I just think it's weird that Union Cave is the only way to get from Violet City to Azalea Town, and yet this Hiker is treating it like some kind of out-of-the-way location.

(Also, ever notice how the Pokémon world tends to have a lot of roadways that go through really inconvenient obstacles like multileveled cave systems and labyrinthine forests? It's a transportation engineer's nightmare. Hmmmmmm it's almost like the regions were designed to make the player traverse multiple dungeon-like environments to progress, instead of being logistically feasible.)

Here are the latest graphics I've made for my RedBubble store!

Self-explanatory. Obey the cat.

It's the 90's hip hop/British cryptography mashup nobody was asking for. I dunno. This is just what my imagination does.

The world needs more goblin shark merchandise because goblin sharks need more love. I've fangirled these critters ever since I was a kid, and now I have fulfilled my lifelong dream of having one available on a t-shirt.

It's been a month for creepycuteness; I also just had to make merch for the incredible Scotoplanes sea cucumber genus, because they are amazing. Tube feet that they use to literally walk across the seafloor? A mouth surrounded by tentacles tipped with more tentacles? Giving free rides to juvenile king crabs? Don't put limits on sea cucumbers!

 I took a picture of the Moon and Venus a few nights ago and... it was totally overexposed by my phone, and didn't look anything like how I had actually seen it.

So, I thought I might as well put my art skills to work, and I painted what I had actually observed with my human eyes that night. 

I believe painting and illustration will never go extinct, because as convenient as photography is, it rarely captures what the human eye actually sees, which can be just as beautiful (or even more so) than the mere record of photons hitting a CCD (or film I guess).

And let's not even talk about how unoriginal and uninteresting AI-generated images are.

 You thought this was a comic about Pokémon but actually it's a comic about economics! Edutainment at its finest. :)

 What, you thought you'd seen the last of zombie Lass? :)

Giving Day at Black Keep, Chapter 4

Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4

The next morning dawned grey and snowy once more. Kass was glad the stone walls of Black Keep were so thick and sturdy. Snow was pleasant to look at, but miserable when one actually had to deal with it.

He was grateful for the Neopets who worked hard to clear the snow around Black Keep after a day like this, but he thought he should also hire a pyromancer or two, for the sake of convenience. Market Town tended to be a bit short on magic users, as they mostly clustered around Brightvale with its illustrious magic department at the university, but after the holidays Kass would put the word out and see if there were any takers.

The Pokémon world is actually a pretty stressful place if every time you make eye contact with somebody, you have to have a Pokémon battle with them. (And definitely wouldn't help with social anxiety.)