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A few weeks ago I had an experience of which I'm still having difficulty processing.     As mentioned before, many of my sketches originate from within lucid dreams I have, many of such concern elements of The Monkey Boy Invasion.

     This particular incident is as yet to be defined as a waking dream, a hallucination or just more evidence of my possible suspected schizophrenia manifesting itself in said event.

I do know this, I was fully asleep and 'awakened' by a severe muscle spasm-contraction in my left calve, something which does happen on an irregular basis.     In this instance there was something new and again, as yet to be explained, it seems there was a sort of glow coming from within my calve, in particular it seems the bone itself was starting to flicker on much like a fluorescent lamp. 

My dark bedroom was now starting to develop shadows as the luminosity has now spread to the bone of my thigh, the bones in my hands also began to take on this 'x-ray' effect adding to the soft but cool light my body was releasing.  Now it was in my arms, my rib-cage and likely my skull.

     I sat up in the bed, resting back against my pillows trying to sort out this strange moment and feeling a low hum begin to fill my head, something like a radio tuned to nothingness, the growing static of white noise filling my ears.

     Physically I felt an odd sensation of 'displacement', much like that first moment when an elevator descends, the brief confusion in one's inner-ear as to loss of equilibrium and point of reference to local gravity.

     At this juncture is when the object began to take form in front of my eyes, estimating such to appear at arms-length and approximately the size of a soccer ball.  More accurately said sphere was more a solid geodesic or polyhedral as it had distinct flat 'sides' or facets.

     This object had the same glow as what my bones had acquired, it still was in a sort of soft-focus but I could make out that each facet bore a symbol or ideogram, what was most disturbing was I recognized the glyphs. It was the interface visual language used between the troops of the MB Invasion forces and their 'handlers' the Harpy Officers, the Tiki Icons.

     The sphere was doing this mad spin then freeze as it was 'displaying' different symbols to me in a series which seemed to repeat over and over, a definite orderly pattern of the icons in some 'broadcast' message.

          I honestly believe this effort and attempt at contact was made by The Artificers, more-so the message so delivered to be 'received' by the part of my brain that catches subliminal images and it to 'process' the data below my conscious levels of thought.

     I have no idea what the incident was but this I do know, the hum carried in my body for days to follow, each time I bring the event up in memory the hum returns.       Part of me is terrified, part of me is wanting to see such as 'proof' my glimpses into the MB Invasion being more than just dreams.  And still there's a part of me that now hungers to dig deeper into my research of this perceived incursion by things not to have belonged in 1963. 


 
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A huge piece of the puzzle that is the Monkey Boy Invasion was revealed to me, one that now better clarifies whom the players are in this conflict.

Often during the full moon I have lucid dreams which will bring insight to non-waking world mysteries, the most recent delivered such to the ongoing and ever-expanding elements of the MB Invasion.

I now know whom is the yet-unseen faction who supplies the army of the MB forces with their technical support and materiel, taken from a dialogue had in a dream-setting did come the name of The Artificers.

Seems there was a great tension in just speaking that name, as if some fear of such being 'overheard' made those in the conversation wary to discuss any details.

Gleaned from previous 'episodes' I knew that there was some intelligence behind how the MB forces could adapt locally scavenged technology, however limited by it's sophistication to meet their needs for transportation and logistical support.

Now things make some sense, the Melting Men with their biological horror-show factories producing monsters and other lifeforms in an ongoing conflict with The Artificers who cobble together innocuous bits of flotsam and jetsam into weapons and military hardware.

The yet-unanswered question is are the two factions fleeing the same feared adversary in their series of guerrilla warfare engagements and inter-dimensional incursions or is this a 'civil' war over ideologies and beliefs ?     

     
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This has been a nagging project on the back-burner of my mind, to sort out and properly arrange the elements of the 1963 Retroverse setting.

  This would entail the ever-underdevelopment notes of the the Monkey Boy Invasion Survival Handbook, the Satellite City shopping center guide, various bits such as Retroverse arcade designs and lastly, the supporting texts to all the above.

The 1963 Retroverse is a place just past the gaze of waking world eyes and the fading partial recollections of childhood dreams and nightmares.  Wondrous and frightening, this hazy slightly out of focus compilation of monsters and machines that decorate and dwell within shopping centers, department stores and other retail venues.

The Retroverse is a very real place to me, sometimes more substantial and solid than the reality we choose to accept as actual.
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Working on a set of retro-reboot toy designs for Remco Toys Hamilton's Invaders from 1964.     The original release consisted of several sets of boxed toys that pitted brave soldiers with specialized vehicles in battle with terrifying monsters.

    The 1964 release included three ground vehicles, the Dwarf Tank, Mosquito Jeep and Torpedo Tank as well as a one-man Hornet Helicopter.  The monsters were Horrible Hamilton, a six legged spider and a six legged beetle.     Six different posed 70mm plastic soldiers were included in various sets in varying numbers, such are know as the Blue Defenders.

    My concept is what if Remco continued the toyline into 1965 with new sets that included aquatic and airborne monsters with vehicles taking the conflict to new battlefields.     This brought about the idea for the Manta Sub and Dragonfly Jet, each capable of combating creatures found in their respective environments.

 The new creatures being the Mohawk Fish and the as-yet-seen Hunter Wasp, each designed along features seen in the original 1964 monsters but unique in it's own flavor of menace.
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What a world, finding myself in the middle of a battle between our mutts and the marauding tribe of tree rats that vex them.  The squirrels have managed to drop a tree directly on the large double-pen dog run, thankfully no K-9s were in residence then.

It's bad enough that our dogs believe our home is a WWII-era Stalagag, my fault letting them watch reruns of Hogan's Heroes, but now the squirrels have taken on the role as Japanese sappers !
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