So perhaps Kya had other reasons to want to settle in the South Pole, and in the scene you quote is misrepresenting her reasons.

I mean, I could believe that Kya saw Katara express a moment of sadness over her ex-husband’s passing -- someone Katara loved at one point and had three children with -- and later exaggerates that into the self-sacrificing reason she had to live at the South Pole while her brothers were out having adventures.

So, nice try, but sorry. Katara still left Aang to go live at the South Pole and gave up on everything she believed in, while he stayed in Republic City and turned it into a corrupt cesspool of mean people. ;)

[comicweek]

Humble Comics Bundle: The Darkness - Sci-Fi & Sex -  ends Wednesday, November 28th!

Top Cow Productions and Humble Bundle have reunited to offer a collection of new and classic Top Cow titles to help raise money for a charity of your choice! Your pay-what-you-want contribution can go to Direct Relief. The humanitarian aid organization is currently supplying respiratory masks, inhalers, nebulizers, eye-wash solution, and other vital medicines to California residents affected by the deadly wildfires. The two other featured charities are the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Musicians on Call.

As someone in Southern California (but still a good distant away from the fires) please donate to charity, there are people who could use the help. 

Ok so the real big ticket for me is the fact that they’re selling the Darkness Vol 2 Compendium, which isn’t avaliable digitally on Comixology or Amazon. It and the first Compendium are generally listed at $40-50, I bought the first one a while ago half off. At the $15 tier you basically get the entirety of The Darkness - the only thing missing is the first couple of trades of the Accursed era of Darkness.

They also bundle in the first trade of the new Witchblade series from writer Caitlin Kittredge and art by Roberta Ingranata and colorist Bryan Valenza. I’ve never much taken to the cheesecakey nature of the early Artifacts line, even though I find alot of the core conceits to be interesting. This latest addition of Witchblade takes all those cool core ideas and spins it into something of neo-noir tale (think Jessica Jones) as the latest bearer of the Witchblade is discovered.

You also get the entirety of Postal, written initially by Matt Hawkins and Bryan Hill, Hill eventually becomes sole writer after the second trade, art by Issac Goodhart. Excellent concept of a town of criminals trying to live off the grid in Mid West America, well paced and written. 

Sunstone by @nebezial-asheri is once again up on Humble Bundle. It’s a delightful queer romcom about two women who have a shared interest in BDSM, and their friends. It’s sex positive and nice, with beautiful art. Pretty sure this is like the third or fourth time of buying that series.If you like it go read it’s sequel-prequel Mercy.

It’s also in the same universe as his wife @sigeel comic Blood Stain! Which is a workplace comedy of sorts about a Mad Scientist who might be more angry than Scientist and his assistant Elli.

There is yet more Perv-verse Sejic-verse stories with Swing, written by Matt Hawkins and Jenni Cheung with art by Linda Sejic, which takes the same erotic slice of life romance of Sunstone and applies it to a married couple, Cathy and Dan, as they begin to explore swinging. 

Sugar is also part of the bundle, written by Hawkins and Cheung art by Yishan Li (who is doing art for Swing Vol 2). It’s not as good as the others, the writing lacks the commitment to investigate what a Sugar-Daddy/Baby relationship is like Sunstone and Swing, but Yishan Li’s art is excellent. 

There are also some solid sci-fi OGN like Golgotha and Stairway. Port of Earth is a recent sci-fi series that’s solid. 

Overall this is pretty much most of Top Cows work from the last 3-4 years and a lotta the classics in the form of the The Darkness. It’s a good deal even if you only want one series or thing.

$1

The Darkness: Shadows & Flame  #1 Trinity: Blood on the Sands Blood Stain Vol. 1 Aphrodite V #1 Bonehead Vol. 1 Cyber Force: Awakening Vol. 1 Dissonance Vol. 1 God Complex: Dogma Vol. 1 Golgotha Vol. 1 Port of Earth Vol. 1 Postal Vol. 1 – 2 Sunstone Vol. 1 The Freeze / Infinite Dark Preview 

$8

Witchblade #10 Witchblade #180 Witchblade #181 Aphrodite V #2 – 3 Art of Top Cow Art of Rahsan Ekedal Blood Stain Vol. 2 Eclipse Vol. 1 – 2 Port of Earth Vol. 2 Stairway Vol. 1 Sugar Vol. 1 Postal Vol. 3 – 4 Swing Vol. 1 Witchblade (2017) Sunstone Vol. 2 – 3

$15

The Darkness Compendium Vol. 1 The Darkness Compendium Vol. 2 The Darkness: Accursed Vol. 6 – 7 The Darkness: Rebirth Vol. 3 The Darkness: Close Your Eyes The Darkness: Vicious Traditions Broken Trinity Aphrodite: Ares Aphrodite V #4 Art of Marc Silvestri Art of Witchblade Art of Witchblade 20th Anniversary Blood Stain Vol. 3 Postal Vol. 5 – 7 Sunstone Vol. 4 – 5 The Darkness: Rebirth Vol. 1 – 2 The Darkness: Levels #0 – 5 The Darkness: Hope The Darkness / Pitt Vol. 1 Art of The Darkness

[roguecentaur]

My now twice-monthly visit to Tumblr~. Wheh it’s almost halloween already, and I sincrely can’t even recall the last time I drew a doodle in the corner of my notes let alone actually drew something on my tablet. (Sincerely though, I have no idea where my drawing stylus is right now.) 

Working as a para-educator the last 2 months has been extreme highs and extreme lows, but I guess that’s par for the course when working with children with special needs. But this is the first time I’ve tried to do classes while holding a job at the same time, and y’all it turns out it’s hard. Who knew!! Literally no one else in the world has ever had to perform such an unreasonable task.

It’d be really nice to have time to draw again, but I honestly don’t know when I’ll have time for that until at the very least I’m done with this degree. (Which I am making good headway on~). I miss thinking about Jane and the boneheaded book and whatnot. Last year I thought going through a depressive spell would get me flooded with artsy fartsy inspiration like all the other tumblr artists seem to, but it turns out all depression did was cause me to abandon art entirely and start showering regularly again. Which y’know isn’t as bad a trade-off as you’d think.

oh yeah and I guess I’m gettin’ married no big deal. A bad year for my comic productivity but it’s been a pretty good year all said and done.

[nahasnz]

