2006 "Endpager" cartoon for PSM re: "Videogame-Frustration Olympic Events" (Patreon)

From those halcyon days when I wrote and drew a B&W "Endpage" cartoon feature for the Playstation videogame magazine PSM, here's a still-relevant topic as first addressed in the initial rough I sent to the editor:

Note that panel 2 is, of course, referring to the g-d Eggplant Wizards from the NES game Kid Icarus, who really did piss me off to no end. (Here's another link purporting to explain where the hell the name "Eggplant Wizard" came from.)

And here's the cartoon's final version, as drawn and lettered on linen-finish cardstock:

Panel 4: Personally, I frickin' despised the RC helicopter mission from GTA: San Andreas due to how g-d difficult the wee chopper was to control; by contrast, I quite enjoyed the RC airplane mission, as that puppy was a veritable joy to pilot around the city. 

Anyhoo, that's enough retrogaming nostalgia for a bit, don't you think?

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Ehh, the Exclusive Bonus Monthly Post for the $10 & $20 tiers will likely be going up on Thursday, this time featuring the complete Work Stages on a recent, potentially controversial(?) commission based on an exceptionally saucy scene from Empowered vol. 12. Brace for fantasy RPG hotness and a wee spot of newdity, dear Biggest Spenders!

And speaking of Empowered vol. 12, June's final post on Friday will prrrrrobably be an update of sorts on the ill-fated volume's latest schedule move (assuming I hear back from Dark Horse this week) that will likely also include the afterword I wrote for the book back in March 2022, a text piece that has become ever more apropos in the many months since. "Sigh," to quote Emp.