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An old, old comic

Sometimes it just takes a really long time to get around to doing what you really want with an idea. Life gets in the way. There’s day jobs, and romances, and hobbies and so, so many other projects. For example, it happens that the seeds of the novel Time Travel is Taxing were planted three decades ago, when I was  teenager photocopying my comic and selling it by mail order. I made this, like, little anthology of short, 2000AD-esque stories. And two of those stories were about this Time Travelling Taxman that I invented. Anyway, I found a copy of…

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Argana’s Flat

I’ve always loved floorplans. It’s an affection that started when I was a kid, running table RPGs for my friends and family. Having a dungeon map behind my GM’s screen, forcing the players to painstakingly replicate it in their own notes. All that squared paper. All those conveniently right-angular tombs. It wasn’t so much that Osthack the Destroyer wanted to rule the world, as they just really wanted to own all the setsquares. And of course there’s castles, because every time you visit one, there’s a poster somewhere with a reconstructed floorplan on it, the hypothetical sections rendered in dashed…

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