Ya know, with all the snow and biting wind we’ve had lately, I’m beginning to wonder if Disney’s Frozen was supposed to be based on a true and ongoing story. I’m a winter guy and I love to watch snow fall and damn, it’s pretty when it first falls. But sub zero air blasting me in the face for long periods is kind of where I draw the line. Thanks, Ohio!

I wound up not doing one of my Year in Review dealies for the first time in a long time, in part to not doing reviews on 3/2 (directly) so much lately. That and well, I just didn’t feel like looking back at it. I’m too focused on making 2014 suck less. I need to get over some personal hang-ups, take finding a real career more seriously, and more relevantly to all you guys, actually get more of my ideas DONE and stop turning them over in my head forever and ever.

So, having had the day off, I caught up some errands, doodled, and played The Guardian Legend for like three hours (quitting on Red Optomon because the cough syrup I took was started to imbue me with Darksydephil levels of coordination. It’s funny how I still have this stack of games that need finishing, but I can still go back and plunk time into something from 1987 and love it just as much, if not more than ever. Appreciating little touches like the Guardian’s jet mode thrusters changing their appearance when the scroll speed changes, or the placement of the Save Rooms before entering most major sections (thank you, emulation, for making writing down the passwords unnecessary, but they’re still handy checkpoints when you die)

Whatever. Fire Emblem Awakening was my game of the year 2013, followed by Shin Megami Tensei IV and Armored Core: Verdict Day. Everything else I basically blasted through as fast as possible so I could crack jokes about em.

WordPress’s new dashboard is going to take getting used to on my phone screen. It really WANTS to look like the Facebook app, but the menu bar is too finicky to imitate it in function. Gnfhghgh.

Anyway. Next installment of the Pokeymans review “saga” is in the works and should go up this week. It goes back to reviewy territory, sort of. You know, nothing makes me want to put a game down more than turning it into “work” sometimes. Not always though! I found the bonus challenges in Vanquish really addicting for a while.

Easing into my new department a bit better after taking some time off to unwind. Got a bit of sketching/writing time in, so I plan to wrap the Pokemon “review” up in 5 pages. I’m not really sure if I like the girls being “in” the games for the last couple strips or not. The opinions in the wrap up usually help them out, I think.

Here, have a random sketch of a dude. I did another in a cutesier style I’m playing with that’ll go up tomorrow once I’ve done a few more characters to go with.