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I’d like to the newsletter off by welcoming folks who signed up for my newsletter at Rose City Comic Con. Since that was a few weeks ago, here is a refresher about 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. Each volume focuses on a different continent. 
• Sorcery 101 is my old webcomic. It is finished and is about an inept sorcerer learning magic from a grumpy vampire. 

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.

On my Patreon, I’m going to start a graphic novel book club. I posted a poll asking people where they want to start. Finder, Concrete, and Witch Hat Atelier all tied. Concrete is the shortest so we will start with that one. I’ve posted a poll to pick a meet up time to talk about it. 
 

On Saturdays at 11 am PST, I usually watch a movie in my discord. This month I’m showing off my favorite werewolf movies. Anyone can pop in and watch along. This month we are watching:

• October 3 – Wolf (1994)
• October 10 – The Wolfman (1941)
• October 17 – Wolfwalkers
• October 24 – When Animals Dream
• October 31 – American Werewolf in London 

Pop in with this link.

I’ll also be streaming on these dates and times:

• Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
• Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Disco Elysium 

Join me on my twitch! 

On October 8th from 5:30pm PST – 8pm PST, I’m doing a countdown kickstarter stream for Iron Circus’s current Kickstarter, Rigsby WI Book 3. I’ll be chatting with both S.E. Case and Spike Trotman. We will be announcing the Iron Circus 2027 kickstarter line up. That will also be on my Twitch.

In 2014, I drew a series called Misfits of Avalon. It is about magical girls that are jerks fighting a reincarnated King Arthur. The first volume has been out of print for a bit, but I recently got the rights back. So while it was print only for awhile, I’ve now put it back up on my website. If you haven’t read it yet, here is a link. I’ll probably kickstarter an omnibus in a few years (next Kickstarter will be for Glass Diamonds – the next City Between book).

I’ve been editing an anthology for Iron Circus Comics called Lie Machine. It is about propaganda, fake news, and stories get twisted. The cover is by Nick Dragotta and all the final pages were due this month. So a lot of my time in September has been helping folks get over the finish line. I’ll have more details next month when details are more public. But it is shaping up well. I’m looking forward to people seeing it. 

I’m also doing a comic for Lie Machine. Glass Diamonds has 5 pages left to be posted on my patreon for the patron who get to read pages early. And I’m only half way done with the script for the next City Between story. So I’ll be posting pages for my Lie Machine story. It is called Look Upon My Works and Don’t Think About Me At All. It is about quotes taken out of context to mean something else over time. It is partly inspired by a popular Mad Men meme that is always used to mean the opposite of the scene in context. This one:

So that will be on my Patreon during November and Decemeber. Afterward I’ll either start the next City Between story or work on a horror short comic I was hired to draw. It is gonna depend on if the script is done. 

Though on topic of propaganda, one of my favorite youtubers Skip Intro posted a new video this month about how the show 24 normalized torture. It digs into how it helped right wing narratives to justify the War on Terror. It’s a really good video. I especially like when he digs into who every study we have shows torture doesn’t work and that it would especially not work in a 24/ticking clock situation. But 24 was used by multiple goverment officials as examples of why we should use torture. 

This month’s discord movie hangs were in dedication to actors who died. We watched Rocky Horror Picture Show and Phantom of the Paradise. both I hadn’t seen before, though I had heard most of the music for Rocky Horror. All I knew about Phantom of the Paradise is people talking about it influencing Berserk, because well that helmet is very unique. 

Now that I have finally seen Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tim Curry is the main reason to see it. The rest of the movie fell a bit flat for me because the plot was a bit thin. So friends told me that the interactive performances of Rocky Horror are were it really shines. But those sound 100% not my thing. So I understand why other people love this movie, it is pretty firmly not for me. 

Phantom of the Paradise on the other hand was more my speed. It was equally weird and over the top, but had more of a narrative. Garrit Graham was amazing as Beef. I can see why Phantom of the Paradise made an impression on the people. Most of the people I know that have seen it love it. And it has got some pretty amazing camp. 

