KaijuKid

Life is insane, but it wouldn't be life if it wasn't I suppose.

Finally got my hands on a new car after my old one bit the dust, but I'm also narrowing in a new second job to try and combat rising expenses and paying off said car. While I lined up something nice, unfortunately it looks like I'm going to have no choice but to take on a second full time position, which of course means life is going to be changing for a while.

I can't live without working on my comics and stories, so that's not gonna stop, but some things have already had to change for this year. I had intended to make a Titanus Behemoth cosplay for this year's G-Fest, but time and money simply won't allow me to make the suit in time and to my satisfaction. I'll be fulfilling my commission requests I've received, but obviously following the new status quo and working two full time jobs I'll be retiring commissions because there just won't be time or energy.

It sucks that we live in a world where most people can't get by on a single income situation in a lot of places around the globe, but I'm grateful for the opportunities I have and the support behind me to make it work. But like I said, the comics won't be stopping because there's nothing that would depress me more, other than losing a loved one, than not being able to do the stories I love and need to focus my creative energies on.

Here's to the future, and for all of us in this chaotic, silly little world trying to get by honestly, here's to the empowerment of our efforts and working for our best tomorrow.

I'm sorry the work basically was ground to a halt this last month, there's practical reasons why it's been that way, but I hate losing time on my projects. Thing is life is looking to be changing in some big ways soon, which I won't go into, but I'm immediately afraid it'll mean that I'll have even less time to work on the things I love, but I hope that won't be the case.

To quote an oldie, "On the other side of this trial I'll be a better man". That's the goal, but I won't stop making the things I love, it just may go a little slower. Time will tell.

The older we get the more hectic and busy life can feel like it gets. 2023 was a mixed bag where I personally feel like I got a lot done that I wanted to accomplish, while failure to do a large amount as well. I guess that's pretty normal for most of us.

For 2024 I have an assortment of goals I hope to accomplish to my best ability.

Continue my fitness journey and stay disciplined.

Make a lot of custom figures of characters I love and take a huge chunk out of my checklist.

Stay consistent and regular on Godzilla Triumphant and Good Words With Sako.

Complete a new costume for the 2024 G-Fest.

Overcome a few personal obstacles and be the best man I can be.

The start of a new year doesn't magically make us achieve things any better, success or failure is determined by our personal fortitude and will power to achieve our desires, as well as good fortune when life gets in the way, but it can be a good time to reassess our priorities and refocus. I've been struggling through the last year to balance everything going on in my own life, but we all are gifted the strength of our convictions and will to create, accomplish and do all the little things that are meaningful to us, and I look forward to 2024 being a satisfying and productive year, and of course enjoying a particular Kaiju brawl happening in April.

Cheers all, and thanks for coming along and giving feedback on some of these projects of mine. It's much appreciated.

Kaijukid

Every year I try to get myself psyched up for creative projects for the next one, especially after dry spells like I've had lately. It's just nice to have those little creative goals to look forward to, and while this isn't everything I hope to make it gives you an idea of where I want to fill out the little corners of my collection, because either the "real" things are too damn expensive (Like the griffon from Latitude Zero or MechaGodzilla City) or they were never made, like Onibaba from Pacific Rim, Tatsu from TMNT or weird outliers that I just like such as the Village Monster. I definitely want to finish making the cast of Godzilla The Series this year, that side project has been long, long overdue. So hopefully life will be agreeable and I'll find the time and the change I need to buy the ever-increasing cost of sculpting clay, but I'm looking forward to it. Gonna get rough though if the Monsterverse keeps heaping monsters on us like the Ion Dragon and such So onward and forward with our creative passions.

Haven't been around much, but just wanted to drop a line and update for you awesome people who have blessed me with following my meager offerings. Been focusing almost totally on getting a commissioned comic project done for my best friend, and it's just a few pages off from being done, but I have been working here and there on Sako, and once the commission project is done I'll be moving on to finish the last stretch of Gallant Girls also.

But I'm also preparing myself for some potentially bad news, hopefully not bad news, but I've been having some weird pain, and my doctor had no answers so it looks like I need to submit to a full scan and see what the results end up being.

It frustrates me to no end that even though I take pretty good care of myself, there's always something. Every year it feels like there's some new complication medically, and I'm sick of it. But, we'll see what's going on. I was tested for cancer last December and it came back negative so hopefully that remains true, but it's the human body, there could be any number of complications, so we'll see. Keeping positive, it just hasn't been a fun week.

But I also have some new developments on comic storylines that I'm very excited about, and some fun projects I can't wait to get to, so here's to a productive and satisfying Autumn.