That’s certainly an interesting take on it. He might have been clever and he probably even realized Riley left that shot there but he was also a relapsed junkie. I’m not sure he could have just said no without a taste first. I was waiting the entire 4th issue for something to go terribly wrong for Riley and was kind of shocked by the ending. I think that made me like it more. The bad guys have to get away with it sometimes, right?

just thought I’d update you on my progress through Outlaw Nation. I’m up to issue 8 or so and while it took me a while to get acquainted with the characters and to understand that this guy was really 100 years old, I’m starting to really like it. Probably much better as a collected book cause I’ll be honest I’m not sure I would have gone past issue #2 in monthlies. Also the B/W thing really doesn’t bother me, almost as if it was meant to be presented in B/W… Looking forward to reading more…

Dan, I just received my Outlaw Nation trade and you know what’s interesting? While it was released under the y DC Vertigo banner at the time, it’s reprinted with a big Image logo on it…

What bothers me is they don’t realize or believe they are being offensive.

Did you want to subscribe to Electric Ant? Written by David Mack, covers by Paul Pope.

I hear Nexus 101&102 is shipping?!

Awesome Dan, thanks for the update on BoTW.

Re: Page 1 of your gallery… who are you kidding? Zeus is perfectly happy to live in a welfare state and you know it! Explain yourself, monkey!

That’s right…seems like a natural for the pathos that is Hello Kitty.

Awesome! That’s really exciting to hear that they’ll finally be out.

Wow, I started reading that…will have to finish that later. Thank you for sending that.

If you do get a chance check out “Captain America: What Price Glory” mini. I think you will enjoy it.

I just read you comment about the Nexus books being ready for solicitation in May. Great news! I just got Nexus #99 and #100.
It has been such a long time since I read any Nexus, I am going back and re-reading Nexus:Nightmare in Blue before I read the new issues.
I have actually been on a Steve Rude kick for the last month or so. I got his Captain America mini (excellent), Spiderman (excellent), Children of the Atom (also excellent), Thor (excellent), and his giant size Legends of DCU #14 (most excellent).
I am also thinking about buying his recent “Artist in Motion” art book. Did you ever look through it?

Dan,
If you are willing to flex your “graphic design muscles” for the fun of it, I would like to talk to you about re-designing the Robotika logo…any interest?
Alex-

wow, 12 updates of your bio between 3:08 and 3:12pm. You doing some stress test on your server or something? ;)

Thank you for the link. Sweet stuff. By the way, you mentioned getting the hardcover Warlock reprint…how was the color on that?

Yeah, I totally understand the need to change HI’s free shipping policy, itt just doesn’t work out very well for me as I don’t buy much AND our Canadian dollar is worth so little, currently.

I will continue to pop in and hang out here, though. I promise not to spam too much, though! ;)

Thanks, Dan! Glad you dug it. I still don’t have me a copy (my copies from HI should be here in a week or so), yet, but I did see a copy a friend bought. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself. My first time published in colour!(Well, first time published in colour for sequential work)

Cheers!
Jason

Dan,

Garcia-Lopez is an awesome artist. I loved Twilight (and “Cinder & Ash”, “Deadman”, “TeenTitans”, “Jonah Hex”…) one of the best storytellers around who makes his art serve the story and not the other way around (as Neal Adams started doing later on in his career).

I am also looking forward to Vigilante by Leonardi, you guys are sending me that one and I am real curious about it. Leonardi was one of my all time favorites with his work on Cloak and Dagger, Spiderman 2099, Batgirl, and Nightwing being just awesome. But the few recent things he has done have just been “OK” (like the Superman fill ins, and the Justice League story arc).

Alex-

Thanks Dan

Don’t remember if it’s with you or another American friend to be honest, guess we’re both getting old. ;)

Anyway, that’s very cool. Were you reading them in English? I’m French first, English second, so I read them in French. I also read all of the Tintin books at one point or another, but the humour in the Asterix ones is what grabbed me more and why I simply liked them more.

There have been three live action Asterix movies that I know of and of the three, I’ve only seen one, Mission Cleopatra. I thought it was very funny and pretty well done and that it remained quite true to the stories I knew and loved as a child. I saw it in French though, i.e. non-dubbed, no clue if a dubbed version would be good or not, although I read on wikipedia that the English dubbed version was Americanized a little bit.

No clue if that would interest you or not, but with the Holidays coming, TV will be showing plenty of animated Asterix movies in French around here. I could record them and send you the DVDs. That is, if you can understand French… :)

“Anyone else remember the ‘90s Not really, but folks who do said it looked like I was enjoying myself.”

LOL!

Here is that site:
wrightsonsfrankenstein.com

Bummer. I remember a few years ago Wrightson was asking people to send him high resolution scans of the illustrations that they purchased from him because he was going to publish his own version of the book. It was going to cost $300-400…but I wonder if he gave-up on that and gave the files over to Dark Horse for this new book.

Dan, great Berni Wrightson story! And an awesome surprise in the form of a Ralph Reese story…that is simply excellent. All just in time for the Frankenstein reprint (I think I now have 2 copies of it, paperback from when Marvel published it, a hardcover from a few years ago when Underwood reprinted it…and now I am thinking of buying this one as well if the reproductions are good).

Now that is some pro-level customer service! This is why Heavy Ink gets my funnybook money. Thanks, Dan!

RoFl

Thanks Dan, I must apologize to you. I just realized I inadvertently spelled your name wrong last night, sorry about that.
: )

Hi Dam,

I just saw your blurb regarding Mesmo. I’ve been waiting for that one and forgot about it until I saw said blurb.