The rest of my time this month has been rereading the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire. A new book is coming out the day I’m sending this newsletter out and I like to refresh myself before picking up the new book each year. One thing I really appreciate about Seanan’s writing is how she can make the reader sympathize with someone was a villain when introduced. Like Raysel is unhinged and vicious in the first book, but in the newest book I’m looking forward into her recovery and growth as person (the new book is supposed to have her partly spotlighted). I’m also thinking about using this series to get better at cover design. But I won’t start to seriously consider it until next year. 

That is all for this month. Thanks again everyone for your support! And if you haven’t already, please consider backing my patreon. I’m trying to get my patreon to cover my monthly student loan payment. It is roughly $100 short of that. Every little bit helps. 

I’ll be at table I-41. So if you are in the Portland area September 11th-13th, come grab some werewolf comics from me!

Rose City is my last con of the year. After that I plan to not go anywhere and catch up on stuff. But I’m still doing my usual. 

On Saturdays at 11 am PST, I usually watch a movie in my discord. They are all movies I haven’t seen. Anyone can pop in and watch along. This month we are watching:

• September 12 – No movie because I’m at Rose City
• September 19 – Rocky Horror Picture Show
• September 26 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 

Pop in with this link.

I’ll also be streaming on these dates and times:

• Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
• Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Disco Elysium 

Join me on my twitch! 

Worldcon was a lot of fun. I think the panels I moderated went well. In particular, Colleen Doran was on my Science Fiction/Fantasy comics panel and had a lot of really interesting stuff to say about making comics. I also attended some cool panels. There was a fascinating one super dense future cities. The panelist has a wide variety city planners and engineers. One guy talked about how he used a double piping system to recycle the water in his building, so he cut his water bill in half. And that a lot of the tech to make a hyper dense city that isn’t miserable already, it is just more expensive. If you were at Worldcon, it was recorded. I’d recommend giving it a watch.

Also, while walking around I saw George RR Martin. After I told him I liked Dunk and Egg a gal who I assume was an assistant or handler, gave me a Bravos coin. I want to try and go to Worldcon in Montreal next year and hopefully Brisbane, Australia the year after. The little koala at the top of the newsletter was something being given out to promote the year it will be in Australia. 

Now that I’m home, I got to focus on writing the next City Between story. However, I am not as far as I want to be with the script. So I might need to take a break from The City Between when Glass Diamonds is over. I got some anthologies I’m doing stories for. So I’ll post those on my patreon instead of The City Between pages. 

Speaking of my patreon, a few months ago, I asked what people would like as patreon extras that don’t involve me drawing more. Several people liked the idea of a graphic novel book club. I’ve put up a poll where patreon backers can pick between Finder, Concret, Witch Hat Atelier, and 20th Century Boys. We will start reading the winner in October. 

Getting caught up after San Diego Comic Con and then getting a little ahead for Worldcon, didn’t leave me much time to watch new stuff. But the day before Dolly Parton died Lindsay Ellis posted a great video explaining why Dolly is one of the rare icons that is beloved by everyone. Then when Dolly’s death was announced, Lindsay posted the video on youtube. It is a really good watch and it is raising money for Dolly’s Imagination library. 

And in honor of Dolly, my most recent Saturday movie was The Best Little Whore House in Texas. While I think I prefer 9 to 5, it was a really fun time. I especially the scene that introduces the villian. If you haven’t seen it, he talks about some people being phonies that only care about appearances. And while giving this speech he is putting on a griddle to hold in his gut and extra shoulder pads to give him a stronger silhouette. Also the Side Step song is very fun. I will probably always think of the Venture Bros joke where Doc thinks it will be a porno when it comes up. 

That’s all have to share this month. Thanks everyone for your support. Have a good one. 

Greeting everyone! And a special welcome to everyone who signed up for my newsletter at San Diego Comic Con. Here is a run down of my stuff for you new folks:

• 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. Each volume focuses on a different continent. 
• Sorcery 101 is my old webcomic. It is finished and is about an inept sorcerer learning magic from a grumpy vampire. 

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.

