your head will lie in dust

Book two of the Gerard Way's Vampire Detective Agency by jjtaylor (prev book here), The Detective's Secret and the Mystery of the Dancing Flowers! I dropped having a more similar cover for the sequel to the first for an antique cover design (Verzamelde Opstellen, erste bundel, by Lvan Deyssel) that I absolutely fell in love with and fit the sequel quite well (if we wanna split hairs, the Hounds of Baskerville by sherlock in the same first edition collection has a widely different cover). In fact I kinda went bonkers for using oak leaf designs throughout the book in entirety, but what can I say I love a theme. I know the dancing flowers are a viscaria but like... So many good oak leaf designs for the green man out there...

The photos of the book that I could find online only included the front cover, so had to mock up my own spine (it has designs on the spine, you just can't see em) and played around with the design for the back to get them in a way I liked. Spent most of the time while painting the covers binging my way through the white vault, which I do highly recommend btw. All in all very pleased with the result; nothing like such a fun repeating design like this, and I also got to trot out again my newly learned double core endbands, which I did this time with five different colours (we getting fancy!)

It’s time, it’s finally time..! Come and celebrate the final book of the long-running webcomic, Widdershins, with its final Kickstarter! Victorian-era wizardry awaits in a series of fast-paced, goofy stories, brimming with heart and adventure!

A new queen is set to be crowned in Widdershins, though it may not be the one England expects..

It’s difficult to turn down a request from a princess at the best of times, even moreso on the eve of her coronation. But while finding a stolen crown ought to be no problem for famed bounty hunter Harriet Barber, upon reading the list of suspects she soon finds that this mystery is a little more personal than she’d bargained for. At the same time, something is approaching Widdershins from the depths of the ocean, something that doesn’t need a crown to call itself a ruler. The flow of magic is being disrupted at its very core, and with his fellow witches robbed of their power, it's down to Jack O'Malley to save the city; preferably while there’s still a city left to be saved.

All this and more, in the final book of Widdershins!

If you haven’t heard of my webcomic before, now is a great time to catch up! All eleven volumes are online and free to read, making for over 1300 pages of goofy magic adventures, starting right here. Give it a read if you can, and if you enjoy it, I’d appreciate it if you consider backing the Kickstarter! If you’re low on cash but wanna help out anyway, please spread the word by reblogging this post, sharing the webcomic’s site, or just telling a buddy who you think might enjoy it, which is the best thing you can possibly do for an indie comic..!

local area code = hang up. this one is also a telemarketer but trying to be sneaky

The virtuous recycling of your oppressor’s uniform

Because Sephiroth hails from a planet where its natural magic users are mostly all dead and people have to use materia to cast spells. Which gives him a leg up on the people of his world.

*sniff*

Etheirys, however.