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mrphillby.bsky.social @mrphillby.bsky.social · Sep 18
New cover image for my webcomic :^) read the archive online at mapleblossom.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/#co...
Cover image for my webcomic.
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New update for Maple Blossom hits rock bottom! 5 fresh pages!

Today Maple Leaf gives Maple Blossom a mental health check in!

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Page 26 Comic page with 6 panels. Panel 1: Maple Leaf’s confusion clears. “Oh uh– Right. Sorry. This is what I mean though, about the headaches. Panel 2: “All this weird stuff. I can’t keep hold of it.” Maple Leaf mimes grasping something in some of her hands. “It slips out of my mind.Like a bar of soap.” Panel 3: Maple Leaf Stands up from her desk. “Ah whatever. I did want to talk to you about your documents. Let’s head to the bar first. I need a drink.” “okay!” Maple Blossom responds. Panel 4: Cut to the pancake restaurant’s bar. Maple Blossom is looking rough. “So did you find out what this is all about? Why I lost my house?” “In a minute.” Maple Leaf responds from offscreen. “In a minute?” Maple Blossom responds in confusion. “First I really gotta check in with you, Sugar.” Maple Leaf continues. Panel 5: We see the bar fully now, Maple Blossom sits on a stool at the bar, Maple Leaf hovers behind the bar, adding a shot of maple syrup from one of the optics into a cocktail shaker. “Oh why?” Maple Blossom asks. “I just gotta know if you’re doing okay, Hun. There’s a lot going on and I know how you value your routine.” Maple Leaf answers. “Oh that’s sweet, but ~I’m doing great, I, uh, I think.” Maple Blossom responds uncertainly. Panel 6: “You think” Maple Leaf presses. “Yeah all things considered. And given the circumstances” Maple Blossom replies, avoiding eye contact. “I’m alllll good.” Page 27 Comic page with 6 panels. Panel 1: Maple Leaf, still holding a cocktail shaker bigger than herself puts one of her hands to her temple. “Okay Sugar, it’s just that– How do I put this– You never really seem particularly–” Panel 2: Maple Leaf shakes the cocktail shaker vigorously as she continues: “Like you’re kinda always a little bit lets say–” Panel 3: Maple Leaf pours out a little drink and a big drink. She finally gets to the point. “Unstable.” Panel 4: “Unstable? How so” Maple Blossom responds, her pupils fluctuating. “Oh come on Maple, you know what I’m talking about.” Maple Leaf says, getting a little annoyed. Panel 5: Maple Blossom drinks the little drink as Maple Leaf says her piece, “You’re always putting on this happy facade, performing for other’s sake! Like you can’t just be yourself! It’s unhealthy!” Panel 6: Maple Blossom sighs sadly as Maple Leaf glugs the big drink. “Is that how it seems to you? Like I’m playing pretend” Maple Blossom asks. “Like I’m not being authentic?”
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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First episode, second season… third wheel? Meet Herman! Our season 2 premiere OUT NOW! #audiodrama
Episode 2.1 - Herman. Meaney and Llewellyn encounter another lost Lead, Herman, who immediately lands them in trouble with a gang of Space Pirates. Episode 2.1 Guest Cast: Daniel Ross, Roger Craig Smith, Dave Fennoy, Jason Marnocha, Grey DeLisle, and Ryan Bartley.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Plugging away at the next update for Maple Blossom hits Rock bottom! I feel like this panel is pretty representative of the update in general haha
Maple Blossom the lop-eared bunny explains "I would just be nothing."
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Pokemon Legends ZA is interesting in that they took the blandest least interesting setting possible but also decided to make the combat fun and streamlined this time. So its both more boring than usual but also much more fun to actually play.
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The reason the no kings rally shpuld scare trump is the thought that what if next time they arent peaceful. What if he's pushed people too far? Im sure trump declaring himself the poopy butt diarrhea king of america will only difuse things though!
October 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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New update on my comic Maple Blossom hit rock bottom! Full archive on mapleblossom.thecomicseries.com/comics/21/#c...

