GREETINGS LIVING WEIRDOS OF TODAY AND ZOMBIES OF TOMORROW!

IT IS, DOCTOR CLARKENSTEIN!

All Hallow’s Eve has descended upon the small town of Clarksburg. Vampires, ghosts, monsters, aliens, and these are just the locals! They’re out in force along with all the children dressed in creepy costumes to score some sugary sweets. Now as anybody in town will tell you, there are two prime places to bag the biggest haul. First is Downtown, the entire street cordoned off as the small businesses that line the block hand out candy. Yet it’s the second spot that’s considered the best in town; Wonder Ziggy’s Drive-In Cinema! His Trunk or Treat party is the stuff of legends! Guests wandering the four lots are treated to king sized bars, lollipops bigger than their heads, free B-Movies rolling on loop, and for those brave enough to stick around after sunset, scary stories! Ziggy opens the floor to those who have a terrifying tale to tell. Being the weird bunch that they are, naturally there’s no shortage of spoopy stories from the Clarktoons. Here is one of them now depicted as a DUDEL of the Damned.

It’s a ritual as old as time itself. A creepy ceremony that splits the veil between the material and spiritual worlds asunder. Once it’s occurred, none who participate ever come out the same. Naturally such an eerie event can only happen on the darkest, coldest, most sinister of nights! When a blood-curdling whistle is carried ever so delicately through the breeze with a full moon burning a bright white in the sky! Prepare how you will, nothing can prepare the mortal mind for something so horrible, so heinous, so haunting! Naturally I’m referring to one of Xena’s slumber parties. Kid thought she was gonna bust out the Ghoul Board and summon some demented demon. What she hadn’t anticipated was a strange friend turning this into Pony Fest 2025!

Some of you may recognize this friend as Erma from the same titled series by @brandontheoutcasti. I’ve been following them for a few years and thought it’d be cute if our two horror-based child characters finally collided. Especially since, as revealed last year, the two share a birth year. Yes, seriously. While digging around through sta.sh before deviantART had a chance to trash that too, the original Xena sketch was uncovered and dated from 2014! Those of you who are curious what Croc’s daughter originally looked like can check out the initial drawing included here. For now, this DUDEL was easily the most fun to draw. Granted, given I haven’t followed Erma’s comics as closely as preferred (something that will be fixed in the future), I could only make assumptions about her friend Amy. Is she into Warrior Unicorn Princess like her phantom pal? No clue! At the very least I suspect she’d participate in her pal’s party like a best bud would. Hence why the blonde gets an oddly familiar pony doll. Recognize the plushy, @Foxhatart? Either way, I hope you all enjoy!

MAY THE GLASSES BE WITH YOU!

GREETINGS LIVING WEIRDOS OF TODAY AND ZOMBIES OF TOMORROW!

IT IS, DOCTOR CLARKENSTEIN!

All Hallow’s Eve has descended upon the small town of Clarksburg. Vampires, ghosts, monsters, aliens, and these are just the locals! They’re out in force along with all the children dressed in creepy costumes to score some sugary sweets. Now as anybody in town will tell you, there are two prime places to bag the biggest haul. First is Downtown, the entire street cordoned off as the small businesses that line the block hand out candy. Yet it’s the second spot that’s considered the best in town; Wonder Ziggy’s Drive-In Cinema! His Trunk or Treat party is the stuff of legends! Guests wandering the four lots are treated to king sized bars, lollipops bigger than their heads, free B-Movies rolling on loop, and for those brave enough to stick around after sunset, scary stories! Ziggy opens the floor to those who have a terrifying tale to tell. Being the weird bunch that they are, naturally there’s no shortage of spoopy stories from the Clarktoons. Here is one of them now depicted as a DUDEL of the Damned.

Little Bumper might not be the scariest spectre in Clarksburg. In fact, most people would refer to them as ‘cute’. Much to the floating marshmallow’s irritation. Normally they don’t mind being seen as adorable, but Xena says Halloween is the time for being scary, and Stardust knows the ghost wants to win his best friend’s approval. Perhaps a costume can help in the matters. Thank goodness the Halloween Haul-Mart has rolled into town giving the peculiar phantom some options!

Honestly, this was just an excuse to get Bumper out of their typical Ghostbuster costume you see every year. I figured they’d look cute as other Halloween icons such as The Invisible Man, Scooby-Doo, Ash Williams, and Moarte. Plus we needed a reason to bring Bumper’s lil’ pumpkin ensemble back from last year. Now including a bow tie and an oddly familiar feline. Hope you all enjoy!

MAY THE GLASSES BE WITH YOU!

GREETINGS LIVING WEIRDOS OF TODAY AND ZOMBIES OF TOMORROW!

IT IS, DOCTOR CLARKENSTEIN!