Hbo now password everytime or every 30 minutes

#HBO NOW PASSWORD EVERYTIME OR EVERY 30 MINUTES MOVIE#

#HBO NOW PASSWORD EVERYTIME OR EVERY 30 MINUTES MOVIE#

However, the 2-hour mandate was a boneheaded move, too, especially when WB had already greenlit a script for a 3-hour plus movie and the bulk of it had already been shot when the mandate came down (from a studio president who was later fired for sexual misconduct, by the way).īest possible scenario for the theatrical release would have been WB backing off and letting Snyder and his editor trim his director's cut down to 3 hours and trim the violence to get the PG-13 rating. They have to make their money back somehow. No studio was going to release a $200 million 4-hour R-rated movie. Probably because this is a director's cut, not a theatrical release. It never would have worked as a theatrical release. I went in to hate watch it and ended up enjoying it. Phoenix352: pxlboy: The HBO streams in UHD if the hardware supports it. and I say this as someone who enjoyed Tenet, as mentioned earlier Subtitles should not be necessary for viewers watching in their native language. (It's also not remotely a giant twist because it doesn't significantly re-frame the action  at most it's only a minor extension of the explicit twist(s) in the third act.)Īlso, Nolan intentionally burying the dialogue in the sound mix is a total farking asshole move. Could it be "true," of course, but there's no good reason to think that it is, other than simple economy. The guy who made that video very tediously belabours every speculative stretch, but not a single item is actually persuasive no matter how many times it's repeated and restated, and as a whole the theory is at best very weakly supported. Here's a SPOILER filled YouTube video explaining the twist. Here's an interesting article on Sator Squares. There's a giant farking twist that most people don't even notice that's kind of similar to the spinning top at the end of Inception. Problem solved. It also gets better with multiple viewings so there's pretty much no way most haters fully understood it. It's a cinematic masterpiece. I have a feeling most haters didn't actually understand it or even follow what's going on. People like to blame the audio, but I used subtitles. They could lose a good 5 minutes just by cutting back on slow motion shots of Aquaman walking into the sea while someone sings a sad song (either Aquaman groupies or Nick Cave).įarkingismybusiness: Tenet is genius. /It's marginally amusing to see how it's reimagined I read all this crap in comic books when I was a kid I'm ashamed to admit that Iron Man 2 is part of my collection I'm old and too lazy to make that kind of analysis, but you summarize my thinking well And the epilogue is just wildly overindulgent. Dunno about 'unprofessional conduct on set' or whatever, but almost all of his character's story was left on the cutting room floor. I can see why Ray Fisher was angry, though. A lot of scenes needed more editing passes to tighten them up. And it'd probably be only three hours if they cut the slo-mo. It still suffers from cramming way too much setup into one movie it takes advantage of things like the Wonder Woman and Aquaman movies retroactively, but it's not enough. ZSJL was at least more coherent than the theatrical release, which suffered from tone whiplash because of rewrites and reshoots. I must have missed the sex scene though Sorceror: MaudlinMutantMollusk: I did watch the whole thing, but not in one sitting

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Bummer Anime 2018 Part 2: shoujo to the rescue

It got better, mostly because it could hardly get worse. That doesn’t mean it was a smooth ride, of course. I would like to state, for the record, that I’m not trying to be the funny guy who hates everything here; the season’s just that unusually bad. As before, the source for the ad copy at the end of each block is this.

Asobi Asobase

What: A bunch of assholes play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

✅ It’s another exuberant comedy, and unlike Chio-chan, I can’t catch this one on the execution: It has the technical chops and honestly good comedic timing.

❌❌ Initially wants to make you believe it’s a pleasant cute girls doing cute things show, but what it actually is is a brutally annoying and ugly explosion in the reactionface factory. Since the production values are there, it’s rather too good at that.

❌❌ I was trying to compare it to something, and the best I could come up with was rage comics. Yeah, it’s anime rage comics. It’s that bad.

❌❌ I would feel more benevolent towards it if it were shorter, but at full length its high energy screaming based assault is mostly just tiresome.

♎ This is one of those rare shows where even I will say your mileage may vary. It’s really good at what it does, but I hate everything it does. Hooray for the subversion, but at the end of the day you’re still annoying and ugly.

ANN sez: “It's this exact mix of stupid crassness and innocent naiveté that I think truly defines high-school life, and Asobi Asobase nails it perfectly. “

Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria

What: A smartphone with a light novel protagonist attached time travels to the bronze age, establishes a incest-fascist harem regime with the power of Wikipedia.

❌❌ read the synopsis again please

❌❌ there’s more idiocy than that, believe it or not (ex.: smartphone hotline to his actual imouto, for the feels), but I haven’t got all day.

❌❌ Basing your isekai shit on “history” (i.e., a LN author’s idiotic idea of history) instead of an MMO or whatever only serves to piss me off even more.

❌❌ Actually not better than Isekai Smartphone, which makes it one of the worst anime episodes I have ever seen. Congratulations. The only thing it has over Death March is that it doesn’t spend 80% of the time in menus, but it makes menus look pretty good so it’s a wash.

ANN brainfarts: “Yuuto also seems to be limiting his phone searches to historically accurate things as well, which shows that he's really thinking about the fact that he's in the past – no one's inventing the rocket here, they're just learning to grind grain and use the phalanx formation for battles.”

Phantom in the Twilight

What: Chinese girl travels to London, inadvertently inherits her great-grandma’s vampire harem. 

✅ Step 1 of every otome harem appraisal is determining how much of a wet blanket the protagonist is; Ton here is pretty spunky and even gets to kick some ass, so well done on that.

✅ Some of the right kind of nonsense for my taste, stuff like chav goblins and Jiangshi with miniguns is always appreciated.

✅ Random shows ending up with bizarre minimal techno soundtracks is still something that I approve of.

❌ Still not the glorious kind of nonsense that Dance With Devils had, nor the disregard of actual romance in favor of comedy that Dame x Prince exhibited. It’s an otome-ass otome harem and that’s not inspiring confidence for the long term.

❌ Looks cheap, and that won’t be getting any better.

ANN sez: “The fantasy worldbuilding here also felt far more sturdy than in many similar shows; this isn't a world where the Good Fantasy Guys fight the Bad Fantasy Guys, this is a world where creatures like goblins and spriggans and werewolves all exist, all possess their own cultures and priorities, and uneasily rub shoulders with each other.”

Jashin-chan Dropkick

What: Demon snake girl wants to murder the chuuni gothloli that summoned her, gets owned right back.

❌❌ It’s the second coming of Dokuro-chan, with every punchline being torture. Quite literally for the characters, and consequently for the audience as well.

❌❌ Needless to say, the entire cast (there’s some additional supernatural babes, none of which make much of an impression) are jerks and the show being wantonly mean-spirited towards them does not cancel that out. 

❌ Somehow the second anime about eating reptile ass in recent memory. But Maidragon, as lame as it was, wasn’t as terrible as this. Jashin-chan won’t get into insipid family feels any time soon, but the alternative is worse.

ANN sez: “If this is your taste in humor, it may be worth giving a second episode to see if it starts pulling that off.”

Kyoto Teramachi Sanjou no Holmes

What: Handsome genius antique dealer appraises old pottery and his assistant’s soul.

✅ I have to admit that if you somehow decided to make a otome version of Sherlock without anything so crass as murder, this is how you’d do it. It works.

✅ The leading pair has simple but effective chemistry.

✅ The studio behind it has mostly done porn OVAs before, which is the kind of meta-humor I can get behind.

❌ Based on a series of novels, so naturally the talkytalk gets out of hand.

❌ Doesn’t have the highest budget, tries to make up for it with rainbow-colored garishness. Not a dealbreaker but it could get tiresome.

ANN sez: “While Yagashira cuts a handsome figure as the bishonen, Aoi has more of an ordinary appearance – perhaps deliberately so, since I suspect that the source novels were originally aimed at female audiences.”

Shinya! Tensai Bakabon

What: Showa-era gag manga gets on air again after decades, repeatedly points out how hilarious that is.

❌ Beat-for-beat the same first episode concept as Osomatsu-san.

❌ The main difference is that Bakabon is more willing to look old as fuck, but when they arrive at the non-ruse look at the end of the episode, it’s the same as the non-ruse look that Osomatsu-san ended up at the end of its own first episode.

❌  So guess what, constantly takes potshots at Osomatsu-san, despite being a blatant ripoff of it.

❌❌ When it doesn’t reference Things You Know (if you’re a middle-aged Japanese salaryman), it references its own sorry showa-era gag manga self.

❌❌ I didn’t even like Osomatsu-san but this is an embarrassment.

♎ On the bright side, not as likely to provide fujos with incest shipping material. I fully expect to be proven painfully wrong on this.

ANN sez: Nothing. Way too Japanese for them, I suppose. 

Angolmois - Genkou Kassenki

What: Historical action show wherein a bunch of misfits in medieval Japan fight the Mongols.

✅ Fairly decent action and animation thereof.

