Krushur the Mutie

From the cover of The mutant Epoch role-playing game, this brute can hold the line all on his own. Photoshop smudge painting over graphite drawing.

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The Mall of Doom ad

 Ad for The Mall of Doom from the back of an Excavator Monthly Magazine. I always liked this one. Wish I had 36 hour days instead of these 24 hour rotations and could get back to these magazines. Maybe an Excavator Quarterly?

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Saw Jawed Newt

Attacking from shallow water, packs of these half meter long ambush predators will latch onto prey and use their serrated teeth to thrust from side to side to saw into the flesh of their victims.

Art from page 190 of Excavator Monthly Compendium.

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Jumping Wood Tick

Another tiny terror from Excavator Monthly Compendium’s bestiary.

These ticks are huge compared to regular specimens, and start at 3cm but can bloat to 7cm when full of your blood. These buggers can jump 6 meters to latch onto passing prey. Besides weakening their victims, they can also transmit diseases, so your characters better check each other well after a journey through the thicket.

Art from page 186 of Excavator Monthly Compendium. Grab a free sample pdf today!

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Mutant Black Widow Spider and normal variant

From the new creatures section of Excavator Monthly Compendium. So, you don’t need to get bit by this 3 kilogram mutie specimen to have a bad day, just a normal black widow like we have here in Kamloops is also nasty as hell. Of course, the freaky version’s bite is way, way worse.

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Acidic Mutant Mushroom

Do. Not. Touch. These.

When disturbed, these mushrooms will shoot out a spray of acid, and since they grow in patches, a passerby could be fired upon by many.

Graphite art from page 179 of Excavator Monthly Compendium.

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Wild Child of the Mutant Epoch

This street urchin has caught herself a delicious, high protein supper. The trick now is to keep this bounty from the bigger street kids, punks and predators of the vast slum cities of the Epochian era. Such cities as Overpass, Steel Hill, and Ventura are filled with feral orphans, who if they survive to adulthood, can often make excellent ruin explorers. This is another character stereotype you can play in this tabletop RPG.

Art from page 121 of Excavator Monthly Compendium.

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Gung-Ho Marine and Hulking Mutant Freak!

Yet more character stereotypes from Excavator Monthly Compendium, page 111. I Did these pencils a long time ago, but recall having a blast rendering them.

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Eye issues, the damn sequel:: Retinal Detachment

My earlier eye surgery failed, retina tear turned into a much worse retinal detachment.

Noticed it camping over the previous weekend as vision stopped its rapid improvement and a great dark curtain fell across my vision from the nose to about halfway across my right eye’s field of view. Got an emergency inspection by my regular eye doctor and my wife drove me to another city to see a specialist.

Had a short surgery in Kelowna Monday and then had to eat, sleep, and travel face down for several days which was hell on my neck and back.

Last Thursday I had an hour-long horror show of a surgery here in Kamloops. Science Fiction reference aplenty but I’d prefer to have been unconscious for that sorta thing in the future.

Right after the surgery. I'm smiling, sorta, because the freezing hasn't come out yet.  Wasn't looking so smug around 7pm that night. Tylenol allowed me to sleep a few hours - face down on a special foam pillow.

The morning after the surgery. Posted this in blue to spare you the gore.

My wife’s parents drove me back to Kelowna for the follow-up and somewhat gory bandage removal early the next morning. Doctor was very happy with the results but the ‘heavy oil’ they put in my eye to stabilize it won’t be removed until December during another surgery... so will I be a one-eyed near useless specimen until after that? F**k.

Returning from Kelowna the morning after the surgery and post-op follow-up. It was good news from the doctor that the surgery went well. Another surgery in December, however. 

At least doc thinks the eye has been saved but will be a lifelong concern. The removal of the tiny cataract in that eye some years ago seems to be the likely culprit.

Home now with a bloody swollen eye, on T3s and now able to lie on my back or sit at the drawing table and fantasize about drawing, inking, and oil painting. I am, however, able to use my left eye to doodle and ink previously penciled art for the Expansion Rules but need to go real easy. As for working on a computer, that might be weeks away.

What an ordeal.

I’ll add updates and bits of art when able. This will, of course, delay the New book’s release, but at least the incredibly talented doctors saved the eye.

Regards,

WM

I didn't get too far from bed this weekend, and one of my cat's Rory, would not leave my side!