74. ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME.

This one just kind of....came out like this. I was aiming for more realistic than usual. He's an angry man. I think the approved term is alcohol fueled?

73. I CAN'T

If you have no idea what this is a picture of it's possibly pointless trying to explain. Suffice to say I suspect the words that make up today's theme are heard often on the battleground known as Mt Midoriyama.........incorrectly known because as it turns out when the Japanese stick 'yama' on the end of a word it means 'mountain'. So when the clueless western media company translate it to Mount Midoriyama they are effectively saying Mount Mount Midori. Idiots.

Oh. Ninja Warrior is what I am talking about. And this is the dreaded 'Warped Wall' obstacle from Stage one.

72. MISCHIEF MANAGED.

Apologies to the foreign readers, or the local readers who are atrociously educated politics wise OR to everyone if this depiction of our new (again) Primeminister is not sufficiently recognisable.

Also - when I think of Kevin as a student at Hogwarts, the House that immediately springs to mind is Hufflepuff. Not sure why.

71. OBSESSION

Dirty rat and cliche cheese. Mmmmm cheese.

70. 67%

The good Doctor is becoming my go to man for the awkward ones. Also - SECRET VOLCANO BASE. 

69. ANNOYANCE

Zombie Apocalypse amateurs.....

68. HERO

I bet the guy here thought he was going have a nice quiet day...Not a bit of it.

67. PLAYING THE MELODY.

Please ignore the physics.....

66. TRAPS

'Could Minion Class 2 Jones please report to Mr Octopus in HR for his performance appraisal.....'

65. HORROR

2002. The Sutherland Cup Grand Final against Colleagues (Tristans and Jeremy's the lot of them) at Harold Park. Had not lost a game all year. We lost 3 - 0 to a penalty kick that bounced off the upright AND the crossbar before going over......I am aware that this is what you might refer to as 'First World Horror'.

64. MULTI TASKING

Tappity tap tap THUD.

63. DO NOT DISTURB.

Proper Dragons are not ridden. They are not wise and homely. They are not voiced by Sean Connery. They are evil, capricious killing machines that will consume you and your entire village then make shiny baubles from your heat cured bones.... 

62. MAGIC

Nothing shits me more than stories where they're always solving every single little problem with magic (are you listening Rupert Bear?). I always liked Terry Pratchett's conception of Magic as a quite dangerous, almost radioactive tool that tended to remove (or add) as many limbs as it solved problems.

61. FAIRY TALE

No tricks. No blood or last minute smarty arsey post-modern 'the fairies are actually evil' rubbish (plus Mr Pratchett already done that quite nicely). Just good old fashioned family values.

Two fairies. Married to each other. With a happy child. Nothing controversial there.

60. REJECTION.

Now this, ladies and gentlemen. Is how trouble starts.

59. NO WAY OUT

I know it's 'No Way Out' but I can't help thinking he's got a horse at the bottom of that cliff that he's totally going to jump onto and not rupture both his testicles AT ALL.....unless he's the bad guy of course in which case that dude is dead meat.

...also. I need to work on my cowboy hats....

58. KICK IN THE HEAD

If I was also drawing sound effects it would be something along the lines of - 'KLONGGGG'.

57. SACRIFICE.

First she's going to bust off of this piss weak stake. Then she's going to beat that giant spider to death with that rock. And THEN she's going back to that bunch of spineless old butt wipes on the Town Council that decided she should be the sacrifice instead of some over the hill goat like old cranky Mrs Maggoty and feed them their own scum sucking large intestines.....

Sacrifice indeed....

56. DANGER AHEAD.

'Ooh. There he is.' Colour version added on 28/06 for more 'pop' (thanks for the suggestion Lee).

'Airbags activated! Turn signals operational!'

55. WAITING

Not going to lie - I got fairly strapped for time on this one thanks to 6 hours spent on the pressing business of the time sucking, relentlessly hungry, demonic organism that is the Laguna Public School P&C. Still, I'm fairly happy with the leafy bits.

54. TOWER

The original of this is A4 and was mainly an exercise in quantity over quality (though I'm not too bummed  by the quality either) and discipline - 'Can I fill in all those stones without getting lazy about the placement?' kind of thing.

It also demonstrates the limitations of presenting tall stuff on landscape format computers. Mind you, the need to scroll down to see it all does contribute to feeling of toweriness.

53. KEEPING A SECRET

Yes. I am aware this one bares more than a passing resemblance to this one. I had half finished this one before I needed to wrap it up for the day so went with the other for 'Deep in Thought'. Plus, I liked the knife in the table and the slightly hidden pump action and couldn't justify their inclusion in 'Deep in Thought'.

So there.

52. DEEP IN THOUGHT.

Book or the movie? Book or the movie? Movie or the book?

51. SPORT

I always wondered if Vikings (or insert your own favorite bunch of medieval psychopaths) stretched before the carnage. Or how they kept up the cardio-vascular fitness when not actively engaged in all the raping and the burning and the pillaging.

Particularly like the hands in this one.... 

50. BREAKING THE RULES.

Someone had to come to their senses right? On the upside - he didn't get in trouble cause all the idiots wearing the BRIGHT RED JACKETS got shot all to death. Hope you like the use of sideburns. If I had time I was going to do a sergeant with the most massive moustache ever. Stay tuned for the DVD extras...

49. STRIPES.

Swamps - How to avoid drawing feet number 15.

48. CHILDHOOD

Now I didn't run with a particularly rough or troublesome crowd when I was young but regardless - I look back now and have no idea whatsoever how I, or any of the kids I played with, made it to age 12. It is my suspicion that small kids doing what small kids do is a source of constant aggravation to Mr Reaper.

47. CREATION

Buck-AAARCK!

46. FAMILY

Left to right - Link, Pa, Mean Machine, Junior and Fink Angel....and Ratty. This is what I suspect is referred to as a 'Total Nerd Out'. If you have any idea who these people are (particularly Fink) then I suspect I could paint a fairly specific picture of how you spent your 80's......and it wasn't with a  girlfriend... 

45. ILLUSION

Never trust the little black haired kid in the dark suit. And if he's got a birthmark IN ANY WAY resembling the number 6 and/or a giant dog as a pet - douse the little bastard in holy water sharpish.

44. TWO ROADS

For those of you who have been to the Remarkables in New Zealand - This, in my head, is the drive up to the ski fields. How that road is able to exist in an supposedly civilised country....