Don't worry, his days are numbered!! I sketched the page of Compass Man's demise last weekend, rest assured the clock is ticking...

Echo being held in the palm of the Compass Man's giant mitt hand. "Just a loser. That's all. And the BIGGEST one too!"

The winner takes it all,
The loser standing small...

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Page 2.116: Biggest Loser

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Echo fights with a sword against two giant hands, slashing at the fingers that don't seem at all perturbed by it. She's standing atop an open book with cardboard cutouts of trees, grass and a sun sprouting out of the pages. Compass Guy: "You think you're the hero... !Una guerrera! !Jajaja! Now isn't that cute."

Echo's not one to easily hand over a fight.

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At the moment, mostly shock... and worry, because Echo looks like she's about to get a thrashing!!!

@macxi.bsky.social's drunkard hyena Lester from @slumbertown.bsky.social holding a beer bottle over his head while alcohol falls out into his wide open maw while his hair, tail and coat blow in the wind. He stands on a cliff in the rocky mountain west around sunset.

I drew this for my friend @macxi.bsky.social's birthday!

(I started it forever ago, but I finished it today!)

Go read his comic @slumbertown.bsky.social if you aren't already!!!

Looks like today is the #Birthday of me Big Boyo, @macxi.bsky.social!
So, for their special day, we have a scene from their comic, @slumbertown.bsky.social, where the town (and Arnie) have to handle a nervous #Macro Romy!
What may Romy do at this size!?
#101Dalmatians #101DalmatianStreet #Disney

Here we have my Dalmatian, Clayton, finding himself in a dream realm and meeting the Guardian of this Realm, a #Macro Boone from @macxi.bsky.social's @slumbertown.bsky.social!
What do you suppose Boone may like to get up to with Clayton!?
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happy birthdayyyyy

Compass Man: "As I was saying." The scene transitions to a courtroom, where the Compass Man pounds a gavel excitedly while a jailed Boone awaits his fate. Echo, Romy, and Lester are in the courtroom but do not appear to have a voice in the matter. Compass Man talks over Boone's clouded thoughts, which hang over the courtroom. "Boone 'Smallhorn', your honor! Found guilty on SEVERAL counts of littering! Scrambled thoughts, strewn carelessly so..." The scene transitions to Boone's clothes disappearing from his naked body (aside from the hat and bowtie) with a snap of the Compass Man's fingers, and he instantly covers both his junk and his chest instinctually. "And public indecency? Whoa oh oh! A buck or a doe? Buck or doe? He's a tra - er, PANSY! What else IS there to know?"

When Boone is unresponsive, the gameshow host continues, "A subpar performance, I must say, for one so eager to take the stage!" Boone is seen as a child, quivering under the shadow of his father, while holding an axe in his tiny hooves. Pa: "Buck up! MAN UP! Head outta the clouds!" Compass Man tosses Boone's jail cell down to the void. "Because little girls... GET GROUNDED!" The other three contestants look on with expressions of uneasiness, anticipation and terror. Compass Man: "One down, three remain! What fun and what pain! !Hurra! Whose story comes next to explain?"

Compass Man takes Echo's hands in his giant mitts and pulls her away from her stand. "Oh! I know! How about the confident and ever-elusive detective!" He sifts around in Echo's hat. "Goes by the name..." He pulls out a piece of paper from the hat, and squints. "... 'Echo Plasma'?" He points an accusing finger toward Echo, who is now sitting across from him in what looks to be a detective office, with a corkboard containing photos of the other contestants along with newspaper scraps. "Espera un momento. Is that REALLY your name? What are you? A character of fiction?" The scene transitions, with Echo and gameshow host sitting across from another in what looks to be a parody of the gameshow "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" while a VS. image of Echo's face appears on the tv screen in the background. Echo: "Echo is... a pretty common name for a bat..." Compass Man: "Is it now? Well, it does suit her, I must say! An ECHO of her former self, ey? Which brings us to our next question..."

Echo is sat in front of a question, with a close up of her face on the screen. "We're all DYING to know who you really are..." The question presented is 'Which life-changing event caused your deep dissociative fugue?' with answers 'I have no memory of this' 'That wasn't me' 'What are you talking about?' 'I'm just a detective'. A shadow suddenly looms over Echo, causing her to look up in shock. The Compass Man now appears, having grown substantially larger, clutching the tv screen with his mitts and glaring down at a tiny Echo on the stage. "So why don't you tell us your story? A simple answer, I implore thee!"