✅ Characters seem alright for this sort of thing. Maybe a bit too tryhard violent for my tastes, but that’s still within acceptable parameters.

❌❌ The looks are ruined in postproduction. I could live with the heavyhanded color correction, but what really kills it is the same omnipresent static paper texture over every single shot. It’s bad when it doesn’t change between shots but it’s devastating when it doesn’t move along with zooms and pans, which this show has a lot of.

❌❌ Seriously, I haven’t seen anything as senselessly destroyed by a single AfterEffects layer since Garo: Vanishing Line’s Parkinsonscam, but at least that only affected impact frames. Here it’s literally every frame. Delete that PNG you damn fools.

❌ So yeah, it’s okay-ish but that’s not enough to survive one boneheaded executive decision that’s impossible to ignore. It just comes out as a net negative.

ANN sez: “From its beautifully animated, choreographed, and directed fight scenes to its generally dynamic compositions and keen understanding of visual economy, Angolmois is a visually stunning production.”

Lord of Vermilion - Guren no Ou

What: Tokyo gets enveloped in red mist which raptures most of the population and turns the rest into JRPG characters. They start fighting, we promise.

❌ Has the shape of an obvious Persona clone, but isn’t one; it’s actually based on an arcade CCG. So the source material isn’t very classy to begin with.

❌❌ Haphazardly thrown together so it’s hard to care about anything, especially not the characters.

❌❌ Opens with a flashforward to the climax, so we know this will just end up as overdesigned dudes and dudettes having allegedly epic battles that the show can’t afford to make look good, but can afford to make very red. Thanks for the heads up, I guess.

❌ So it’s quite bad, and not even funny-bad like Caligula was.

ANN sez: “There are always a few action shows like this every season, and they're always entirely overshadowed by that season's versions of shows like My Hero Academia and Banana Fish”

Grand Blue

What: City slicker moves to a beach town expecting to end up in Amanchu; ends up in Animal House instead.

❌❌ Say it with me: Every punchline is the protagonist making a shocked face at dumb meatheads doing something stupid.

♎ For something that I feel like I should hate every second of, I actually didn’t hate it all that much. I even thought it was mostly sort of enjoyable. I don’t really know what exactly does it but I can offer some ideas:

✅ While the punchlines (well, punchline) may be bad, the jokes themselves aren’t. This is a real sitcom with larger-scale comedic setups than you usually see in anime, jokes build upon each other and keep escalating.

✅ Sleazy fratboy humor about partying hard and drinking like an idiot isn’t very profound, but rare at least in anime. And it’s amusing that the overall conceit is that it’s preventing iyashikei from taking place. Novelty counts for something. 

✅ Manages to build awkward comedic situations about buff dudes with their dicks out without resorting to the same old gay panic jokes. Just regular panic, no homo.

✅ Makes a good Friday beach bum combo with Harukana Receive, which incidentally also got better by embracing its more prurient side.

ANN sez: “If Grand Blue Dreaming has a major Achilles heel, its that it isn't self-aware enough to recognize when a joke has run its course. ”

Happy Sugar Life

What: Yandere sociopath adopts a preteen girl (from a parking lot). It’s cute, only not.

✅ Is fully aware that everyone in this show is an asshole and is honestly trying for subversive. At least on the surface.

✅ Goes all on on the imagery, which works. At least on the surface.

❌❌ Simply exploiting the contrast between cuteness and insanity got old about a decade ago; this cranks up the presentation on both sides but doesn’t really add anything new.

❌❌ About as mean-spirited and unpleasant as Mahou Shoujo Site, while having even less to say. 

❌ Doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere; it’s just going to be the main character pwning other people that are just as flamboyantly fucked up as she is, but not as good at it. Starting with a flashforward to the (very edgy, of course) ending like Lord of Vermilion doesn’t help either. And even if they end up rusemanning what is implied there it won’t be much better.

ANN sez: “Happy Sugar Life was on my list of most-anticipated anime this season because its combination of disparate elements seemed so utterly perverse that I was curious to see how they could possibly fit together.“

Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight

What: Girls slowwalk in an academy for stage arts by day, get into metaphorical superbattles by night.

✅✅ What can I say, it’s Love Live x Marimite with a glossy coating of Ikuhara-style operatics. A total deltabait concept if I’ve ever seen one.

✅ Clones the storytelling approach of Ikuhara but not many of his specific directing mannerisms; Since I’m tired of the latter but a sucker for the former, this is a good thing.

✅ In a similar vein, this trades Ikuhara’s functional ciphers for actual characters and his enigmatic arthouse plots for something that obviously makes sense. 

✅ How gay? So gay.

❌ Has the opposite problem of Grand Blue: This is a show that should blow me away, but doesn’t. In fact, if it didn’t bring the big damn musical theater complete with one of the best and most appropriate henshins I’ve ever seen near the end, I’d say it was fairly lame.

❌ Probably has something to do with that in the course of casualizing Ikuhara, the “real” world ended up too bland and the characters too generic. I get that it’s for contrast, but it can be done far better (see Yorimoi for an example).

✅ In any case, it still seems easily worth watching even if it’s not as good as it could be. Maybe it’ll even get better.

ANN sez: “All I can say for certain is that it comes completely out of nowhere, and that it raises all kinds of questions about what kind of series this is going to be.“

Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san

What: Impoverished ghost hunter checks into a haunted hot spring and interacts with the harem that happens to live there.

❌ As generic a 90s ecchi harem comedy as they come; my correspondents tell me that this is extremely reminiscent of Love Hina. Shockingly it’s actually based on a 2016 manga, but you wouldn’t be able to tell.

❌ As such, an abundance of accidental boobplants and other saucy accidents makes up the bulk of what’s going on this show.

✅ The main ghost girl is fairly cute; The main dude is also relatively bearable and has at least one good joke in his backstory (which I won’t spoil), so the core dynamic is surprisingly fine. If the rest of the harem weren’t there, this wouldn’t be such a bad setup. 

❌ Features those dastardly breast-hiding light rays, reportedly even in the AT-X version. This doesn’t affect a large part of the show (the majority is more like the cap above), but boobies are probably still the only reason anyone cares about any of this.

♎ Certainly not good, but the lame shit of yore is not what I’m going to spend energy getting mad at in 2018. The 24 minutes I’m ever going to spend with it felt more nostalgic than anything.

ANN sez: “Ninja girl Sagiri comes off the worst from the situation, with nearly all of her dialogue spent promising to beat the crap out of anyone who doesn't measure up to her moral code. I imagine there must be more to her and the rest of the supporting cast than what we've seen so far, but at the moment they seem an awful lot like stock characters.”

Sirius the Jaeger

What: A broody werewolf and his team of assorted bad dudes hunt vampires in 30s Tokyo.

✅✅ Looks ace, this is an action show with deluxe everything. It better, because being directed by Masahiro Ando is pretty much the start and end of this show’s unique selling points.

✅ Interwar Tokyo with a bit of a gothick twist is a cool setting, and this show can afford to portray it properly.

❌ Seriously though... edgy vampires and edgier werewolves. Come on, son.

❌ Just like Banana Fish, this is a highly polished implementation of something that fundamentally isn’t very interesting to me.

✅ I’d still take it over Fanana Bish because this doesn’t seem to take itself so bloody seriously and is far more comfortable with just being moody action schlock. It’s also less showoffy, believe it or not. What else are you going to watch? Sirius the Jaeger is what you’re going to watch. Sorry.

ANN sez: They only have a preview from Anime Expo, and that boils down to “The second episode is where things start to get interesting.“ I sure hope so.

Well, we got a few acceptable shows in if nothing else, I’ll leave it up to you to figure out which ones those are. I’m cutting my losses here, see you in three months for a hopefully more bountiful season.

