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Glass Diamonds page 72 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read Glass Diamonds to page 76.

Hi there everyone! Shards of Reflection is still kickstarting and it has roughly a week to make 2k. Please spread the where ever you can. 

And for folks that met me at Wondercon, thank you for getting my books and signing up for the newsletter. Here’s a run down of what I do. 

• The City Between is my webcomic about werewolves in the future. It updates Wednesdays. The current story is titled Glass Diamonds. It is free to read on my website, or you can follow my patreon to get it emailed to you. 
• Blue Moon is a werewolf romance graphic novel I’m writing and Meredith McClaren is going to draw. 
• Cautionary Fables and Fairytales is a kid-friendly folklore anthology series I edit and organize for Iron Circus Comics. 
• You are the Chosen One is a fantasy comic that is exclusive to my patreon but is currently on hold until I’ve gotten a few other things off my plate. 

I have two day jobs. One is as an editor for Seven Seas, so I’ll occasionally share manga I’m editing for them. I’m also the managing editor at Iron Circus Comics. I like folklore, fantasy, and especially like werewolves.

This month I’m mostly gonna recharge from doing cons. But I will be at Comic Con Oakland at the start of May. So incase I don’t have May’s newsletter out by then, catch me there on May 9th and 10th. 

But while I rest up for that, join me as I watch some movies on Saturday afternoons. Here’s what I’m watching

• April 4 – Battle Royale
• April 11 – Frankenstein (1931)
• April 18 – Death of a Unicorn
• April 25 – 9 to 5

All the movies start at 11am pacific time. You can join by clicking here.

And as usual, I’ll be streaming, thought I changed some of the times. 

Everything else will be the streaming schedule:

• Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
• Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Baldur’s Gate 3

Join me on my twitch! 

I enjoyed Wondercon. I’ll probably go next year. It being more spread out/having wider aisles made it feel nicer to browse and walk around. I saw some good costumes. I posted them all on my blusky. But here’s an especially good werewolf. 

One fun thing that happened at Wondercon is I have a stuff wolf that props up copies of Can I Pet Your Werewolf. A little girl asked me what the wolf’s name was. I told her he is a wolf and since wolves are wild animals they don’t have names. Little girl DID NOT like that answer. So I guess next time a kid asks me the wolf’s name I should have an answer. I’m thinking Talbot. 

Between the two big conventions, I’ve been thinking a lot about Buffy. If you didn’t here, Hulu canceled the Buffy reboot they were planning. Jessie Gender did a run down of everything as well as her thoughts its cancelation is mainly due to misogyny. I agree with her that misogyny is probably what ultimately killed it, I think this project was doomed from the start. Now I am a huge Buffy fan and it was obviously a big influence on what I create, but when I first heard about the reboot and Sarah Michelle Gellar was playing Buffy in it, I thought that was a bad decision. In general, I want new stuff to get made rather than infinite reboots/sequels. Then even if you are doing a reboot, if the intent is to get a new generation into Buffy, having SMG there is bogging the series down with a continuity and creating a barrier to entry. And if new teens aren’t the plan, they just want the old audience back, then why are we focusing on a new Slayer? Jessie mentions in her video the executives claimed Zhao was a bad fit for the show, but her work is pretty well known with all the successes she’s been having. So why didn’t the executives figure out she was a bad fit from the start? Jessie is right to say that is on them for not knowing what they wanted and not trusting Zhao to do her job. But that trying to have it both ways mismanagement was something I thought was coming since the announcement that Sarah Michelle Gellar was returning as Buffy. If they have to reboot Buffy, they need a fresh start. But this is a lot of text. So here’s some old drawings I did for a Buffy art test. 

This month I watched All About Eve. A lot of youtubers I watch that I watch have mentioned it. I can see why because like Casablanca last month, this movie is kinda classics are classics for a reason. I especially liked the costuming being used to mislead the viewer. Like Bette Davis’s character is in all these dark dresses that mixed with her sharp eyebrows that give her a real villainous look. Then Anne Baxter is dressed like an ingenue with most modest light colors at first. Then half way through she starts wearing dresses that mimic Bette Davis’s and it is around the same time the audience is completely clued into Anne Baxter’s character being a villain. 

