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She’s a Demon Hunter? – Art House

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Comics Talk might be a little bit more in-depth to tackle tonight (I wanted to reserve comic talk for Wednesday, but that’s also co-op game night…. hmm a conflict) Anyways, here’s a few drawings I’ve been working on over the past 6 months. Warning: this will be an image-heavy post.

Last post in February I finished the art section with K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Rumi. My regret is I haven’t made much progress on this trio. I’ve started inking Zoey, and started colouring Rumi, but haven’t made any additional progress on Mira. I hope to work on this group a bit more before the end of the year. Leaving drawing incomplete is a real bummer. But burnout is also a thing.

Next up is one of my favourite characters to draw recently, and I’m currently reading the comic series. Queen in Black. Hela. This first attempt I went all-in, and completed it right through to becoming a poster for the wall.

First was just the idea in my head, and completed in one night. But I knew at this point it needed to be a fully realized pin-up.

So next up is the progress steps, between pencil, ink, flats. And then finally finished colour.

After Hela I got the urge to draw Absolute Zatanna Zatarra from the Absolute Wonder Woman comic. From Sketch to Inks. To full colour. This one was a lot of fun.

Still had the urge for more Hela, Queen in Black:

Next up, Magik. Wasn’t entirely happy with this quick output, but it quenched the urges to draw on that night, and Magik is always a fun one to draw. Overall not bad, but the pose is intended to be her bracing against her sword – but it didn’t really land.

After this I was really getting in the game Dispatch, which I mentioned in the last post, and worked on a few of the characters. Hopefully will find the time to do some more. But for now, Blonde Blazer and Invisigal. For Invisigal, I had a few ideas for how I would illustrate the invisibility. Ended up just removing the colour instead to show the background gradient. But kept blue lines to convey the invisibility. Turned out kinda neat.

Some more heroes and villains next. First Wonder Woman. I was inspired by a minimalist silhouette drawing that I’d seen, very little details, dark stormy night. I wanted to try and recreate it myself. Lines, shading, and then some effects and colour. Very happy with the results. Went ’till 2am though, that night.

Some Harley Quinn is always fun to draw, with her many different costume suits. For the Harley Bat, I had some inspiration with Harley surrounded by zombies. Maybe reading too much of The Walking Dead. So I wanted to do a mash-up/crossover with Harley and Lucille and zombies. Cal it the Laughing Dead. Didn’t get to fully realize it as I got lazy and didn’t want to draw a bunch of zombies. But I still have the sketch saved somewhere, in the event I want to pick it up again. Maybe if I can find a Walking Dead blank cover, I could do something.

Watched Supergirl over the summer. Yes I enjoyed it. Milly is great. Lobo was a lot of fun. Layers and then the completed picture. The flats might make a good canvas block.

Last up, Cyberpunk’s Lucy, from Edgerunners. Looking forward to season 2 of the show. Not entirely happy with the drawing. But it was still a fun challenge, trying to create an anime character in my style.

And then as per tradition, we have my annual #faceyourart. The challenge where you are supposed to post only the faces from your drawings. Here’s the last 12 months of faces (Aug 2025 – Aug 2026) which includes last year’s drawtober submissions:

While I mostly work digitally, I do like to display my art through different mediums. Such as posters on my wall or the art blocks. Earlier this year I saw these cool magnet 8×6 frames that can stand on their own, and thought it would be cool to gets some prints made and display some art on my desk, or shelf, or wherever. Here’s a few examples. I only got the package of 3 frames for now as a test. But I made about 40 different 8×6 prints and I can swap them around as needed.

Drawtober 2026 is just around the corner, so next week I might start thinking about my plans.

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That catches us up to current. Next post I’ll have more comic book news. What I’m currently reading, week to week. Maybe some collection stats. What’s up-coming. Also I went to Fan Expo back in Feb, and I’ll share some of my photos from that event and the artists/writers I met and work I got signed. It was a lot of fun.

