Friday, April 10, 2009

Doctor Zombie & Steve Lawlis!

As I'm sure many of you are doing the same, I am still recovering from the massive dinosaur of a convention we just held this last weekend. I could sleep for a week (if I could get away with it!)

One of the many things I was doing to prepare for ECCC this year was get the latest issues of Doctor Zombie and Steve Lawlis ready for the show and available. How I managed to get them done in time, I just don't know... but I did, and they are now at the Lynnwood Comic Stop.

The Adventures of Doctor Zombie #2 continues the stories of the Doctor Archibald Zombie and his assistant Marigold Murray, as penned by my talented daughter Mackenzie. In fact, this issue has a double dose of awesome, with two stories drawn by two different artists. In the first story, our regular artist Erik Thompson illustrates what happens when Doctor Zombie and Marigold try to spend the night at the movies, especially with a vengeful magician named Chuck lurking in the shadows. In the second story, we have guest artist Ryan Cody (Villains, Popgun, Hurricane Kids) showing what happens when an irate Dinosaur tries taking his anger out on the city Doctor Zombie is sworn to protect.

Steve Lawlis: Zombieville USA #1 continues the tales of Steve Lawlis and his pal Pete Redshirt, agents for the Department of Horror Intervention. In this first of three issues, Steve and Pete are called to a little town in the middle of nowhere to deal with a strange zombie infestation. Expecting a town out of Resident Evil, imagine their surprise when they find a peaceful little burg straight out of Leave It To Beaver. This series is not only drawn by Erik, but he is making his debut as writer. It's good stuff, kids.

Like I said earlier, anyone interested in these can pick them up at the Lynnwood Comic Stop, or we can even transfer them to the Everett or Redmond shops.

Friday, March 20, 2009

World of Warcraft - Comic Stop Style!


Along with all my many other geek qualities, I am also addicted to World of Warcraft. With 11.5 million people playing, chances are good that you may be an addict as well.

Well, now The Comic Stop has invaded WoW! We will have a guild on the Muradin server called, appropriately enough, The Comic Stop and we want you to join us! We're on the Alli side right now but we will also have a Horde chapter in the near future.

It's meant to be a casual guild, more for socialization than anything else. Just a way for the various members of our Comic Stop family to do one more thing together. (I know, I know! You feel like you do to much with us already. Too bad. We're emotionally needy and want more of "you".) We would love to do some raiding in the futurebut for the moment, we are just a guild of goofballs.

Since it's unlikely that you already had a character on the Muradin server, I'll let you know that, so far, everyone who has committed to joined will have just started a new character, so don't let the lack of a high level character put you off of joining!

Hope to see you in Azeroth!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Sean McKeever Off of Teen Titans

The moment that many Titans fans have been waiting for has finally arrived. Sean McKeever has left the Teen Titans.

“I did have future plans for Teen Titans but I just found myself needing to step away. I guess I'd have to chalk this one up to the vague and oft-used ‘creative differences.’ It happens." McKeever is quoted as saying. He goes on to add, “I do still have a working relationship with Dan (Didio) and DC, as evidenced by my coming onboard as writer of the Ravager serial. I'm also currently talking to Dan about a couple cool and exciting possibilities for the future.”

Now if they will just get rid of this lame ass team,


perhaps we can forgive them for the past 2 years worth of stories.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The Return Of Katchoo & Francine

Terry Moore is working on a one-shot with the characters from SiP.
No word on when it'll be coming out yet or what it'll be about... but it's Terry Moore and SiP, so who cares?!?

I'm so excited I think I just soiled myself.

And if you haven't been reading his latest creator-owned title, "ECHO", now's a good time to jump on.
He's only up to issue #11, but the story is getting big.

Monday, March 16, 2009

10 Habits of a Geeky Spouse

Wired gives us another wonderfully written top 10 list:

10 Habits of a Geeky Spouse

The one that most relates to me?

6. Requiring extra room in the house for geeky things

My wife lovingly built shelves in a closet when I was away one weekend so I could store my comic long boxes in our office. I'm very lucky she understands my madness.

The Death of the DC Legacy Character

I found this write up to be intriguing as well as spot on. I may not agree with what DC is doing, but at least there is an explanation.

The Death of the Legacy Character

Tuesday, March 3, 2009