The great comics crash of May, 2009

The sky is falling! Or was May 2008 just a bumper month for comics?

Well Played

Image comics.  Well played indeed. I agree.  Can we get past all this and just tell good stories instead?  Artificial hype is artificial.  Though from the sales numbers for May, I can see why some people suspect that the hype is necessary.

I’m not sure I needed to know that.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Captain America strikes again

Captain America lives! But will it play in Peoria?

Woah, woah, woah!

Nightmarish comics from beyond the pail.

Your distracting video for the day

The Blasters rip it up live.

Strangeways: The Thirsty – page 081

It’s up!  Go and get it before I write more badly-formed tweets exhorting you to do so! Apologies for the low-content mode.  Very busy weekend leading to a very busy week.  Hope to throw some more content up tonight, however.

Fun with MacPaint – 1

MacPaint and 1990. Two great tastes that taste great together.

SCALPED – trades versus monthlies

SCALPED sells trade collections at a rate of 50% of the monthly sales. In the first month of publication. This is a big deal.

MURDER MOON – availability

So, remember when I said that MURDER MOON, the first Strangeways book was available at Diamond with the order code JAN083670?  Well, that’s no longer the case.  And I’m sure that my book is not in a position that’s unique in any way.  I can hope that this will change with the announcement of the [...]