The biggest thing I’m doing this month is I’ll be at Worldcon again! Mostly I’ll be on or attending panels. I rather liked Worldcon the last to times I attended. Its panels were more focused on craft and talking themes in ways that are pretty rare at comic conventions. So I’m excited get more involved in it in the future. My schedule is posted above, but if the screenshot is too small to read, here it is typed up. 

• Thursday 4:30 pm – Current Landscape of Speculative Fiction Comic and Graphic Novels – It’s gonna be a discussion of how science fiction and fantasy are handled across comics as the medium has grown to have a much wider variety. I’m moderating and did so last year. I love talking about what makes comic unique as a medium. 
• Friday 12:00 pm – Queerness in Comics: Representation vs Metaphor – Another panel I’m moderating. I’m gonna pick the brain of several creators and academics about how comics handle queerness and when metaphors aren’t cutting it. 
• Friday 6pm – The Indie Comics Panel: The Big 25% – This is myself and several other indie comic creators talking indie comics. Pretty straight forward. 
• Saturday 12:00 pm – The Comic Book Sommelier – This panel is myself and a couple of other well read folks in the comic industry making recommendations to the audience. I did it last year and it was a lot of fun. Basically members of the audience get up and say “I really liked x book” or “I am a big fan of x movie” and the panel tells them comics to check out. 
• Saturday 9:00 pm – Table Talk – this is basically anyone can sign up and have a semi private chat with me about whatever. If you are going to Worldcon, please sign up and talk comics with me!
• Sunday 3:00pm – Life Goes One: Profit vs Sustainability in Creative Projects – This is the last one I’m moderating. It’s about making a living off art in our current capitalist hellscape. This one isn’t just comic people, it is a mix of different types of creatives that are all fighting to keep afloat. 

So if you are going to Worldcon, give my panels a look. 

On Saturdays at 11 am PST, I usually watch a movie in my discord. They are all movies I haven’t seen. Anyone can pop in and watch along. This month we are watching:

• Aug 14 – Eyes Wide Shut
• Aug 21 – Fatal Attraction
• Aug 28 – No movie because I’m at Worldcon 

Pop in with this link.

I’ll also be streaming on these dates and times:

• Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
• Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Disco Elysium 

Join me on my twitch! 

And one August 20th from 5:30pm PST – 8pm PST, my twitch will be hosting a countdown stream for Iron Circus’s current Kickstarter Unsounded book 3 and 4. I’ll be talking to Unsounded’s creator Ashley Cope and S.E. Case the creator of Rigsby, WI (which will be Iron Circus next Kickstarter). That talk will also be on my Twitch. 

Glass Diamonds is almost done, there’s like 10 more pages. So right now my creative focus is mostly on writing the next story Brittle Beast. It’s gonna be about Jeff and Sina from Better to Find You With. I think it is gonna be 100ish pages. 

I do need to play a lot of catch up because of time off for San Diego Comic Con. I mostly had a good time but it takes a lot out of me. Alina and Sam who I share a table with always do Gencon right after, and I don’t know how they do it. Sales were a little down, but I kinda expected that since the economy is in the toilet and everyone is tightening their belts. I appreciate everyone that bought someone though. I saw some good cosplays. Above are two guys that did a great Smoke and Stack from Sinners. I showed some friends the Werewolf Bar in San Diego (the main image the newsletter is their signage). The food is so so but they have some fun deco. Wolves on all the support beams and the bathroom wallpaper is pages of the comic Werewolf by Night. 

I drove to San Diego Comic Con. That is 2 days of driving both ways. On the ride down me and my copilot Grace listened to the first Dungeon Crawler Carl. I have heard a lot of people praise it, but Kate Ashwin’s rec pushed me over (check out her kickstarter by the way). She had the same reservations as me, basically a lot of books that run on videogame rules are a bit samey and are mostly concerned with being a power fantasy. So far Carl hasn’t been too power fantasy focused, by being a death game to comment on the grim realities of capitalist exploitation. It stops from getting to depressing with over the top humor. It makes for a good mix, especially in the audiobook. The guy reading the audiobook had amazing delivery and comedic timing. I think I would have been lukewarm on the book if not for the audiobook reader’s line delivery. 