G’night.
Rogan

Ready to move on?

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Hello everyone, and welcome back for another monthly wrap up. Last post was end of May, so I shall catch us up to end of June. Lots of art, lots of games, lots of reading comic books.

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As always, lets start with games.

In my last post I had wrapped up playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla as the big completion. In June I completed Another Crab’s Treasure which is a souls-like action game where you play as a hermit crab who has his shell repossessed through a collecting loan shark, because he couldn’t afford a new rent imposed on his tide pool. It was a recent release on XBox Game Pass, and a good palette cleanser. The cool gameplay mechanic is your shell acts as your shield, and as a hermit crab you can swap out of shells on the fly, testing out a variety to types of garbage found in the ocean. A fun, humourous, colourful game with similar souls-like fighting and gameplay mechanics. 22 hrs – 1000g/1000g.

I also beat Exoprimal‘s story, just in time for the team to announce that they’re basically done with the game. No more seasonal content or anything as the player count had dropped down pretty low. Multiplayer will still be available as well as all the content on a repeating rotation, but they’re just done with it now. So, so am I. 23hrs – 850g/1000g.

I started Atomic Heart and I’m a few hours in, but as we’re getting into the hot summer months, and I’m playing it on the PC – its a little too warm to play in the evenings – so I’ll probably take a rest on this game for a few months. Same with Final Fantasy VII Remake. In FF I think I’m up to chapter 12 now.

Illestrader and I completed Saint’s Row reboot (2022) but we had an issue with the final mission. Half way through the mission, last week, we called it a night – against my better judgement. And the issue came about because the final mission stipulates that its an end-game mission, warning you that you can’t return to the city hub whilst this mission is active. So what happened this week? Illestrader launched the co-op campaign mid-mission, but I can’t join a mission in progress. So I’m locked out of the final mission, and because its his campaign save, I can’t do it on my own, and there’s no mission replay function. So he got to complete it and I didn’t, which sucks. On my own I might blast through the campaign missions again just to get the final mission’s achievements – everything else in the game is unlocked for me, so it shouldn’t be too bad plus there’s a lot left to do and DLC. But right now I’m too mad to think about it. 14hrs – 215g/1424g.

Also playing through Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. I play this for 20-30 minute spurts usually after dinner, before putting the boys to bed. They enjoy watching me play it and the gameplay is exciting and colourful and kid-friendly enough.

Lastly and most recently, I’ve started playing The First Descendant as a new co-op game with Illestrader. Game launched free to play a week ago, and it’s a lot like Warframe and clearly a lot of Destiny 2 influences. And Outriders similarities. A lot of egregious microtransaction incentives since its F2P – P2W, with the standard and premium season pass, and multiple character options that are not unlocked outright, but you can unlock them naturally with enough game time spent, or you can pay to unlock, and the skin bundles, etc, etc. Lots of mods and currencies. I will play through the story missions and then move on – I’m not sticking around for the grind. And not spending any more than the season pass. Like one of the top tier end-game characters is $135 if you bought it outright. No thanks.

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Onto some drawings:

In May I drew Scarlett from G.I. Joe and said I’d draw more. Well I drew one more at least: Baroness. There’s a few more I’d like to draw as well. One day…

As I mentioned previously, I’ve been writing a comic reading / review column thing over at Substack. I don’t really know how to describe it, other than I’ve tasked myself with reading at least 1 graphic novel / trade paperback book a week, and then writing about it. Discussing the story, the art, and the creators and my thoughts – just to get them out of my head. At this point, like this journal, its really just for me, as an outlet, as I don’t have any subscribers.

But one of the cool parts is its gives me some motivation to draw some characters I wouldn’t typically draw. One of the series I read was Jupiter’s Legacy, and I did a quick fan art of Lady Liberty.