All Hallow’s Eve has descended upon the small town of Clarksburg. Vampires, ghosts, monsters, aliens, and these are just the locals! They’re out in force along with all the children dressed in creepy costumes to score some sugary sweets. Now as anybody in town will tell you, there are two prime places to bag the biggest haul. First is Downtown, the entire street cordoned off as the small businesses that line the block hand out candy. Yet it’s the second spot that’s considered the best in town; Wonder Ziggy’s Drive-In Cinema! His Trunk or Treat party is the stuff of legends! Guests wandering the four lots are treated to king sized bars, lollipops bigger than their heads, free B-Movies rolling on loop, and for those brave enough to stick around after sunset, scary stories! Ziggy opens the floor to those who have a terrifying tale to tell. Being the weird bunch that they are, naturally there’s no shortage of spoopy stories from the Clarktoons. Here is one of them now depicted as a DUDEL of the Damned.

You’re Invited. At least that’s what it said on the letter from Freddy Fox, mascot of the Matt Whimsy Company. Being his designated biographer, free from the vulturous lawyers that stalk the internet, occasionally a bone is thrown my way in the form of press kits and invites to corporate events. In this case it was for Freddy’s Funky Fright Fest at the Whimsyland Resort in Celebration, California. It was a bone too big to pass up. Luckily it came with extra tickets, meaning my fellow theme park enthusiasts could join the creepy (yet ultimately child friendly) celebration. This is what we call a HUGE mistake. For not five minutes in and Crazy Hannah has to go and touch a cursed artifact owned by little Millicent, the ghoulish girl featured prominently in the park’s haunted house attraction. All at one, swinging specters and peculiar phantoms materialized to possess the guests. Including Hannah herself, becoming Bucanere Becky of the Seven Seas Club. Making matters worse, Croc’s off in Louisiana chasing after monsters there, meaning it’s up to me to fix this mess!

Speaking of messes, you didn’t expect us to go a year without dragging my buddies into these DUDELZ did you? Up first is @princessofDisney27 with a sketched based off Mickey’s Mysterious Masquerade. For those of you not huge Disney Parks dorks like Han and I, this Tokyo DisneySea show sees the titular mouse and his friends enter a haunted house before Donald touches a cursed spear and gets all but the main mouse possessed. Yes, seriously. Most of you might’ve seen Minnie dressed as an Egyptian Queen. Heck, perhaps some of you have read the awesome fanfic by @steamboat-promises or even the lame one I did. Putting that aside, for years it’s been my intention to make something based off this show and this is the end result. The Masquerade dress is based on an older sketch based on my friend, the S.E.A. Club logo was replicated by hand, and the pirate ensemble was thought up by yours truley. Unfortunately I forgot to include KH-style Keyblades, which was half the reason Hannah was picked in the first place. Oops. Ah well, I challenge her to design those herself. Otherwise, I hope she enjoys this as do the rest of you! People who actually speak and write Japanese can tell me how I butchered the text on the bottom, by the way. XD

GREETINGS WEIRDOS OF TODAY AND ROBOTS OF TOMORROW IT'S ME, CLARK!

Would you also believe it’s been a little over two years since my last Sketch BOOM? Of course not! Most of you are undoubtedly scratching your heads wondering what that is. Sketch BOOMs are basically doodle dumps where the goal was to cram in as many characters as I could. The record was set in 2015 with 108 characters, by the way. Pity most of those characters haven’t been seen since then. In the meantime focus has been turned towards other inhabitants of the Clarktooniverse, like Saura here! Before the tragic death of George Floyd, the blue beast’s human persona was meant to be a white teenager. It was that moment of senseless violence that made me wonder if more could be done with my stories. After all, storytelling is meant to teach empathy. Jim Henson created Fraggle Rock as a bid to achieve world peace. Even if that goal was never achieved, he had the courage to try. Thus inspired by real world events, The Owl House, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Disney’s Dinosaur, and Korra, Saura’s human persona became a black-latina lesbian named Sarah Bosewick. Oh, did I mention her last name was also a tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman?

Being a black-latina made life difficult for poor Sarah. Her anger issues didn’t help matters. Nor did suddenly gaining the ability to transform into a bright blue humanoid dinosaur. Y’know, average relatable problems. Given these great powers has offered Sarah to fight back against social injustice, corrupt politicians, and other prehistoric creatures. All in the name that the world will be a better place for her little sister. In the meantime she also serves as the subject for my first character-focused boom. Expect one of these every month. For now I figured Saura and friends would make a good subject for this month, seeing as June has Pride Month, Dinosaur Day, and Juneteenth. Lucky coincidence, no? With all that out of the way, let’s check out each sketchie from right to left.

