Platypus of Truth

  There were too many games. I didn't have time for a 40k knock off. Blood Bowl, Man of War, Necromunda, 40k, and Fantasy Battles all needed time and funding. Seige of the Citadel was frightening and fascinating (there's a special place in my psyche for the Ezoghoul), but getting into the whole Mutant Chronicles was a bridge too far. Imagine my nostalgic delight, then, when I discovered the 2008 movie Mutant Chronicles staring Ron Pearlman! It has all the best parts of Seige of the Citadel and no 40k shoulder pads. It's like a Steam Punk "Doom". It's light watching, but I did enjoy the movie's theme: "The Darkest Age is Yet to Come: Have Faith!". It's not just the theme of the movie, it's also the mechanical principle upon which it runs. I would love to have a sequel that focuses on "Where will you put your faith?" It's a critical discussion for our present moment. Anyhow, above is my personal version of The Mutant Chronicle...

  Lorna from Over the Garden Wall. Great character from a great short that plays its twist well. Poor Wirt. What a dupe! 

 Some more examples of the new style I'm playing with: The stylized manner allows for larger vistas and ease of execution at the expense of realism.

  Trying out a new style starting from references. Fewer details allow for wider imaginative vistas. Works well for old video games.

  Zelda doodle drawn from reference and changed to match Link. I added color. Fall is definitely Legend of Zelda season. May is good too. Do you have a favorite season for a particular game, video game or book?

  All drawn from references with tweeks and combinations. Linni likes the old Link to the Past comic. She's only heard the first paragraph of The Hobbit.

  All copies of references with tweets here and there and some combinations. I've been going at this hammer and tongs for a few years now. Progress is 🐌. 

 

  Using AI to flesh out the characters of the Ronald Fairfax novels (The Corpse House and The Place of the Skull).

 

 

 

 Ghost goes as ghost for Halloween is a favorite. She gets scary by the end. Claudia and Myshka/Olenya are each scary in their own ways.

 Inciting incident: client dies on the pot. Also: shots of the roomies.

 Getting ready for Myshka's Date. Or the virtues of having an 18th century friend. 

  Work and study are separate lives. Mishka has her plan to get out. Glory-Hannah doesn't realize she's in. Davit doesn't know what game he's playing...

  Finale. Knock down, drag out with an FSB hit squad. 

 

  Murder. Shut out forever from the music of Angels and Archangels. 

 The unwritten episodes.  Work stops for all kinds of reasons. Time can be a factor. Sometimes, you fish a wip out and it doesn't fly with your readers. This one was too gritty and too unshoppable to fly. It's also always a bit impertenant for men to write about women. Jane Austen was famous for not writing scenes with only male characters. Grad school and Ukraine, vampires and hookers, Eastern Orthodoxy, are an odd cocktail. Some things are more niche than Lovecraft. 

  Grad school is a dangerous place.

  The Great Old One himself. Hard to make a guy with an octopus 🐙 head look scary, so I always turn to Blake's Dragon and the Woman series.