Player One is booted from the game! All eyes on Player Two. And it looks like this gameshow host intends to make his contestants feel smaller and smaller...

So... what's the deal with Echo? Who IS Echo, anyway?

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The Compass Man taunts Echo, who has been smashed into a book on a page labelled "Chapter: What?". He demands "Just who do you think you are?" And Echo manifests a sword out of thin air, pointing it directly at his eyeball.

Desperate times call for swashbuckling heroes!

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Page 2.114: Mightier Than the Sword
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Echo is teased, while blushing, by two giant gloved fingers rubbing her cheeks. "Ohohohooooooooo... a friend, you say? A 'friend'? Is that all? Your feelings BETRAY you, mi amor."

Just friends.

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A close-up shot of Echo on the "Who Wants to Be a Millionare"-esque gameshow, where she is presented with the question "Which life-changing event caused your deep dissociative fugue?" The answers are: "I have no memory of this" "That wasn't me" "What are you talking about?" "I'm just a detective". Meanwhile, Compass Man off screen says, "We're all DYING to know who you really are..."

These questions are starting to feel a bit rigged.

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Page 2.112: Sizing Up
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Tbf my own nightmares tend to be pretty phobic too. 😆

Echo is seated across from the Compass Man on a stage that looks really similar to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" while a screen showing Echo's face and a PLAYER 2 VS. flashes in the background. Echo: "Echo is... a pretty common name for a bat..." Compass guy, tipping the hat he stole off her, "Is it now? Well it does suit her, I must say! An echo of her former self, ey? Which brings us to our next question..."

What’s in a name? ✍️

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Sergio Pygmy is pretty military-brained, for better or for worse (definitely for worse)

Young Boone holding an axe while getting yelled at by his pa: "Buck up! Man up!"

C’mon kid, buck up!

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Page 2.110: Grounded!
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Yeah I'm always open to doing co-op streams! Might just have to renew my Picarto membership. :)

"Just a loser. That's all. And the biggest one too!" Echo is seen in the palm of Compass Man's hand

Streaming again today! Hurrah! What fun!

Right about here: picarto.tv/Macxi

👀 ..........

AND IF YOU THOUGHT HE MADE BOONE FEEL SMALL.......... just wait for Contestant #2.......... !

Funny you should say that, because we might get an interesting revelation about the Compass Man too. At his core he is mostly a nightmare manifestation of everyone's insecurities, but that persona may be influenced a bit by something else too. Might become more clear in Romy's segment. 🫣

The pile of rocks Boone is standing on suddenly shifts sideways to drop him on the stage, front and center with the Compass Man gameshow host. The other rock towers with Romy and Echo are seen in the background, as well as the tv screen with Boone’s face under a ‘Player 1’ arrow. Compass Man, introducing Boone, “Our first contestant - how about YOU?” Boone: “Whuh?” “Everyone’s favorite forgetful baffoon: BOONE!” The Compass Man goes into a long-winded introductory segment, while snapping his fingers above Boone’s head; Boone blushes as his horns and beard magically start to shrink down. “Hailing from the ‘boonies’ of Hayzelton, Iowa, this dumb country bumpkin was bullied and estranged from his own family on the farm... just to become a FAILED college dropout with insecurities bigger than his tiny horns!” A close-up shot has Compass Man slapping a ruler comedically against Boone’s shrunken horn, which is now barely an inch long. “Oh? A SORE spot for you? That’s okay -” Boone’s pants are magically snapped back to once again expose his underwear, while the Compass Man’s arrow scarf points toward him mockingly. Boone blushes deeper and covers his tiny horns with his hooves. Compass: “A REAL man, he is not! Though he remembered his pants, so can we really be sure?” Boone: “NOT COOL!”

The Compass Man twists his pinky finger around in Boone’s ear. “Say, ‘Smallhorn’. Hope it’s not too cloudy in there!” He then pulls a giant cloud out of Boone’s head, both eyes big and transparent while the cloud in question passes through. The cloud itself is basically a giant thought bubble with the word ‘HUH?!’ plastered on it, voicing Boone’s exact thought at that moment. Compass Man: “Because I’ve got a super fun challenge for your SPECIAL brain.” The compass guy hangs upside down over the tv screen, which is now much larger in scale, presented in front of a tiny Boone. Symbols on the screen write out the word ‘MEMORIZE’, as several shapes of pink, blue and white with various astronomical symbols on them flash before his eyes. Compass: “Easy peasy, like cornbread and pie! Can you remember the pattern in your mind’s eye? PAY ATTENTION, boy! And repeat the sequence you see in the sky. !Vamos! !Vamos!” He leans in to whisper condescendingly in Boone’s ear, “That means go.” Boone, snapping to attention: “NOW?!”