The week after I showed my discord something completely different. We watched Annihilation. I over all liked the movie but it left me with a lot of questions. I wouldn’t call them plots holes, more stuff I wondered about that I assume the movie just didn’t have room for. It made me want to check out the books. I was really impressed with Gina Rodriguez in the movie. I had only seen her in Jane the Virgin before. So seeing her lose it the way she does in Annihilation was impressive. Also, as scary as the bear monster was, I find the alligator with extra teeth more unnerving. 

I did more reading this month. I accidentally let my to read pile get bigger than I like. The book club I’m in read Reel to Real by bell hooks. The book is a collection of her criticism of various movies. Most of the movies were ones I hadn’t seen. So it mostly just made me add to my movies to see list. It also made me wish bell hooks lived longer because I would have loved to have read her thoughts on more recent movies like American Fiction and Moonlight. 

After Reel to Real, I jumped into A Ruin, Great and Free by Cadwell Turnbull. It is the final book in his trilogy that started with No Gods, No Monsters. It continues to work on a big picture community look at the supernatural that I don’t see very often, while not becoming too detached from his characters personal humanity. I immediately wanted go back and reread the series from the start. 

This month had the release of a new Seanan McGuire book Butterfly Effects. It is the 15th book in her Incryptid series, so I wouldn’t recommend jumping into it cold. The series as a whole is about a family of cryptozoologists. A lot of the plot in this particular book is resolving things from a few books before. The main thing I found interesting is the antagonists are a hivemind but part of the hivemind is trying to rebel. So the logistic of a rebellion in a society that is all psychically connected was interesting to dig at. 

Final book I read was Player of Games by Ian M Banks. Two of my friends, Spike Trotman and Blue Delliquanti, have talked up the Culture Series to me. I don’t have a lot to say about Player of Games by itself, other than I liked it. Blue told me to start with this one and it is an easy into. I’m intrigued and will end up reading more Culture Novels. So I might have more to say when I’m deeper in. 

That’s it for this month. Thanks as always for your support and once again, please spread the word about my Kickstarter.

Glass Diamonds page 71 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read Glass Diamonds to page 75.

Glass Diamonds page 70 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read Glass Diamonds to page 74.

Hi there everyone! Shards of Reflection is still kickstarting. It is going a little slow, so it will be a close call. Please spread the where ever you can. 

And for folks that met me at Emerald City, thank you for getting my books and signing up for the newsletter. Here’s a run down of what I do. 

• The City Between is my webcomic about werewolves in the future. It updates Wednesdays. The current story is titled Glass Diamonds. It is free to read on my website, or you can follow my patreon to get it emailed to you. 
• Blue Moon is a werewolf romance graphic novel I’m writing and Meredith McClaren is going to draw. 
• Cautionary Fables and Fairytales is a kid-friendly folklore anthology series I edit and organize for Iron Circus Comics. 
• You are the Chosen One is a fantasy comic that is exclusive to my patreon but is currently on hold until I’ve gotten a few other things off my plate. 

I have two day jobs. One is as an editor for Seven Seas, so I’ll occasionally share manga I’m editing for them. I’m also the managing editor at Iron Circus Comics. I like folklore, fantasy, and especially like werewolves.

At the end of this month I’ll be at Wondercon. So on March 27 through March 29, you can find me at table 2212. I’ll be sharing with Sam Logan. 

I will still be showing movies in my discord on the Saturdays I’m not at a con. Anyone can join. Just click this link. Movies are at 11am pst. Here’s what we are watching. 

• March 14 – All About Eve
• March 21 – Annihilation
• March 28 – no movie I’ll be at Wondercon
• April 4 – Battle Royale

And as usual, I’ll be streaming, thought I changed some of the times. 

Everything else will be the streaming schedule:

• Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
• Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Baldur’s Gate 3

Join me on my twitch!

I was guest on War Rocket Ajax to promote Shards of Reflection. We mostly talk about tv we are watching and how if I had a A Knight in the Seven Kingdoms podcast I would name is Westeros Runs on Duncan. 

This month is doing a lot of to keep promoing my kickstarter. I also need to get ahead of the Glass Diamond pages before Wondercon. 

I’m also recovering from Emerald City Comic Con. 10-7pm for 3 days straight is rough, especially on my feet. As I recover I’m looking into new cons to try instead of Emerald City. I mentioned why I probably wasn’t going to return to ECCC last month. I’m hundred 100% on that now. So is Kory who I share an ECCC table with. She did a long thread about how Reedpop treated us this year. This is also the tip of the iceberg over the years. I usually handle all our paperwork for Emerald City. So Kory didn’t have to call and Reedpop to fix the several mistakes they made with our table over the years like giving us a different size than we paid for, trying to double charge us. 

