Raiden + the last PSM endpager

Here's the last "endpage" cartoon I did (a year or so ago) for the final issue of the videogame magazine PSM, before it ceased publication and restarted as Official Playstation Magazine.

As my very first endpage piece [link] had featured cruel mockery of Metal Gear Solid's Raiden (as had many other "endpagers" to follow), I thought it would be appropriate for ol' Raiden to reappear in the very last one and berate PSM and myself over his mistreatment...

Anyhoo, the endpager feature did sputter on for a few more months as OPM's publication began... though the feature never appeared at the end of the book again, which admittedly makes the "endpager" nomenclature technically incorrect. Eventually, other deadlines and pressing matters (and lack of interest) forced the end of the feature entirely. Still, I had a good run in the "gaming strip" field; hell, that's longer than I lasted on GEN13, in fact.

Let this be a lesson to you burgeoning freelancers, though: At most (if not all) companies, unless you're an in-demand heavy-hitter or have multiple, well-established editorial contacts, you're always one editor's departure away from being unemployed. (Not that, by definition, freelancers are ever fully employed per se, but I hope the point is nonetheless clear.)