Hey everybody,
Been a busy month with Spring coming. Hopefully all the work I’ve been doing makes it all worth while. After managing to do lettering on my project the Wire Fence, I’ve been submitting stuff to a few publishers. One of them I’m going to have to wait for a more appropriate time because they schedule a specific period. As for Gutternaut I got a couple of surprises.
The most visible were the amount of visitors I got for two posts. One of which was for a review for a comic called Thunder, featuring probably the most Canadian indie superhero. Hopefully Two Gargoyles Comics gets the support they need. As for the other one, it’s kind of obvious that people would be interested in Ukrainian Comics thanks to recent developments. So much so that I found out I didn’t have the full story. Thanks to one blogger, I got a bigger picture and made changes to that post so people can get a better appreciation for Ukraine (Ooh-Crane-Ee-Ah). Maybe they’ll even click the link to help support a publisher through non-tax deductible charity.
As for posts, I’ve put out a few of them since last time. My first involves me trying to decipher the hypersigil in Grant Morrison’s Wonder Woman Earth One trilogy. Two of them are reviews that’re direct requests. The first one Shark of War has all the campiness of a B-Movie. Then there’s Potions Inc. from Mad Cave Studios, which while it didn’t leave that good of a first impression in terms of story, it does have a few real world stops pulled out like a phone number people can actually call. I just hope I didn’t get people’s hopes up on this might being an Alternate Reality Game.
Finally, there’s a review for a comic I’ve been a fan of and will value for a long time, Bonecheck. This series has the surreal and absurdist art and nonsensical storytelling that pushes the boundaries of what comics can do. It’s fine art while indulging in those brain numbing moments that’s so stupidly engaging you’ll want to get the third volume even before it releases. Provided you can find the next convention its creator is at. Camron Johnson left his original publisher to get the funding for his own platform.
As for what’s coming next, well the start of the month has a pretty jokey post about Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings being adapted from a specific comic book. But other than that, I’m debilitating between writer Christopher Priest or the late Steve Gerber in Creator Highlights. Or talk about a series based on one of Gerber’s creations, Omega the Unknown; more specifically the Jonathan Lethem version. I’ll probably have to update the Hidden Gem checklists too; mostly because with Comixology Submit gone I’ll have to direct visitors to new platforms.
Until then thanks for your time.