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Impersonation

Chapter 2- More alike Comic awoke by the sound of metal against metal in the kitchen. Head throbbing he wandered to his brother and let himself put his head on his brother's back. The said brother stayed silent. After a long time Comic took a glass and used the stink to fill it with water while his memories from the night before came back. « - Sorry bro, I didn't mean to get drunk. Red and I just didn't count the glasses... Sorry. I know your friday is important for you. » Papyrus didn't respond right after, doing his best not facing Comic and shifting his weigh from a leg to the other. He was clearly hiding someting. « - IT'S NOTHING, BROTHER. I, THE GREAT Papyrus, CAN DO ANYTHING FOR MY BROTHER. - I'm happy to hear I didn't get under your skin, hehe (I finaly found a pun ! Yeah !). Maybe I can help you doing the chores today as an apologize » Papyrus stoped what he was doing for a second before starting again. He wasn't groaning because of the pun nor joking along because of Comic usual laziness. « - hum... I AM TRULY SORRY BROTHER. I HAVE ... UNDYNE AND I HAVE A TRAINING SESION TODAY ! - It's okay Pap, you don't have to apologize. » Comic thought for a little longer. « Wait, we're saturday, you don't have a training session. » Papyrus turned around to look at him, uneasyness crept into his bones. « -IT'S... HUM... A SPECIAL TRAINING SESSION. CAPTAIN UNDYNE AND I PLANED IT LONG AGO. - Paps, you didn't plan anything... it isn't even on the calendar. - IT IS PLANED BROTHER ! STOP BOTHERING ME ! » The suddent yelling startled Comic who covered his head with his hands because of the loud sound of his brother's voice. Papyrus put his hands on his mouth and started showing worriedness on his feature. « -SORRY SANS, I DIDN'T MEAN TO TREAT YOU LIKE THAT. BUT I HAVE THIS TRAINING SESSION AND I WILL HAVE TO GO. - o-okay bro. I'm sorry too. Maybe when you finish with this training session I can go get you and we can go do some shopp- - N-NO NEEED BROTHER... I- YOU MUST BE TIRED, GO GET REST AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING ! » With that Papyrus put off his apron and took his boots saying he would be back by 7 pm. Comic stoped the stove then crashed face first on the couch. Rus never told him this clearly to be lazy at home. It was rare (as rare as humans) that Papyrus wasn't honest with him. Comic felt like trash. Even his own brother didn't want him. He was all alone and nobody would miss him if he disapeared. Comic was startled when his phone stared to buzz. He opened it with a regain energy, maybe his brother forgot somthing and needed him do come and give it to him and he would have an excuse to walk with him like old times. The exitaion died right away when he saw the picture of a hand going with the name: Red. He sighed then picked up the phone. « -Missed me already ? -don't you dare think I missed you, I was bored and my bro made it clear he would take off my arms if I bothered him. » Comic pretend to choke with indignation with his voice. « -How dare he ! A gentleman like you ? What kind of monster would do that ? -Shut up, bag of bone" They both laught before Comic asked what's up. « - Fell leaved to UnderSwap for a training session, he leaved me a note sayin'... wait i'll read it. » He cleared his throat then mimicked his brother's voice: « food on the fidge, don't call me if you want to keep your limbs. Back by 6 or 7 » Comic couldn't stop himself before adding how cold Fell was. Red continued with a long monologue full of (cold related) puns. After calming his nerves Comic was more at peace and could finaly talk about what worried him since morning. « - My bro lied to me. He said he would be with Undyne. -Mine doesn't like me being on his back. Maybe yours startin' bein' an adult and feel the same. -Paps never lied to me before. But that not what was buging me worst. -hum ? And what does you bonehead worry about ? -Last night he.... » he couldn't help but cry at the memorie « He told me he wanted me to be more like Blue. Red, I'm scared ! I don't want to loose him ! -you wont' loose him, you shitbag ! » The conversation then went dead silent and Comic wondered if they were shut off. « -Don't you dare ever say that. » his voice was shaky. « If YOU lost your brother, what does it mean for me ? Fell will throw me to the trash, because I'm garbage to him... » Comic bit his nonexistent lips. He didn't thought about that. « -what can we do to bring them back ? » The line was again silent and both could hear the fearful breath of the other. « -I wish I could spent time with my bro like old times » None of them knew who spoke. Both hoped that from all their heart (soul ?). « -Maybe... if we are less lazy it would be better...? - I can't believe YOU proposed that. » Comic smiled. This was unexpected but was a solution. « What do you think we could do ? » Red was silent. After a moment the smaller one heard movement on the other side of the phone. Paper, plastic, metal... Red prepared to take notes. « -First of all we need to sleep less at home and at work - easier said than done

-Second maybe we should... clean a little our live space ?

-yeah, and pick up the sock while you're at it ? - ... I leave the sock where it is. - ouf, you scared me ! I thought someone else took over you body and tried to make us do beyond repair things... - Shut up and help me instread of criticize me ! - Okay, sorry, sorry. Maybe... wash more our clothes ? - Yeah, good ! didnt think of this one... » They stayed on line for an hour trying to make a liste and debate about what they should do. After a moment Red read it out loud and Comic realize of someting being off then turned white. « -Comic, what's wrong, I can hear your breath quicken... is it a panick attack ?! Sans. Breath, ok ? In. And out. In. And out... » Comic took his breaths like said and felt better after a few minutes. « -You're my hero.

- stop your bullshit, what happened ? - don't you think... » Comic hesitated a few second before deciding he couldn't keep it to himself. «  Don't you think it will make us act like Blue ? Except few diferencies. » Red almost turned off his phone at that. He couldn't believe they did all this work to just agree with their brothers complains. He read again his rought handwriting and almost rip it up and throw it away seing it just confirm his fears. Sleep less during day, clean a little more, wash their clorhes more regulary, do less puns around their brothers, stay less at grillby, take less breaks, maybe train whith their brothers... « -fuck ! Fuckfuckfuck! I don't want this little brat to take away my brother like that! I don't want him to make me think that I am nothing in comparison ! - calm down. We don't need to act like him, just to make our brothers be more with us. Lets calls this operation... er... Cupcake ! » Comic knew Red loved thoses little secret action like names, it would alow him to calm down. And it worked. The one from angertale laught at the stupid operation name but accepted it. « - so, this is the begining of the operation Cupcake »

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In Case You Missed It: The Quest of Ewilan gets a gorgeous adaption! Image and Top Cow Present Aphrodite V! Shannon Wheeler reveals the MEMOIRS OF A VERY STABLE GENIUS! IDW’s Sonic the Hedgehog and Scout’s Stabbity Bunny Sell Out! WIN a Trip to San Diego Comic Con! and Lion Forge continues to make a difference! 

News from the World of Indie Comics you might have missed this week!

  IDW EuroComics Begins a new Quest

The Bestselling Pierre Bottero Novels THE QUEST OF EWILAN are being adapted to Gorgeous Graphic Novels, Providing First Visuals of the World of Gwendalavir Before Feature Film

IDW EuroComics proudly presents the English-language debut of The Quest of Ewilan, Vol. 1: From One World to Another, the first chapter in the sequential adaption of Pierre Bottero’s bestselling novel series and a whimsical adventure featuring strong female characters, in the tradition of Lewis’ Narnia and L’Engle’s Time Quartet. Scripted by Lylian and illustrated by Laurence Baldetti, The Quest of Ewilan, Vol. 1 will be available in stores in September.

