Welcome to the first page of the Dreamland Arc, one and all! Hope you’re as psyched for this as I am, because I promise you an epic and troubling tale!

You may have to bear with a bit of roughness in the next few weeks, I’m afraid: Something went wrong and my machine BSOD on startup a few times before resolving itself. Unfortunately, something’s a bit hinky with the tablet, so I may need to rebuild the machine to eliminate these annoying glitches. I mean, they don’t appear to be particularly serious, and they’re certainly manageable, but I’d much rather have the device working the way it used to.

Ah well, at least I can still produce art though. You’ve got to pull through these rough periods: Equipment failure, nervous breakdown, lack of support. Sometimes I’ve only got the dream to hold onto. I know that if I stop doing this, I’ll be miserable. I can’t face up to the idea of living a ‘normal’ life, no matter how much I want certain trappings of it. Unfortunately, the path I have chosen is one of the hardest ones to walk. But if I can make it, I’ll know that I bloody well earned it.

Right, in the meantime, I’m heading off to bed. Enjoy today’s page, and check out my new News and Culture blog, www.mb-magazine.co.uk later on in the day!

M.