Boone sweats anxiously, trying to concentrate on the flashing symbols on the screen which are all beeping and booping, appearing and disappearing much quicker than he can decipher (this is a visual allegory for how Boone’s ADHD feels like to him). Boone, leaning in, his eyes filled with clouds that continue to leak from his ears all over the page: “Uhhhhhhhhhhhh” A microphone is suddenly slammed against his snout, as the Compass Man pressures him for an answer. “Uno, dos - time’s up!!! Answer quickly!” He starts counting down (“cinco, quatro, tres”) as Boone grunts, then yells out in frustration, venting more clouds out of his head as he does so: “THIS ISN’T FAIR!” Compass Man: “Not f-” Boone flails his arms dramatically and projects his voice from his stand, causing the Compass Man to wither in the wind from the force of it. “I HAVE ATTENTION DEFICIT!!!”

The Compass Man continues talking down to Boone like he’s a kid, cupping his hands around Boone’s overwhelmed face. “Nino tonto. Gonna need an answer.” Boone: “Buh buh but -” Boone looks back at the screen uncertainly. “Hhhhhhhhmmmmmn...” He grins sheepishly and lifts one finger: “Can you play it back, one more time?” The Compass Man’s eyes turn yellow and red and he grins devilishly while snapping his fingers again. “I said ANSWER -not question!!!” A prison cell comes out of the sky and falls on top of Boone as he yells “YEEEEEEEEE” and wraps his arms around himself protectively. Notably, there is a Venus (female) symbol on the prison cell. The Compass Man snaps a photo of Boone using a vintage camera, then gleefully presents a mugshot of Boone, in orange prison garb, with a pink tag on his ear and an inmate number of 5318008. “’Boone Pygmy’. Age: Thirty-three. Sex: F-” Boone interrupts him quickly, clutching the bars of his cell. “I HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT!!!”

First contestant to the stage... Boone Pygmy!

He’s kinda forgetful, not sure if you remembered that. A bit cloudy in the head.

And he’s also... huh?!

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It's part of the reason I was like "oh no" when I realized this panel was the only good crop I could use for this page. 😬 Mr. Nightmare Apparition sure is taking some heavy swings, that's for sure.

Boone is being tantalized by the compass nightmare apparition, who is outing him by snapping his fingers and disappearing his clothes. Boone covers his body up from inside the prison cell, while the Compass Man says, "A buck or a doe? Buck or doe? He's a tra - er PANSY! What else is there to know?"

Indecent exposure, but not in the way you think…

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Echo swordfighting

Fudge it, we ball.

Streamin' comics:
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Boone looks away, unsure. "Hhhhhmmmmmn..." He grins sheepishly. "Can you play it back, one more time?"

Boone pleads the fifth: no answering, only asking!

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Lester just has bad taste. He can't appreciate the sheer amount of cuddle prowess displayed before him (and yes, of course!).

Unfortunately, instead of a hole, they got a spotlight. But hey... they asked for it!

If they're cold, he's cold... bring him inside!

Boone puts up his arms and yells out at Lester, exasperated. "The point? That IS the point!" He crosses his arms over his chest and gives him a slightly disgusted look. "Besides. I don't like the way you talk about her. It grosses me." Lester holds his paw in an "L" shape over his forehead. "Yeah, yeah. If that's the way yer gonna be about it, you can forget abouddit. No cuddles? No car." Boone strikes (what he thinks is) a sexy pose. "Huh. Is that all? Just cuddles? You could've asked ME." He grins, pointing to himself. "Unlike Echo, I don't really care about losing my dignity. And I'm a better cuddler, too." He flexes his giant biceps. "I mean, LOOK! I got huggin' arms!" Lester laughs out loud, finding Boone hysterical. "HAHAHA! Yer serious?! I'm lookin' for quality offers, Lunchmeat. Not a consolation prize!!!"

Book 2.38: Consolation Prize
- October 14th, 2024

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