Deadpool, pencils by Dean Zachary, inks and colors by me.

Lily James

Bill Burr Can’t Help But Laugh When He Watches The News | Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Technology for the Youth, Issue 3, 1977: “The Sailor’s Magic Lantern” (illustration by R Avotin).

2022 TGIOKDI Year In Review

Looks like I’m a few days late on my 2022 break down, no reason for the delay other than I started it, saved the draft, then went about my life oblivious to the fact I never finished writing.  2022 was a year of beginnings and a couple endings for me.  February saw my wife going back to the office due to the Governor wanting good press for himself, where she was promptly infected with covid, which I then caught.  At this point we had both of the main shots and I believe a booster, so while it sucked, it sucked much less than it could have.  I’ll still hold a grudge against the idiot governor though, he was reckless in ordering so many people back into a shared office environment and he’s personally responsible for me getting the virus.

It was about a month after the infection that we did one more round of IVF, which failed to produce any results, so we’ve given up on having children.  It’s tough to write that, but it is what it is.  Right after we got this news we decided that it was time to start re-entering the general public because we had all the boosters, we had been infected, and honestly we were just done with being safe or smart about the viral situation, so caution was thrown to the wind and we went to a Chinese buffet.  It was a good meal, but a very weird sensation, being in public and eating without any kind of mask on for the first time in nearly 2 years.

In May, one of my cats passed after a slow decline, so while it wasn’t an unexpected situation, it still sucked.  It was right around that time too that we had another foster cat (Nyx!) who had six kittens, but only had three survive (one of whom had a odd coughing problem due to malformed lungs…we foster failed with her, so now she’s part of the cat colony forever).

The sense of not having control of my life was compounded by my employer making some business consolidations, with hundreds of people being severanced in the prior year or so, and looking at the labor market made me made some decision about making some educational efforts.  I never did finish my degree back when I was in college the first time around back in 1999-2002, so Summer 2022 I started online courses, which I’m about half way through at this point, with classes starting back up next week.  I’m planning on being done by the end of summer 2023, but ultimately it’s going to be an expensive piece of paper that won’t inform or guaranty a job, but at least I feel like I’m doing something about my situation instead of just being a backseat rider to all the crazy stuff going on in my personal life or with the American economy in general.

Over that summer, I finally have nickeled and dimed myself to having a pretty decent twitch streaming setup, then got my first few payments from the twitch too! It was like $50 for a year’s worth of streaming, but it made me feel great about putting a fish tank on the twitch.

In July, I reorganized my home office, hiding all my comic long boxes behind a bookshelf in my closet, so you can’t see all the cardboard, but I know they’re still there. I looks so much better now, I’m considering doing the same thing to the other side of the closet, so it’ll look like it’s just one big bookcase on that wall.

In 2021 I thought I’d start putting some grass in my front yard, which the first step was raking all the leaves and detritus that had accumulated in the prior ten years since I last raked it. I finished that project and actually put down some seed, most of which was washed away in the rain, but some of it stayed and now it’s actually growing and it’s actually green! I need to get back out there and rake again, but I’m impressed that it was that easy in what I actually had to do. Bagging all that stuff up into 40+ bags was really not much fun, but the end result is great. Now maybe I’ll do the same thing for my bag yard?

Media consumption by the numbers

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McDonalds in Rosswell, New Mexico [cross post from /r/Cyberpunk]

graphic pencil sharpener

Explain GOTG Vol 2 plot badly

Fallen Angels 2 Variant by Ben Oliver

TROUSER LEGS

Beau Is Afraid

Beau Is Afraid: Directed by Ari Aster. With Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers. A decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.

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GUITAR

Heavy Metal by Wadim Kashin

Cthulhu Design (4320×5400)

hmmm

Battle for Zendikar Island, Adam Paquette [2500 x 3405]

Elindasan

Houston, I Have So Many Problems! (1440×3120)

What do you think?

Romulus scrapped concept. Titan shuttle. [OC]

She-Hulk by Mark Brooks

Mystique (By Danielle DeNicola)

The feral West Virginia.

This was too easy

Imperial Gunship Concept by me (Blender)

War of the Bounty Hunters Omnibus

All-out war engulfs the Star Wars galaxy! Notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett has finally landed his greatest prize – Han Solo, frozen in carbonite. But Solo is about to become one highly sought-after smuggler! The rebels want their friend back, the Empire seeks revenge on one of its greatest enemies, and other bounty hunters have their eyes on a big payday – but what moves will the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate make? Featuring Darth Vader, Jabba the Hutt, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Valance, Doctor Aphra and more! Collecting: Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters Alpha (2021) 1, Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters (2021) 1-5, Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters – Jabba The Hutt (2021) 1, Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters – 4-Lom & Zuckuss (2021) 1, Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters – Boushh (2021) 1, Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters – Ig-88 (2021) 1, Star Wars (2020) 13-18, Star Wars: Bounty Hunters (2020) 12-17, Star Wars: Darth Vader (2020) 12-17, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra

I bought all these single issues back when they were released in 2021, bagged and boarded them, then put them in a “to be read” pile on my desk. I’ve finally dug deep enough into that pile to read through them and what I found was a Star Wars story that could have been told in just 5 issues, but Marvel chose to do what Marvel does and released 25+ issues of various issues ranging from duplicate content from a different POV to issues with art and story that were so good that it’s a shame it wasn’t in the mainline mini series. It was a fun read and I was able to get through it in a single day, but I think I could have taken a week or so to just soak in the art.

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I laughed and then I thought about it.

Sir Jorio by Angelica Donarini

Imperialist Manoeuvre – Urizica 1954

Jessica Alba

Zendaya🥵

Surf’s up

Digital Drawing Iron man, made by me in krita.

Kim Novak mid 1950’s

Explain a plot badly

Kristen Stewart

How many A-Holes we got here?

Hailee Steinfeld

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson

Ace of Wands by artist Flora Silve

SHELBY

selena gomez

THE BACTA WAR (Paul Youll)

Christina Ricci

Tennis Time

“Housemother” – From my mother’s nursing school yearbook – 1968. She said the nursing dorm had several housemothers that would make sure boys didn’t visit the dorm and girls didn’t stay out past an early curfew.

Alison Brie

Emilia Clarke

Electrohome Chair