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Jim Henson Presents issue #3 is dropping in comic stores now!

I hear it's got a pretty awesome Heretic & Wanderer short, and it ALSO has a TAVRA/ONICA one I worked on with J. M. Lee! SOOO EXCITED to finally reveal this.

It's been a dream project for ages. I put everything I could into these drawings, trying to do justice to Joe's lovely script. And Ángel brought all the scenes to life with gorgeous color.

"At the End of All Things"

Written by: J. M. Lee

Art by: @noriretherford

Colors by: @plutomaris

Many of the pages were released in the official online preview, so I'm just going to include a few of my favorites here. 🫣

I finally finished him WOAHHHH

Oh no…

STOP I CAN SEE THAT HAHA 😭

[26.04]

I decided to make M.D. emo and AAAA OMG I LOVE IT SO MUUCH 🥰<3

mmm juliexwally

ehehehe idk kaybl posted yay!!!!!

Look at the camera...say cheese

more of them 💕

Closeups under the cut!

BOOM NEW DRAWING I AM ON A ROLL!!!!

Wally painting joy but it's actually a happy child friendly moment!

I wish I could have nice cool but sunny days where I live, I swear the sun either deep fries you or you get rain that cuts out your power🥲

Like always here's the drawing on paper 👇

I had to make the drawing center digitally

another day another mitjan

Rian taking some time for himself to remember that he doesn’t have to be brave all the time.

A ‘what if’ older design of Kam’Lu (w.i.p).

I just realized I didn’t do the lineart for the rest of his hair OUGH.

Commissions are open!

I take Venmo and PayPal

I'm willing to draw mostly anything besides dead dove content

Look through my posts under the tag #myart (no older than 2024) to look at more art examples of mine!

Dm me if interested and/or you have any questions 🧡

Odypen raising Telemachus if Odysseus never left for war

I don't think I ever uploaded this here?

well anyway here's Julie and Wally trying to sell chocolate Made a year ago-ish

The crossover of all time.

More images I decided to screenshot. I wanna say, the Sifa’s Maudra is cute too, everyone (minus Fenth he can go krill himself) have such amazing designs.

THE FACT SHE WAS ALREADY PREGNANT TOO WHEN THEY GOT MARRIED ? LIKE… BRO. UH MY SHYLASSSSSS

I finally read this and by god I LOVE THEM I LOVE LOVE LOVE

I finally read this and by god I LOVE THEM I LOVE LOVE LOVE

Perhaps it’s the Odyssey effect for me, but I’m imaging a disheveled Kam’Lu reuniting with Mayrin over the song ‘iwfilwy’ from Epic. and it’s makes me emotionally distraught.

Art Trade with @ dark_crystal_cluster on IG 🍶💚

Here's their Gelfling OC Welton having a picnic with Ordon and Rian. He's lecturing Ordon for some reason and Rian is having the time of his life 🤭

Buying Jim Henson presents hehe

Meet the lovable yeti, Army ! I finally locked in and a full meet the oc sheet hehe.

Porque te vas. Porque te vas… bro I have so many fucking headcanons for these two and what happened to Kam’Lu. He isn’t DEAD GUYS 😭 he got lost at sea and he came back and and —

my vision has been put together.

it's my first(?) animatic/mv and man... it was hard to get details when most of tdc aor is filmed from their chest up - I threw in small references to the creation myths and the 1982 movie :)

Honestly, this needs to be said more often: if you’re going to be a diehard fan of Epic: The Musical please take the time to read the Odyssey and Iliad.

These are texts that have been around for nearly three thousand years, and Homer’s work isn’t exactly hidden behind paywalls. We’re talking public domain epics available on dozens of websites, many even in modern translations. There’s really no excuse to confidently post headcanons or "hot takes" about characters like Odysseus while being completely unaware of what Homer actually wrote.

It gets frustrating when people make sweeping claims, like “Odysseus would’ve been horrified about Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter,” when... hello? Not only was Odysseus very aware of the plan in other sources, he’s literally the guy who helped trick Iphigenia into coming to Aulis. In Euripides and the Cypria, he’s even the one pushing for the sacrifice to happen for the sake of the war. That’s not even interpretation it’s written! So spreading misinformation because “well, the musical made him look soft and morally conflicted” is just lazy.

And don’t even get started on the bizarre insistence that Odysseus was just a cheater who didn’t love Penelope. This is a man who was literally held captive and assaulted by not one but two goddesses, and yet never stopped longing for home. He’s not some player archetype, you’re confusing him with modern tropes. Homer paints him as flawed, clever, and deeply human, yes but loyal in his own way, struggling through divine interference just to return to his wife and son. His image has been more distorted by fandom takes in the last years than it ever was during thousands of years of oral and written tradition. It’s time to stop reducing him to a meme or "messy husband energy" and start recognizing him for what he is: one of literature’s most iconic, complex heroes.

If you love these characters and this world, that’s great BUT it feels a little disrespectful to twist canon into takes while never bothering to open the actual text. It’s not about being a scholar. It’s about respecting the foundation you’re building your fandom on.

Perhaps it's just because I'm a short woman who happens to enjoy both frilly dresses and sex, but I get so mad when people say Ariana grande or Sabrina carpenter are encouraging pedos by uh .... being short, enjoying cute things, and enjoying sex. I'm sorry some adult women are very cute and hot and like sex. And it literally has nothing to do with children. The people accusing them of being creeps are the ones inserting children into the discussion at all. (hyumjim voice) And I'm NOT supposed to be creeped out by that???