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New Ned’s Lola drop for the holidays! Very Loki-centric just because the concept of ‘time’ plays into a lot of Filipino jokes….

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Ayyy! Take a break from arguing with your Tito about politics and check this small Thanksgiving Lola drop!

Couple things:

1st slide - that particular Seafood City is in National City, SD (near Paradise Hills, where I was raised) - I really like the idea that Namor told Ned’s family he needs to return home, so they flew him across country only to bring him to my old hood.

2nd slide - hope I don’t offend any races that love casserole. But also… why though? And for the record, my Grandma actually did cook turkey for us on Thanksgiving, but it felt weird having it on there so I changed it to Lechon (but you can tell it used to be a turkey)

Guest starring Tenoch Huerta and Charlie Cox

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Merry Christmas!! (Or uh.. happy Almost End of December if you don’t celebrate)

Last drop of Ned’s Lola for ‘22!

- First slide: I honestly have no idea if either of my Grandmas sang this song to me, but I know it well. I distinctly remember my Great Grandma (!) singing it to someone (my Bro I think?) I also wanted to do a tribute to my Grandma Tina, so younger Lola looks slightly more like her.

- Second slide: Wanted to celebrate it being the anniversary of when we first met Lola, so made sure it looked closer to Mary Rivera as possible. Also included the characters that were in her scene. Can you believe I never drew the other two Spider-Men until now? It’s not like people didn’t know they were in the film a month later.. but I was treating it like it was well kept secret (which it wasn’t) - but it’s important they’re here since they were a part of it all.

- Third slide: Uh I know this ‘future cover’ is a gag pointing out our NYE Filipino customs, but this one is a little personal for me. I lost both Grandmas before either could really watch me grow into an adult. I wish they were there when I got married. So at the very least I gave that to Ned (hence Betty being a part of it) (Also future Lola looks more like my Grandma Olimpia - aka ‘Oping’)

Anyways, thanks everyone for going on this Lola journey with me this year! Hope you all have a good holiday!

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Here’s more Ned’s Lola covers! HAPPY AAPI HERITAGE MONTH! (I mean as happy as you can get it to be, considering the world is hot garbage right now) So when I said I’d stop doing big drops I was almost full on lying. This is like the biggest drop yet. And for one reason or another, my brain went “Avengers” so everything here is Ned and Lola teaming up with someone from the greater MCU If you can’t tell, super hyped about Thor: Love and Thunder coming soon.. Thor & Spidey are my Marvel favorites. My only regret is I don’t have Natalie Portman’s Thor in here.. maybe after the movie? But if I do any more “Ned’s Lola” drops, I should also try to get back to the Spider-Man universe (Man anyone have a good Rhino idea? That one has me stumped.) If you’re confused about the beach one, just look up “Charles Atlas comic book ad” - when I was kid, comic books always had this goofy advertisement. I wanted to make sure I drew ‘Wave’ somewhere considering she’s the first major Filipina in Marvel.. and she’s ocean-based so I thought this might be the funniest place to put her.  FYI, these were ready a few days ago, but for various reasons I’ve been making minor alterations. Also I’ve been holding off posting almost any art because of the BS happening in current events.. like I would for real real start a post then some awful news happened so I’d delete it.. then start it again then delete it. But then I realized maybe something here will make someone at least half smile. Or even if it makes you roll your eyes, I’ll take it. Prints will be up in the usual places. Til next time, - B #NedsLola #4ever #4everever?

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Happy Filipino American History Month!!! (Or at least.. the tail end of it)

Ok FINALLY new covers! Sorry guys.. I know it’s been a minute, but I didn’t want to just phone in a Ned’s Lola idea.. and to be honest wasn’t getting a whole lot of inspiration from Marvel this year other than the the 2 films these covers are emulating.

Slide 1 - Believe it or not, I only recently caught Across the Spider-Verse.. but once I did, I instantly knew I wanted to do the Royal Dansk bit there. My original idea was that Miles Morales found a container that actually had a single butter cookie and it was causing an anomaly that was destroying the multiverse because it shouldn’t exist. And all the infinite Lolas would be there trying to fix it, I guess? I felt like that idea was just overcomplicating things, so I streamlined it. BTW my favorite part is that Datu Lola (Lola-Lola) straight up stores a conquistador skull in her container. (It’s probably Magellan’s skull because that dumbass dies in all universes)

Slide 2 - For the GotG 3 cover, it took me a bit to figure out a reason why the villain @nicosantos plays (Theel) would be interacting with Ned and Lola in any shape or form. The “evil nursing degree” Angle was perfect (Disclaimer- Nurses, I know there is no such thing as an evil nursing degree.. you are all -literally- life savers out here) As a kid I used to love those old school team comics (like Justice League) with the member roll call on the cover via a side strip with their floating heads - wanted to do the same thing, and managed to throw in some bits in there.