[1] THINKING OF YOU

Patricia Arif was one of the first few individuals to learn Sarah Bosewick’s secret. It helped that the Islamic girl was outside crying when her fellow student transformed for the first time to save someone. Up until then, Patty’s life was perfect. She was popular in school thanks to her industrialist father practically owning their hometown of Fosslin, Arizona. Until he filed for a divorce that is. Not only did it shatter the illusion of her perfect family, but soon the girl’s friends abandoned her too. Soon after Patricia wore her mother’s old hijab to hide her tears. Luckily she found real friends in Sarah and Darwin (more on him later), even helping develop tools and a costume for the former. A form fitting costume that the taller girl doesn’t think about all the time. Just like Sarah totally doesn’t imagine her girlfriend in a burkini. Totally.

You can thank @zernna and @burningthrucelluloid for the inspiration regarding said burkini, by the way. Alec is a frequent collaborator on these stories and paid the anarchistic alien to draw these two lovely ladies rocking some summer swimwear. I’ve always meant to draw it for myself and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. Same goes for finally giving a face for Sarah Bosewick, though not without trial and error. Full disclosure, I actually edited this last minute. Our titular heroine’s hair originally looked like what you saw in Patty’s thought cloud. Then it dawned on me how hard it’d be to draw so it was switched out for a pixie haircut. Look closely and you can see where the edits are. Especially since Patricia and Sarah are too busy looking at each other.

[2] HAIL TO THE KING

Saura’s appearance in the world also brought back some regular dinosaurs back to life. This included a tyrannosaurus the townsfolk quickly named ‘King’. Funny enough he was actually set on being a female inspired by the rex from Jurassic Park. However, that was before I envisioned a mighty menace with a flock of feathers around its neck akin to a lion’s mane. Ironically drawing it proved to be a big pain in the ass so the feathers were downplayed. Oh well. It’s still a T-Rex and Saura’s gonna make a habit out of punching it in the face. BE IMPRESSED!

[3] PREHISTORIC POWERHOUSE

Like I stated before, Alec is a frequent collaborator on this story. One of his contributions is Robin, a hyper-evolved bracheosaurus who’s been around the block. Mainly due to being older than she looks. Her backstory has yet to be fully developed, but she’s a stubborn old girl harboring a heavy ‘down with the man’ attitude. Unlike Saura (or ‘Idiota’ as the elder calls her), Robin gave up on civilization years ago and is contempt living in the desert. What we do know is that the older dino was once a female luchador. At least that’s what I decided after drawing this outfit. I also have her a head design harkoning back to Eda and Camila from the Owl House. Will probably change the hairdo in the future to be longer. Until then, remember that size doesn’t matter. Unless you’re a huge-ass brachiosaur. 

[4] DARLIN’ DARLA

One of my new rules moving forward is to include one villain in every BOOM. My mind is full of evil characters and it feels like they never get enough attention. Thus I’d like to introduce you all to Darlin’ Darla. She’s a Utahraptor with a nasty attitude. Girl was raised by an abusive foster mother before becoming a badass, biking bounty hunter with her sisters. Eventually someone hires them to take out our hero and are quickly taught why that’s a bad idea. Not that it ever stops the cranky cowgirl from trying. 

Darla almost didn’t make the cut for this compilation. The main reason was because her head is shaped like a normal dinosaur and I hesitated to finalize that design. Anybody who draws dinosaurs will know these animals are hard to draw from the front. Luckily those other artists convinced me to go with this. Such as Zerna, who once admitted drawing her shark demon Sadi from any view other than the side was a pain. Heck, even Genndy Tartakovsky cheated when depicting velociraptors in Primal. If even amazing artists like these two struggle with that, then I can find a way. Maybe the colors can be swapped out too. What was used here isn’t as flattering as I had hoped. Expect that to be changed in the future, especially since Darla’s demanding it. One has to wonder what’s worse: her guns or her teeth!

[5] BET ON THE VET!

People are often surprised to meet Sarah’s adopted brother, Darwin Doolittle. What? You can’t see the family resemblance? After living his life in an abusive household, the Bosewicks took him in around the same time Saura had discovered her powers. The process has not been without its injuries. Lucky for the big blue brawler, Darwin wants to be a vet. So much so that he’s sworn to a life of veganism, a fact his friends constantly tease him over. Lovingly so, mind you. Despite any differences, Darwin is a member of the family. Everybody knows this young man is gonna go far. Helps that he’s one of the first to get an up-close study of dinosaurs.

Honestly, I threw in Darwin here to fill some space. From the start it was determined he’d be featured in this BOOM, just not how. Helping an injured parasaurolophus seemed pretty cool. Just be thankful you’re not seeing what Dar is…

[6] I KISSED A DINO (AND I LIKED IT!)

Really, what would’ve been the point of all this if I didn’t draw Patricia and Sarah smooching at least once? Like I said on BlueSky: GAY DINOSAURS ROCK!