Thanks very much for posting that, it looks like it’s going to be a good one.

Good sir -

Your custom WW2 military motorcycle with dachshund-modified side car and “chew toy turret gun” is complete and road ready.

thanks for the link. It’s indeed odd. Whatever link with a picture of Jay is linking straight to the frontpage…

hey, I wanna be friend with Jay Faerber too! :(

allrighty!

I do say Daniel – hope all is still Tip Top even in my absence.

ps – Ever find my stash? Hint: Check the hallowed out bust of Shakespeare.

ok thanks!

you can put the seventh page up! but after that no more! I don’t think we meant to send the whole thing.

Great idea! I’ll try it.

You said….

“BTW, James, a couple of us HeavyInkers are Chicagoboyz fans…”

I am thrilled that you have read my unworthy posts. Thank you kindly for letting me know!

James, 08-17-08

thanks man! truly appreciate it!

Thanks Dan! Really liking this site!

NOOOOOOO!

The worse part is, the more you talk about it, the further down it goes. O_O It just slid lower!!!

Hey man, I saw that you are picking up the new issue of The Killer. I don’t know what’s been going on with the long wait, but I highly recommend you check out a movie called Le Samourai, a fantastic movie about a french hitman, and from what I’ve heard a major influence for this comic.

Sooo it looks like you’re the reason HeavyInk’s logo wont be on my boobs at a nerdy con. ;)

Oh, no. Haha. I have seen it though. Mastodon’s my favorite band, so that’s why I have that up.

Oh, apologies for taking so amazingly long to reply. I apparently don’t check this often. You can see my illustration work at: deadend-detour.com

Yeah! It’s one of my favs! I’m a Grant Morrison fangirl. :) Invisibles was actually one of the first comics I read. You should read it whie tripping on cold medicine. I called me friends explaining that the Beatles were God and didn’t get much further than that.

Thanks for the heads up. It’s good to see that our efforts to make every issue accessible have been appreciated.

That’s cool that your mom got you into comics. I’m scared that because I like comics, me kids are going to rebel and like… football or something dastardly like that.

And whenever I read or watch something horrid I think about all the people it went though that said, “Yes, this is worth risking out money on.” There’s writer, artists, colorists, inker and letterer (all depending of course)… then comes more than a few editors. Don’t ever blame one editor for a work, there’s always an editor editing an editor. Then marketing and other departments read it, or at least sample the titles occasionally.

And ALL of those people said… “YES! We are going to sink some money into THIS project because we think people are going to buy so much of THIS that we’ll make money off of it. THIS is where it’s happening! THIS is where it’s at!”

That’s usually where I start crying in horrible movies. Why didn’t the actor at one point just look up and say, “Seriously, NO ONE is going to sit through this shit. Am I the only one to notice this?”

I wont lie. I don’t know half the words you said there. My expertise in syntax does not carry over into semantics.

Golly, I talk too much!

Being business savy is very important. I go to a university that has a high ranking business school and we get business lessons injected into all of the disciplines. It’s constantly, “How can I make money with this?” and “How can I market this?” I know, because of this training, that I’m better off going into the real world with this very practical degree, that someone with a a degree from a nose-in-their-books school.

Valerie (Occasional Superheroine) is super-fab. I always find her blogs fun to read, where as some other women comic-readers blog nothing but “blah blah whine whine, not enough women readers.”

…for fucks sake.

Now how we doin? (and thanks)

p.s. great bio. that is brilliant.

well I can’t fuckin see it.

Help me out.

Thanks! I can’t really pull off evil, though the photographer also wanted me to. :) I’ve got crazy baby cheeks. There are some other pictures of me on the photographer’s website where I look manical… but I was going for sexy! Just proof that I should really just stick to the cute… and never be a stripper.

That one is pretty freaking creepy just the way it is.

If blogs had comments… I’d comment on “The Factual Opinion has”… and what I’d say is: “Hahaha”.

Speaking of blog comments… they should be here today or tomorrow. Hurrah.

Thanks for that info Dan. Much appreciated!

-e

Yeah, that Simonson run on Thor is the best Thor stuff ever. It even beats the Lee/Kirby stuff. When I think of Thor, my mind goes straight to Simonson’s run.

Dan, I love the layout of this site, it looks great.

Sounds good. The idea of Michael Caine as a DJ is infinitely amusing to me. Here’s the details on that Simonson Thor series, too: http://heavyink.com/graphic_novel/
1625-Thor-Visionaries-Walt-Simonson-Vol-1
Heavy Ink has vol. 1 up (so far) for sale, and I believe they’re up to at least Vol. 4, with 5 on the way, and I think that wraps up the entire run collected. It is goooooood stuff, but like I said, whackadoo. (The web address is wacky without line breaks but if you search it’s there.)

Y’know, I remember reading about the Michael Caine mixtape album, and thinking, HOW COOL, and then forgetting about it. I need to track that down too. If you get it, Dan, let us know if it’s any good.

I think I would honestly allow Michael Caine to shoot me. He’s just that cool.

Is that Michael Caine?

I feel threatened by your new avatar. Heres my lunch money…

Do you need approval, Dan?

You’re a GOOD person. People LIKE you.

Hope that helps.

Nice image. Dan.

Nonsense! I’m simply the builder of dreams of others.

Great work Dan!

Huzzah!

Amazing graphic design on HeavyInk.com, Dan! It * rocks *.