New blog entry today. 

The blog is where I'm going to be putting more personal musings, not so comic focused (though I'll likely do blather about behind-the-scenes comic stuff there as well). 

Update today is a bit of musing about the character of a place, about the cool, secret local places that characterize a community. 

Enjoy. 

This coming Wednesday (13 January, 2010), I have two comics hitting store shelves. Marco Rudy returns to penciling duties on The Shield (and thanks are due again to Cliff Richards for his fine work on issue #4). I recently completed scripting chores on The Shield #7, and am eagerly awaiting Marco's magic pencils on that one. Lots of good stuff on the horizon for Lt. Higgins, for sure. 

In addition, Action Comics #885 leaps tall buildings in a single bound... Actually, it's the first part of a crossover with James Robinson's Superman, full of Mon-El, the Science Police, and, as the comic title implies, a lot of action and things blowing up. 

Both titles available at your Friendly Local Comic Shop. If you can't locate a comic shop in your area, try the Comic Shop Locator Service; I also recommend, if you're in western Washington State, my wife's fine establishment, Olympic Cards & Comics.

ACTION COMICS #885

THE SHIELD #5

I just added some new goodies into the Downloads section; some stock art (layered Photoshop files, actually) I whipped up, featuring some science-fictional planets. 

The files are roughly 1000-1500 x 1000-1500 px, at 72 dpi (so, ideal for web-based use, but not suitable for print). 

And remember: there are some other resources in the Downloads section, so poke around and download away.

Enjoy! 

I've maintained a lot of online spaces over the last couple years, with my primary blog residing over at LiveJournal. 

Recently, though, I've started to feel spread a little thin online, so I'm cutting a bunch of my online hangouts. LiveJournal, Vox, MySpace and ComicSpace are on the block, alas, though Twitter, Last.fm, and Blip.fm made the cut. Outpost: Remote, my long-suffering science/science-fiction themed webspace will continue to linger in nullspace, because I'm convinced I'm going to do something interesting with it eventually. 

2010 feels like a year of consolidation to me -- just a gut feeling, honestly -- so I'm pulling back, and hoping to focus on this site, and a few online outliers. 

To that end, you may note a new option on the nav bar above: Blog. 

The "official" (and how weird it is to actually have an "official" anything) blog will be located there. 

As of today, there's a new post, a bit of behind-the-scenes about the JSA miniseries I wrote this year. 

I'll attempt (probably in vain) to update it at least once-per-month, hopefully more, which is quite a bit better than I've been able to manage on LiveJournal over the last few years. 

Enjoy! 

The seventh (!) installment -- the last one for this year -- of my MSN/Parallel Universe column is live. Click the image above to link to the article.

This month, I look back at some great old sci-fi toys from when I was a kid--from TOBOR ("It's robot spelled backwards.") to STARBIRD to the MEGO Star Trek figures. 

Add to that, there's some chatting about some current toy releases destined to be "classics," too. 

It's been a good year for the column, particularly in the last couple months, so thanks to all who've read and enjoyed!