Where We Were in 2016, And Where We Are Now

Time flies when you're alive.

Thanks for being a backer while things ain't what they're cracked up to be. Always appreciated.

Things are nuts this week, so apologies for the lack of a post these past few days. I've been dealing with an abscess tooth that's blowing up my gum and doing the things an abscess does, which I would have liked to have never learned about from experience. The infection brought a fever on and I'm trying to get a dentist appointment -- but our insurance plan folks assigned us to a dentist's office that...doesn't accept our insurance. So, that's something. 

I'm eating a lot of soft food (when I am eating) but am running out of soft food because our new used old car won't be ready at the garage until tomorrow, barring more things that push back your car being repaired. It's a low  four-figure repair, semi-expected, but the idea of having a safe, inspected, undamaged, working car for the first time in -- almost two years? -- is attractive on a variety of levels. 

Last night I did a live video stream for the Tear Them Apart podcast with my friends Paul Yellovich and Brian David Marshall. This afternoon I took part in a Twitch live stream with Roger Langridge and folks from Dark Horse Comics to promote the debut of BILL AND TED ARE DOOMED #1. The first issue is out today in the comic shops that ordered it. We're very happy with it, and hope folks enjoy it, as well as the rest of the series. 

Also out in shops today -- and also from Dark Horse Comics -- is the fourth issue of BLACKWOOD: THE MOURNING AFTER, which finishes up our second arc. The collection comes out almost on the heels of this issue due to post-Covid shutdown schedule strangeness.

FYI, if you're someone who prefers to read their comics digitally, Dark Horse has a sale on most of my work with them, including Blackwood, Beasts of Burden, Milk & Cheese, Dork, and The Eltingville Club (the new Bill and Ted issue is not part of the sale, I don't think it's even available yet as a digital copy until it's in shops for a week or whatever. I don't remember how that works). Some of the GN collections are priced as low as $5. The digital sale link is as follows:

https://digital.darkhorse.com/pages/278/evan-dorkin-digital-sale

Sarah should have the Marvel Villains print ready to go shortly for backers at that level. 

Still a lot to deal with and juggle the rest of this week, I've started the next set of commissions but have to finish up a book foreword and dialog several pages which are late because of how things have been going. Once the car's parked outside our house that will be a lot off our collected shoulders, although of course we have to make up for the money spent. But the fact that we're almost there is really good for us considering how badly things were going for us. Then the dentist and some catch-up on commissions and commitments and then I start looking for work. Hoping things stabilize in a month or so, just in time for the earth to catch fire so we all drown and burn and take a long nap. Better that than another four (at the least) years of you-know-what. 

Morbid kidding aside, I hope anyone out there in the west coast affected by the fires remains safe and out of harm's way, and that the situation there is under control as soon as possible with as little pain inflicted after all that's already happened. Unreal times.