[7] YOU’RE MY HERO

At the end of the day, one question remains: Why? Why would Sarah subject herself to this lifestyle? One that involves facing down psychotic predators, crooked cops, and greedy governors. Pain is a constant. Especially when it seems like the fighting never really stops. The world already spat in her face, so why should she even care? Because that world is home to Girasol Bosewick. It’s that spark of optimism in this five year old’s eyes is what gives her older sibling the strength to keep going. Ultimately Saura wants a world where her hermanita never has to experience what she did. A world free of judgmental stares, false assumptions, and itchy trigger fingers. Picturing a future where little Gigi is free to be whoever she wants to be? You better believe it’s worth every broken bone. That’s why, if you asked Saura, she’d say Girasol is the real hero. 

HEY THERE PEOPLE OF TODAY AND ROBOTS OF TOMORROW! IT'S ME, CLARK!

At her core, Rosie is an pioneer. Her mission is life is to explore and document every dimension in the grander multiverse. It's no easy task but she's willing to put in the work. Especially since one of the grand joys of exploration is encountering the unknown. What new wonders await for our Cosmic Cutie and all those who set to search through the stars?

How about a picture that took a literally actual year to finish. Yes, seriously. Full disclosure, this and Pulchra Tellus were all sketched around the same time back in July 2024. Why did it take me so long to finally color in these arguably simple pictures? I just totally forgot I drew these. Eh, better late than never. Thankfully the other sketches won't take as long to complete. Maybe. We'll see. For now, I hope you all enjoy!

BONUS QUESTION: Have you ever gone exploring before? If so, what did you find?

HEY THERE PEOPLE OF TODAY AND ROBOTS OF TOMORROW! IT'S ME, CLARK!

A chill is in the air. You can feel it can't you? Perhaps you even recognize it. That same chill arrives every year right on the dot. With it comes a frightful howl in the moonlight, the only other sound to be heard. Otherwise there is a strange calmness settling around you, like the point of ease before the storm. By now the howling has stopped. It has been replaced by a different sound. Footsteps. Big, heavy, dragging, as if the figure didn't quite know how to use their legs. Perhaps it's a random passerby. Perhaps it's a rotting, frightful feature freshly risen from the grave. Perhaps it's some other, unspeakable horror waiting to pounce! Whatever it is, you're not waiting around to find out! Yet no matter how far you run, it can't be escaped. The chill in the air, the howling of the wind, the heavy footsteps, it all leads back to one thing: October is here! And with it comes the return of the DUDELZ of the Damned!

Yes weirdos, like last year, my approximation of Sketchtober has returned. I call it an proxy because there was no list of prompts. Nah, that'd be too limiting. This is yet another case where I compiled my own list of ideas, sketched them out, then used one color per picture. With all that said, let's see what spoopy scribblings await us today!

Legend says there is an ancient city hidden deep within the jungle of Africa. Many have ventured deep into the wilderness to find it, but seldom have come back successful. Or alive. This fabled city and all of its riches is at risk of becoming lost to time. At least it was until Rosie Stardust found it. Unfortunately it wasn't as abandoned as the folktales said. Besides the copious amounts of leopards living amongst the rubble, including the Cosmic Cutie's new cat companion Raul, the ghost of Opar's long passed Queen still haunts it. Now thanks to her staff's magical powers, La has possessed the sentient space anomaly with the plans to rebuild her crumbling kingdom. However, her majesty didn't count on Rosie's animal friends to help her. Realizing the red one was in trouble, predator and prey alike teamed together to separate the sparkly being from the magic staff. With some help from the Cosmic Cutie's traveling buddies, eventually the deed was done. Knowing they couldn't destroy the staff, it was instead thrown into the river where hopefully it shall never be found. In the meantime, now that our hero is free from the scepter's influence, she has but one question: is the crown too much?

Personally I think it looks great on her. Rosie was already rocking the latest in Opar fashion, but she slays with the headwear. As did La in the Legend of Tarzan, a criminally underrated animated series that is not on Disney+. Remember folks, Bob Iger said everything would be on there. I'm still waiting, Bobby boi. At least this program is still preserved on sites like YouTube and Internet Archive. That way the rest of you can check out La rocking the Crown of Opar. Sadly it was featured in only one episode, ignoring the occasional artwork where Jane herself wears it. I just drew Rosie sporting it cuz I thought it'd be fun. Spoiler alert; it was. Here's hoping you all enjoy the look as well. And remember: crowns are awesome.

BONUS QUESTION: What animated series do you think is ridiculously underrated?

MAY THE GLASSES BE WITH YOU!

HEY THERE PEOPLE OF TODAY AND ROBOTS OF TOMORROW! IT'S ME, CLARK!

