Tales #50 On Shelves This Wednesday!

Dan has told me that their copies of TMNT #50 have hit Mirage, meaning that it is definitely hitting shelves this week!

Can't wait! Tell your friends to order a copy! Order a copy for someone else! Let's make this sucker sell out!


Hey, I can dream right?

Tales #50 Preview

The preview for Tales of the TMNT #50 just went live on the Ninja Turtles website, so hopefully that means it'll hit shelves in the next couple of weeks. It's a bigger than average issue, with a fantastic back-up by Ryan Brown, who came up with much of the direction for this story.

Check that out right HERE.

In other news, Tyrant Earth FINALLY has an artist attached and I could not be happier! His name is David Vazquez. If you hit up DeviantArt and check out 1ithium you'll find some more dinosaurs! Very excited, this means I now have two of my own books on the go, both of which I've been planning for a long time. Dinosaurs seem to be something of a bugbear for artists, along the same lines as the devil (right Ross?), and I'm glad that after looking for so long, someone this awesome has stepped up to the plate! Kind of reminds me of Humberto Ramos, or Chris Bachalo.

Almost Done...

The art for Tales #50 is almost finished, I think Paul only has a couple more pages to go and it's print time baby!
Above is probably my favourite panel. It's just such a creepy image!

Stoked...

My next comic made the Previews Spotlight! Probably no biggy to a lot of others out there, but this is boss for me! For those who don't know what this means, Previews is like a big, chunky magazine/catalogue for retailers, dealing mainly with comic books. It comes out every month, two months in advance (this months advertises what's coming in September). Anyway, whoever puts the mag together picks out what I assume are books they think are worth checking out. It could have more to do with the numerical significance than anything else, but still, spotlight on the second comic rocks me on this night of nights. Just had a game of DND too, and dominated a couple of fights, so I'm on a roll. Had a job interview, should be interesting to see how that goes.
Picked up my comics too. Am officially broke now. Also bought Smash Bros. Brawl, which finally came out here (may have been a contributing factor to my financial situation). I wish tax time were sooner -- the return should be joygasmic.
Peace!

Postscript: Thanks Jake for filling me in on the Previews inner workings!

"Percent sign ampersan dollar sign... and colon semicolon too!" It!

Sam & Max injoke aside, here's a tease:

Again this is just a rough, far from finished, but much closer to our final Leatherhead.

Proverbial Cats and Bags

I'd been sitting on it a while now, until I could say something about it, but the big news (for me at least) is that Paul Harmon will be providing the art on Tales of the TMNT #50! Unfortunately, Jim Lawson - the artist I was originally set to work with - was unable to take on the job to to his own massive workload, so Paul was asked to step in just a couple of weeks ago.

I know the roughs of his Leatherhead design are now up on Murph's blog and Ryan's, but bear in mind that they are just that - roughs. They're close to what we're going to have in the end, but having just seen th rough for the cover, they don't really do the colossal scale of our Leatherhead justice. There are some very noticeable differences in the latter design changes, so keep an eye out and hopefully I'll be able to post something soon! If anyone knows how physically massive some of the characters in the Capcom fighting games can be (I always think Birdie, for those in the know, but he's almost on par with the Juggernaut from X-men and well... Marvel vs Street Fighter).

Oh, and the creature in the post below is part of the same project!

Peace!

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