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John-Charles Takes Manhattan

@sonic9jct.jctholmes.com

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I'm that guy what makes all the ice cream. Writer, artist, Marketing Manager at The Yetee, comic artist and contributor for Nintendo Force

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · Oct 28

Howdy! I'm John-Charles Holmes, a cartoonist with an interest in comics, illustration, and telling fun stories! I also have experience writing editorials and ad-copy for web and print!

WEBSITE: jctholmes.com
COMICS: jctholmes.com/comics/
ART: jctholmes.com/art/

A redrawn illustration of my first "My Famicase" design, featuring a girl in a hat picking apples with a small monkey.

An illustration I did for Japanime Games' 2021 New Year's greeting card, featuring their mascot running under a tori and some fireworks.

Customized label for a batch of my own homebrew cider, named "Medusa Head," featuring a illustration of a green Medusa with a head full of glaring snakes

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 47m

Incredible history of one of the greatest games ever made. I just kinda browsed thru it a bit, but really looking forward to jumping into the whole thing later. Excited to see what Design Room has next up their sleeves

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 1h

Ye, if you're vibing with it 2-3 hrs in, I say it's worth sticking with for SURE. Just be a lil patient as combat ramps up more-- it's more plodding/retro than stuff like RE4 or SH2R. If you're not careful, it will push you quite a bit

John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 1h

I love classical and the fact Apple Music actually doesn't get confused by that and recommend me lullaby baby music non-stop was reason enough to switch

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Enerjax✦ 🔜 Magfest, FF @enerjax.bsky.social · 2h

Oh~❤️ Everyone’s #portfolioday is so amazing😱 I will throw mine into the bouquet as well 💐
I’m up for doing cover art and enjoy drawing characters and collector stuff 🙂‍↕️

My blue haired Spooky Gamer feels totally safe in her corner of the Game Center filled with perfectly harmful creatures😈

Pink Link and Zelda from Link to the Past in a tranquil moss covered archway

Green haired OC relaxed on the floor w her black cat and favorite tunes on the record player

The gang is not all here in this Fatal Fury Mystery Tournament most likely being run in Joe Higashi’s living room, but maybe everyone else is in loser bracket in the kitchen who knows

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

High school literature teachers must be feasting this fall

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

For real, it was Spielberg and Tom Ruegger at the top of their game developing a production pipeline, writing team and animation language that would literally give us Animaniacs and BTAS immediately after. That the show yielded some amazing episodes is no accident. They dropped Kennedy FAST.

John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

Been seeing a handful of posts lately of people I guess discovering TMS animated some of the best looking episodes of Tiny Toons and the assumption seems to be that it was in spite of the quality of the show to which I wanna remind folks... Tiny Toons *was* a VERY good show

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

lol people love to complain about his fashion sensibilities but man just IMAGINE how much more interesting this design would be in Nomura's hands

John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

It still was a very weird choice tho how for as fun as Tsushima's stealth and such was, the game spent most of its length telling you how much you sucked for doing any of it. Yotei starts you at a point of already being fargone, so thankfully they tone down the constant judging

John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

My feelings on the experience overall are the same tho-- it's not an "Ubisoft" open world list manager BUT I think your patience for it is gonna be colored by how many giant open world games you take in your diet. I don't really play a lot of em, so it's still exciting/fresh to me

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

A few beats into Ghost of Yotei and so far everything about the presentation and framing supports the experience of being a wandering samurai so much more organically than the first game. I was a fan of Tsushima but I'm already enjoying Yotei more

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

Also the durability acts more like an ammo system than something that's intended to make you "improvise" in combat, they aren't exactly throwing weapons at you non stop on your first playthrough.

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 2h

I get what you're getting at, but after finishing the game I think a LOT of the choices for combat/meters are very intentional narratively to push towards an intended impact, that much I will say. But I'm not a BotW fan, so maybe it just hit me differently

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 9h

I found that feeling hit me in what was definitely the concluding beats of the game. It's a real trip and you're in for some serious fun

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 14h

Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 17h

It's why I don't throw out a batch until after a few months~

John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 17h

You know, I made a beer earlier this summer that I thought maybe was a flub, but with a few months aging... I gave it another taste and I think it's gonna be aaaalright

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 18h

would you say its been... wonderful?

John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 18h

so..... is being a state and part of america..... a punishment now?

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 19h

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

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SARDINE @kjr0313.bsky.social · 22h

to silent hill or raccoon city still a dilemma

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John-Charles Takes Manhattan @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 19h

a day in the life

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Insert_RaD_Name @insertradname.bsky.social · Feb 4

YUFFIE YUFFIE YUFFIE

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 1d

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 1d

Why play Perfect Tides?

- If you liked the webcomic Octopus Pie you'll find a very similar narrative vibe.
- If you like point n' click adventures, it's been lauded as one of the best of the decade!
- If you are or once were a horny/scared teen, it's here for you.

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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 1d

While the demo for Perfect Tides: Station to Station is part of Steam Next Fest, you can get the original Perfect Tides at 25% off. Lots of time to play the hell out of it before the sequel's release in January.

store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...

Save 25% on Perfect Tides on Steam

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called is...

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