A chill is in the air. You can feel it can't you? Perhaps you even recognize it. That same chill arrives every year right on the dot. With it comes a frightful howl in the moonlight, the only other sound to be heard. Otherwise there is a strange calmness settling around you, like the point of ease before the storm. By now the howling has stopped. It has been replaced by a different sound. Footsteps. Big, heavy, dragging, as if the figure didn't quite know how to use their legs. Perhaps it's a random passerby. Perhaps it's a rotting, frightful feature freshly risen from the grave. Perhaps it's some other, unspeakable horror waiting to pounce! Whatever it is, you're not waiting around to find out! Yet no matter how far you run, it can't be escaped. The chill in the air, the howling of the wind, the heavy footsteps, it all leads back to one thing: October is here! And with it comes the return of the DUDELZ of the Damned!

Yes weirdos, like last year, my approximation of Sketchtober has returned. I call it an proxy because there was no list of prompts. Nah, that'd be too limiting. This is yet another case where I compiled my own list of ideas, sketched them out, then used one color per picture. With all that said, let's see what spoopy scribblings await us today!

Legend says there is an ancient city hidden deep within the jungle of Africa. Many have ventured deep into the wilderness to find it, but seldom have come back successful. Or alive. This fabled city and all of its riches is at risk of becoming lost to time. At least it was until Rosie Stardust found it. Weeks of trekking through the dense jungle and she finally made it onto the ruins of the once grand civilization of Opar. By now it seemed the only things living here were leopards, which probably explained why so few adventurers made it back alive. Luckily this wasn't a problem for the Cosmic Cutie. Yet again her power to befriend any creature came into play proved most valuable as she ventured towards one lonely leopard and offered it some jerky. From then on out she named the lovely beast 'Raul', after the name it made when it snarled. Venturing further into the city, Rosie discovered what appeared to be a ceremonial temple with a large throne in the center. Sitting atop that throne was a scepter with the head of a leopard holding a red sphere in its jaws. One that was calling out to the sentient space-anomaly. Like a voice compelling her forward. Rosie couldn't resist. Wrapping her digits around the staff, her traditional English clothes disappeared in a flash of red light, replaced by a bikini, sarong, bracelets, and a cape! Not only that, but her attitude suddenly felt more wicked. The Spirit of the city's queen had taken hold of the Cosmic Cutie. Who could stop her now?

Eh, I'm sure it'll wear off eventually.

When drawing Rosie as Jane Porter, my initial plan was to sketch a collage of Rosie in the explorer's most iconic outfits. This would include the fancy yellow dress, the tank top and red skirt along with a bunch of Fischer's Lovebird, and finally the sinister styles of Queen La. Sadly that didn't pan out as expected. However, I knew I still wanted to sketch Rosie as the vile ruler of Opar. For those of you who are confused who that even is, she's a villain introduced in the short-lived and underappreciated sequel series, The Legend of Tarzan. In the original book she's a survivor of Atlantis's sinking that escaped to torment Tarzan in Africa. On the show she's a feme fatale who simps for Tarzan, can magically turn leopards into humanoid men under her command, and can become a wandering spirit that possesses people via physical touch. Her most memorable episode is when she does this to Jane, using her as a vessel to resurrect her destroyed oasis. Now this episode is memorable for two reasons: 1) it's a legit great story where Tarzan is pitted against his one true love, and 2) Jane looks stunning in that outfit. Just like I knew Rosie would. Plus the idea of her acting evil is just funny to me. Essentially she'd act like Evil Luz from that AU comic made by @moringmark. Not so much 'evil' as she is 'vaguely anarchistic'. In any case, I am amazed by the final result, as I hoped the rest of you are! And remember: never touch a mystical staff that doesn't belong to you. It could host the soul of a vengeful jungle monarch.

BONUS QUESTION: If you befriended a leopard, what would you name it?

MAY THE GLASSES BE WITH YOU!

HELLO THERE PEOPLE OF TODAY AND ROBOTS OF TOMORROW! IT'S ME, CLARK!

Happy National Cartoonists Day, everyone! What, you didn't think my current computer crisis would stop me from celebrating the Holiday, did ya? Actually, it almost did. Y'see, despite this piece being drawn by hand, my computer's scanner wouldn't save the file onto my craptop. My computer's going through a processing error, meaning it's set to stop working any day now. Fortunately this hunk'a junk managed to work just long enough for me to upload the newest Sketch BOOM! Yes my friends, the Sketch BOOM is back! I figured if I could only post one thing for NCD it might as well be something covered head to toe with cartoons. Some pretty well drawn cartoons too, if you pardon me tootin' my own horn. It just feels so good to have drawn something, have it come out looking as good as it does, and to be able to upload it here on tumblr for you all to see. For the record though, screw tumblr's stupid@$$ upload size limit, I freak'n hate websites that do that! It makes me as mad as a blood-cursed Croczilla fighting a sentient mobile home, but we'll get to that in a bit. For now though, let's see what silly sketches managed to make their way onto the page, starting from the top left corner and making our way down.

Don't forget to be on the lookout for the Snow Conies, the tiny sentient species of snow cones that have invaded almost every part of the page! Can you spot all 8?

