SANDUGO: the 8 - page comic

It's amazing to see it all come together. Ner P., Vic C. and I have been working on an 8-page comic book based on his parahuman team, Sandugo. It's been a blast to see it slowly come together, from script to pencils to inks... and now coloring and lettering. There are still areas that we feel need improvement (in our own contributions, or in others), but otherwise it looks good enough to submit to meet our deadlines. We hope that the initial effort will prove good enough to allow us improve with subsequent issues.

Kris Aquino's Live Journal?

I ran across the following site: You and me against the world's journal. It claims to be the live journal of Kris Aquino... or does it? I don't see her full name in the profile despite the pics of Kris all over the site. Besides, marking down "married men" as part of your interests is a bit... well...

Anyway go and see it for yourself!

Moore, Morrison, and Sex

I was reading the Comic Book Resources column Lying in the Gutters about the events and consequences of Alan Moore's retirement announcement. Alan Moore, for those not in the know, is one of the comic book industry's most celebrated writers... his writing has garnered critical and popular praise, his scripts have been converted into movies (From Hell and LXG: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen come to mind), and his work has inspired other industry greats like Neil Gaiman.

In the column I happened upon the following story about another comic book author / celebrity - Grant Morrison:

As well as mentioning that Frank Quitely's next series after "New X-Men" will be a creator-owned project from the two of them, Morrison talked about the basics of life. How it arises from complex systems. And how so comics continuity has become so complex as to support sentience. Expressed his intent to create a comic so complex that it becomes a living self-aware being, as well as bringing that same aspect to the DC Universe, wanting to make the DC Universe realise that it's alive.

He didn't appear to be joking.

Three Letters: W.T.F.?

And to finish up this article with the sex bit, this link shows that in X-men issue # 118 the word sex appears at least 18 times as subliminal messages hidden in the background art. There are pics scanned from the issue to substantiate those claims. See for yourself.