It’s Good to be Published

Well, if you have been stopping by here any time recently you just might have noticed that there are some subtle changes in the framework of my Blogspace. As I’ve mentioned, I have a couple of new short stories that have been recently published. Both Psychosis! #3 and CAG #7 are due out this month, and both contain stories of mine in them.

The first, Psychosis! #3 contains the long-awaited follow-up story (a prequel, actually) to my story Never Judge a Book... (Psychosis! #1). I would tell you more about this little tale, only that will give away too much of it. Suffice it to say that it is once again lovingly rendered by Matt C. Ryan.

The second story has been even longer in a holding pattern (if you can believe it). It is a continuation of my legendary Renegade Press espionage thriller series, Agent Unknown. This particular story is a new tale of two new agents from the same top-secret intelligent organization. This series is set squarely in the present day, and has a much harder edge to it. It is painted by Chris Torres, and you really have to see it to believe how striking it is on the page.

I seriously have waited a very long time for both of these comics to hit, and this is really only the beginning, as I have more stuff waiting in the wings. Both comics will be available at the CAG & GWP tables at the NY Comic Con 2008 If you are in the neighborhood of the Javitz Center on April 18–20, stop by and say hello!

(Oh, in case you are wondering, both books have flip covers, that’s why there are four covers up here for two books; the second cover for CAG is courtesy of our good buddies over at the Filament Factory.)

It’s Another Day in Spider-Land!

Or rather it was a week ago when I landed this issue of the Spider-Man Newspaper Collectible series. As it is a week later and there didn’t seem to be a comic in the NY Post this week, I’m bummed about it (again) and I’m wondering what the cause it this weekend!

Well, I called the Post’s Customer Service line, and got shunted into their voice mailbox to ask the question. If you want to call and ask for yourself (I’ll post the info here when I learn what happened), you can call them at 800.940.7678.

On a totally separate matter, Marvel’s Civil War Event is over (finally) only not so much, as it not only ended with a lame, status quo non-ending, but it just spills over into the next phase of the event, Civil War, the Initiative, where we will spend the next year on the “new, permanent changes” to the Marvel Universe. Yeah, a likely story, I’m currently giving odds that a year from now there will either be a third phase, or the thing will simply die under its own weight, with everything going back to the way it was before the “war.”

Any takers?

Thought not.

This is not to say that some of the stories around the Civil War Event weren’t good, it is just that it was all for naught, as the ending was a major let down. Still, I do feel it necessary to point out the striking similarities between Amazing Spider-Man #538 and ASM issue #106. (or am I the only one that caught that, eh?)

Anyway, As I told you all last week, I spent last weekend at the NY Comicon, well, this Sunday at another (way smaller) con in East Hartford, CT. There (at the E. Hartford show, I (along with my good buddy Ed Traquino) met up with our fellow CAGers. In addition to the show, we had a short meeting that was videotaped by Sean Therrien.

Next weekend I get to attend the NY CAG meeting (which is held every second Saturday at 5:00 P.M. at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art . Is this the (funnybook) life or what?

NY Comic Con, here we come!

That’s right kids, the NY Comic Con is coming up this weekend (Feb 23-25). I’ll be there at the Guild Works Production table talking to folks, so come on by.



Oh yeah, in case you haven’t seen it yet, there just might be a buncha cute girls out on the prowl at the con. Yeah, it seems as if some NY blogger knows that that the best way to meet nice guys is at comicbook shows.

Comic Book Conventions should be a great place to meet guys. We're talking about a virtually untapped market. In theory: for a smart, (somewhat) attractive girl, getting a date should be like shooting fish in a barrel, no? Thousands of men are gathered in one place (granted, some of them are taken; some are gay; some, undoubtedly, live in their mothers' basements) with a very small proportion of available women around. The statistics alone would lead us to believe there have got to be a few good men in this crowd.

The full post can be found here.

Well, it promises to be a good show, and — as stated — I should be there both Sat and Sun. So sewriously, swing on by, and say hey!