Happy New Year! I’ve been taking a break from the internet over Christmas, and it looks likely to continue while I try to get some new stories written, so apologies if you’ve been tweeting or messaging me and never got a reply.

Meanwhile, Sarah McIntyre has been busy drawing this fantastic Railhead picture. It’s inspired by Mithila art from the Madhubani district of India, though very much filtered through Sarah’s own style. It shows the train Damask Rose travelling through some symbolic K-gates, accompanied by some figures who Sarah says, ‘are a mix of Flex’s drawings – sort of come to life in the K-gates – and the station angels (which I know look more like praying mantises than angels, but I still love the name). And I guess they could be Guardians, too.’

I love it, and it seems like a good way to kick off 2019. (Extra points if you spot the drone.)