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Welcome to May!

May you have a wonderful Beltane if you celebrate. If not I will hoist a drink to you on Cinco De Mayo. I don’t either celebrate but there will be good food and drinks so I’ll be there.

Seems like a good time to remind people about the continued cycle of beginnings. You wake, you rise, you begin, you rest, and start the whole thing over again. It’s a beautiful thing. No matter what stumbling blocks you hit you always get the chance to begin again.

May is “the rise” portion of the cycle. Here up north I’ll be planting in the garden again soon.

Artistically I am always starting over. May used to be when I started convention prep. This year I’m only planning to go to the show and say hello to friends.

The Comics:

If it’s not nailed down they will take it. If it is nailed down they will put their name on it.

Life on earth can be dangerous for a Sluggo. Best to get the most recent guidebook that you can find

Everything seems to break at the same time and it sucks.

I love how that rabbit turned out

What I’m Reading/Doing:

I’m about halfway through The Kaiju Preservation Society. I’m really enjoying it. It’s been my bedtime book and I read a chapter a night.

I’m also listening to Old Man’s War so I guess I’m a little heavy on John Scalzi books lately.

We’re replacing the washer and dryer this week. I was going to have the washer fixed and the dryer replaced but suddenly the washer started running on it’s own.

Find more of my comics and art at:

https://www.patreon.com/cw/Madscott

Status Updates:

I’m feeling silly again. This is good-ish. It means the bubble level that regulates my mood is where it should be. It also means that everyone gets bad jokes and poorly thought out puns.

Sorry.

It also means that I’m reading more books. That’s almost always a good sign. If I read a little every day I’m usually a bit more on an even keel.

So if you have book recommendations I’d love to hear them.

The Comics:

Thanks for being here with me on this ride. It’s been a year of “drinking from the hose” when looking for subjects to editorialize and honestly it feels like we’re drowning some days.

Pro-Tip: Check your surroundings before you get comfortable. That seat may be open only because everyone else knows it has the shaky leg.

Have you tried a new hobby… not the old one.. a new one. What would even be a new hobby today? Everything that sounds like a hobby is something hundreds of years old.

Coffee Drawings:

What I’m Reading/Doing:

The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi

A laid-off food delivery driver in NYC, is recruited for a job with an “animal rights organization” that turns out to be a secret society protecting kaiju in an alternate Earth.

I really appreciate Mr. Scalzi and his work.

Status Updates:

So here’s my current comic plan, Maybe it’s a wish list, either way this is what I’m doing.

My 3 times a week updates have started falling into a predictable pattern.

• Fridays I post a traditional Madscott 4 panel comic. It’s in as close to the original style and feel of the original comic as I am comfortable putting out into the world. You all are getting the finished digital version but each one starts as a finished pen and ink comic in a sketchbook.
• Wednesdays are for weird. I post a comic mostly about aliens. There’s not a lot more to tell about Weird Wednesday. It’s just a fun single panel comic.
• Mondays need work. I think I forgot that the plan was to make them more of a newyorker style commentary comic. It’s drifted from that and been more wacky.. I like wacky but I also am trying for a theme here.

So, expect Mondays to be a bit more focused.

At least until I get sad or distracted or something else and fall off the track.