Next up was a fun inking render of Magik, from the X-Men. This piece has also inspired me to draw her demon side, Darkchilde, which I should be able to share in my next post.

Harley Quinn Fan Art to celebrate another graphic novel reading review. Not that I need an excuse to draw Harley Quinn…read Suicide Squad: Get Joker, by Brian Azzarello and Alex Maleev.

Next was Black Cat, a quick ink wash render.

And then finally a multiple day fully rendered piece for the anniversary of Beyond Good and Evil, Jade. A really great game from 20 years ago. And a fun piece to draw. I’ll probably turn it into a poster as I need some new art on the wall.

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Comics, still reading a lot and buying a lot. Roughly 15-20 months issues a week – which is crazy to think about. And also very hard to keep up with. Presently I’m 5 weeks behind on my reading. I’m hoping over the summer to catch up a bit, as usually my gaming and art slow down due to the hot weather – I don’t enjoy sitting in front of a computer, sweating.

But for my Substack graphic novel / TP schedule, here is my next 5 reads, and my last 5 reads:

Next Read:
Week 26: The Hard Switch – Own D. Pomery
Week 27: Chu – Vol. 1 – John Layman & Dan Boultwood
Week 28: Spider-Man: Noir – David Hine
Week 29: Far Sector – N. K. Jemisin & Jamal Campbell
Week 30: The Watchmen – Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Previous read:
Week 24: Phenomena, Vol. 1: The Golden City of Eyes
Week 23: Suicide Squad: Get Joker / Wolverine: Rot
Week 22: Jupiter’s Legacy Vol 1-5
Week 21: Head Wounds: Sparrow
Week 20: The Incal

Also some more recent books I’ve acquired:
The Hard Switch
Homicide: The Graphics Novel parts 1 and 2
Seven Secrets vol 1-3
The Ballad of Halo Jones
20th Century Men
IN.

Looking forward to getting around to reading those at some point in the next few years. Ha!

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I think that wraps up June. Take care. ‘Til next time.
Rogan
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Battle Tested

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Let’s start this week’s chapter off with Halo, because why not?

I finished Halo MP. Well the Season 1 Battle Pass. 70 hrs played, 335 matchmaking games. Now it’s time for a break. Until May. 60 more days. I can do that right?

And here’s my two armour sets. Pretty snazzy.


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What I’m Playing

So with Halo MP on the backburner, Watch Dogs Legion goes into first place in the queue. The PLAN was to then move onto Halo Campaign and Cyberpunk 2077 until May. But, but, but… Game Pass Breaking News!! Guardians of the Galaxy is coming to Game Pass March 10th. This game has been high on my list but I just couldn’t buy it full price. Now I don’t have to. So this will jump the queue right behind Watch Dogs. So I’ll have to try and wrap up that in the next 10 days. Which might be a little difficult because…

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What I’m Drawing

I’ve been busy drawing. Which isn’t abnormal, but with my limited evening hours I can only accomplish so much.

I really don’t know what sparked the idea to do another Harley Quinn. Especially the Roller Derby variant.

Something something, roller derby thighs, probably.

Anyways, it’s still a work-in-progress. Tighten up the fishnets a bit. Tweak the face/eyes. Currently she looks little sleepy, and Harley is anything but.

I have an idea for the background, with her in the roller derby arena, and some of her fellow villains looking on. Joker, Ivy, maybe Croc and Catwoman.

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What I’m Reading

  • Batman Vs Bigby #6
  • The Human Target #5
  • BRZRKR #7
  • DC Vs. Vampires #5
  • The Department of Truth #16
  • Gunslinger Spawn #5
  • Blue and Gold #6
  • Snow Angels V 1 TP
  • Sweet Tooth Compendium

Also, its my Mangaversary. Last year I started listening to the Mangasplaining Podcast with Chip Zdarsky which got me into reading Manga for the first time.

