Office Space

To fill space with something other than ads, I threw together this little tour of my (always cluttered) office, and Steven whipped it into a pleasing shape.

This'll appear in the back of HAWAIIAN DICK #3 (out soonishly). Click for a bigger look:

Atomic Revolver on YouTube

The 25th Time is the Charm

I don't talk sports much on here, but...

Loving my Cats this year.

That's all.

Dick on the North Shore

Writer Steve Barnhart sent me this great shot of himself on the North Shore, clutching his prized copy of HAWAIIAN DICK #1 while on vacation in Hawaii:

Top Ten Cheap Trick songs

The greatest band to ever emerge from Rockford, Illinois!

1. Surrender
2. Oh, Candy
3. Dream Police
4. I Want You to Want Me
5. I Can't Take It
6. Hello There
7. If You Want My Love
8. She's Tight
9. Next Position Please
10. Southern Girls

If you don't like Cheap Trick, I don't even wanna know.

Welcome Wes

Wes Wedman is on board to draw HAWAIIAN DICK #11, which will easily be the strangest issue in the series to date.

Wes is a talented artist from just down the road in Lawrence, and is beginning to turn some heads.

The quality of the scan ain't great, but check out this uber cool STEEL CITY HAWK pin-up he did last year:

Around Comics podcast...'76...Dick

So, '76 #1 and Hawaiian Dick #2 are out tomorrow.

Seth and I did an interview with Around Comics where we talk about '76, and I ramble on about the industry and this and that:

http://www.aroundcomics.com/

'76 #1 out next week...preview up...

...at Newsarama:

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=142958

A Dick flick

If and when Hawaiian Dick makes it to the screen, it's gonna be so far removed from what it started out to be.

Not bad, mind you.

Also, HAWAIIAN DICK #2 and '76 #1 both drop next week.

Check your favorite comic shop! And if it's not there, check another one.

Shane White's Hawaiian Dick

Shane White's working on an eight-page Hawaiian Dick story, and worked up this piece as he's playing around with color and design.

Purty sweet.

Come to Orlando for free '76!

Assuming the book arrives by then, Seth and I will be handing out free copies of '76 #1 to anyone who attends the Atomic Revolver panel at the FX Show in Orlando on January 26.

Goodness

Wow. Just...wow.

Sometimes I almost think it's okay to have hope again.

I'm sure my soul will be thoroughly crushed again in due time.

Wizard love

So Happy NYE!

I changed the blog's colors with fingers crossed.

Awaiting word on a book whose lead character sort of matches this color scheme.

Could be fun.

Dick Up

Didn't know Newsarama was doing this, but the entire lead story from HAWAIIAN DICK #1 is up on this Boxing Day:

DICK!

At least click on it so it looks like you care. And, of course, to enjoy Steven Griffin's backup story, you'll need to pony up for the book. Or download it illegally, if that's how your twisted soul rolls.

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"Camp is the consistently aesthetic experience of the world. It incarnates
a victory of 'style' over 'content,' 'aesthetics' over 'morality,' of irony over
tragedy."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp

Top Twenty-five (NO....FIFTY!) of the 90s

Or...twenty-five of the top...from the 90s. Twenty-five of my favorites from the 90s. Top Twenty-five. Twenty-five of the Top. The 90s. No order. One album per artist. No comps.

1. If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
2. Fruit of Life by Wild Colonials
3. Telegraph by Richard Davies
4. Vinyl by Dramarama
5. Grace by Jeff Buckley
6. Whatever by Aimee Mann
7. Wild Wood by Paul Weller
8. Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys
9. Hymns to the Silence by Van Morrison
10. Moseley Shoals by Ocean Colour Scene
11. Fight Songs by Old 97's
12. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
13. Definitely Maybe by Oasis
14. The Bends by Radiohead
15. The Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers
16. The Missing Years by John Prine
17. Gentlemen by the Afghan Wigs
18. It's Great When You're Straight by Black Grape
19. Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys
20. Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos
21. XO by Elliott Smith
22. Parklife by Blur
23. Pinkerton by Weezer
24. The Soft Bulletin by the Flaming Lips
25. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.

Probably should expand it to fifty. Missed a bunch of favorites.

Okay. Twenty-five more!

26. A Different Class by Pulp
27. Laid by James
28. Odelay by Beck
29. Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet
30. Feeling Strangely Fine by Semisonic
31. Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair
32. Tuesday Night Music Club by Sheryl Crow
33. The Man Who by Travis
34. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized
35. Ben Folds Five by Ben Folds Five
36. Keep it Like a Secret by Built to Spill
37. Cure for Pain by Morphine
38. Tomorrow the Green Grass by The Jayhawks
39. Dog Man Star by Suede
40. August and Everything After by the Counting Crows
41. I Should Coco by Supergrass
42. Amplified Heart by Everything But the Girl
43. I Love My Friends by Stephen Duffy
44. Cracker by Cracker
45. Hot by The Squirrel Nut Zippers
46. White Sky by Archer Prewitt
47. Tindersticks (II) by Tindersticks
48. Vauxhall and I by Morrissey
49. Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub
50. Infamous Angel by Iris DeMent

I still left a few out.

Damn.

Happy Holidaze

Superman Confidential #13

Man, I love this cover. By Phil Hester & Ande Parks. Something old school about it, but mainly I love simplicity in design:

Same Old Lang Syne

Song always gets to me. With the passing of Dan Fogelberg, and the time of year, I thought I'd dig up a video. About the best I could find was this fan-made video that's still pretty heartfelt:

CBR on my Superman Confidential arc

If you're curious. I chat about it a little bit:


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