  The Quest for Ewilan, Vol. 1: From One World to Another 8.5″ x 11″ | Hardcover | Full color | 64 pages | $14.99 | 978-1-68405-325-4

Image Comics and TopCow’s APHRODITE V—A NEW ENTRY IN THE APHRODITE MYTHOS—ARRIVES THIS JULY

Writer Bryan Hill (POSTAL, BONEHEAD) and artist Jeff Spokes will launch APHRODITE V this July from Image/Top Cow.

In the near future, Los Angeles is a city on the brink of evolution, struggling with a new wave of terror fueled by black-market technology. Enter Aphrodite V: a fugitive from her masters, seeking individuality and purpose. She is the bleeding edge of biomechanics and L.A.’s best hope against a new enemy—one that seeks to become a god among machines.

“This is a great way for people unfamiliar with this side of the Top Cow universe to jump into a story about the intersection of technology, humanity, and justice,” said Hill.

One machine wants to destroy the city. Another has come to save it. Only one will survive. APHRODITE V #1 hits comic book shops Wednesday, July 18th.

  Image Comics MEMOIRS OF A VERY STABLE GENIUS—an irreverent and entertaining new book from the creator of Sh*t My President Says

New Yorker cartoonist and multiple Eisner Award-winner Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man, Sh*t My President Says, God is Disappointed in You) debuts MEMOIRS OF A VERY STABLE GENIUS this July from Image/Shadowline Comics.

MEMOIRS OF A VERY STABLE GENIUS is an irreverent book of personal short stories and gags featuring Shannon Wheeler’s critically acclaimed humor, pathos, and honesty—including a 40-page full-color section!

“Books are like children. It’s with pride I send this one out into the world to fend for itself, have its heart broken, take a job that will slowly erode all self-respect,” said Wheeler. “That said, this is the best book I’ve ever done.”

MEMOIRS OF A VERY STABLE GENIUS TP hits comic book stores Wednesday, July 11th and bookstores Tuesday, July 17th. The final order cutoff deadline for comics retailers is Monday, June 4th and it can be pre-ordered via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, Indigo, and Books-A-Million.

  SONIC THE HEDGEHOG COMIC BOOKS CONTINUE TO SELL OUT

IDW Publishing is proud to announce that the first three issues of the new Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series has sold out at the Distributor level and will receive further printings. In addition to the complete sell-out of issue #2 and #3, each within a week of their release, issue #1’s second printing sold out only six days after its announcement. To satisfy fans and retailers, IDW will make Sonic the Hedgehog #1 Third Printing and Sonic the Hedgehog #2 Second Printing available in stores on Wednesday, May 16th, with Sonic the Hedgehog #3 Second Printing slated for release on May 23rd.

The heat on Sonic the Hedgehog marks a huge success for IDW Publishing, who is launching their first-ever Sonic series with weekly releases throughout the month of April. Each of the first four issues of Sonic the Hedgehog — written by longtime Sonic scribe Ian Flynn and illustrated by rotating artists Tracy Yardley, Adam Bryce Thomas, Jennifer Hernandez, and Evan Stanley — focuses on a different guest star (Tails in issue #1, Amy Rose in #2, and Knuckles in #3, leading into the debut of the hotly anticipated new character Tangle in issue #4).

 STABBITY BUNNY #3 FROM SCOUT COMICS GOES BACK FOR SECOND PRINTING!

SCOUT COMICS AND ENTERTAINMENT announces that Scout’s break-out hit for 2018, STABBIY BUNNY by Richard Rivera and Dwayne Biddix, has continued its trend of selling out and issue #3 has gone back to a second printing.

STABBITY BUNNY could take place at the intersection of Sesame Street and Nightmare on Elm Street, where a 100-year-old plush bunny and seven-year-old Grace must combat evil in all its forms. Horror and mystery combine in this captivating series. Stabbity Bunny is published monthly by Scout Comics. Please visit us at  www.ScoutComics.com! 

Traveling Stories & IDW Present the Ultimate San Diego Comic-Con® Sweepstakes

Traveling Stories and IDW are proud to launch the annual San Diego Comic-Con® sweepstakes, a contest which will last through June 13th at 3:00pm PT.

Those who enter have a chance of winning the following ultimate experience package: ● Two 4-day passes to sold-out Comic-Con® ● Airfare for 2 within the continental U.S. ● Four nights stay at the Wyndham Bayside in San Diego Gaslamp district ● An exclusive tour of the San Diego Comic Art Gallery with Ted Adams, CEO of IDW ● Airport pickup and shuttle to the gallery, and then to the hotel

Anyone in the world can enter! $10 gives you 10 chances to win. Each additional $1 is another chance – the math is simple. Every dollar is a donation to Traveling Stories, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that empowers kid to outsmart poverty by helping them fall in love with reading by the 4th grade.

“I’ve always been an avid reader, even when I was little. I’m excited that through this sweepstakes we’re able to raise the funds needed to give kids in underprivileged areas the same literary experience I was lucky enough to have,” said Ted Adams, Founder & CEO of IDW Publishing.

How to snag entries in the sweepstakes is easy, fast, and secure via: bit.ly/comic-con-sweeps. Just follow the steps from there!

“Anyone who does not have tickets to San Diego Comic-Con® would be crazy to not enter this sweepstakes! It’s a full and complete package including a cool tour of the Comic Art Gallery with me,” said Emily Moberly, Founder, and CEO of Traveling Stories.

To learn more about Traveling Stories and its programs, please visit travelingstories.org.

 LION FORGE JOINS THE CBLDF AS A CORPORATE MEMBER

Lion Forge is proud to join the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as the organization’s newest Corporate Member! Lion Forge is a trans-media studio with a focus on comics publishing across all age groups. A company committed to “Comics for Everyone,” Lion Forge strives to publish titles that reflect the diversity of our world in the characters, the creators, and the Lion Forge team, creating content that is just as original.

Lion Forge founder and CEO, David Steward II says, “We truly believe we are bringing the brightest and most diverse talent in the industry into the conversation, while creating the most awesome new comics and graphic novels that we — as fans — want to see in the world.”

CBLDF provides legal and educational resources to protect the freedom to read comics. The organization is a partner in Banned Books Week, the Kids’ Right to Read Project, Free Comic Book Day, and other national institutions that support intellectual freedom and literacy. CBLDF’s work extends from courtrooms to classrooms to conventions, where CBLDF defends the freedom to read by providing legal aid, letters of support in book challenges, challenges to unconstitutional legislation, and a robust schedule of programs about current and historical censorship to audiences all over the world.

Lion Forge stands beside Abrams, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, BOOM! Studios, comiXology, Dark Horse Comics, DC Entertainment, DCBS, Diamond Comic Distributors, Fakku!, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Lion Forge, Oni Press, Neverwear, Penguin Random House, Rebellion, ReedPOP, Scholastic, SPX, TFAW.com, Valiant, Viz Media, and the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation as a corporate member supporting CBLDF’s important work.

Until the next installment of ICYMI,  WE’LL BE WATCHING!

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Everything is Good

BBQKetchup (Slim/Sans) (With a spoonful of Tripleberryparfait)

AO3

Alright, people, you wanted it so you got it.  Prompt

Warnings: Violence, murder, hate crime, racism

Whistling loudly, Sans made his way down the street. The breeze was cold; the winter had come yesterday and a thin layer of snow rested on the ground. It was a Saturday, which meant the entire townsquare was full of people. People who were talking, laughing, yelling, arguing. A song of life. As the tune pressed through his teeth, Sans’ permasmile stretched into a sincere one. The past years everything had seemed brighter, somehow. When they left the Underground, the world had fought them. A lot of humans hadn’t wanted them back, had feared them. It had been rough. Yet they had persisted, and with the Frisk’s and Papyrus’ work as ambassadors, they had made a home for themselves.

