Anyone heading to Seattle for the EMERALD CITY COMICON? Because it’s pretty great. I’ll be there sitting at F-04 most of the time except for these signings and panels:

SATURDAY
12:00 MONDO MARVEL PANEL Room 4C3-4
2:30- 4:00 HERO INITIATIVE BOOTH

SUNDAY
1:00 BREAKING INTO COMICS THE MARVEL WAY Panel Room A (4C1-2)

I’ll be bringing plenty of AGENTS OF ATLAS hardback trades and I even have a few MYSTERIUS THE UNFATHOMABLE paperbacks which haven’t hit stores yet. And a few other things, all mostly collected volumes. I will draw delightful images in them if you purchase same. Hope to see some of you there this weekend…

Sorry the last one took us a little longer, but as you’ll see, the book itself is longer too. I hope you all enjoy the conclusion of Underground, and I suspect there will be some argument over exactly how it ends.

Steve and I are putting together the extras for the trade now, so I hope you’ll consider getting that as well. Input time: if we have a chance to do some “director’s commentary” on scenes explaining our process and thinking, which parts would you like to hear more about?

Soon we examine the intricacies of mother/daughter relationships in SAVAGE SHE-HULKS #1. You can read the first few pages over at Newsarama.

Hope you picked up FOLLOW THEM HULKS: RED HULK #2 this week or will soon. Red Hulk and A-Bomb have created a scorecard of players so you can keep track of things during our little event. And here’s a CBR Preview. This one has Thundra and vampiric STRIGOLI plus The WIzard being creepy.

Over at NEWSARAMA, get a few pages from next weeks AVENGERS VS ATLAS and behold the Gabe Hardman art with colors by Elizabeth Breitweiser!

Told you there was more news- over at Comic Book Resources and Newsarama and Marvel you can read a little bit about the NEW ONGOING simply called ATLAS. I’m a little secretive at the moment but hey, do you want things spoiled, really? Gabe Hardman and I are furiously working to start this off with a cosmic bang, so please, get those orders in as soon as you can. And double up on ‘em, just to be safe. I’m pushing for a 3-D cover!

At the moment, there is plenty of news of the new direction for THUNDERBOLTS after The Siege is over- you can read me and editor Bill Rosemann talking it up over at NEWSARAMA and COMIC BOOK RESOURCES.

If you have a moment and are so inclined, go click “Recommend” and/or comment to get the word out. The Man-Thing will thank you for it!

Greg Pak, Jeph Loeb, and I speak to Kiel Phegley more about the building FOLLOW THEM HULKS* story-line at Comic Book Resources.

And later today, I think a lot of news about my upcoming Marvel work will be hitting everywhere. So keep checking in, the desert of info and smacktalk here should be shifting over to well irrigated and fecund territory soon enough. Talk to you in a few hours…

*That’s what I call the event, anyway.

Over at Comic Book Resources you can preview RED HULK #1 which is in comics shops today! Go see the grumpy Hulk and the A-Bomb forced to work together, and learn the secret of COSMIC HULK.

You can see a preview here at Comics Bulletin as the Agents of Atlas get back into it with The Avengers, and then the ORIGINAL Avengers. And today also has the conclusion to the THUNDERBOLTS hit on them, where I just bet you, SOMEONE DIES.

Also out today: SPIDER-MAN 1602! I know there’s a preview of that somewhere, I’ll try to put it up later.

Heads up! Steve Lieber and I are nearly finished with UNDERGROUND #5, the conclusion of our cave thriller, but it won’t be in stores next week. We’ll be a few weeks late, but you won’t have to wait that long. As soon as we get the final files to Image we’ll be able to let everyone know the exact shipping date.

Thanks to our readers for being understanding, I think you’ll like how it all goes down at the end!

Over at NEWSARAMA you can preview the upcoming AVENGERS vs. ATLAS with the team of me, Gabriel Hardman and Elizabeth Breitweiser as we put the band back together to meet the original line up of The Avengers.
And right after that preview, see the THUNDERBOLTS beat on the team too! I don’t know if that was planned or it just worked out that way. But there’s a lot to get ready for.

And enjoy a good review as you do, courtesy Matthew Brady and Comics Bulletin.

Report to your officially sanctioned adventure-dispensing facility.

I hope you’ll pick up the first of the three issue miniseries THE URANIAN, which has art by the excellent Felix Ruiz. See the early years of Bob Grayson as he discovers his home planet and tries to get the hang of this hero thing.

If your shop sold out of FALL OF THE HULKS ALPHA #1, the reprint with McGuinness cover is out today. It’s about the evil geniuses of the world getting together like bros and hoisting pimp cups, so you should probably get it. I may have retconned a little Marvel History in there too.

Embiggen for the Chalice.

I know you’re wondering if MODOK is holding one. But Thinker won’t move his Mad head.

Over at Comic Book Resources, read about the talented crew piling into the good ship HMS Agents of Atlas for the AVENGERS vs ATLAS miniseries- Jason Aaron! Paul Cornell! Scott Kurtz! And they have written some excellent shorts focusing on individual members of the team. I totally owe them. Make sure your shop is ordering this mini!

Or is it GOOOLLLLLD rings, I can’t ever remember. But you can see my whole studio, Periscope, representing each of the 12 Days of Christmas over at Comics Alliance.

While you’re picking up THUNDERBOLTS and SPIDER-MAN 1602 today, do not forget UNDERGROUND 4. Here’s a preview you can read beforehand…

The first few pages are over at BSCreview.com, and those mischievous Agents of Atlas stop by.

Go get FALL OF THE HULKS: ALPHA!

I’m thankful for all of you who come here and keep up with my fiction and ramblings, even if you don’t post in the comments (which you’re welcome to do). Happy Thanksgiving if you participate in it, and just a hearty Happy Thursday if you don’t. Still… thank you!

Is of course where I live, and that’s Portland. Here’s a neat article in Oregon Business that goes into the subject a little more and mentions Periscope Studio, the place I’m about to peddle to in a few minutes.

Drew Robbins captured on film some of the elusive Agents of Atlas Heroclix figures- why are these so hard for me to find pics of? Have my web search skills gone bad? Anyway, I’ve now got to go find some, excuse me…

UPDATE: Wndola comes through with the line up!