Update on the Quirk of Fate Project!
Written by the magnificent =MasterPlanner!
Penciled and Inked by the awe-inspiring =ayattousai!
Colored and Lettered by the tenacious ~Terrible-Doll!
First page inked, forwarded to Colorist. With any luck, installments will be churned out every Saturday!

My mood, by the way, is , not "amused." DA staff, if you're seeing this, fix the damn mood settings! What am I paying you guys for?!

Anywhoo. Jury duty is done and over with! The good guys won, the bad guy got a guilty verdict, and I am rushing to the nearest computer with internet hookup!

Not only that, I can now tell you about my offline project!

The Craptown County Fair has rolled around, and the theme is "Science and Superheroes." Which means that us college students are busy at work building group exhibits for the fair. Yours Truly and her geek friends from the Computer Engineering department are building an exhibit centered on...guess! Just guess!

Anyway, it's been quite a bit busier than the Supervillain Next Door is accustomed to but I'm really having the time of my life. Naturally, your friendly Philosopher Queen is dressing up as the not-so-good Doctor to lecture all interested in the real-life possibilities of the brain-machine interface, getting even more mileage out of her beloved and newly renovated costume. We've also, after puckering up to the hindquarters of the biology professor, brought in a tank with a small, real octopus inside.

But that isn't even the best part.

The engineering geeks have even built a miniature replica of a tentacle, only three feet long including the claw. It is controlled by a handheld joystick, so all comers may use it to pick up pencils, oreos, and other assorted stuff.



The Quirk of Fate Project, the alternate reality also known as "Earth-923," is finally underway. The first page is being colored by Ottophile ~Terrible-Doll as I type this...I hope. My dream has finally come true.

My writer's block has been unblocked. Watch for Chapter Ten of AOO. And sometime, a sequel called "The Rise and Fall of Virginia Shelley."

Not to mention that I'm finally back in the business of pretending to take little kids hostage as Doctor Octopus, for the Ex-Boyfriend finally caved in on the matter of payment, since he knows damn well that no one does a better job of portraying the Mastermind of Mechanical Menace this side of Molina himself.

And I'm going on a date soon with who might be my new boyfriend. If that is, he can handle all the rules I set down. (Number One: I don't believe in sex until marriage. If you object, then we both know what your priorities are right?)



Of course, I still haven't succeeded in acquiring a second job so I may cough up the Penciler's money more quickly, but let's try to focus on the positive shall we?

That is all. Now back to the regularly scheduled Ottophilia.