Well, it's that time of year again. We all have our own ways of marking the passage of time. Mine is whether or not I managed to get a map done this year. And would you look at that, I haven't. The original version of this journal was a technical mess, and as tempted as I am to shout my crazy at the world, I'm gonna save that stuff for my hardcover project journal. I'll give you guys the fillet here. I'm mostly just here to remind the internet I'm alive, as a way to make me hold myself accountable. It's been four months since I threw up that teaser for the Desert Colossus, and there's a number of reasons I haven't done a scrap of work since then. A comic reading habit that started out harmless and is becoming a problem. A trip I didn't want to go on, which along with preparation, ate my entire October. A new Spider-Man game. A mountain of legal paperwork. General malaise. You get the idea. So as much as I wanted to avoid it, I'm in a sprint to the finish again, for a