The new site construction is going well, although focusing on new art for it at the moment. I promised myself I would not post up any new art until the site's launch at the end of summer, so you folks might have to wait a bit longer.
Still debating if I will put the new art on DA.. maybe, maybe not. We'll see I guess. Putting the new art on here when it comes time will defeat the purpose of the new site in my opinion, so probably not (also the fact I was never too crazy about DA to begin with).
Anyhoo, here is the soon to be location of the new site, for those few of you who can't get enough mAz art.

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EDIT: Will need a bit longer to finalize things on the site. So I definitely plan to launch the site before the end of '09. Sorry, but it's not like I'm getting paid to do this stuff. It will happen.. it just needs more time.

Too much rain here.. I'm almost missing the droughts from a year ago.

On the good side, I'm actually getting shit done.

Been busy working on the blueprints of a Mazworks III site. It's something I didn't think I would end up doing again, but I've been given some reliable netspace from a local friend of mine a couple months back.. so I figured it was time to start putting it to some use. It's likely that this will be the last art/fiction site I'll actually bother with anyways.

I'm going to be focusing mostly on side stories to the overall story of Saxxony, the first being Sondre and the Southpaw. This takes place right after the fall of Teeka Academy and has the dramatic changing of Toka Academy for boys, which loses it's Toshima Empire standards and becomes independent.. all the while Nori rages war against humanity on mainland Toshima. It will focus on Donovan (Southpaw) and his unwillingness to participate in the troubles aftering being "poisoned" by his former lovers Maki and Nori. The newish, gothy, half-banshee Sondre will be the main fem who takes an interest in Donovan (after she tries to kill him). It will also have Krikket before her bar-brawling years, as well as Meere the naga (who was eventually released from her captivity). Cleo will be there too, although as a banshee (she was killed allegedly by Nori the night Teeka academy fell).

There will be plenty of new characters as well, like Hector, Donovan's distant cousin who "hires" Southpaw to help his train the students at Toka. He's loosely based off of Walter from the Big Lebowski, and involuntarily gave Krikket her exceptional cussing ability.

A new villianess, Puzzele, a possessed puppetwoman who uses the live, severed head of a man (Garmador) as a weapon. Their history is still being created, but most likely Garmador will be a wacked scientist/sorceror who lost his marbles, has visions of conquering the world, and created Puzzele as a guardian for his.. head. heh

There are other additions to come as I continue to write the fiction. It will be mostly in writing, with the occasional art pic entwined with the story.. so it will be like an illustrated book style.. and will be comedy mixed with the occasional seriousness and weirdness.

So here's hoping for a mid to late summer release.

There will be fully detailed bios of the charcters as well, something I always liked having somewhere on the site. Plus other semi-interesting stuff.

Yep. Finally won my first SC4 tourney there. Prizes were pretty crappy, but it was fun regardless. MTAC is the only con where I won tournies in in SC2, 3 and 4 now. Pretty cool.
Car started acting up a bit saturday morning with a radiator leak spraying fluid on my serpentine belt, but it was still drivable. Have to get that looked at this weekend.
Table sales were pretty good for the most part, though friday was a little on the slow side. Things got better Sat-sun. Still don't have enough for a nice new monitor, but I can get that later on.

To change the theme from the last ugly journal post.. I'll be at Nashville's MTAC from April 3rd-5th. Haven't decided if I'll do commissions yet, but I'll have prints to sell as usual. Look for the dude with the green fishing hat in the concourse.
Should be in the Soul Calibur 4 tourney there as well.

Please fucking desist on trying to shove your shit ads about subscriptions down my fucking throat. Thank you very fucking much.

Love,
mAz