Hey all!

How’ve you all been!? Well, I’ve been away for a while. but it was only…6 months!? Holy crud! Time flies when you are busy. And boy have I been busy!

The piece above is my artistic contribution to Mega Man Tribute, an upcoming art book from UDON Entertainment (where if you don’t know, I run the UDON publishing division as Managing Editor). I’ve been working on this and about a dozen other art books for games like Valkyria Chronicles, Mega Man Battle Network & Star Force, Street Fighter and a bunch of others . We’re also working on new comics, more Japanese manga translations, and plenty of other projects.

Oh yeah, and also planning for my wedding, and looking at buying a house soon. Those take some of my time too

I’m hoping to be able to post more art now that things are pretty caught up at UDON. I have been working on some of my own original property ideas, and also doing commissions through my deviantart gallery. Check that link out for plenty of pics you probably haven’t seen before!

Also taking ideas for a new Transformers print for summer conventions. You guys have probable previously seen my previous prints like the G1 Battle Scene, Lil Formers the Movie, or Lil Formers Animated. Open to suggestions for this year. Beast Wars? Japanese G1? Uh…Pretenders?(maybe not that one…)

Some of you may have seen this piece before, but I’m reposting it since VENT is now available in stores.

VENT is a 248-page anthology/art book collecting original pinups, stories and tutorials from everybody at UDON. I myself did the above pinup(of my personal story idea “Messiah”), showed some of my own character designs, and then did a tutorial on drawing chibi-robots. If any of that interests you please check out VENT at your local comic shop, or pre-order the book on amazon.com for jsut $26.39(best price anywhere!). If you like other anthologies like ROBOT, APPLE, or FLIGHT, you’ll love VENT.

Order VENT volume 1 on amazon.com

You can find the book in most comic shops, or order it for just $9.44 on amazon.com!

STREET FIGHTER WORLD WARRIOR ENCYCLOPEDIA

“Enter the world of Street Fighter, where fighters of every size, shape, and color collide in a global battle for supremacy. Combatants fight for reasons as diverse as their nationalities, each which their own unique moves and fighting style. Now you can learn the whole story behind the world’s greatest fighters in The Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia! Inside you will find detailed profiles of every Street Fighter character, including their histories, strengths, allies, enemies, and more! Each profile is accompanied by pulse-pounding artwork by top UDON artists.”

Order Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia from Amazon.com!
Read a great review of the book from destructoid.com

(for any noobs…this strip is a shout out all the back to Lil Formers #1!)

So it’s been 4 years, 200 strips (more actually, counting stuff I’ve done for TFW2005, Official Transformers club mag, and more…) and I’m pretty proud of Lil Formers at this point. I’d like to thank all the loyal readers who comment on Lil Formers.com, my watchers on deviantart, those of you who come out to see me at conventions, and even you silent lurkers!

I never anticipated my little web comic would get so popular. Heck, I didn’t even intend for it to be a series at the start. I just doodled out a Shockwave, added a speech balloon to him, and that would have been it… except folks asked for more and eventually I found myself doing Lil Formers every week.

So what does THE END mean? Am I retiring Lil Formers? Well no… but I am putting the weekly strip schedule aside so I can focus on other things. I’ve got some other concepts I want to develop, and a lot of cool stuff is going on at my day job as Managing Editor of UDON Entertainment. Plus I’m getting married in a year! Phew!

I will be doing more Lil Formers strips I’m sure, just not on every Monday like in the past. I will though be doing more blog posts where I dig up old Lil Formers art, talk about projects I’m working on, or maybe just post something I drew that day. So if you come back every week, there should be soemthing nifty for you to check out. I’ve even got a strip idea for next so, who knows…maybe I won’t escape so easily heh.

Thanks again, to everyone.

-Matt Moylan

Part three of Destro’s unfortunate dealings with Cobra Commander. (Read part 1 and part 2 if you haven’t before).

Again, this one is inspired by a now year-old conversation with Transformers colorist Josh Perez. He’s nuttier than Chinese chicken salad.

Next week, Lil Formers #200…

Soundwave and Ratbat are joined by Ratchet and Blaster…it’s a party now! Here they are hanging out on the guest room futon:

A real game if you haven’t heard! Two games actually!

Though, the response I’ve seen from most people is usually: “Really?…Does anybody play Tekken anymore?”

Myself, I had to lookup ref for the Tekken guy….I have already forgotten his name. Here’s a video though!

This is about as spoiler free a comic as I could come up with heh. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, hurry up!

About the debate over the ending of the movie, I’ve heard one really good argument for each side of the argument. But they both require either A) examining the movie credits or B) having read the original screenplay.  So to me in the end it is up in the air.

And yes, Freddy’s totem is a Deadpool action figure

PS: Don’t forget to check out the free online Inception prequel comic featuring art by UDON (never pass up a chance to plug our studio!)

Don’t forget, I’ll have a Lil Formers table set up this weekend at TFcon in Toronto Canada, July 17-18th. Find all the info at TFcon.ca.

I’ll be selling prints (included TF Animated and G1 Battle scene, never before sold at a TFcon), selling buttons(news! some that were not even sold at Botcon!) and ove course doing commission sketches!

Also, that Night-bird figure the con has produced is pretty kickin’, check it out:

UPDATE: Hi all, I’ll be at the San Diego Comic-Con all week, so no new strip this week. I will try to get something new up some time on Tuesday the 27th. See you then! Oh, also if you want to come by to see me at SDCC, I’m at the UDON booth #5037. Full details here

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Something of a follow-up to a very old Lil Formers, from over 3 years ago: Lil Formers #37: Devastator

Props to whoever can identify all four limbs’ original combiners first. Hint - none of them are Transformers.

Also lots of news this past week! If you missed it on the blog:

- Lil Formers - Pirated!
- Matt interviewed in ImagineFX magazine
- Matt featured in VENT - UDON’s 10th anniversary anthology
- Botcon 2010 report

Plus, don’t forget that I’ll be at TFcon in Toronto this coming weekend(July 17-18th) selling prints, buttons, and sketches!