1 year later I have 35 books, and I’ve read most of them. It’s enjoyable, and different in a good way from Western Comics, however I have slowed down on my collection due to my ongoing comics budget, as it is quite high. There are a few books I am interested in following through on, though. Just on hold for now.

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iReview – BATMAN ARKHAM KNIGHT

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BATMAN – ARKHAM KNIGHT

Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Platform: Xbox One
Availability: Xbox One, PS4, Windows

Batman Arkham Knight, possibly the final game in Rocksteady’s amazing trilogy, once again brings Batman out for one long night. The main villains this time around are Scarecrow (again), threatening to release his Fear gas across the whole city, and the Arkham Knight, a new villain, who is trying to take out Batman with his not-so-small army of tanks and drones.

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Some of the series’ standard villains return: Poison Ivy, Penguin, Two-Face, Riddler, and Harley Quinn. Some of the lesser, side-mission villains include: Firefly, Man-Bat, Deathstroke, Professor Pyg, Deacon Blackfire, and Hush.

The game takes place in Gotham City, and on Halloween, one year after the death of the Joker. Scarecrow has made threats against the city. He’s planning on releasing his Fear toxin by means of explosive devices littered around town. The city has since been evacuated, and all that’s left is the bad guys.

After a brief boss battle with Scarecrow early on, Batman finds himself trapped, trying to disable the Fear gas bombs in an enclosed chamber. He does this, knowingly risking his own health, and against the better judgment of dear ol’ Alfred. As a result of this event, Batman has directly exposed himself to the Scarecrow’s Fear toxin, and for the remainder of the game we now have our long-lost friend The Joker, in our brain. The story is that the Joker, before he died, injected Batman (and a few others) with his own blood. This, combined with the Scarecrow Fear toxins, has fully revived the Joker, but only in Batman’s head. This is the best part of the game. When continuing along with the rest of the story, it seems that whenever you turn around, Joker is waiting for you, and talking away. You can turn and face the other way, and he’ll follow.

The idea and technology behind this mechanic is awesome, as the Joker always seems to appear out of nowhere, and more than once startled me with his presence.

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Like the previous Arkham games, the city is wide open. In this version of Gotham, the city is split into 3 islands. By wing, you can coast and fly to each one, but you’ll have to progress through the story to lower the bridges, so that the Batmobile can follow. As well, the story progression will see you come up against the main supervillains and the Arkham Knight himself, but there are plenty of other side missions to complete along the way. Each mission requiring a certain number of completed tasks before coming up against that specific side boss directly. With Firefly, you’ll need to extinguish burning buildings and rescue firefighters, Two-face is robbing banks, Penguin has bomb stashes that need to be destroyed, etc.

The Gotham City Police Department building plays a bigger role in this game as well. You’ll find yourself driving here a lot to meet with the Commissioner or other story characters. The interesting, and very cool part of this building is whenever you enter, you first have to walk through the convict holding cells, and as the night progress, watch them slowly fill up with the villains you capture. It’s just the nice little touches that Rocksteady adds to the game that make it amazing.

The Riddler is always around, this time with 250+ trophies littered around. Additionally, this time, he’s captured Catwoman, and you need to complete a number of races involving the Batmobile, and fight off waves of enemies to save her life.

This brings me to the two big additions to the game: the Batmobile, and Co-op fights.

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The Batmobile is the best addition to the series. Bar none. This game was exclusively released for the next gen consoles, and PC in mind, with an upgraded engine and visuals. The map is big enough to justify the Batmobile, and it’s a blast to drive. It’s beefy, and can drive through walls or pillars, so when speeding down the seedy Gotham streets, not much will stop you. It can be called to your location on a whim, and it is spectacular to watch it drift into view, filling the game camera, highlighting the intricacies and sheer detail of the design as Batman leaps in. Furthermore, Batman can eject himself out of the seat and into full speed wing mode. The Batmobile has a tether cable to hold on to contextual object, or pull down walls or pull itself up walls, and it has a dual function Tank mode. In Tank mode, it can drive in any direction and has beefy artillery with a 360 degree view.  The Arkham Knight has an army of tanks at his disposal, so throughout the game, you’ll find yourself in these wars, completely outnumbered, but luckily not out-gunned. The Batmobile can also be controlled remotely, when within range, guns and all.

