Makeshift Man 17!

Hmm...Whatever was going on with the comic navigation appears to have corrected itself. Weird.

But, anyway, here is a new page!

...Aww, MM, yer such a nice fellah, wearin' your tacky suit an' comin' into folks' homes to murder their children or whatever...

Here's a couple more drawings. There's not a lot, because I've been busy working on commissions, and y'all don't get to see 'em until after they've been delivered.

New wallpaper, if your desktop needs more swagger:

I think I'm gonna be able to get back to writing Dis soon. I know I've mentioned this before, but I get to overthinking what I'm doing, and my head gets all tied up in knots and reservation. I've just gotta keep reminding myself...
1. I am not a philosopher, a sociologist, a political activist, or anything else like that. I'm just an author.* Just. An. Author. My job is to tell stories, not to portray social theories.
2. I only need to write stories that I, personally, will like. I don't need to write to please anyone else, or fit anyone else's agenda of what makes a good story. I just need to write a story that I, personally, would want to read.
3. I only want to write individual characters. I don't want these characters to be representative of any ideas or groups. I am a writer of personalities, not of allegories.**
4. My characters all*** tend to be either idiots or jerkasses or both. Hence, my characters tend to be wrong, in whatever opinions they're professing at any given moment. I don't need to worry about making anyone "right". I just need to make them act in character.
5. Everything I'm going to do is going to be misinterpreted anyway, and no matter what I do, people are gonna totally hate my guts for one reason or another, 'cause, ya know, that's pretty universal****, so what me worry?

Mehhhhhhh.

Did I mention that I have a fabulous shop full of magical wonders? I think you'd look mighty fine in a t-shirt with a bunny rabbit. I surely do.

Oh, by the way...It's time to think up what you want a sketch of for Valentine's Day. Details pending.

* I was gonna type "writer", but that feels disingenuous 'cause I draw, too. So..."author", even though it doesn't sound as nice.
** I feel self-conscious writing that, as though I'm sabotaging myself with some kind of womanly writing brought on by my irrational and hysterical ovaries. Oh, good gravy, there I go again with the overthinking what I do...I need a good kick in the head or something, Itellhyewwhut.
*** Exception: Grandmother Death, in The Makeshift Man. Not sure when she's gonna show up, yet. Maybe Hestia, in Dis, too. She's super introverted, though, so...
**** What is the phrase? "All analysis is over-analysis"? Something like that? Who said that...?

Status: GUH...Listening To: The Beatles - "Come Together"...Been Reading: Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby...Been Watching: Muppets Tonight; The Venture Bros.