after mysterius...

i delivered the last issue of mysterius a couple of weeks ago... i kind of don't know how i feel about it. (being done i mean, the issue rocks!) i'm also having a bit of trouble figuring out what the hell to do with myself now.

luckily, though, it turns out unemployment feels a lot like work.

well... fun work.

also...

also...

also...

also...

mysterius #6...

... do i really need to tell you to order this book?

really?


a nutty big shout out to aaron and evie and aaron's pants at the awesomed by comics podcast for choosing us for panel and book of the week. here's the unwhatevered version of of the painting from said panel...

thanks kids. now go out and threaten your lcs manager with bodily harm if he/she doesn't get those numbers up mysterius...

monroe lives again...

...for now.

we just managed to squeek him into #500.

mysterius #5....

i was planning on writing a big nycc/MAD piece filled with lots of pictures and hilarious snark.

but i'm busy.

order #5. that is an order.

ps... speaking of nycc, here's an podcast/interview mr. parker and i did with tucker stone for comixology on the floor of the show... i think we may have been feeling a bit honest that day.

happy st. valentine's day...

this was for my son's daycare's card exchange...




no one gets into the romance of the day like toddlers.

mysterius in new york and on the cbc...

leaving today for the new york comicon, but yesterday (feb. 3rd) i did an interview for the cbc's "all in a day", in which i sparkled wittily, and managed not to sound like too much of an idiot.

(although you can hear me sniffling through the whole thing, so those of you opposed to dribble, be warned...)

if you're at the nycc this weekend, stop by and say hi. here's my schedule:

SATURDAY
1:30-2:30pm: PANEL – WildStorm: After World’s End (Room 1A23)
3-4pm: SIGNING - DC/WildStorm booth

SUNDAY
12-1pm: SIGNING - DC/WildStorm booth

i'd like to also take this opportunity to thank all my friends at the beguiling and all my new friends at isotope for having me and making me feel so welcome. (also thanks to viktor, nick, and kevin respectively for giving me somewhere to sleep in the bay area... and ALSO big thanks to my brother, my folks, and our friend martin for putting out fires and helping out monique on the home front while i was away, it was veeeeeeeeeerry much appreciated.)

for some pictures of the isotope show go here. though, i think it would be best if people just stopped taking my picture.

mysterius and wildstorm...

like strawberries and shortcake?

... well, kinda, yeah.



maybe more like rum and coke.

we've been getting a lot of feedback, and so far it's all been really positive (thanks, internet, didn't know you had it in you), but there has been one, slightly curious, thread that keep popping loose in much of the press/reviews/reactions/comments that's got us a wee bit stymied. and that's: "i love the book, but why is it coming out from wildstorm?"

this isn't the first time i've gotten this reaction. back when i was working on caper we got the same thing, and just as the answer back then was: "because bob schreck doesn't work for vertigo," the answer now is: "because that's where ben abernathy is."


simply put: ben called us, those other places didn't (not that i wouldn't mind a call now and again, especially given the current state of things at my day job--- but that's another post). dc/timewarner/whateverthehell does not, in fact, have a giant PLINKO board where the ideas go in at the top and bump their ways down to the various imprints at the bottom. what they do have are some darn sharp editors (some at least) who, when they're given the opportunity, are willing to branch out and commission what they think will be good work regardless of genre.

ultimately neither i nor parker are interested in scolding anyone. that's not the point of this post. what is the point?... crap, i forget. i guess if you like a book you like a book, regardless of whose shelf it's on. i mean that's what we've all been begging for for what seems like forever, right?

so if you see ben abernathy at a con, go give him a hug. he loves hugs.

ps... order mysterius #4.

pps... big thanks to vince bonavoglia and the other guys from the 11 o'clock comics podcast for the love.

ppps... order lots.