That actually makes a lot of sense.

A sad day for the brotherhood of big jobbers. What's the hot new phrase that they're pushing now?

That looks brilliant!

And here's the process of pencils to final art. I'm only just now realising that I made the letters of 'the Phoenix' as cutouts by accident because I couldn't decide what colour to make them, but they kept that in for the final version. An accident? No, I am just subconsciously a visionary GENIUS.

For those interested in the Creative Process here's a video of my work on this, going from trying out a bunch of initial ideas, to finished pencils. I can't believe I abandoned 'It's Ghostin' Time'.

And of course credit to @andreasschuster.bsky.social for the fantastic art - he brings just the right level of deranged energy to his illustrations!

This book contains so many mad little pixie stories, including my favourite one, where Toby's teeth all come to life and leap out of his mouth. Body horror for kids!

But perhaps that's just my inner critic talking.

To be very clear, I absolutely do not recommend this method of working to anyone.

I often have something playing to help drown out my inner critic, but it's always something I've either watched before, or something that I've picked specifically because it's terrible (I'm looking at you, Leverage: Redemption), so I don't have to pay any attention.

Even weirder, I had the exact same thing. Or maybe, if we both did it, perhaps it's not weird at all.
That would be weird.

Maybe you can commission the artist to draw you some leg snake foot pics for your private collection.

Just to give you a preview of the sort of mind-bending science fiction horrors you might find inside, here is the villain, Dark Rectangle, revealing his latest, most terrifying invention yet:

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could breed a dinosaur with the ability to do basic operations in a spreadsheet, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Yes! Scully very clearly sees a ghost, and then is all, no, obviously ghosts aren't real. But then there's an episode with a vaguely religious theme and suddenly Mulder thinks it's all fake, and Scully is completely on board. They love to do a role switch!

Oh! I'm rewatching these too (finding new things to half-watch while I'm making comics is hard!) I did not remember the episodes being so slow, nor did I remember what a dick Mulder is.

Your half-remembered Latin is about as good as my lazy Italian name googling.