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10 Jul, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Going to BBQ this afternoon, so I'm pulling together fresh potato salad this morning. So much better than pre-made and really easy.

- Boil a batch of potatoes for 20 min.

Waxy/harder potatoes like red ones work better than russets or others you'd use for baked/mashed potatoes. Image
- Include an egg or two with the potatoes and boil them at the same time, but take the eggs out after the first 10 min.

- Cut the potatoes into chunks to cool, adding a bit of salt, pepper and other spices to season them. If you have malt vinegar, a dash or three here is great. Image
This is where you can customise the heck out of it to your taste-

How big the chunks are.
Whether you include the potato skins or not.
How much mayo you use.
All variable.

For me egg, cucumber, and dill is a must. You can add red onion, pickles, even cubed up cheddar cheese. ImageImageImage
Salt, pepper, mustard with peppercorns, garlic powder, relish, sometimes a touch of cayenne. Again, all of it will vary with your taste.

Mix with mayonnaise, shape to fit your container and top with a light sprinkling of paprika (using a fine strainer to spread it out evenly). ImageImage
Give the potato salad at least 3-4 hours in the fridge for the taste to really come together. Making it the day before works great.

It's so easy, super customizable and tastes great. No more watery/bland stuff from the grocery store. ImageImage

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31 Mar
I want to pitch a new #DnD comic series called REAL DUNGEONS & DRAGONS-

Issue #1: Five completely disparate characters with elaborate back stories that are never referenced again.

The party takes 17 pages to leave the town they start in.

TPK from a random encounter.
Issue #2: 5 new characters arrive. They are all twins of the characters killed in issue 1.

An encounter with an unimportant NPC gets the party 100% focused on a non-existant plotline.

A bad Athletics check kills two party members.

The others find a cache of gold and retire.
Issue #3: 5 new characters arrive. One is the plucky daughter of a previous party member. The others are all from Unearthed Arcana.

Ambushed by villains from the original quest, the heroes have no idea what they're supposed to do.

They're swiftly captured
An actual cliffhanger!
Read 7 tweets
30 Mar
A quick drawing lesson for artists who struggle with street scenes/buildings-

I was giving feedback on a student layout and realized the advice here could help other people too.

Here's the construction build.
The perspective is consistent, which is a great first step.
The perspective is working, but there's a common proportion problem.

To check and adjust, we need to find the eye line used to build the scene. Follow back the perspective lines and there it is. Straight forward.
From here I add a scale figure. Sometimes I'll draw one in, but when I'm doing a lot of critiques I use an architectural figure silhouette like this instead.

I size the figure to fit on the bench and will use that to measure everything else in the scene. So far so good.
Read 11 tweets
30 Mar
My 'career' in TTRPGs has been strange and I came into it sideways via illustration and comics.
While working in animation I started doing some freelance illustration for indy RPGs.

Soon after, I joined the Udon studio and started doing illustrations for Dungeon Magazine (when it was at Paizo), Exalted and a bunch of other RPG books.
That led to networking at conventions like Origins and Gen Con, which turned into more art gigs for RPGs.

Udon wanted to expand their comic publishing and we had a great relationship with White Wolf, so that turned into developing and co-writing an Exalted comic mini-series.
Read 15 tweets
2 Feb
SURPRISE, I have a digital release today from @DCComics!!

LET THEM LIVE: Unpublished Tales From The DC Vault #1 finally unveils a SUICIDE SQUAD done-in-one issue I wrote back in 2011!

Line Art Tradd Moore
Colors @therealsobreiro
Letters @blambot

comicsbeat.com/dc-universe-in…
Huge thanks to @katiekubert and @mariejavins for helping Ambush Bug steal this story from the vaults so everyone can finally read it.

It's my first DC Comics release in 7 years, and I hope there's more to come in the months ahead. :)
I had so much fun working on this that I bought Tradd's original art for the splash page with Harley and Deadshot when he drew the story in 2016.

It's been framed and on my wall for years, but I haven't been able to show it until now.
Read 8 tweets
31 Jan
In the same vein as @BizzareComics DC 10 Title challenge, if I had to pare down the Marvel publishing line to only 10 series per month, here are the iconics- Image
1) SPIDER-MAN - with back-up stories of Spidey-related characters

2) THE AVENGERS - big cast and big threats

3) FANTASTIC FOUR - with cosmic-related back-up stories

4) X-MEN - includes a Wolverine back-up and one other back-up story each issue
5) CHAMPIONS - Teenage heroes, with other teen hero back-up stories

6) JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY - Thor, with magic/supernatural back-up stories

7) TALES TO ASTONISH - Captain America + Iron Man

8) MARVEL KNIGHTS - Black Widow, Daredevil and other espionage /street-level heroes
Read 5 tweets
31 Jan
1) ACTION COMICS - Superman, with rotating back-up stories of related characters.

2) DETECTIVE COMICS - Batman, with rotating back-up stories of related characters.

3) SENSATION COMICS - Wonder Woman, with rotating back-up stories of related characters.
4) JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED - Big cast, epic stakes

5) THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS. - Cosmic adventures

6) TEEN TITANS - Teen heroes
7) BRAVE and the BOLD - Paired hero team-ups like Booster Gold & Blue Beetle, Green Arrow & Black Canary, etc.

8) GOTHAM - Lead villain story and rotating back-ups

9) ELSEWORLDS - Anthology series

10) DC Comics Showcase - Anthology series
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