Since I drove to San Diego Comic Con, there was time for me and my pal Grace to stop at that Academy Award Museum to see the Jaws exhibit. They had a lot of the concept art and storyboards. There was also several props and technically drawing of the shark. There was a collection of foreign movie posters. The museum also had exhibits on Marlyn Monroe, production design on the Barbie movie, and costume design in general. I uploaded pictures I took at the Jaws exhibit and the other exhibits to my google drive. There are also pictures of cosplayers too. 

On the drive back from San Diego, Grace and I listened to A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson. It is a Star Trek novel about Garak from DS9 helping rebuild Cardassia after it was wrecked by the Dominion. Deep Space Nine is my favorite Star Trek and I had heard several Trek fans talk this one up. It is very interesting because while it’s about Garak realizing the fascism Cardassia engaged in is a dead end and self destructive ideology it isn’t a redemption story. So Garak still doesn’t think the murders he did for the State are bad things. It is a unique way of handling deprograming from a lifetime of fascist propaganda. 

We finished our road time by listening to the start of The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer anthology. I enjoyed it but ultimately think I was missing something. Turns out I was. They tie into a movie I haven’t seen. So this one I’ll probably revisit after seeing the movie. 

Last month while trying to get ahead for San Diego Comics Con, the discord movies were The Lighthouse and it was one hell of a ride. I remember people talking about how great both William Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in it. Watching them both lose their mind was a treat. I’ve had mixed feelings on Eggers movies, but this was definitely my favorite I’ve seen so far. I think in Nosferatu didn’t go weird enough and it was part of why I’m on the fence about his coming werewolf movie. But this movie really digs into the weird as Pattinson loses it. 

Then we watched War of the Roses. I founded out about this movie because on stream I told my pal Joe about the episode of Always Sunny where Mac and Dennis move to the suburbs and go insane. They responded by asking if the dog eating joke is a reference to War of the Roses. After looking it up, sure enough the whole episode is based off War of the Roses. I was expecting a wilder movie, but I liked the War of the Roses starts more subdued. It makes the end when things get wild funnier by contrast. I had been told it was about a divorced couple fighting over who gets the house and neither of them can leave. The slow build up to the characters getting divorced paints a good picture that grounds the wild fight later. I really ended up liking it all around. 

For now I’m off to continue playing catch up from San Diego combined with trying to get ahead for Worldcon. Thanks everyone for your support. Have a good one. 

Hey folks! It is that time of year. I’ll be at San Diego Comic Con selling stuff. On July 22nd-26th, you can find me at the same table as last year, booth 1229 with Alina Pete and Sam Logan. Kory Bing was also going to with us, but she broke her arm and can’t make it. Since she now has a medical bill and is missing out on San Diego sales, check out her store if you can. 

On Saturdays at 11 am PST, I usually watch a movie in my discord. They are all movies I haven’t seen. Anyone can pop in and watch along. This month we are watching:

• July 11 – The Lighthouse
• July 18 – War of the Roses
• July 25 – No movie because I’m at comic con 

Pop in with this link.

I’ll also be streaming on these dates and times:

• Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
• Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Disco Elysium 

Join me on my twitch! 

A couple of years ago Iron Circus crowdfunded a game jam. I did the art for one called Teething, a time management puzzle where you are a single parent of a child werewolf. It and 5 other games are finally on sale on steam! So please grab yourself a copy. 

I mentioned last month that I’ve been doing a limited podcast about a Knight in the Seven Kingdoms called Westeros Runs on Duncan. We’ve finished up and you can listen to the whole thing on my patreon. 

I’d still like to get my patreon’s monthly amount high enough to pay my student loan bill each month. People asked for scripts, so once Glass Diamonds is done, I’m going to start posting my script a page at a time. I want to wait until after Glass Diamonds wraps because I do put spoilers in my scripts. So I don’t want the script for the current story to get posted while it is still updating. There is about 20 pages left in Glass Diamonds, so that will probably start in 2027. 

