Update: Regular Transmissions Will Resume Shortly

The run-up to the holidays was actually really swell, but Christmas and New Year's Eve were both a bust, I was in bed beneath the covers and under the weather much of the week. Got a lot of comics reading done (The Eternaut, Little Orphan Annie vol 1-5, Search and Destroy vol 3, the latest Juni Ito) and a lot of sleep. We also had a situation that required the fire department to swing by, but the less said about that, the better. All's well, move along, nothing to see here and all that.

Starting to feel more human now, cleaning up the very messy studio to get things back in shape, getting back on top of messages and e-mail. The studio equipment is all installed except for the printer, which I'll get to as soon as I finish up the revisions on the "Death Groove" script for Oni/EC. I tested out the new camera while hanging out with some old friends (Bob Fingerman, Robbie Busch and Greg Benton) for the latest Stephen DeStefano's "Dying is Easy, Comics are Hard" episode. You can listen/watch to that here, btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhC3iSFW_Po&list=PLD-drNhKAnOVvE-OXHa7kPlFMO7GJJMnE&index=1&t=11s

Having a devil of a time with this fairly slight script revision. Some complications and back and forth on those and all I need to do is yank some dialogue and rejigger the necessary exposition and character motivation and it's been a small headache. Scripts can get to be like puzzles and unfortunately I've never been good at those. I often find the last few pieces the hardest to hammer down. Mainly because I find writing exposition to fit tight spaces difficult. I hate when the dialogue sounds forced but sometimes you just have to lay down what's necessary and you can't do a heck of a lot to gloss it up. And I always worry I'm overloading a balloon or panel and making life hard for the artist and letterer. I get into bad habits of editing while I write, instead of throwing the words down and cleaning them up later. I sometimes have to sequester the dialogue on another document and rewrite it there and then insert the dialogue back into the script proper. My brain fogs up looking at the pages with the descriptions on them, it's like I need the dialogue to flow without interruptions to be able to concentrate on it. It's a weird process with a lot of waste but I am pretty used to it. It eventually works itself out. Eventually.

I'll be posting the "Necronomicomicon" script in the coming days. And some other stuff.

Hope you had a good New Year's Eve and I wish 2026 started out better. Thought maybe we'd have at least a full week before the new horrors kicked in. Yeesh.