[1] DID SOMEONE SAY PIZZA? You wanna know what the downside is of drawing at the bottom of the page and working your way up is? You have tiny pockets of blank space that you're unsure what to do with. Such was the case was this corner, having been left blank after drawing #2. For a while I thought of filling the void with a cosmically charged Snow Conie in the same vein at Rosie, but the Cosmic Cutie was already part of the BOOM due to Discord shenanigans. Instead I opted for a Clarktoon that sadly hasn't been drawn in a while, that being the ever-goofy Pizza Monster. No doubt he was lured here by the scent of all the pretzel pizzas I've been eating lately. While he was here I decided to experiment with his expressions, adding more cheek to his smile. Honestly I think he looked better without them. Still, I'm happy to see him here as I hope all of you are. Now if only he'd stop hogging all the grub!

[2] EYE OF THE THERIAN Rosie isn't the only character here due to Discord shenanigans. At the beginning of every month my friend @Foxhatart opens herself up to sketch suggestions on her Kofi page. For the record, those of you wanting to help out another artist keep food in their bellies can click here. With a few of these Kofi slots still left open, Fox came to her friends asking if they had any ideas for pics involving her characters. Not knowing a ton about her characters, I joked that she ott'a draw her half-lemur girl Cath bench press a bus, her freakish strength having become a reoccurring gag via game nights. Funny as the idea was, I didn't expect Fox to actually do it. You can imagine my surprise when this popped up in my inbox a few days later. Consider this doodle a long overdue 'thank you'. Here we see the crazy Cath lifting weights with, of all peeps, Bumper! No doubt the little marshmallow's here for moral support since he can't actually build up any muscle mass. Ghost problems, am I right? Hope you enjoy this silly little sketch, Fox. Next time I'll have Cath bench-pressing your mortal nemesis; a train.

[3] TOOK ME LONG ENOUGH Despite what I said about Pizza Monster, he actually wasn't the last sketch to be included. No, that honor goes to the metal mercenary, the bodacious bot bounty hunter, the anarchistic anti-hero herself; Candy Banger! Much like the aforementioned monster I figured it had been too long since I drew Candy or really any of the robotic cast of 3K. Atop of that, Candy represented a good chance for me to use the stockpile of poses I've saved up from a thumb drive. Using one from a tumblr site called @posereference turned out to be surprisingly easier than anticipated, the only real flaw in the end being how I colored her. This is one of many coloring errors I made on this piece, Candy's hair looking more bluish purple than I had intended. Still, considering I drew her at all, I doubt Candy's complaining. Here's hoping I can draw more of her in the future, otherwise I might be riddled with bullet holes like that wall behind her. 

[4] AN AVERAGE DAY AT WHIMSYLAND And thus we've arrived to the first sketch of this compilation given to me by a friend, this one coming from @jackieariane. She and I both suffered during the Chapek administration of Disney, Jart regaling me with tales of when she dealt with rude customers at Animal Kingdom. It reminded me of when my friends AnimatedTigerGirl and RigbyH00ves worked at the Floridan Park too, all three of my companions having a surprisingly miserable experience. All these stories started melting together in my brain until I asked the question; what would happen if Brooklyn Nine Nine was set at Disneyland? Thus Whimsyland was born, albeit originally out of spite towards Chapek. I already detailed all this back in the DUDELZ from the Dumpster I posted earlier this year, but I failed to mention the human protagonist of this story, Wendy. Having been to Whimsyland once in her life at a young age, the young Vietnamese gal with OCD was immediately smitten by the place, vowing she'd someday work there. Spending the rest of her life researching the park and watching Matt Whimsy documentaries on uView, you can imagine Wendy's disappointment when she returned to the Perkiest Place on the Planet to find nothing was as perky. Whimsyland had lost its whimsy. It's here where she met Freddy Fox, the cartoon mascot of the company living in exile over how the house Matt built is being run today. In other words, what I'd imagine Mickey would be doing if he were real. Together these two kindred spirits are set to bring magic back to this wonderland! Overall I'm pleased with how the sketch turned out, though Wendy's face reminds me of my character Sue the Game Genie more than I'd prefer. Also, Fred Fox is way bigger than intended, no doubt I'll be changing that for future depictions of these two. For now though, this drawing has just enough Whimsy for my liking. 

