Author: phinmagic

Phineus : Magician for Hire is the brainchild of creator Barry Linck. Phineus was created in 1987, of then a high school senior after reading too much of Matt Wagner's "Mage", too much Dungeon's and Dragon's and watching too much of John Carpenter's "Big trouble in LittleChina". Over the interviening years Phineus changed from angellic savior, to reluctant hero, to art student who finds he is a mage, until, in 1991, for a comic class at Edinboro University, he became part of a Husband and Wife paranormal investigations team, with Phineus' sidekick and wife Sara. Barry produced and self published from 1993 to the present 33 comics with our erstwhile heroes, garnering a small but rabid fan following.

Ordo Hereticus So Far…

Since my brain has been broken and all attempts to draw have been fruitless, I’ve been still creating, by working on my Warhammer Army, Inquistorial Agents.

I’ve long (since 2nd Edition) wanted a full on Inquisitorial force. Always dug the vibe. Now, new Edition, new rules, new army!

So, I have a big block of Adeptus Arbites 22 of the old metal minis, and 9 that I kitbashed to look the part. I also have a bunch of the old 2nd Ed Sisters if Battle metal minis.

I’m also cobbling together 3 whole teams of Inquisition agents, to be led by my Inquisitors. When I get them done, I’ll post up new pics!!

Inquisition Motorpool

Here’s my Inquisitors’ rides. Some official rhinos, a scratch-built rhino, scratch-built chimera, scratch-built proxy Corvus Blackstar and proxy Immolator/chimeras. In the back are my proxy Russes for the allied guard I have.

I have the icons all affixed. These were just printed on label stock and stuck on.

I have a bunch more infantry to paint up, and some more Sisters as well. I’ll post more when I finish them.

Early Rugnar the Grimm

This may be the earliest pic of Rugnar, with his party for a medieval campaign of Backwaters of Mysticism run by game creator John Burris. I ended up porting Rugs to modern times and my Phineus comics. In this setting he was a priest of Thor and his lightning came from Clerical magics.

Hutzcon ’24

Here, I ran my game, Backwaters of Mysticism, to close out the weekend. It had been quite a few years since I’ve played, let alone ran BOM, so I made a few mistakes. They were easily corrected and we had a good time of Cthulhu and carnage.

Playing with Brian Babyok, we’ve decided to work on tightening up the game and making a Third edition, specifically for Phineus, so there’s that.

Here’s pics of some of the other games.

We RPG’d “Everyday Heroes” with Justin. Great fun, 1980’s stuck in an alternate dimension. Chris ran us through Dresden Files as a Supernatural Strikeforce for the allies. Also fun.

We also played a bevvy of board games, miniature games and card games. My favs were “Unmatched” and “Unfathomable”.

Can’t wait to do it again, next year!

NPCs

Here’s the baddies for the Module I’m working on. Sorry about the lack of pages this week, I’ve been in game mode. I run the game the first time this weekend. I’m a little nervous!

Phineus Inspired art by Paul Schmitt

Here’s a couple of pieces of awesome and grizzly art, inspired by some gribblies I drew, that the lovely and talented Paul Schmitt of Gargantuan Media drew up! He made game pieces out of my game pieces!

Go check out his stuff, it’s awesome!!

Encounters for B.O.M.

Here’s the first two board setups for the session of Backwaters of Mysticism I’m running later this month. Knowing our group, we won’t get this far. Due to PCRPD (Player Character Role Play Distraction).

I’m getting pretty excited!!!

Queen of the Cold Night 16

He doesn’t LOOK 11…

Queen of the Cold Night 15

Nice way to meet someone new…

Character Sketches from Backwaters Sheets

I was going through all my gaming stuff (mostly Backwaters of Mysticism) and I found all my old character sheets. I’ve played a LOT of RPGs. Backwaters became my different groups’ go to system. . We mixed up the worlds with we played in. Some straight up fantasy (Rugnar was my Dwarven Priest if Thor), modern, modern fantasy, some space sci fi, Super heroes, Kung Fu, westerns, etc.

I really dig a lot of the character sketches I’d done for the characters, and no one has seen them. I thought I’d share them with you guys. You may see some of these guys show up in future comics, now that I’ve rediscovered them.

Character sheet meets tokens

So the tokens match the character sheets. I’ve also made “generic” versions of the characters, so that when they are played, the player can do what they want, despite the comic canon.

Queen of the Cold Night 14

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go, despite important exposition going on!

The Cult has stats, now!!

I’m going to do some play testing, soon, before I run this against my gaming group. It’s been a very long time since I’ve GMed a game! YEARS. Should be fun, though.

Queen of the Cold Night 13

And we’re back! My after vacation reaclimation took way too long and I got caught up in game stuff. We’re back to at least 2 weekly updates, now.

The Great Necromancer! Anyone recognize the orb he has?

Cthulhu City

As longs as I’ve played Warhammer 40k, I’ve wanted a city of terrain. And now I have one!! I downloaded files from https://www.toposolitario.com/workshop/tableros.html and built a bunch very quickly and it looks great!

The tokens are tokens for my game Backwaters of Mysticism, tokens I made of the Infected Colonies for One Page Rules (they were official for a bit, until OPR got 3d printing and lost interest in supporting 2d printed armies). The tanks and cheap but awesome Robogear tanks.

I’ll be using all this for the game I’m running next month of Backwaters. Should be fun!!

Tyrannosaurus Rex

I love drawing dinosaurs. Always have since I was little. T Rex is my favorite to draw, since I was little.

I am also digging taking old sketchbook sketches and digitally inking and coloring them.

Fun warm up.

Characters Created!

Council of Phins 5

Finally!! A new comic page! “Council of Phins” has updated over at https://www.patreon.com/Phinmagic

Thanks for entertaining my creative whims. I get into moods and move where the winds of my muse take me.

Do expect more RPG stuff. It’s stuff I’ve been planning for a long, long time, but has been of the backburner. I will try to mix it better with comic pages, though.

And I won’t have another vaca for a year.

The Contessa first sketch

This is serious old school. Like drew it in middle school in 1985. Got detention because it was stolen and ended up in the hands of my Algebra teacher, old school.

She is the product of watching Tobe Hooper’s “Life Force” at age 15. She is still an active character in my comics, as well. She’s my second oldest , current character next to Howie, who was created a few years earlier.

I was digging through gaming stuff and came up on this. Thought it was loooong gone.

Cheers.

More Figures…

The first 3 encounters and general plot of the gaming module are worked out. Gonna playtest against myself, fore unleashing it on my group. Similar to “New Girl in Town”, but extra.

RPG Tokens

So, here’s a bunch of the token figures for my game. I have a bunch more to cut out, zombies, more monsters and gribblies, but it’s coming along. The player characters, have a bunch of designs to choose from, but the party will be 7.

Thi is fun stuff to work on.

RPG Gaming module

Sorry about the lack of pages, recently. I went on vacation to see my family for 2 weeks and , while I have 2 pages pencilled, I’ve been working on stuff for the Role Playing Game. I am doing character sheets of all our heroes for a Game Module called “Terror of the Cthulhu Cult”. It will be play tested this August at our gaming group’s “Hutzcon”.

The Module, when done, will have lots of background, characters, scenarios, and printable tokens for the heroes and monsters. I’ve been wanting to do this project for YEARS. I’ll post stuff as I get it done.

Pages should be back posting, next week!