I twisted by right shoulder. Ouch. Seeing urgent care this evening. Might have to take time off work. The images below are more development sketches for the Wonder Heroes 4.0 illustrations.

The Wonder Heroes’ powers come from a gauntlet worn on their right wrist. When activated the gauntlet covers its wearer with a superpowered uniform. Susan Daystrom was the protagonist for Wonder Heroes 4.0. Here are four of my attempts to give her a unique looking uniform. #wonderheroes

Wonder Heroes 4.0 development sketches. Defending the Earth from extraterrestrial menaces is their mission! #wonderheroes #superheroes #steveahlquist

More antagonists for the Wonder Heroes - the RetroRocketmen, masters of old shitty technology that pollutes and poisons everything around it! #wonderheroes #steveahlquist #superheroes #supervillains

Merry Merry!

Tomorrow they're getting visits from the Yule Cat.

I did a few sketches for Wonder Heroes (by Steve Ahlquist) images that never went forward - a couple of villains and the Wonder Giant. If Steve ever gets the rights to the book back and wants to put out an illustrated version I’d love to do finished versions. #wonderheroes #steveahlquist

One of the many alien menaces that the Wonder Heroes saved the earth from. We should be grateful. #wonderheroes #steveahlquist #klotax #superheroes #aliens

She should retire to solitary confinement in a nice El Salvadoran prison. Forever.

That 60 Minutes CECOT piece. Watch it, share it. If you’re okay with this, there’s something wrong with you. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Here we have another villain for the Wonder Heroes (by Steve Ahlquist) to challenge - Spratsis 3 of 8, an extraterrestrial rodent who knows how to recycle anything (and make it dangerous). #wonderheroes #steveahlquist #superheroes #rats! #supervillains

GenAi is here to stay in the same way that plutonium poisons every ecosystem that it's dumped in.

Kong doesn't have quiet days.

Superheroes need supervillains, otherwise they spend valuable adventure time righting societal wrongs, cleaning up the environment and tossing greedy rich people into orbit. One of the supermenaces in Wonder Heroes 4.0 by Steve Ahlquist was the Neboukichan, a kaiju summoned up by a doomsday cult.

Thanks so much to everyone who's donated or shared. I've got whole strata of stress, supporting two ailing parents, a dog, credit card debt, and overdue taxes, and your kindness is like a drill breaking through it. I hope we can reach $20,000, and I'm grateful to you for having that hope.

Susan is the protagonist of Wonder Heroes 4.0 by Steve Ahlquist. (I’ve been calling it Wonder Heroes 2.0. I just checked the copy of the manuscript on my hard drive. Ooops.) Doesn’t she look cool in her Wonder Armor? Say yes. #wonderheroes #steveahlquist #superheroes #illustration

Steve Ahlquist wrote Wonder Heroes 2.0 for JukePopSerials.com. I was brought in to come up with visuals that could be used to sell/license the IP. JukePop were the ones approving my stuff. Below are some of the rejected costume designs. #steveahlquist #superheroes #costumes #illustration

This illustration is the online thumbnail for Wonder Heroes 2.0, a novel Steve Ahlquist wrote for the defunct site JukePopSerials.com. JukePop is gone and so Wonder Heroes is offline. Bummer. These days Steve reports independently on Rhode Island news. substack.com/@steveahlquist

My family's dealing with a whole lot right now, with my mother's dementia and my father's cancer both in late stages, an elderly dog, and mounting debt. Anything you can spare would mean the world, and even sharing helps! gofund.me/2d5250128

For most folks, the symbols are enough to make them turn back. For a special few they are an enticement to saunter onward. #biohazard #warnings #symbols #danger #graphics #doom

The fact that the Heap was born from the body of Baron Eric von Emmelman, a WW1 fighter pilot, makes little difference in most of the original stories. He could just as well have been born from the body of Vladmir the plumber or Olga the shopkeeper. #theheap #swampmonster #somedaycomic

My last newsletter of 2025 went live this morning. A little art, a little rambling, a Christmas comic. skookworks.com/2025/12/15/t... #comics #christmas #santa #elves #badparents

Capitalism is the best!

I've gotten a lot "commission requests" from Artstation. And Tumblr. I've got a website. I haven't put anything on Artstation in probably ten years.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

My cover illustration for the 2010 3Hombres edition of Dark Conspiracy. For once I remembered to leave room at the top of the piece for the title text.

In good times, we need each other. In bad times, we need each other. All of us. Yeah, even those assholes who can only think of themselves. They’ve good for target practice. #DEI #rpgillustration #diversity #equity #inclusion #fuckthebigots #fuckthechristofascists #darkconspiracy

Hopefully this bankrupts both companies.

My family's dealing with a whole lot right now, with my mother's dementia and my father's cancer both in late stages, an elderly dog, and mounting debt. Anything you can spare would mean the world, and even sharing helps! gofund.me/2d5250128

It’s just another day in the apocalyptic dystopia. The rats howl at the dawn. The sunlight comes down in oily rainbow colors through the toxins in the air. Mutants get up to hunt the genetically stable. The genetically stable try to keep hold of their sanity and their weapons. What a lovely day!

That feeling when you realize you’re in a dream 💭

The 25th novelette, " – two sweetest passions – ", continues: #FantasyLit #FreeBooks #IndieAuthors #ThursdayMornings

Frickin’ gremlins. No matter how cool the tech gets, the bastards always show up to tear it apart. #darkconspiracy #dystopia #monsters #gremlins #rpgillustration

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

When we wake up from the fantasy that rich people got that way because of their merits?

Let the dog go first. She’s smarter than all of you.

Page banners for the 3Hombres edition of the Dark Conspiracy sourcebook. Out of print. #darkconspiracy #dystopia #horror #rpgillustration #art #aliens #monsters #magic #technoterror

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

Another sketchbook piece i've been meditating over in recent weeks, little Cabinet of Curiosities. Really enjoying having something like this on the side to doodle on.

One of the unfinished pages from that unfinished story that had been hiding on a shelf in my brother’s closet gathering dust and malice. Next to it is the finished this week (but will need an edit once the rest of the story is finished) version of the page. #comics #art #revision #horror

yes.

Lock him up. Throw away the key.

I found eighteen pages, in various stages of completion of an unfinished comic, on a shelf in the back of a closet at my brother’s house earlier this year. The original script was by someone I no longer speak to. So I'm writing a new script, revising the art and completing it. Eventually.

They might be friends. They might hate each other. They might be frenemies. They might have never met. They might be good guys. They might be bad guys. They might be NPCs doomed to die. They might be the heroes of their own stories. They’re not talking. #darkconspiracy #rpgillustration #guys #npcs

We're the cover of next year's New Yorker calendar. That's a nice surprise. Patreon.com/mannequinonthemoon

What’s worse than zombies? (Oooo. Ick. You win. That is worse.} Multi-zombies is the correct (if not strictly accurate) answer. Fortunately, with zombies, twenty heads are as dumb as one. #zombies #horror #rpgillustration #darkconspiracy #art

Latest painting (acrylic on canvas)

let's financialize guillotines instead

Zombies are, generally, aggressive, unpleasant and kinda stinky. Intelligent, tool using zombies are all that plus the ability to insult your mother and your cat. #darkconspiracy #rpgillustration #horror #art #3hombres #zombies