Callous Reactions
Back when I was supple and young, I was plagued by foot pain. The reaction I tended to get was derisive one-upmanship, and the message was clear: My pain wasn’t valid. As a result I just did my best to ignore the pain and push through it, and now that things are really fucked up, I have no choice but to have profe$$ional intervention. Thanks society. I fucking hate you too.
Anyhow, I may have permanently damaged my feet, but they are about the least of my concerns at the moment. Never mind the rising cost of living and the malaise of dystopian numbness that has washed over the land. I’ve been surrounded by this Lovecraftian horror long enough that nihilism is actually starting to look pretty good. Lucky for all of you, I’m too old. weak. and broke to do anything about it.
But I did want to post an actual comic before the year was over. This wasn’t the comic I wanted, but it’s the best I could do with what I had, and it was from the heart. What’s that supposed to mean, you ask? Well, I really wanted to continue the story of the demon, Temno and his new job working for Newt, but I lack the artistic skill to create the scenes like I had envisioned, so now we’re punting with “Brandon whines again”.
If I may toot my own horn, I think I have really upped my game when it comes to the characters’ hands. It’s all still being created in an ancient bit map editor called Paint Shop Pro 4.14, so each hand is painstakingly built pixel by pixel using previous hands as guides to provide consistency across the panels. This is an actual process and I think it yields pretty good results.
So that about wraps up 2025. I’ll try to do a rant with updated pics of Murphy, and I might do a Christmas panel and maybe a New Year panel, but don’t hold me to it.
Pax,
-f2x
