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I've had this weird depressed Generation Y Alice in sci-fi Wonderland idea bouncing around my skull for a while now. It's not a story I think I'd ever be able to write, but its got such damn defined visuals that a doodle or two of it had to sneak out sooner or later.

For a while I've had an idea for a story about gen Y, escapism, and how those interact with a generational coming-of-age into a culture and economy that was really only looking for cheap and homogeneous labor.

It's a weird visit down the rabbit hole that I came up with at a point in my life when I wasn't sure if it wouldn't be easier to never come home from Oz, if you know what I mean. And really, that's the central conflict of the whole thing - if you have a magical world to save, what do you gain by coming home to living in a dirty apartment with a menial job and debt and depression? But the plot isn't necessarily important to drawing pictures of it for emotional catharsis.

I'm probably going to do more pictures from the idea, now that I've started drawing some out they're kind of addictive since the aesthetic ended up stuck somewhere in the vicinity of "shoujo manga directed by jj abrams."