RATED TEEN
What would it be like to be a mutant in an all human high school? Michael is about to find out as his sharkmue genetics kick in just before his ninth grade year. Will he surive the experience?
RATED M
In a post nuclear world supernatural creatures have made their presence public. Dhampirs have never been equal, however - struggling between societies that don't want them.
In a world where genetically mutated humans are treated poorly, a deadly mutagenic plague is the last thing Tigershark needs. It's up to him and his small group of allies to stop it. (COMPLETE)
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho...
...It's back to work I go.
When I retired, I knew that would being doing this... occasionally. I was already volunteering my time at the school to work with a new teacher in process of clearing her credential. I had to wait 180 days before I could do any kind of paid work in the field of education as a stipulation of my STRS (the agency responsible for my retirement pay.) That 180 days was up on December 04. So I went and applied to become a substitute teacher, because there was no way I was going to waste the money I spent on renewing my teaching credential last year (and it's good for five years).
In conjunction, one of the teachers at the school I worked at the past nine years went on maternity leave shortly before the winter break, and I told the school I would be interested in covering her class until she returned from her leave, once I was hired as a sub by the county.
TL;DR - I will be subbing for a 6th grade ELA/History class for the next few months.
That also means that I will have limited time to work on art again (evenings and weekends only). I'm going to try to make that count, we'll see how it works.
Goals for the New Year
I don't necessarily do "resolutions" because they seem so rigid and untenable. But I do have goals for what I want to accomplish this year.
- I want to do more personal art again this year (esp after seeing in my YIR art collection that most of my art was comic work. :/)
- I want to grow my fishing rod repair business, especially now that my husband got me a pretty state of the art piece of equipment for the job.
- I want to get out of this writing funk so I can complete my manuscript for Saying No, and successfully forward Midnight Rider.
- Instagram has been a hellacious time suck lately and I need to scale back on that doomscrolling.
- To publish a book again this year would be nice.
SpiderForest's Comics of the Week 2!
There's a lot happening this week! SpiderForest's Annual Comics of the Week Cross Promotion begins tomorrow as well! Stay tuned here, Michael: Anger Management, All Legends Die, or the Spiderforest Home page for each week's spotlights! The promotion runs from January 05 - Mar 08, 2026. Come along and find new favorite reads!
Comics of the Week - Week 2: Mad World
When things aren't what they seem to the naked eye, when reality seems bent and broken, it's up to the characters in these tales to keep hold of themselves. (Song Credits: Tears for Fears)
Numb is a horror mystery comic that begins with Levi, who ends up in an accident that has something else behind it than just a careless street crossing.
One cannot brush past the Field's call...
Hi, Strangeness is a cosmic horror roadtrip down a supernatural highway that worms its way through America's lost places. Starring Grey, who may be more lost than anyone knows...
This Week on Darwin Comics!
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SKRRRRTTT... Four months before...
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Meanwhile in another part of the complex.