Since Kory, Meredith (who also shares the table with us) and I all have monster stuff, we are thinking of giving to Crypticon in 2027. Kory has also been telling me to check out furry shows since werewolves is close enough. I mostly haven’t tried furry shows because I got the impression that a lot of the focus at those is on commissions and I don’t really like taking commissions at cons. 

But enough retreading grips about Reedpop. Here’s stuff that I’ve been enjoying. I’m a patron backer of Skip Intro and he’s started a non-fiction book club for his patrons. We just finished The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson. It’s about how violence is depicted in media/art/the news. It was an interesting read but suffered a bit because she wasn’t really arguing that it was good or bad. She was more working out her own feelings. I feel like what it made me think about rather than her particular opinions. Partly because she seemed to have wildly different opinions about some pieces (since they are mostly fairly recent examples they are all pretty easy to look up). That and this book was written in 2011. So while she talks about images being shared on the news, she doesn’t cover violence going viral on social media. There is a part where she talks what the purpose of art is, whether it be to make you feel uncomfortable or to show truth. I disagree with both. I think art is to make you feel something, good or bad. 

And that kinda sentiment was kinda dug into by a youtube video I watched. I really enjoyed Jeffiot’s video Peak Art, Peak Slop. He does a dive into how people react to art that is hard to parse like David Lynch’s work vs how people react to something formulaic like Mr. Beast. There is a deep dive that into how the more complicated art sticks with us, even if we don’t like it. Basically, when it comes to more complexed art, no matter who sees it, the longer we think over a more complicated piece of art, the more we end up with sticking with us. Where as something simple and easy to process has a good chance of not being very memorable and we end up forgetting it once it is done. 

It’s something I think is true to the movies I ended up watching this month. My Saturday movies started with the movie Moonlight. It had been on my to watch list since it won the Oscar. It is a truly beautiful movie. There are a lot of very long shots that let you sit with a moment or build tension. Pretty much any scene with the main character at the beach is really moving. I had kinda expected a more tragic ending, since that is what the Oscars tend to like. But instead the end is kinda bitter sweet and tender.

My discord also watched Casablanca. I had never seen it before, but I had seen the DS9 episode that is based off Casablanca. I shared with the discord some side by side comparisons. It was really good, which shouldn’t surprise anyone. Classic movies I feel can go either way, either they still knock it out of the park or they have aged really poorly. Casablanca is 100% in the first category. I especially thought it was neat how perfect Victor was. Usually in love triangles, the competition for the main character is a shit head or boring, but Victor is just a great guy in all forms and doesn’t even mind that Rick and Ilsa were a thing. I chatted with the discord that if he was even slightly a bad person, the audience would probably hate Ilsa for not staying with Rick.

I also started The Pitt this month. When I was home for the holidays, my cousin sang its praises and then Skip Intro made a video about. So I put it at the top of my list of shows to check out on HBO while I had it turned on for a few months. It is really intense in a good way. The hour by hour structure fits the ER better than it ever did 24hour. I like that you don’t really learn what happens to patience after they leave. And most stuff is unresolved because it is just the hospital that one day. Kory also started watching it, and the second season is set during the 4th of July. Kory goes to Anthrocon every year and was like “This is the 4th of July, where are the furries with heat stroke?!” then sure enough, last episode. 

Another thing I checked out based on recs is Death By Lightening. It’s a mini series on Netflix about President Garfield. Skip Intro put it on his best things he watched in 2025 and I hadn’t heard of it. It follows both Garfield and Guiteau as Garfield wins the primary and then the presidency. I did know some of the story because I really like the musical Assassins and Guiteau is one of the titular assassins. Michael Shannon plays Garfield and does a great job, as does Nick Offerman as Chester Arthur. But the most brillanent casting was Matthew Macfadyen as Guiteau. He brings a lot of the same energy to the role as when he was Tom on Succession, only with an extra level of delusion. I can see why Skip Intro put on his top picks for 2025. It did make me wish that Matthew Macfadyen would sing the Ballad of Guiteau. 

That’s all for this month. Thanks again for the support. Please tell your friends about my kickstarter. Also here’s a really good cosplay I saw are Emerald City