I'm warming up writing this in preparation for tackling the second draft of a story. I don't know how long it'll be or how much sense it'll make but it's a thing, an exercise, that is akin to an athlete stretching...

- Interesting Wines: We've been drinking Middle Sister of late and have really enjoyed the two that've landed on our dinner table ( Read more... )

* Not much over the last week or so. Been busy with this and that, writing, working, staying warm.

* Congratulations to my friends whose comic works have been announced: Ande Parks is writing the new Kato title for Dynamite and Jai Nitz is writing the new old Kato origin for Dynamite. Some very cool stuff there to come. My friend Bobby Nash has ( Read more... )

Down the home stretch to the end of the year, now. Here's a list of things on tap for the week ( Read more... )

Recommended reading:

* Freakangels FREE webcomic from Warren Ellis and artist Paul Duffield.

* "...Like They Are" the seventh FREE story on my website started last Wednesday. It's not too late to get into it, nor too late to read the others. They'll be there forever ( Read more... )

* I'm 15,000+ words into my novel for NaNoWriMo or about one-fourth of the way to my 60,000 word goal for the novel. I'm feeling good that there are some really nice passages so far, standing proudly beside the junk. I think there are far more good words so far than bad, and certainly there are some interesting ideas that I've barely scratched ( Read more... )

Read this article about Jim Steranko's appearance at the Baltimore(?) comicon and then come back, I'll wait ( Read more... )

Some things I wanted to say about particular comics and the industry in general ( Read more... )

- Why would I give up monthly comics? I pointed to this the other day on my Twitterfeed because it struck a chord with me. Monthly comics just aren't really all that exciting any more. Not much happens. As I'm a person who really likes Story over Art, it might behoove me to look more at collections than singles. I'm not reading that many ( Read more... )

Really, stuff I've ordered lately that came delivered (almost) to my door:

We Love Golf for the Wii. It's got irritating 'helpers' and is way more complicated than the Wii Sports version of Golf, but it's fun. The gameplay isn't as 'real-time' as the Wii Sports version either, it takes a minute for the game to catch up to my swing, but maybe it' ( Read more... )

• 06:45 @ bclaymoore The Cats looked like they really wanted it and weren't going to quite. KUdos to them! #
• 18:15 Azzarello/Corben Hellblazer "Hard Time" is likely the best Constantine story I've read b/c it didn't hit the usual tropes. Unexpectedly good #
• 19:09 Springsteen evangelizin'... He's got the fire again, but 10th Ave Freezeout? Really? #
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