Adventure!

Aww, I feel bad for this poor little blog - all neglected for the last month, and the two posts before this one were just placeholder "here's where I'll be signing in Seattle and Chicago!" deals.  Very little of substance, and that's just totally unfair to the many people who come here looking for answers to the big questions.  I'll try to do a little better in this one. Tonight, this very night, I am appearing on Comic Book Live, the super cool live video podcast taped at Piano's down on the Lower East Side in NYC.  Should be a bunch of fun.  I'm appearing to promote the upcoming release of 27: Second Set on May 23, as well as talk about the comics issues of the day (literally and figuratively, I think) and probably tease some upcoming projects.  The other guest on the show is H. Jon Benjamin, the brilliant comedian who voices one of my favorite animated characters of all time: Archer, from TV's Archer.  So, I'm expecting that to just go swimmingly.  My main trick in interviews is to try to be a little bit funny - throw out the occasional line and hope I get a tiny laugh.  Tonight, the other dude on stage (either before, after or with me - I'm not sure about how they do it) is literally one of the funniest guys around.  The only strategy I can see is to hope for the audience's pity.

But I'm sure it'll be awesome.  It's only an hour.  (An hour that will live forever and ever on the internet!)

Have you been reading 27 for free on Keenspot?  If not, it's there.  We're running all of First and Second Sets, with a new page every weekday.  I'm intending to start adding commentary to the pages soon, but it seems to require some HTML wizardry that I'm not quite capable of yet.  It's on my list, though.  I'd like it to be like an entirely new way of experiencing the story.  And if it goes well, I'd like to debut NEW 27 stories on the site as well - but that's still in the works.

The other big news recently was the official announcement of Strange Attractors at C2E2.  The book is coming along beautifully, and the response at the con was incredibly promising.  I've learned not to get too excited about books before they're done, and before they're actually read by anyone, but... I'm optimistic.  You can get a bit of a recap on the announcement panel here.  We also did up an amazing teaser poster that we've been giving away at cons, but in case you haven't seen me at one recently and want to print up your own, here you go:

As cool as that map is, it's just a fragment of the incredible work the art team is doing on the book.  I'm always in awe of my artistic collaborators on any project, but this one... well, you'll see.

I think I'm going to head out to get myself psyched up for this show tonight (and if you see this in time, feel free to come out and support), but there will be plenty more to talk about in the next few weeks.  Tons going on.  My 2012 so far = happy exhaustion.