We continue with chapter one. [1/2]
Page 21 Comic page with 3 Panels. Panel 1: Maple is in the staff room at Maple’s Pancakes. It’s a space for people of diverse sizes, as the HR documentation puts it, so we can see a tiny chair and coffee table along side what a hightnormative person would tactlessly call ‘normal’ size ones. Maple stands at her open locker, she’s changed out of her Waitress dress. She holds her iconic green heart shirt in her paws. “Thank goodness I left a spare shirt in my locker!” she says to herself, “I hope Maple Leaf doesn’t mind me leaving my dressing gown here…” Panel 2: Maple now wears her iconic green heart shirt.m It’s a green t-shirt with a heart that matches the deep pink of her flower. “Oh that’s better! I feel like Myself!” she exclaims. Panel 3: “Oh Maple Honey, is that you?” Maple Leaf shouts from her office. “Oh that’s me!” Maple responds. “Could you pop in here for a mo?” Maple Leaf asks from behind the slightly ajar door to her normal sized office. “Sure thing Maple Leaf! I should let you know that I’m taking the day off!” Page 22 Comic page with 3 panels. Panel 1: “You’re taking the day off!” Maple Leaf exclaims from behind her desk in her normal sized office. “You never take the day off!” Panel 2: Maple’s face fills the doorway to Maple Leaf’s normal sized office. Like when she spoke to Maple Leaf earlier she has taken on a slightly more neutral energy. “I know! I’m confused about it too! But now that we have a second person waiting the tables I thought it might not be a problem” She explains. “Well at least that’s how Maple Flower explained it. …actually he kinda insisted I take the day off.” Panel 3: “Maple Flower!” Maple Leaf exclaims in frustration, “Cripes! Is he in charge now?”. “No you are!” Maple reassures her, “But I told him about my homelessness and he agreed I should focus on that today.” “Care to run that by me again?” Maple Leaf asks incredulously. “Oh Yes! I got evicted this morning!”, “You what!?”, “Tulip said here was some stuff about it in the documents I gave you!”. “Okay fine”, Maple Leaf says, “You take the a break Sweetie. We’ll muddle through.”
October 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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RoseTintedSpectrum's bit about Burkes Law in his video on California dreams got me watching it. Everyone from every tv show from the 90s is in this thing. One episode had Anya from, buffy, Rachel from friends, Al from Quantum leap and one of the parents from saved by the bell.
September 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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New cover image for my webcomic :^) read the archive online at mapleblossom.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/#co...
Cover image for my webcomic.
September 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Silksong thoughts. I wish i was enjoying the game more. Beat lace for the first time (hopefully) after getting the dash. Explored the whole area beyond and its all dead ends. Went back to the area i was warned to avoid early on and its all spikes and ludicrously tough enemies. Where do i go?
September 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Chapter 1 of Maple Blossom Hits Rock Bottom begins! #webcomic read the archive at mapleblossom.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/#co... [1/ 3]
Page 11 Comic page with 3 panels. Panel 1: Our hero, Maple Blossom the lop eared bunny, bounces through a world of cartoon animals. She’s reached the downtown area of Friendship Isle and is in a hurry to get to work. She still carries the envelope of documents given to her by Tulip. She leaps over a fountain with a bust of a cartoon dog as it’s centerpiece. CHAPTER ONE: GOING UNDER Panel 2: Maple lands on the other side of the fountain, she pauses, noticing something off panel. Panel 3: It’s Sunflower Puppy! Sunflower puppy is a blank eyed dog with a sunflower on his head. He wears a pair of overalls and is waving a greeting at Maple. “Sunflower Puppy!!!” Maple exclaims! “Maple Blossom, it has been a while! What on the Isles are you wearing?” Sunflower Puppy says in a voice that only Maple can hear. “You’re so right, It’s been too long!” Maple replies. Page 12 Comic page with 6 panels. Panel 1: Maple looks down at her dressing gown and bunny slippers. “Oh! I forgot I didn’t get dressed today! I shouldn’t bother you with my little problems though!” Panel 2: Sunflower Puppy Beams his words straight into Maple’s skull. “Nonsense, all on the islands are of my domain. Your problems are my problems and a problem shared is a problem halved.” Panel 3: Maple responds bashfully, “Oh if you say so, I’m between homes right now, do you know where I can get a new one?” Panel 4: Sunflower Puppy speaks without speaking again. “That is a problem indeed. When I am confronted with a Player I am to inform them that housing can be arranged at Guest services, that seems like a place to start no?” Panel 5: Maple hugs her friend. “Oh thankyou! You’re my oldest and best friend, Sunflower Puppy!”