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Bottled Lightning (PDAP, Chapter Four, Pages 19-24)

Added 2024-05-23 17:26:55 +0000 UTC

First of all: a big update this week. I've been looking forward to these pages for a while, building up to them from the very first days, and I'm excited and relieved to finally be sharing them with you.

This is the fight scene that you may or may not remember from this post.

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Second, thank you kindly to everyone who shared congratulations on the Eisner nomination!

Speaking of Eisners, this is fun: I stuck my head into the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival last weekend — not least to take Kiddo to see the big train engine that they keep in the same venue, which they'd rolled out to celebrate its birthday. (Kiddo loves trains.) While at VanCAF, I was talking to both Faith Erin Hicks and Doug Savage* and, upon mentioning where I was living now, they asked "do you know Ashley Spires?"

I messaged Ashley, and it turns out she lives just down the street from me, and she's also nominated for an Eisner this year, which I think is a lovely little tidbit of "small world" wonder.

* I didn't link to Doug's personal website because it's full of photos of spiders. The explanation is good, though — I recommend digging into it… if you don't mind looking at a ton of spiders.

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More recommendations, fewer spiders: at VanCAF I picked up PUPPY KNIGHT: DEN OF DECEPTION by Michael Sweater and Josue Cruz. I liked it! Dare I compare it to THE AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD? What the heck! Why not.

And I grabbed Em Carroll's A GUEST IN THE HOUSE. I read the first few pages in the middle of the day, and I could not wait to get back to it. It's been a while since I've had that feeling about a comic. (Note: it's ghoulish and corpse-y, a genuine ghost story. Which I'm not usually into! But I make exceptions for Carroll.)

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Until next week,
I remain,
full of spiders,