The other thing people asked for is for a graphic novel book club. I’ll start planning that some time in September or October. Right now, I’m slightly too swamped to get the ball rolling. I gotta make sure I’m ahead of schedule for travel. I’ll probably post a poll in September and then we can meet in October. 

June was a busy month for me what with it being my birthday. I did play all the game nominated for the Hugos. I played them on my birthday stream. Most of them I played 2 hours of. So I think I didn’t scratch the surface of Expedition 33. I’ll probably stream that after I’m done with Disco Elysium. I enjoyed Hades 2 and will probably go back to it. I bounced off Dispatch pretty hard. Then the final game Citizen Sleeper 2 was my favorite. I actually played through the whole thing off stream that weekend. If you haven’t played it or the first one, you play as a robot on the run. Each day you get 5 dice rolls to do your tasks that day and it acts as a metaphor. 

In my discord last month, we watched queer movies for Pride Month. I started with I Saw the TV Glow because a lot of people told me to watch it last year, especially since I really like Buffy. I ended up liking the movie until the end. The lighting and cinematography were grab, but the abruptness really took me out of the movie. kinda wish either it had ended with the final monolog or if it had continued a little bit more to show the main character even older. That kinda soured me on the movie. 

We followed it up with the movie Call Me By Your Name. I went into that movie only knowing two things, that it was a gay romance and there was a problematic age gap. While this movie did a great job building the relationship of between the two leads, I think they really should have made the younger guy a few years older. The plot didn’t really need him to be a teenager, so I can see why people had a problem with the age gap. It isn’t really addressed or effect things in the story. So it left me think they should have avoided the whole thing. 

Then we wrapped the discord movies with a double feature of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Saltburn. I watched them back to back because a youtuber I like, Broey Deschanel, did a video comparing the two movies. I wanted to see if I agreed with her analysis. And folks, watching Saltburn right after The Talented Mr. Ripley really highlights the weaknesses of Saltburn. The Talented Mr. Ripley was very gripping as it followed Tom getting deeper and deeper in his con, while Saltburn ultimately felt shallow and unfocused. 

And to wrap up what I watched/enjoyed this month, the youtuber Matt Baume did a deep dive into the path and history to marriage equality. It is really long but does going over all the starts and set backs that happened along the way. It is really informative. 

That’s it for this month. Thank you all for your support. Have a good one. 

Hey all! I wanted to start off directing you all to this post on my patreon. I know times are tough for everyone, and I understand folks gotta tighten their belts. I’m trying to get my patreon to cover my student loan monthly payment and want to add more extras for people who support more. Right now, it is just reading my comics a month early. Also, to encourage folks to sign up, for all of June, I’m giving 10% off any backer level $2 or higher. Just use the code BDAY-26. 

This month I’ll be selling books at Books with Pictures Con on June 13th. It is free to attended, so if you are in Portland that weekend stop by. 

I’m gonna do another special stream this month. June 10th is my birthday and the Hugo awards gave voters codes for most of the games that were nominated. So I’m gonna play all the games for two hour each before I vote in the Hugos. I’ll start at 2pm pst. The games are:

• 2-4pm Dispatch 
• 4-6pm Expedition 33
• 6-8pm Hades 2
• 8-10pm Citizen Sleeper 2

I’ll be streaming on Twitch.

On Saturdays at 11 am PST, I usually watch a movie in my discord. They are all movies I haven’t seen. Anyone can pop in and watch along. This month we are watching:

• June 6 – I Saw The TV Glow
• June 13 – no movie I’m at BWPCon
• June 20 – The Talented Mr. Ripley
• June 27 – Call Me By Your Name 

Pop in with this link.

Other that the big special stream, I’ll also be streaming on these dates and times:

• Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
• Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Disco Elysium 

Join me on my twitch! 

I made a joke about it back when A Knight in the Seven Kingdoms first aired, but I’m now doing a podcast called Westeros Runs on Duncan. This is just for patreon backer. Two episodes are posted. I’ll be posting new episodes each Tuesday. 

I’m editing the Iron Circus comic Lie Machine, a nonfiction anthology about misinformation and propaganda. I’m also drawing a fairly short comic for it. So I’m getting ahead on Glass Diamonds, so I can take a month to focus on drawing it. It’s going to be called Look Upon My Works and Don’t Think About Me At All. It’s about quotes taken out of context. 

