let me tell you, it was pretty great coming home to see that the anniversary mosaics for both Ironhide & Blurr had gone up and were getting such a positive reaction.

thank you, woot & yay.

*crosses fingers* here's to hoping that powerglide makes it too.

going to spotlight the original version of the Blurr anniversary mosaic on the left-side here, as it's different than the one officially released by *Transformers-Mosaic. i was asked to switch TF:M logos as well as the story-title's placement... and i did.

i hear where they're coming from though, as they were aiming for a uniform format in the presentation of anniversary mastheads and titles, so all is well.

EDIT: 06/30/08 - Powerglide comes in for a safe-landing !
my Powerglide comic "premiered" today over at *Transformers-Mosaic.
thanks again to ~Darkratbat for providing the color-work for it, despite the extra time-constraints of moving !

so Paraskavedekatriaphobia -- *whew* -- is fear of friday the 13th... and is likely misspelled by me. in any case, despite my o.c.d occasionally fueling some irrational superstitions, fearing friday the 13th, and the number 13 more generally, is not one of them. nothing really odd has ever happened to me on friday the 13th -- *knocks on wood* -- so here's to not jinxing the continuation of good fortune thus far.

speaking of good fortune, i am lucky enough to be working on the following TF-related projects, listed alpha by lead-character, not co-conspirator:

Blaster - TF:M story by ~shiribot
Blurr - TF:M story by *Silverene
Geekbots/Project Excelsior - IDW-forum project, story by... many of these same people.
Powerdasher - TF:M trilogy by ~JediFlaherty
Seaspray - TF:M story by ~Duke-of-Luns
Skids & Charlene - TF:M story by ~Jeysie

i am already about half-way through the inks on the Seaspray story. keeping the title under wraps, so as not to spoil things, BUT here is a pulse-pounding suspense-filled preview from said mosaic penned by ~Duke-of-Luns ... dundunDUNNN.

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hola, here i sit a day removed from having finally finished the... finishing touches on 2 of the 3 *Transformers-Mosaic 1st-anniversary comic-book pages for which i handled the lineart and letters. the ironhide and blurr stories are go -- with special thanks to ~shiribot and =Silverene, for masterful writing and colors, respectively. these two mosaics shall see the light of day in the coming weeks. quite pleased with how they've both come out. know that you all will dig them. the powerglide story will hopefully also soon see release as i'm in eager anticipation of seeing the colors ~Darkratbat will provide, now that there's more wiggle-room in terms of the birthday-mosaic deadline.

now, on to solving the mystery of who the frakk are the following:
3 old transformer toys were left outside of my work the other week. although there is a goodwill at the far end of the block, these were left almost right outside our front door. in any case, i took the sudden appearance of these transformer toys as a good omen, because of my involvement in Transformers-Mosaic and in the upcoming Geekbot comic from the IDW forum. i geekishly recognized Sandstorm's creamsicle deco right away, but wasn't sure of who the other two/three were. here are crappy phone-cam photos of the suspects to be identified:

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thanks in advance, DA/Transformers-fandom, for any answers you might provide:

inking my 3rd and final pencil-art page for the *Transformers-Mosaic first-anniversary project, an ironhide story written by the one and only first lady of Fe, ~shiribot.

also dreaming up storyboards for the forthcoming "geekbots" project at the IDW forum, as well as reading scripts for said project as its "co-editor," along with ~Jeysie, who came out of retirement not only to rap, but also to work on transformers comics.

check out the work of the other geekbot word and picture co-conspirators,
alphabetically:

~Duke-of-Luns (certainly the duke of TF-comic script-writing, as well as luns)

~Kingoji (had the wrong link here earlier! anyway, his artwork is pure win
and he suggested then revamped the geekbot comic's central "villain")

*OptimusFrimal (who heralds the coming of the beast era)

+ skids and tramp, who do not have DeviantArt pages, as far as i know.

(all that said, i love sleep and wish i had more of it.)