Monthly Blog - "Rising Signs" (Patreon)

With my rising sign in Cancer, I am supposed to crave movement - however these last few weeks beg to differ. Every day is a struggle: moving from my computer, bed, shower, sofa etc is a challenge and I do not flatter myself by believing it is different for anyone else.

I am a homebody, I enjoy my apartment, I enjoy my time alone - so I have never been one to say things like: "Ugh. I HAD to go outside and just take a walk" or "I haven't spoken to anyone in two days - I'm going crazy." As a result, I am also someone who knows that if I do not have a routine - one that is largely based on going to a job everyday or meeting someone for dinner - I am at risk of never leaving the house again.

This leads to a breakdown in all of my ambitions as I spiral into re-watching old sitcoms, having food delivered every night and working for hours and hours on scripts that are -  literally and figuratively - masturbatory.

So, I am constantly seeking structure, security and routine and over the last few weeks I've had some successes - my picking up on Abel Boddy is one and relaunching 12-Inch Roommate is another.

For the last couple of years, I've been producing one Abel a month for magazine syndication but I haven't really been focusing on the ongoing storylines that I produced for the first several years. In the Abel comics you'll see over the next several weeks and beyond, I'm picking up from my last storyline (the Halloween tale) years later. 

The new 12-Inch's are essentially a retooling of the original content that I just kept thinking about. The original run was intentionally slapdash and quickly drawn and while I am overall happy with the work, I always felt it was a missed opportunity to tell a tighter, funnier story. 

One of my old rules re: 12 Inch Roommate was there should be a dick in every strip - but this time around I've decided to roll that out slowly for the sake of proper narrative impact - I'm not saying 12-Inch will be less NSFW this time around - I just told myself that I didn't have to hit everyone with superhuman hard-ons and jizz geysers right out the gate from panel 1 when it would be funnier and more present to wait until panel 10.

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