[5] CROCZILLA: BLOOD CURSE More Discord Shenanigans! This time it's the result of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign that @burningthrucelluloid somehow roped me into yet again. Instead of robots and dragons set in a medieval fantasy however, this time it's elves and crocodiles in an approximation of the American south. One ruled by Jerimiah Strahd, a ruthless blood-sucking bastard that Alec based off Leonardo DiCaprio's character from Django Unchained. If that wasn't a sign of how crazy this campaign has become, here's an actual moment from the game. The heroic but hesitant human Jason (YoungSamurai18), the loud-mouthed scaredy cat Toby (Mr-Herp-Derp), and the silent but deadly Ed (void-android), and the equally hungry and adventurous Crocie (me, of course) were hunting for a witch named Bubba Lysiga when all of a sudden the witch brought her mobile home to life in order to attack our heroes. Worse still, she put Ed under mind control to attack his comrades. Croc got the worst of it, his HP dropping to 0 due to him falling from the house and getting stomped on by its gigantic set of wooden chicken legs. Did I mention this campaign gets strange? Well it got even crazier when a dark, shadowy entity housed in Croc's body suddenly gave him a recharge, the reptile taking the chance to mix a Heat and Growth potion he obtained earlier to become CROCZILLA! It was a moment Alec was hoping would happen in game and I didn't intend on disappointing. Same goes for this sketch, it mostly going just as envisioned in my head. The pissed off look on my green friend's face, the damage done to the rusty trailer that is the witch's house, the tiny silhouettes of Croc's teammates in said home, the heavy fog, the Earth-shattering roar in the background, it all came out great. Save for one detail. You'll notice that Croc's eyes are black with red irises in this pic. That detail's due to Croc having blood curse abilities, hence the dark entity sharing rental space in his body. As such, you'd think Croc's fire breath would be just as vibrantly red, but sadly that idea didn't occur to me until after I made the fire blue as well as the shine off every surface. Spam it! Still, coloring hiccup aside, I'm mighty proud of this pic! Hopefully so are the rest of the Barovian Bozos that make up my team. 

[6] WONDER ZIGGY, CINEPHILE FROM THE PLANET GARBONZA EVEN MORE DISCORD SHENANIGANS! Cut to a few months back and I was restructuring my Discord server, cutting down the multiple move threads it had before merging them all into one. Being the story-driven bozo I am, I quickly wrote a backstory for this thread involving an alien named Ziggy falling in love with the Earth B-Movies he was picking up on his deep space probe. So much so that he came down to our planet only to discover there were even MORE types of movies for him to enjoy! It overwhelmed him so much that he blacked out, awakening the next day having purchased a since abandoned drive-in theater on the outskirts of Clarksburg. Faced with this new impulse purchase, Ziggy followed the oldest piece of wisdom known to man or alien; Screw it. After a refurb Ziggy reopened the drive-in, screening B Movies and cinematic shlock to an appreciative public. And if you can believe it, I typed all of that out after thinking about it for five minutes. My brain is weird like that. All that said, it'd take a couple of RP sessions before I got his personality down, that being an MST3K character if the show were written by Joe-Bob Briggs. In other words, a surprisingly well educated weirdo with a deep love of Hollywood history. It'd take me a while longer before finally sketching him, basing him off the titular villain from Robot Monster, an appropriate design for someone who loves old, cheesy movies. All he was missing was a pink Hawaiian shirt and a cowboy hat. If you think he's strange, you should meet his wife Wanda, though let's save that for a future BOOM...

[7] LOOKIN' SPAM GOOD! What better way to show my friends I care than drawing them in ridiculous outfits? This sketch, the first to be included in this BOOM, is a merging of two repurposed ideas I had for other pictures. The first would've involved the Swedish menace Finjix with a fish bowl on his head much to the confusion of Alec, the recipient of a kawaii make over. I can't remember where the fishbowl idea spawned from but Sir Alec the Adorable came from him scoffing at the idea that I could make anything cute, himself included. Just you wait Alec, I'll get you someday! For now though I swapped out making him uber-adorable in favor of dressing him up like the Wasp from Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the awesome animated show he finally binge-watched on my behalf. Granted I could've drawn him as Maria Hill, the character on the show he deemed the sexiest, but it wouldn't have been as funny. After all, all Maria's outfit is a blue jumpsuit. Far less interesting than Jart's leather jacket, an image that popped into my noggin following her telling me she's learning to ride a bike. That and me desperately clinging onto the back as she gave me a ride, but that would've been harder to draw. Instead I went for the jacket, a fashion statement that would be stupid in real life since she lives in the infamously hot country of Vietnam. Yet even in the face of logic, Jart not only humored me but encouraged me to include this in the final sketch. Thank goodness she did cuz I love how it turned out, minus the green stripes that were accidentally colored black like the rest. DRATS! Not only that but she informed me that she was no longer using her fursona, instead opting to draw herself as a human from now on. DOUBLE DRATS! Ah well, I have more ideas involving 'Trang the Tyrant' as I've nicknamed her, so chances are I'll get the chance to correct both mistakes in the future. It might also give me another chance to draw myself as Super Giraffe, which was what I originally intended to do with my own fursona. Sadly the costume still needs work so instead I opted for my classic Pagonian Wizard robes. Even in the face of all these snafus, I think we all look spam good!