Now, he thought cheerfully as he waved at the father of one of Frisk’s classmates, humanity had accepted them. Even liked them, if the rising popularity of monster culture was any indication. His steps were slow but had a spring in them he hadn’t had for many years. The hands in the pockets of his hoodie were relaxed. He even had a lovelife; he and Slim – the Papyrus of Swapfell – had been casually dating for two years now. And as the early winter sun shone on his face, Sans was happy. Truly happy.

The phone the backpocket of his jeans began to vibrate and the melody of Katy Perry’s Roar began to play. It was Red who had changed his ringtone, which earlier was simple beeping, to the old song as a prank. Sans supposed he could change it back, but it was a good song, so why bother? Still smiling, he slid it into his hand and pressed Accept Call.

“hello?”

A shrill, trembling, fearful voice replied to him. A voice he’d recognize anywhere. Just like his brother’s, only lower and raspier. The voice gasped into the phone, like they were having trouble breathing.

“comic,” Slim whimpered. A loud sob came from him, and Sans’ sockets widened. He clutched the phone tighter, pressing it toward his skull. “m’lord, he’s… he’s dead and they’re coming and they’re too strong and they killed sans.”

The sound of running footsteps against pavement was loud enough for Sans to hear through the phone, and the Papyrus let out a jarring shriek. Sans’ soul was pounding in his chest and he felt his entire body grow stiff. Cold sweat dripped down his forehead.

“slim? slim, where are you?” he almost shouted into the phone, causing people to turn and stare. He didn’t care. His hand was hurting from the tight grip he had on the phone. “where are you?”

“the alley behind auburn avenue, they’re-” the other whispered into the phone. Another violent sob stopped him from continuing. Sans instinctually tiptoed, straining himself to hear what the other said. Then there was a gasp of pain, and a thump, and the line went dead.

He teleported immediately. The action was so instinctual he didn’t even have time to think before he was ripping the Void apart in his hurry.

Good gods. Razz was dead. What was Blue and Red going to do? Slim was hurt, Slim might be dead now. What if he was too late?

Appearing in the alley, the sight that met him made him go stiff with fear. Sans felt his face pale, even though he was a skeleton, and he gasped in pure terror. Slim was lying hunched on the ground, pressed against the wall. His eyes were glowing brightly orange, but he didn’t seem to be able to summoning his magic. A huge crack ran down his skull. Marrow flooded from it. That’d explain the magiclessness. Slim’s gaze was onfocused and he screamed as one of the two humans standing over him swung a metal bar against his ribs. The noise felt like ice in Sans’ soul, drenching him and making him feel like he couldn’t breathe as he stared. The accompanying crunch as ribs broke made his head spin and he felt his throat close up.

Then, one of the humans moved his leg back, preparing to kick. Sans’ eyes guttered out completely before his right one turned back on, flashing blue and yellow. With a snap of his fingers, he turned their souls Blue. He swung out his arms, throwing them as hard as he could into the other wall. They yelled loudly as they flew, and as they hit the wall. As soon as they were gone, Sans was running.

Sinking to his knees in front of Slim, he felt tears gather in his sockets. His permasmile stretched into a painful grimace as he took the other’s head in his arms. How did this happen? Razz and Slim were some of the strongest versions of them out there, along with the Fellbrothers. The fastest, the most willing to kill, the least probable to hold back.

Slim moaned loudly in pain as he was moved, but smiled weakly as he saw Sans. A smile full of relief. Looking him over, Sans realized just how bad the other’s condition was. Half his ribs were broken, his skull was cracked, so were one of his legs and an arm. He was covered in marrow.

“no,” he whimpered as he checked the other. HP 2/1020. Beginning to pour whatever healing magic he had into the other, Slim shook his head lightly, groaning from the miniscule motion. Sans ignored it, Green magic leaking from his hands. The glow was dull. With his 3 HP, he was not a good healer. If Papyrus and Toriel had been here… He sobbed again, body shaking with the force of it.

Suddenly, the other’s sockets widened, and he let out another shriek. The glow of his eyes grew brighter, and he threw out an arm, all while moaning in pain. There was a loud harang of swears and a clattering of metal against stone behind Sans, who twisted his head to see what had happened.

Small, sharp bones pierced the ground, going through one of the human’s feet. Next to them the metal bar was lying. They’d been… Sans felt his trembling grow stronger, and his soul pounded even harder. They would have hit him, and with their ill intent and his low stats he’d have died at once.

Then the sound of running fotsteps came, and someone shouted, “Freeze! It’s the Police!”

The two humans shared a look.

“Oh fuck!” they said in unison, and ran. The one with hurt foot limped, but was still fast. Sans stared after them, wide eyed and numb. He realized he should do something, but he couldn’t think.

A groan woke him up from his stupor, and he turned back to his boyfriend. The orange flickering had completely disappeared now, and Sans checked him again. HP 0.05/1020. It was quickly reclining.

“you bonehead,” he sobbed, grabbing Slim has hard as he dared and hauling him next to his body. The other smiled sadly, not complaining even though it must hurt. Slim had used his last magic to save Sans. He might’ve lived if he hadn’t used magic. Sans swallowed, trying to speak. He opened his mouth, but only a wheezing came out. Shaking his head frantically, he watched through the tears as Slim’s legs dusted. Slowly the entire body began to scatter.

“i love you,” Slim whispered, grinning. Sans only shook his head as the entire body disappeared, unable to speak. For a short second, a white soul floated where the other’s ribcage had been. Then, it shattered. White dust slowly rode the breeze down to the ground.

The only thing remaining was the clothes on the ground. Cargopants, sweater, and the furcoat Slim always wore. He’d said it was a gift from Razz. Tears ran down his cheeks as Sans held out a shaking hand, grabbing the coat and tugging it up to his skull. Burying his face in the soft fur, Sans cried. His body shook as he breathed in Slim’s scent.

“i love you too,” he gasped, as the police officers slowly began to move around. Someone put a hand on his shoulder. It was quickly removed as he jerked violently.

No. No, this was supposed to be good. Life was supposed to be good now. Sans kept shaking his head into the coat, whispering to himself that it wasn’t happening. Life was good now. They were free and they were happy and they wouldn’t have to hurt anymore.

“A hate crime,” one officer whispered.

Sans glanced up from the coat, to see a woman gather the clothing. They moved to lirk the coat from his hands, and he clutched it tighter. No. Nonono. A man put his hand on her shoulder, shaking his head.

“Let him have the jacket.”

“But officer, it’s evidence,” she objected. There were tears in her eyes, but she looked determined to do her job. The man shook his head again.

“He’s been through too much already,” he said, ending the conversation.

Sans got to keep the coat.

Someone took his phone from his pocket, but he didn’t bother to react as he stared emptily at the pile of dust in front of him. Yellow police tape had been put up around. His chest felt empty, his soul hardly beating. Eventually, the tears had stopped dripping.

After he didn’t know how long, more people appeared in the alley. Screaming began. The voices were easily recognizable, since they were his own. Throwing a disinterested gaze over his shoulder, he saw Stretch and Fell almost hanging onto their brothers, holding them back.

Tears were running down Blue’s and Red’s cheeks as they yelled and cried, trying to tear away from their little siblings, “Razz isn’t dead!”

Warm arms embraced him and the coat. As he twisted around, Sans made sure the coat wasn’t moved from his chest as he buried his face in his brother’s collar. Papyrus murmured soothingly, sadly, as he cradled Sans in his arms.

“Shhhh, brother,” he said, voice quiet and trembling, as he lifted Sans up and held him. Sans didn’t protest or move as he was carried away from the dust of his boyfriend. “I’m so sorry.”