The movies I picked to show in my discord last month are all movies about tech in some way. I want to start having a theme to the movies I group together each month. So the first one was Johnny Mnemonic. It is a really stylish movie. I can definitely see why it influenced the cyberpunk genre. I particularly liked laser whip and the dolphin at the end. 

Then we watched Blackberry which is about the raise and fall of blackberry phones. I mainly checked it out because of Glenn Howerton. I heard he brought the some of that unhinged anger he uses to play Dennis in Always Sunny to this movie. He didn’t disappoint and is the highlight of the movie. One thing that I really appreciated is that both of the leads were needed to make the phone a success. There is a great scene early on where a pitch to Verizon is going poorly until they are both there. I also like that toward the end of the movie they are told they are about to go from the #1 phone to that phone people had before an iphone. It reminded me that toward the end of Sorcery 101, I had a scene where a character is boredly dicking around on their smartphone only to realize it was still 2006 in Sorcery 101. I had to look up what someone would have instead since the iphone wasn’t out then. And it was indeed a blackberry.

Then the following week we watched Her. It was a much more thoughtful movie that I expected. I thought it would be about a dude shaping/making his AI girlfriend and pull more from Pygmalion. Instead it was kinda the emotions of a relationship in a condensed manner. That focus made it more thoughtful and unique take on the artificial girlfriend. It also made both the main character and the digital girlfriend more sympathetic when she outgrew him because it was a more nature coarse of the relationship. I also liked how warm and bright the colors were. 

And the movies in my discord ended the month with Minority Report. It is a movie that looked really good, but should have been 40 minutes shorter. I read the novelle roughly a decade ago and the movie was way more convoluted then the source material. It really killed the pacing. 

While drawing I listened to the audiobook To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose. It is the sequel to a book a read a year and a half ago. My complaint about the first book is that the main character was too nice for my taste, but now that she is more experienced she challenges things more in this follow up. So I was much more on board this book. Also, because she is pushing things about the status quote, some of her friends push back on her a little too. It made a lot of the relationships more dynamic in my opinion. It ends on a cliffhanger, which I found a little annoying, but I’m grabbing the next book as soon as it drops. 

I also checked out Foundation on Apple TV. I had read the book ages ago and when I heard it became a tv show, I thought there was no way it could be adapted well. But then I heard bits and pieces of people saying their were good parts. So before I end up turning Apple TV off and switch back to Netflix, I checked it out. It is kinda wild how good one half of the show is and how bad the other half is. It is also interesting that is kinda has the opposite problem of Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones got worse the further they got from the source material, where all of Foundation‘s best parts are completely original. If you are unfamiliar, Foundation is about a society started by a mathematician who claims to be able to predict the coarse of civilization with math. There are large time jumps between each conflict. So it is trying to make the point that the individuals don’t matter in the big picture. Which is interesting to read in prose, but TV likes to follow one character. If we keep jumping centuries ahead in time, you can’t have that. The main narrative from the books tries to solve that by having a sorta psychic chosen one who defeats the purpose of the big picture and weakens the whole narrative. On the other hand, Lee Pace plays a cloned emperor and the storylines focused on him and the other clones were super interesting. I assume it must have been fun for the actors because they could flex the different personalities of each clone. The picture above is one of the clones decided doing drugs and hanging out with animals is more interesting than ruling. It dealt with them struggling against how they are supposed to be one person but clearly aren’t, what their propose is while they try to maintain a failing empire, and existential crises. I kinda wish the show was just about them, because it is much better written than the rest of the show. 

While watching Foundation, I saw a lot of people talking up a new show Widow’s Bay. It’s a horror comedy about a small New England down. It does a great job balancing those two tones without it being jarring. Usually when horror and comedy get combined, it is more slapsticky. This is bit more character bit focused and lowkey. So it is exchanges like this.

That’s a wrap on this month. Thanks again for your support and once again, please let me know if there is anything that would catch your interest enough to back my patreon.