That horrible moment when you realize that you should have worked out a timeline for the fantasy series ages ago, and are now grimly trying to work out, based on the mention of people’s ages, what year X must have happened.
(I am trying to figure out what year the Saint of Steel died and it’s turned into a complex algebra equation with a lot of “Stephen is 37 in X+3 and Galen is 20 in Year 0 (the Clocktaur War) so solve for X…” while I dig through manuscripts trying to find people’s ages.)
Also, most Pokémon games are super cheery and life-affirming and random strangers tell you that life is about learning to live in harmony with people and nature and Pokémon.
In this game, you are informed repeatedly that if you don’t work, you don’t eat.
(I personally find this contrast hilarious, but I’m me.)
Preach. 35 is a lot of chickens. Making a garden produce enough food to feed a family is a JOB. And that doesn’t even get into the issues of storage, distribution, etc. And I say this as someone who loves to garden and who has space!
Their next stage is “if that family also kept two hogs.”
Friends, there is no power on earth that could entice me to keep hogs. If you put a gun to my head and pointed at a pair of shoats, I would commend my soul to the saints and tell you to pull the trigger.
Wait, I misread. TEN hogs?!
I’d load the gun for you. Hogs are not hobby livestock.
Have arrived at the RV repair place in Maryland to pick up the repaired Lizardmobile. @LizardbethArt is doing the careful twenty point checklist. I am taking random photos of broken buses.
The problem is that the supply chain is so borked that the parts for all the big vehicles are backordered to hell, so it took like three months to get the Lizardmobile fixed.
Right, so I was at a con. A terrible doomed con. A con which was held in an abandoned department store in a small town in North Carolina, organized by a local comic shop that was…ah…peculiar.
Somehow or other, the con organizers had convinced Lou Ferrigno, the former Incredible Hulk, to come out, and believed this would be a big draw. Also the guy who played Captain Marvel on Shazam! in the Seventies, and a couple other even more obscure actors.
So this weekend, armed with a couple of AI art programs, I started noodling around to see what I could do, and if I could put together one of my Weird Little Comic ideas using mostly retouched computer generated imagery.
These nine pages were the result.
Using one program to render line work on the output from other programs leaves some fairly obvious no-human-involved artifact in places, even retouched. (I drew the figures, obviously.)
It works better in some places than others. Since most of the AI art programs output very small, I was splicing and dicing a lot to get enough to fit—this is 8.5 x 11, 300 dpi.