[8] ROSIE STARDUST, SPACE WIZARD Turns out I'm always right even when I'm spewing nonsense. Don't believe me? Plenty of peeps have made that mistake before. Take my friend Alec for example. In the midst of him running the current Strahd campaign I mentioned earlier, I jokingly tossed out the idea of Rosie transporting our heroes out of Barovia and into another universe. A cute 'What If' scenario the Dungeon Master wasted no time in shooting down. Mistaking my silly suggestion as a legit one, Alec explained how unfair it'd be for a god to play a game with a bunch of mortal meatbags. Let the record show that I never declared the sentient Einstein-Rosen Bridge to be a deity. Some alien cultures have mistaken her from one, but Rosie herself would be the first to tell you she's no holy being. Not that any of that mattered. Alec held firm to his statement, Rosie was denied access to any dungeons. For about six seconds before my buddy realized how a depowered Rosie would make a wonderful wizard for a Spelljammers campaign. Fueling this fire was his recent watching of The Owl House, imagining Rosie rocking wizard robes similar to those worn by The Good Witch Azura. Before I could say, "NOW EAT THIS SUCKA," he was leading the charge on my server of peeps demanding I draw Rosie as a space wizard. At first I was floored at the audacity! You shoot down an idea that wasn't meant to be taken seriously only for you to turn around and do so anyway? MAKE UP YOUR SPAM MIND! Then I followed Alec's example and got over it, the idea of Rosie in wizards robes too tempting a sketch not to capitalize on. In the end the only aspect of Azura that made it into the final product was the hat, minus the cute lil' crown. Everything else took cues from the fashion of @cherrysdesigns along with a style @girlofhearts101 turned me towards called whimsigoth. All of which resulting in an costume that gave Alec 'David Bowie Ziggy Stardust vibes'. It's thanks to that comment that Rosie now has a last name. Everyone, say hello to Rosie Stardust, universal explorer and space wizard!

[9] DIREKTOR AND 3D1T0-R Is there a Hollywood equivalent in the Star Wars universe? Some sort of glamorous planet where overpaid alien celebrities are shamelessly rebooting beloved classics for a profit? All while amazing writers are getting screwed out of the earnings they deserve? This was what I asked Alec during his binge watching of The Clone Wars. Surprising me once more, the Masked Maniac revealed that he had asked SIM-N the same question before, the two creating a character called The Direktor for their Monova comics. Her whole gimmick was producing hypnotic propaganda for the tyrannical Twin Emperors, a cool concept that never went anywhere due to the robotroll cutting From Destiny's Ashes short. Being the character man that I am, I decided The Direktor couldn't go to waste. Especially when she'd make such a good villain in the world of 3K and a good addition to this BOOM. After asking SIM-N for the character's original reference sheet I set out to give her a Clarktoon makeover while watching cutscenes of The Second Sister from Jedi: Fallen Order. No doubt Elizabeth Grullon's intimidating vocal performance effected my outcome, the alien movie maker now sporting a streamlined outfit along with a smugly sinister smile on her face. As apposed to her boss, the Direktor's little droid 3D1T0-R hardly changed in the transition. He was a little creepy ball to start and he's still a little creepy ball now. One that was cooked up by Alec according to SIM-N, which makes sense given our pal's passion for film editing. Once the two were fully drawn I decided to test out my shading and lighting techniques in an attempt to make her look more menacing. If the response I got from the others on Discord is any indication, I succeeded. Indeed, this fem fatale filmmaker will fit in phenomenally as a 3K villain. Now the question is to who? 

[10] JURAKISS Finally we conclude things with a sketch somewhat prompted by @zernna. Way back in August of last year she was commissioned to draw my cretaceous crusader Saura and her girlfriend Patricia enjoying a delightful day at the pool, a pic as charming as that description would imply. In my comment thanking Ze I couldn't help but laugh at how the two had already been declared a cute couple despite how I hadn't drawn the two together in my own artwork yet. The Alien Artist than demanded I draw 'moar art of them then', prompting me to ask if that was a challenge. She said yes. Though not from a lack of trying, it took me nine freak'n months to meet that challenge. Blame that on me being a picky artist since I have been meaning to draw references of these characters in the meantime. After all, Zerna got asked to draw Saura in other pics without having any color references for the Blue Beast of Fosslin. Fortunately Saura's shown up in a number of previous Sketch BOOMs, now getting to share the spotlight with Patricia here. A Patricia that would've been notably paler were it not for Alec asking if I had any markers that matched Patricia's skin tone. I didn't, but the local hobby store did! Who knew Sharpie made skintone markers? It not only helped me color in the cute Muslim girl here, but also Cath and Wendy later on. Talk about a perfect purchase! Now if only the colors of Patricia's outfit were as satisfactory. Ah well, there's always next time, since I'm pretty sure Zerna's challenge still stands. XP For now though, I hope you all enjoy this compilations of crazy scribblings fresh from my mind. If you didn't, worry not, chances are I'll be making another one soon....