Journal 29: Eclipses

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Dear Patrons,

I need to catch up again after another lean month. So after this update, there’ll be another one in short order, hopefully another one by the end of the month. I’ll keep it short and light again. Even though I’ve not been able to be online as often, I still haven’t stopped drawing. So for patrons, please bear with me if I don’t reply to your customer support needs within a few days. I’m trying to see if there’s an automated way to update your accounts the moment you sign up.

With another solar eclipse that’s passed in Europe and another partial lunar eclipse tonight, I thought I might post a DOOMED RAIDER heavy update. Still not a story vignette as I’m saving that update until I finished the colorization as I’m still working on the colorizations of the works in progress you see in this update.

A couple more notes to add:

• Added the novel “Gathering of Evil” in the Book Club
• Added these new patron requests at the TETRARCH tier & higher, of to expect in the near future with these descriptions while some others have phased out. As usual, for any new commissions, the start is usually slow as I build momentum. So, for these patrons, feel free to pause if I’m too slow until I catch up again.:
  • full spit roast
  • comic page layout

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The following are projects along with synopsis. It will mostly be repeated from previous journals but I will make some updates as the story evolves. If you see the project name without images, it means there are bonus images available through the exclusive download link found below below. 

Bon appétit!

BIZARRE BAZAAR

Young women from around the world go missing. Were some of them kidnapped? Or did they fall victim to a mysterious and cryptic internet rabbit hole concept referring to a trend found in the dark web, the one they call the Winding Stare? Not much is known as all its participants who completed the challenge would vanish without a trace. Selfie photos would eventually turn up through dark web chat rooms, the victim holding a note in various languages, saying “Eat Me”, along with a strange symbol and a tattoo and sometimes a presence of a plush toy pig, deer and various other domesticated animals. Are they AI generated fakes? Are they part of a sexualized stunt of this macabre game? What could this mean? And the meaning of the note can’t be that literal, can it? Internet rumors abound about this tried being connected to a mysterious group called the Spiderfly Society and an event called the Bizarre Bazaar. Nobody but those involved knows.

DOOMED RAIDER

A trio of female adventurers head into the jungles of Mexico days before the Great American Eclipse of 2024 in search for a lost temple and the legendary city of Aztlan only to find their mission thwarted by a rival faction of expeditioners, local cartel gang and a mysterious Aztec death cult. Will our intrepid heroines survive?

CELEBRITY: THE PRICE OF FAME

Fame comes at a cost. Did some of them merely perish through seemingly suspicious accidents. Others were replaced or even cloned, according to some conspiracy theorists. What really happened to them and why do some of them look so different? Did they take Ozempic, undergo mere simple cosmetic surgeries such as buccal fat removals, botox or something more sinister? For these famous beauties make distinct and priceless trophies don’t they? 

(This project is a placeholder for celebrity themed works. At the moment, it’s tentatively titled HALL OF FAME. I’ve had my mind on tagging this story to the BIZARRE BAZAAR project at large but at the moment, it’s still open-ended.)

FRUIT BASKET KILLER

A serial killer operating on the Eastern Coast of the U.S. responsible for a string of disappearances and murders. Only the victims’ heads are left in a fruit basket on a kitchen counter of various unoccupied homes that have been put up on the market. However, the rest of the bodies are unaccounted for. The victims tend to be housewives, teachers and counselors from well-to-do families and the FBI have built an extensive profile of the potential suspects, that the perpetrator might be a young troubled youth who harbors resentment to teachers or of older women.

PAINTED BIRD IN LOST CARCOSA

An accountant finds some financial discrepancies within her corporation and as a reward, is invited by her higher ups to a corporate event in a secluded rural part of Southeastern US. In the end, she finds herself caught in a conspiracy of hidden secret societies of the Old World who has a hobby of hunting the most beautiful game.

HAND-DRAWN WORKS FROM YORE & CARTOON FUNNIES

Here’s where I revisit and dig up some of my old physically drawn artworks that I’ve scanned. I’ll try to do this once every so often. I’ve not really set up anything officially yet, but I’m slowly opening the door to the thought of selling these original hand-drawn artworks for those who are interested. Full artworks are found in the download link.

I’ve also dug up some occasional comic strip style works I’ve done way way back, one you see here with the uncensored version in the bonus content section. If folks are interested, I could keep posting them in each update, almost like what the old newspapers do for each publication.

ODDS AND ENDS

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