Just realized it's been over a year since I updated my journal on here, and a substantially long amount of time since I submitted any artwork too. How about that.

Anyway, I have a large backlog of art that I COULD upload here so I'll probably get around to doing that sooner or later if I'm not too lazy. If I don't upload it here, I plan on starting a new public art blog soon so I'll probably chuck 'em up there. Again, if I'm not too lazy. I obviously have been and will continue to check my messages here either way.

Also, I've been meaning to mention this for a while because I keep getting PMs about it for some reason, but uh, unless you're a close friend I don't do requests. I especially don't do them if the request involves something I'm against drawing, so anyone who had fantasized about this gallery showcasing Lucas's adventures in inflation had best abandon hope

Finally, even though I was just making fun of it a few days ago, I have a Twitter account now. The screen name is "fromutopia" if you want to add me, and I'll probably update it whenever I upload some art somewhere.

And this time is no exception

Cloverfield was awesome, I recommend it if you like to watch monsters destroy stuff. A good time was had by all. Wouldn't mind seeing it again.

The monster design was really pretty cool...kinda hard to describe it, I was pretty satisfied with it.

Yeah, I have nothing else interesting to talk about. I'm still doing the Mario comic, it's just been on the back burner lately since I'm getting commissioned to do some illustration work for a friend's website and that's a priority. But don't worry, it's not canned.

His final smash would be letting loose with a one liner so incredibly corny that everyone on the playing field just explodes

I am still working on it, and will try to update it pretty regularly. I'm feeling pretty motivated, so I'm going to do my best to continue it.

I made it for two reasons. First, I wanted to practice more with comics, and it's less stressful to do that with a stupid fancomic because it is, after all, a stupid fancomic. Not much to lose there, and plenty of room to experiment.

Second, I always liked that Super Mario Adventures comic Nintendo Power ran, and I always wanted to see a sequel to it, but we never got it. So I wanted to make something similar (in fact as you'll see on some upcoming pages, I took some locations and characters directly from that comic), because if you can't find something, then you should make it yourself.

It does actually have a storyline, and Mario himself is very much the main character even though he thusfar has not appeared, so it won't just be a series of random jokes, though I'm not taking it too seriously and there will hopefully be lots of things to make people laugh.

It also needs a title, but I find that naming stuff is easier once you've finished it or are at least further along, so for now it'll just remain "that Mario comic".

There's some other things I want to mention about it but that'd be getting into SPOILER TERRITORY (oh NO!) so I'll save it for now. Until then, I hope you enjoy it.