UPDATE: I lost my house but I got a job. It doesn't pay much and they don't give me many hours, but through some connections and with my help, my family managed to find a place to live. It's not a great place and my room is unbearably small and too close to the others for comfort, but it's a place to stay until we can sort things out and get a bigger house.

Thank you for your donations, they are no longer needed, but I'd still appreciate donations for other things, should you enjoy my art or anything else I do, or simply feel like I could use a few bucks. Don't feel pressured though, there are much more worthy causes than me.

I'm losing my house.

The one safety net I was promised would be mine after my Grandma passed. She racked up massive debt, and my the decision is in the hands of an uncle of mine who has never thought very highly of my family. He was apparantly pretty mean to my mother on the phone, accusing us of taking advantage of our grandma...

This was a looming danger that I thought had passed when my cousin told us that he was working to keep everyone housed but I guess it was all just bullshit.

Don't know what we're going to do. I've been hard at work cleaning this house over the past month but it all just feels fucking pointless now...

I'm gonna be sick, I spent money that I shouldn't have recently...

I guess I'll be asking for hand outs for a while... if you can, donate to my ko-fi:

I just finished reading the Man of Steel vol 1

I was shocked to find a near 500 page omnibus like this on sale for so cheap, it was only 4 bucks on comixology. Yeah it's digital, but that's still an insane value... come to find out, there's always a sale of some kind going on with comixology, it's just that the theme changes every few weeks. And this is probably what kickstarted me getting back into comics the way I am now.

Anyway. I had a paperback man of steel I bought many years ago. But this omnibus combines 3 of those paperbacks into one, and it details the chronological Superman comics immediately following the reboot after Crisis on Infinite Earths.

This is a pretty good re-introduction, you get Superman's origins, the introduction to many essential characters, Jimmy, Lois, Perry, Bibbo, Lex Luthor, Metallo, Bloodsport, Emil Hamilton, not to mention the first meeting of Superman and Batman. Phantom Stranger and Etrigan the Demon also get crossover stories, but they seem to imply that they've met before. Comic book continuity. Always going to be loosey goosey.

There's also tie in issues for the crossover event, Legends. I was waiting for Legends to go on sale before finishing this book initially, but I lost patience and just read the tie in issues first. I don't think it effected my enjoyment and didn't really spoil anything important.

Superman is a character im turning to a lot lately, he's very uplifting, and never abandons his ideals in the face of overwhelming adversity. Kindness, and compassion are key. I used to share his ideals, but it's kind of been beaten out of me over the years. But I still like to watch a character that can manage to uphold those ideals, save everyone, and make time for everyone.

I don't know if this is the best showcase of the character, but it's a good introduction to the world he inhabit. And there's four more Omnibuses of this size to get through, I've got a lot of Superman to catch up on.

No. I turned it into a blog for my other hobby, which is virtual pets, Digimon being the focus.

I was not using that blog much, I never got that many followers so it was not a very successful blog either, there were a lot of much better sonic blogs who were a lot more active and engaged with their fans more. And at the time, my passion for Sonic was at an all time low, since the games were really feeling on the bland side to me and the comics were seeing an uncertain future.

Besides that I already have a general video game blog in @game-boy-pocket so what was even the point of having a separate Sonic blog if I wasn't talking about the series that often?

Why not leave the blog up in case I started to obsess with Sonic again you might ask? At the time I heard there was a bug on tumblr where trying to create a new blog would delete your account, or something along those lines, so I'd recycle old blogs that I wasn't doing anything with.

So if you want to talk sonic you can just do so on my general gaming blog.

I just finished reading Action Comics vol 1: Rise of Metallo

Another storyline from the most recent era of DC comics. This is actually where I maybe should have started, as a lot of the events take place before "Supercorp", though, due to the nature of the comics and these trades, they're technically happening at the same time, as half way through this book, you can see that Lexcorp became the Supercorp building and they mention Luthor's incarceration.

This is a Metallo story, and Metallo is maybe one of my favorite Superman villains. To my surprise it seems to be implying a sort of redemption arc for Metallo, which is a surprise to me. He seemed like one of the last villains I could see being redeemed. But I'm into it. I love a good villain redemption, I don't know if it will stick.

There does seem to be some social commentary in this book, which, Superman is no stranger to, I think it's handled pretty well but I'm also not a smart enough guy to actually make an educated write up about it.

Superman's family is pretty big in this. It even appears to be adding a set of twins to the family. I now very little about Superman's extended family besides Kara and Jon and even that is very limited. But I do want to get to know them better, they seem like a fun lot, and I love seeing them acting like a family together as they sit around the TV, siblings playing games, asking to share snacks, telling the dog he can't have chocolates, it's a very nice vibe. also, my favorite gag is that Superman is fucking kinky.