Dr. Fate and Gaiman's Death (Patreon)

   Hey everyone. This week I've got a couple of new commissions for you, and a modification of sorts to a recent announcement. Above is a piece I just completed for a customer who often commissions--not just from me, but from other artists as well (some I've see are amazing!)-- images featuring Death with another, specified character, in this case, a female Dr. Fate. As usual, I'd never heard of Dr. Fate, so I had to do a lot of research to figure out who this character is, and what would be a suitable visual context. Something that threw me off here is the same thing that bugs me almost invariably when I do superheroes: constant costume changes. The array of Dr. Fate costumes from different books and artists is dizzying. The best I could do was select individual costume details I liked and throw them all together.  What is with all the costume updates, and the multiple versions of characters? It just seems like a shallow attempt to breathe new life into characters that might simply have run their course. Although Fate definitely looks better as a woman, that I must admit.

     The announcement modification, so to speak, is about what I said recently regarding the commissions I have left to do before resuming comic pages. I do still need to finish those commissions, but I'm going to start alternating between those and comic pages, until this round of commissions is done. I've been dealing with some health issues lately that have been affecting my output, and the commissions list just got away from me. My apologies for that. I was looking at the calendar, and realized that I wouldn't even get the Boneyard gang past Christmas before Halloween comes around again. So that it, just expect more comic content soon (I know: finally!)