At those words, coming from Papyrus, it was like a dam broke. The numbness he had been feeling the past… time disappeared as in the switch of a lever. The trembling came back in full force, and he shook violently as he pressed his face into his brother’s shirt with tears falling from his sockets, and  he screamed as loud as he could.

This wasn’t fair. Their suffering was supposed to be over. The humans had accepted them. Papyrus only held him tighter, so tight he almost couldn’t breathe, as they left the alley and his counterpart’s screaming behind. Sans heard him give their numbers to an officer, but otherwise they didn’t stop until they were home.

Sans didn’t stop screaming until he fell into a restless sleep in his brother’s now tear-stained arms.

[jerrydog]

Disclaimer: I was a huge fan of the Justice League Unlimited animated series while growing up. You can say that I’ve been waiting for this movie my entire life.

I’ve read a lot of the initial reviews before watching this movie, and to say that I was disheartened with what the critics were saying is an understatement. After watching it though, I have to agree with most of them. I am talking about the critics with mixed reactions. Those who gave overly negative reviews obviously already hated this movie before even seeing it. It’s so apparent in the way they wrote their reviews. And that dude who said the way they digitally removed Henry Cavill’s mustache was distracting? I don’t know what the hell he was talking about. These folks are the equivalent of online trolls and are best ignored.

This movie could have been better. In fact it should have been better. But with the way the studio decided to rush things, and with certain creative decisions Zack Snyder and Co. made in the previous DCEU movies (like prematurely killing off Superman), the people behind this movie were basically making a movie with one had tied behind their backs. The fact that they managed to create a movie that is both watchable and fun is nothing short of a miracle. I do think that Batman vs Superman was not really a bad movie. Even if they tried to cram so many things in it, even if it was overly long, even if the way they introduced the future Justice League members was so contrived— it was quite fun to watch especially for fans of DC comics, despite its numerous loopholes and ridiculous plot points (hello, Marthagate). A lot of people didn’t like it though, to them the good points weren’t enough to offset the bad. Many complained about the convoluted plot. Justice League is not guilty of that. In fact, the plot may be too simple. A lot of people didn’t appreciate the dark tone, especially the brutal portrayal of Batman (which I loved). They would like Justice League. it’s lighthearted and funny. A lot of people thought Batman vs Superman was too long and there are so many unnecessary scenes. Justice League is a taut 2 hours and almost every scene is essential. So evidently the producers are pandering to those people who hated the previous movie. However, there are still a lot of glaring faults that are difficult to ignore. 

First, more of the good stuff. As with the rest of Zack Snyder’s movies, the cinematography is astounding. Hate his movies all you want, but even the worst one looks gorgeous on the big screen. Yeah the CGI looks unrealistic at times, but never to the point that it gets distracting. Also typical of Zack Snyder’s movies are awesome action scenes. Almost all of the action sequences here were awesome. And again, that one involving the Amazons was spectacular, arguably the best one in the movie. Another good point? This movie had a lot of funny jokes, and none of them fell flat. Many times the movie theater was bursting with laughter. The acting was also good. Each actor was cast perfectly in their roles. And kudos to the people behind Jason Momoa’s casting. He did the unthinkable. he transformed a comic book character that is often the butt of jokes into someone awesome. Perhaps the best part is the interaction of our heroes with each other. This is probably Joss Whedon’s doing, and it’s better than his work on the Avengers movies.

These characters are really fun to watch, and that makes Warner Brother’s decision to create a Justice League movie before introducing these heroes in their own solo movies look even more boneheaded. Granted, Cyborg probably cannot launch his own movie. Except for kids familiar with him based on the cartoons, most people don’t know the character. The little backstory they had on him in Justice League was enough, similar to the way Black Panther’s short back story in Captain America: Civil War was enough. But the Flash can launch his own movie. The back story given to him in Justice League was severely lacking. He was hit by lightning. That’s it. This problem would have been avoided if he was introduced in his own movie. The same can be said with Aquaman. Granted, when they were planning all this nobody would probably watch a solo Aquaman movie, but if the character had an extended cameo elsewhere people would have seen how awesome he is and they would watch a solo Aquaman movie where they could further flesh out the character. And that movie should have been released before Justice League! Suicide Squad got away with this because most of those villains were unknowns to many people. But these are very popular superheroes, even more popular than most of those included in the Avengers. They need back stories to flesh them out.

I am also not a fan of the musical score. It sounded like music you hear from movies released in the 80′s or 90′s. This is most apparent on this movie’s version of Wonder Woman’s theme. Gone are the riffs that made it so awesome. What I heard was a version that is more apt in an Opera.That definitely made me cringe. 

Perhaps the worst part of this movie is the main villain. I am not gonna complain about his appearance or the fact that he is purely CGI. That would be nitpicking. This villain has no backstory at all. He invaded the Earth many centuries ago. That’s it. Where did he come from? How does he travel from one place to another through those portals? Where do those portals lead? The movie does not give any answers. In fact Steppenwolf’s appearances are so arbitrary, he’s only there so our heroes would have someone to fight. What makes it worse is that he’s a pansy. He is way weaker than all the previous villains in the DCEU. You’d think they would have created a more formidable opponent to justify the need for our heroes banding together. If there’s one good thing about our villain, it’s that his minions have at least some sort of character compared to the totally nondescript ones we’ve all seen in movies such as Suicide Squad and The Avengers (gasp! blasphemy!). Otherwise, he’s arguably the most useless villain we’ve ever seen in a Superhero movie. Such a pity because this character is pretty bad ass in the comics!

But as I’ve said, the awesome characterization and the interactions between these heroes are enough to save this movie. And perhaps general audiences would like it more— thanks to the funny jokes, the tighter pacing, the reduced screen time, and the lighter tone. By the time the end credits rolled a lot of people were clapping their hands. I did not witness such a reaction when I saw Batman vs Superman. Justice League may be flawed, but based on that reaction i guess Warner Brothers is headed in the right direction. I just hope that by the time the sequel comes out, we will finally get the Justice League movie that we all deserve.

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my rating: 3.5/5

[dynoguard]

NaNoWriMo: Return of the DinoKnights (Day 6)

Day 1 & 2 text is here. 

Day 3 is here. 

Day 4 is here. 

Day 5 is here.

It had limbs once.

It remembered that, as much as it remembered anything. It knew it had a history, it could feel it, the way an amputee might feel a missing limb. It was a moving thing in those times. Its limbs were made to move and grasp and hold. It couldn’t remember its name. or what color its sky was, or what kind of limbs they had been. 

Yet it remembered what it had used those limbs for. How the hot and wet splashed over them in that use. How it tore those things apart. 

As it had been torn apart. 

It was tumbling, falling amid fire and darkness. It had no context. No anchor point. Nothing to give it reason or purpose.

Until it struck stone. 

The building caved in when it struck, a shooting star whose companion plowed into the ground nearby. Destruction was familiar. It was context... and it understood its prison.

It was a lump of amber the size and shape of an animal’s heart. The color was on the uncomfortable side of orange and inside it was an unwholesome shape. A quick glance might mistake it for an insect, but the form was wrong, the legs and eyes too many or two few. 

A table, already half-smashed by the impact, slid haltingly into the crater, sending a cascade of debris down on the amber lump.

Pens and papers and metal instruments and other garbage fell among plaster and wood splinters. The shadow flit to each edge, each point of contract, but the objects were bland and sterile.

Then there was a rock.

The rock had not always been a rock. Once it had been a living thing. A claw, part of a limb for killing. It dug through scales and flesh but the prey fought back, they fell, tangled beaks and claws and teeth and horns alike, into the flood waters. To be buried, the savagery preserved in stone. The claw becomes a rock.