The second big addition to the series is the co-op combat fighting. Throughout the game you’ll be paired up with Robin, Nightwing, or Catwoman, to fight again a large group, or multiple waves of enemies. Both heroes are fighting simultaneously and it’s incredible to watch it play out so seamlessly. But, at any time, you can switch perspective to the other hero, and take full control as them. This also allows for two-on-one beat downs or co-op maneuver. You almost feel sorry for the bad guys at the end of the fight, as the moves are so perfectly brutal.

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Rocksteady has done an amazing job of seeing this Batman trilogy through to a satisfying conclusion. This final effort is a beautiful game, and nearly perfect in every aspect. The standard villains are there sure, but this time around, some new faces get a shot in the spotlight. The addition of Harley Quinn as a main player in the story is also a huge boon for me, and the mind-job the Joker causes during the playthrough is still memorable.

As far as Batman games go, I don’t think this one can be topped.

–Good for those that like all things Batman, Bats, Punching Bad Guys and Tanks

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Achievement department has the standard affair: story related, completing all the necessary tasks for each side villain, collect the Joker trophies (nope!), AR challenges, and Tank battles. Nothing truly memorable though.

Notable Achievement:

The Real Deal (Takedown 20 moving cars without using the Batmobile) – 5G

-iRogan
 

NEWS – News Fallout, or Fallout News?

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Why is XCOM 2 PC only? I Object!

96% chance to hit. Misses. >.<

96% chance to hit. Misses. >.<

This week’s Games With Gold Deals
From June 2nd – June 8th, you’ll be able to pick up the following notable titles at a discount rate:

Xbox One

  • NBA 2K15
  • Metro 2033 Redux
  • Metro: Last Light Redux

I’ve never played a Basketball game, but I have EA’s NBA 2015 through EA Access. Maybe I’ll give it a shot. Just to spite 2K. I already have the Metro bundle, and should really give those a try. Maybe after I finish Far Cry 4, as I can only handle so much first-person shooting.

Xbox 360 

  • NBA 2K15
  • Dark Souls II
  • Tekken 6
  • FIFA 15

Dark Souls 3 at E3?
Rumours have started circling that we might see Dark Souls 3 at Sony’s E3 press conference. The re-mastered edition was released this year, along with Bloodborne.

Destiny: The Taken King Expansion Rumours
More rumours surfaced pointing to the huge Destiny expansion planned for September. The expansion, originally thought to be called Plague of Darkness, may now be called The Taken King. This content update is expected to be very large, big enough to be available on a disc, and is supposed to include new subclasses, weapon types, PvP maps, story missions and new locations. Possibly the Raid missing from the House of Wolves Expansion.

Harley Quinn Trailer – Batman Arkham Knight

Harley Quinn has her own playable mission in Arkham Knight, if you pre-order the game. Add it to the list of controversial DLC, Season pass, and Pre-order bonuses this game offers. They’re selling us the hamburger bun, but everything else is not included. You’ll have to pay extra for that.

Regardless of all the extras not included, Rocksteady has announced the game’s file size will be 45GB, regardless of the platform.

Fallout 4
Probably thought I forgot? Always leave the best for last (spoiler alert: its got a dog):

Yesterday’s pre-announcement led to today’s real announcement. Fallout 4 is real, and it looks to be taking place in Boston, Massachusetts. And listings seem to suggest a 2015 release. Bethesda has made another announcement, surprising no one: we can expect more news during their E3 press conference on June 14.

Tomorrow I’ll discuss The Crew, and then there’s a review for Unmechanical on Friday.

-iRogan