. The Puppy replies in a voice that is not a voice “You are indeed the oldest not of the family. I am concerned for you. Let us go to guest services together.” Maple replies “I wish I could but I gotta get to work!”. The Puppy doesn’t speak but says “your work is but a construct, you don’t even get paid.” “Haha you’re so funny” Maple laughs. Panel 6: “Guest services! I’ll go check it out after my shift!” Maple says as she dashes away. Sunflower puppy waves and makes it so Maple hears “Stay safe my friend.” Maple responds “You too!!! I gotta jet!!!!” Page 13 Comic page with 5 panels. Panel 1: Sunflower Puppy watches his friend maple hop away toward her workplace. The midmorning sun beams down on them with its happy cat-like features. Panel 2: Silently Sunflower puppy contemplates his interaction with Maple. His blank eyes show a worried expression. Panel 3: Puppy’s eyes flash angrily. He glances skyward, while fishing for something in his overalls. Panel 4: Sunflower Puppy raises a smartphone to his ear as he begins to turn away. Panel 5: Sunflower puppy walks back down the street towards the fountain with his face on. Whatever he’s saying down the phoneline is only perceptible by whoever is on the other end.
September 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Enjoying Silksong well enough but like with hollow knight the rosary bead system just feels so counter to a metroidvania game it drives me spare. I hate dying while im exploring and essentially being forced to backtrack to the same place again to get my shit back. Let me go somewhere else!
September 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I was going to wait until i had more done but screw it heres the opening chapter of my comic! [1/3]
Page 1 Comic page with 4 panels. Panel 1: our story opens on Friendship Isle, one of the many islands of the Sunshine Archipelago. We see some cutesy houses shaped like cartoon animal heads among fields of grass. Trees dot the landscape and a road stretches off into a city in the distance. In the far background we see Mt. Sunshine, the mountain about which the islands of the Achipelago rotate. The sun hangs low in the sky, bathing the scene in morning sunlight and wearing a cutesy grin and cat ears. The scene focuses on a house shaped like a bunny rabbit. Panel 2: a living alarm clock rings out on a bedside table. It has a mischievous grin. Panel 3: A paw enters frame, pushing the alarm clock down and turning it off. Panel 4: We see a bunny rabbit sit up in bed. She has long lop ears and a big fluffy tuft of fur around her neck. She yawns heavily. The room has carrot wallpaper and we see a pair of bunny slippers at the foot of her tiny bed. Page 2 Comic page with 5 panels. Panel 1: The bunny is taking a shower. She has a 5 petaled flower on her head. Her eyes are heavy lidded and closed. She still looks very tired. Panel 2: The bunny is wrapped in towels, brushing her teeth. Her eyes are open a crack now, but she’s still not really woken up. Panel 3: the Bunny has put on a dressing gown and is waiting for the kettle to boil in her kitchen. Still tired. Panel 4: The bunny sits at a small round table. She has a slice of toast on a plate and sips contentedly from a small heart marked cup. It looks like she’s enjoying her morning coffee but in this world coffee isn’t actually allowed. She’s drinking Cocoa and its only making her sleepier. Panel 5: A knock at the door startles our bunny. Her large ears jump up and she spills a little bit of her drink. Her previously closed eyes are now huge and wide open. Page 3 Comic Page with 5 panels. Panel 1: The lighting in the room appears to darken, our bunny wears a worried expression. “Oh Bother, I thought I had time. I’m not expecting anyone, whats going on? Did I forget something?” she asks herself. Panel2: The front door appears dark and massive and towering over our bunny. She’s spiralling into anxiety. “This is going to throw everything off…” she continues, then changes attitude. “No. You’re being silly, Maple.” she says to herself. Panel 3: Maple reaches her hand out to the doorhandle. “I can do this” she says but her expression is still worried, her pupils are small and her eyes have bags underneath. Panel 4: We close in on Maple’s eyes. “Game face on!” she declares as her eyes brighten and her pupils expand. Panel 5: Maple throws open her front door with previously unseen energy. Another long lop eared rabbit waits outside. Maple exclaims: “A visitor so early on a monday morning, must be a lucky day!!! And a new friend too! Oh What an unexpected Joy!” her previously understated demeanour now replaced with a manic expression and wide smile.
