Firstly, if you don’t follow any of the update links, RSS, or whatever, go back one page for the B-B-B-BONUS PAGE!!!

Secondly, if you already took part in my crowdsourcing adventure, thank you for you input. I’m not 100% sure how I’m going to use it, but I’ll figure it out. If you want to leave your input and have only just found out you can do so under this blog, or any other page really. I’ll find it… It is very difficult for most creative people to sell their own work because our culture, in the US anyway, teaches us that it’s not right to take pride in what we do and we should always downplay our work as not real work, and so on. Over the years I have realized that this is most likely because keeping creative people overly humble allows them to be taken advantage of. Even so, it is very difficult to break free of that kind of thinking when it comes at you from the majority of your society. Now we have AI to contend with, which is basically the ultimate insult to artists in that it allows anyone to experience a facsimile of creativity minus the decades of work it takes to git gud. Of course a basic understanding of fundamental art concepts is going to give you an advantage in the future but all that is still on the near horizon. In any case I intend to go down swinging. We’ll see how that plays out in the future. Won’t that be fun?

Thirdly, I have the great pleasure of revealing a new character. I know my cast is already pretty large and it annoys people that their favorites have to sit on the sidelines while I noodle about with whoever has the spotlight. Unfortunately I have a mighty need to keep introducing cute girls forever. I actually had the idea for Marcy many, many, years ago, but didn’t want to slow down the introduction of Rulette with a character I hadn’t fully thought out. She’s not really meant to do anything than serve as an employee for Rulette, but I’m sure she’ll get a little screen time eventually. Mostly I just wanted to establish her existence on this page since it’s connective for where this whole bit is going and it serves that purpose well. Evrina can’t always be the one to mind the store when Rulette needs to step away. Especially since she has her own store to deal with. All of this stuff just establishes connections in the world that make it feel more lived in and real. Since I’ve already established that Rulette and Edward are approximately the same height this means that Edward is no longer the shortest character. Marcy is smaller than Brooksie too. At least height wise.

In any event I see that it is time to post so I will wish you a pleasant weekend. Stay safe out on those mean streets. I’ll be back on Monday with more comic. Until then, engage in some yestalgia instead of nostalgia.

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Always nice to see a new character, and hopefully the feedback is helpful in some measure for you.

(As for my luck even though they are heading to the store they aren’t there, so my joking streak of comic character guesses from Monday comes to an end haha; still thanks for the laughs provided even though it wasn’t intentional.)