A rock becomes a claw.

It felt context return, as the amber heart pumped, the liquid crystal flowing in amber chunks. Each tiny stream crawling up the crater’s sides, flowing towards the fossilized bone that was now scattered across the museum laboratory’s floor. 

Piece by piece, bit by bit, it took shape, a miss-matched puzzle of fossilized remains assembled into a gruesome humanoid form around a core of crystaline amber. By the time the arms were forming it had remembered that it was a he. By the time a pair of burning green-yellow lights flickered to life in the beaked, horned skull of an unidentified sub-species of Styracosaurus it remembered it had a master.

A heavy claw grasped a work tarp and the creature secured it like a cloak.

“He-hello?” A voice shouted from above. 

A fleshless nightmare wrapped in a ragged, blue-gray cloak  rose to his ten foot height. He now saw over the crater’s lip, his face ringed with a natural crown of spikes. Extinxion, named that which he is, turned to face the witness of his rebirth.

“Boss! It’s you!”

The creature before Extinxion was the desiccated, bandaged-wrapped remains of one of the beasts from when all this began. It resembled a long-tailed ostrich, with arms with long-spindly claws in place of wings and a beaked head with a high, bony crest. The exposed flesh was dry, gray, and seemed as much shale as skin. The rest of the body was covered in loose loops of yellowed, rough cloth that bunched and looped in imitation of the feathers it had in life. Those that remained were moldy tufts.  

For all these features, however, most striking were the creature’s eyes. It’s right eye was the color of yellowed teeth, with a black pupil under a slight milky haze. The right was black void, inside a light, like a firefly’s tail, served as a pupil,. 

“You.” He tilted his skull and examined the creature. Each moment it grew more familiar. Context returned with his limbs. “I remember you.”

“Me too, boss!” It wheezed. “I think we’re alive again!”

The mummy took one hand and slipped it through a a gap in its wrappings. The hand slid into the shadows under its rib cage and began rifling through its contents as though it were an old backpack. Whatever it found pleased it. “Yes, definitely more or less alive.”  

“Must you label everything? We exist. Everything else is details.” The skeletal creature said as it walked out of the crater on talon-clad feet. 

“Pardon my crude language, great Exintixion.” He had a name and identity now, or possibly again. “New bodies, new minds, old souls. Our master has given us mobility! Form! Purpose! Hands!”

The mummy twiddled its long bone-fingers excitedly as it walked backwards in front of Extinxion, its head darting around in a twitching, unnatural way. 

Extinxion knocked the mummy out of the way with the swipe of a stony claw. The creature’s head snapped free of its neck and went clattering across the ground. 

“Durability!” The mummy’s voice called out. “After a fashion.”

“Fool.” Extinxion spat. “What name have you taken?”

The creature’s body did not fall. Instead, it lurched and stumbled comically, feeling its way blindly. The head, now resting in a pile of upturned specimen boxes, bounced as it spoke. The motions of its jaw making a hop with each syllable. “Yorik, great Extinxion.”

Extinxion clicked his new teeth. He considered asking Yorik if his name meant something, but his returning memories, vague as they were, told him Yorik did things for his own reasons. It also told him that he did not care what those reasons were. 

Yorik’s body stumbled into reach. Extinxion snapped an arm free of his makeshift cloak. His bony hand grabbed the stumbling corpse around the neck, as his other claw lifted Yorik’s head from the ground. He gracelessly slammed the skull back onto its body.

“Thanks boss!” Yorik said, twisting his head around to face forward. 

“The species makes temples to death.” Extinxion stooped to pick up half of a fossilized femur from some long-dead animal. “There’s something unsporting about being welcomed freely.” 

“Not a temple, boss.” Yorik hopped back and cringed instinctively after speaking. When no blow came, he straightened up. “This is a museum, I’m sure of it.”

“A Museum? That’s better, then. Learners tend to know enough to despair.” Extinxion looked up into the sky through the hole in the building’s roof. It was clear, filled with stars. “This is wrong. There are no fires. No smoke in the sky. Where are the screams, Yorik? Where is the legion? Where is the sound of the master feeding? This has something to do with you, I wager.” 

“Apothis cannot descend.” Yorik said. Though he’d never heard that word before, Extinxion knew his master’s name when he heard it. “That’s why he sent us, I can feel his need, he was wounded, lost in time.”

“Wounded?” Extinxion bellowed. “With this world so untouched? If one of the Great Shapes were here, I would know it. Even you would know it.”

“Not a Great Shape, Boss, or even one of Apothis’s brethren.” Yorik’s voice took on a worried tone.

“Mortals.” Extinxion dragged a stony claw along his new beak in thought. “Do you know what this means, Yorik?”

“We must fulfill our mission in the service of our master?”

“Try and muster a sliver of vision, you boneheaded waste of profanity.” Extinxion walked from the crushed lab, Yorik padding behind him. “You even said it yourself. Apothis has need of our services.”

“Y-yes boss? And?”

“Anything that has needs can negotiate.” 

Finding a pair of heavy wooden doors in his path, Extinxion reached out, his claws digging into the wood before tearing the barrier free. Yorik and Extinxion strode out of the Granite Mountain Museum of Natural History into a swarm of strobing red, blue and orange lights. 

“Mortals.” 

Extinxion would have smiled if he had lips.

[roguecentaur]

Hey, Scott! I just wanted to check in and see how you're doing, since "Jane" hadn't updated in a while. Not to pressure you, or anything anxiety-inducing, like that--I get that life gets tough, sometimes, and can temporarily forestall artistic creation (believe me, I do get that better than I wish I did) ... Just wanted to make sure you weren't ... y'know, like, dead. Love your comics, and looking forward to seeing more of your amazing art when you're up to posting it again!

Hey, thanks for popping in! I’m still alive and well, trying to refocus my priorities in life a bit. I’ve been going outside, exercising, eating healthy, having an active dating life, and generally trying to put effort into putting in better maintenance for myself.

It feels like the one thing I haven’t had the time or energy for these days, or even the inclination to, is drawing. Which kinda stinks!! But I guess I can’t really complain too much when pretty much every other aspect of my life right now’s been slowly improving now that I’m not dedicating literally every waking moment of my days and nights drawing on the computer when not at work on my day job.

Like I said in a previous post a month or two back, I’ve been pushing myself to always have SOME kind of webcomic, if not 2 or 3 to regularly update like a well oiled machine pretty consistently for the last 9 or 10 years. I love story telling but this year I just finally got BURNT OUT!! Which kinda stinks timing wise cause it was right at the same time my chum Corny shared a guest page which got a lot of new readers checking me out, I feel pretty guilty dropping off right when they hopped on!

But make no mistake, I still have every intention of continuing Jane. I wrote out this story beginning to end when I was 10 years old, and by god I’m seeing it to the end!

Truth be told I finally (Finally!!) finished the next page of the comic, but I’ve decided to wait until I have some kind of buffer built up, maybe at the very least enough to finish this remaining chapter. I absolutely will not be That Comic that intermittently posts 1 page every 7 months announcing “Im back forever everythings cool” before disappearing again for months on end. I don’t want readers to wait 5 years for a single conversation in a scene to conclude.

So yeah, I really truly appreciate everyone’s patience on this. You guys are sweeties. I want nothing more than to have Jane update 3 times a week and still have time to publish a Boneheaded book and work on fun merchandise while also having a decent office job, regular dates, and somehow also finding a few hours in the day to get laundry done and an actual meal for myself cooked, buuuut that’s probably unrealistic right now. But I’m working on finding a way to fit it into my life somehow regardless. Growing older’s complicated kids!