Alan McMillian

@alanmcmillian.bsky.social

Freelance cartoonist and graphic artist. Professional print technician. Currently main artist on Mega Knockdown. Star Trek, indie video games, random mental slurry.

Listening to some of the lore of the Tolkien legendarium and I think I understand why some of the expanded universe projects don't hit like you'd think they would. You need the charm of hobbits to offset the bleakness of a lot of it and hobbits aren't in most of Tolkien's work.

The Wonderman cancelation has made me think about other loose ends in the MCU: The Eternals, AoS, The Inhumans, etc. Its a sort of phantom limb syndrome, knowing a story is left untold in a universe that is still continuing.

Was rewatching the first Star Trek movie and thinking that it's the only ST movie to really try to meet the significance of the material with a scale that suited it. Star Trek movies always end up feeling smaller than they should be. And with all the talk of The Odyssey lately I was thinking...