Today’s has another appearance of a Golden Age Timely character, and a ghost pirate! Also a clue that you don’t need to solve. -JP ___________________________________________________________________________ The chalky hand holding the dagger pushed through the water towards Venus. She darted from her position to another section of the pilot house. More shapes arose from the black, [...]

The rebus image in today’s excerpt was part of a clue that led players to IGN.com for a clue. Golden Age Comics fans will also notice the appearance of a sea-faring Timely character. On to our story… ______________________________________________________________ Jimmy Woo’s arms and legs wouldn’t budge. He had never frozen in fear before, and he was [...]

Okay, I’m leaving out the Mr. Lao bits today- they come across as confusing out of context. Also, if you read the text pages of the Agents of Atlas miniseries, you’ll catch parts of this serial that were referred to. Back to our story!-JP ______________________________________________________________ “What’s shakin’ Bob. Are those slide-rule jockeys hep on how [...]

In 2006 The Agents of Atlas miniseries was approved and my editors and I immediately saw the uphill battle we would have in getting the book noticed. Not only was it full of characters who hadn’t seen the light of day in decades, but the Marvel Machine was gearing up completely to push the big [...]

We’re back, and picking back up at… SHOT CALLIN’ Do you really have to pick shots? Think hard on this one. Do you really have a good sense of what will make a good picture, or do you just feel like you’re supposed to do it because it’s your job? Because it’s not, necessarily. You [...]

Okay, ‘pologies to those of you who expected this earlier in the week. That Real World keeps interfering. But I also promised the SCAD students who heard the version of this lecture with all of the insightful “Um”s in it that I would put a more solid translation up by now. I still don’t have [...]

Today. I just found out that tomorrow morning the city leaf-sweepers will be coming around, so I used all my blogging time today to rake leaves into the street. So I’ll start cleaning up my writing notes from the SCAD talk and put them up tomorrow. As I watch hundreds of pounds of leaves whoosh [...]