So true. It’s hard too in that people should be able to make art for fun and not have to make it a potential income stream if they don’t want to. But when the cost of living goes up and pay does not, translating skill/effort into money becomes more urgent over doing things for the joy of it.

"Magic is here, personal pools of energy ready to keep portable technology running endlessly. As the politicians, corporations, and criminal orgs of Tokyo jockey for control in the evolving landscape, a group of rivals and friends navigate boardrooms and back alleys to transform the locus of power."

It's available in paperback on Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org, and in paperback and Kindle on Amazon. Links to where to buy are all here: www.syphoncontinuity.com/buy/!

We put in our favorite extras: a sumi-e-style map of essential Tokyo locations, custom chapter headers, and a detailed character list to help you keep track of all the drama. The new cover has a delightful matte texture, perfect for spending time in the Continuity.

We moved from Substack over to Ghost to host our speculative fiction (what if these people had all the problems of capitalism but the devices were powered by magic), and related comics and blogging. It’s wonderful to all others who moved the same.

www.syphoncontinuity.com

She gets corrupted by finding a loose penny on the ground! She is the ultimate in automatic self-corruption, with no malice in her heart.

Follow the @ask.syphoncontinuity.com.ap.brid.gy‬ account to get direct updates from our Ghost site. Pretty neat!

Sometimes I feel the question of why keeping making things amid all the awful in the world, but this is why. Because we are people and there is value in creation.

The orange sock plus cat in this picture startled me for a moment because on the quick scroll past, my brain said someone somehow posted a picture of my own cat. There was a guy down there, and he looked like my guy down there!

Comparing with the model, the skirt really needed to be hemmed for the difference in height. It’s giving Fischer Price put me in a plastic tractor energy.

Ha! Can it even be laziness if the form so delightfully serves function?

The pain of comic writing is real

Cats: both the most and least comfortable creatures in the universe