August 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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The comic won't be in colour because i feel like that would slow the pace of production to a crawl. But i guess i should give the reader some idea! Fun fact three of the characters here are named 'Maple' and four of them are named after flowers. It'll make sense in context i swear!
Promotional image for my comic but this time its in colour!!!
August 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I haven't really drawn much for the past 15 years or so, butI'vee been struck by morltivation somehow, and now im 19 pages deep into drawing a comic about a cartoon bunny having a really bad week. Im not sure where to post webcomics these days though?
Characters from my comic 'Maple Blossom hits Rock Bottom' jump in the air all dynamic like. Black and white lineart with lazy shading and a light purple background
August 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Jesus i saw the image first, thought 'wow that looks just like nicholas cage' then read the text of the post.
alkennedy.bsky.social Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · Aug 16
Got the first entry for my new blog, Transformers That Look Like Nicolas Cage
Panel from an early-90s Marvel Transformers comic featuring a Decepticon called Stormcloud saying "Failure to comply will result in the deaths of everyone present here today! You would do well--". He has been drawn by artist José Delbo to facially resemble the actor Nicolas Cage
August 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Lexx update. Onto series 2. Cast change was unexpected. Suprising number of episodes involve one or more of the characters trying to buy sex. Others feel like a startrek monster of the week mystery except nobody cares. I think im becoming fully lexx brained, this show is great.
August 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The uk porn block is mindblowingly dumb, puritanical government overreach that will piss off many potential voters while also being ineffective at its stated goal of saving the children as its driven by AI and defeated by a VPN. And on cue Reform have vowed to repeal it.
July 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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So i decided to watch Lexx. Im not sure what i was expecting but it definitely wasnt whatever Lex is. It has images and ideas. Its brain meltingly dumb in places and awful and uncomfortable in others. Visually it feels like an fmv game from the 90s. Its not great but i want to see more.
July 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The absoulte desolation i feel after watching all of Farscape is really fucking me up. Not because the ending was particularly harrowing but simply because of the unavoidable reality that there's no more Farscape to watch.
June 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I dont really watch any giantbomb stuff so my thoughts on them going independent started and stopped at 'oh good for them'. That was until i saw Dan Ryckert had come back and with him the possibility of All Systems Goku, the worlds only and best anime podcast, maiking its glotious return
May 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Seeing a bunch of stuff on here about how the minecraft movie is actually really gay and i just know that when i watch it on streaming in like a year i'll just be disapointed lol.
April 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The Karl Jobst/Billy Mitchel legal drama is blowing up atm. The donkey kong cheater won and the yputube drama nazi lost. My main takeaway is that its a shame it all happened in australia because nobody involved can enjoy how funny it is that the judge was actually named Ken Barlow
April 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I enjoyed split fiction quite a bit, great casual co-op experience. The story is kind of the worst aspect of the game tho. I loved the absurd premise of the evil publisher and HIS MACHINE but like this story about 2 prety similar genres of fiction does not have anything to say about either.
March 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The edge of Tomorow is an amazing move because by making the plot be 'tom cruise dies horribly over and over' they made a tom cruise movie thats actually fun to watch.
March 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Okay so the youtube mobile app not only autoplays videos without asking it also add those videos to my watch history so that page is now a list of things ive scrolled past instead of a list of videos i've clicked on. I wonder if thats to make it harder to use the history page as a 'watch later' list
February 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM