Man, I got quite a thrill when I got that in the mail, I did. I'm guessing I have MIT grad and Boston-based super-comics-retailer Matt Lehman to thank for that one.
It's safe to go back in the water: www.khepri.com is up off the mat and swinging back harder. Takes more than that to keep ol' Brian Scot Johnson from delivering you the good books. Just got an email from him: "Break my server/site, and I'll... I'll... ah, flip it, I'll put up your Double Image/Trust in Me issue. Front page, under the KH in the logo." So that's official; every single thing I've ever written to be produced for comics is presently available for sale or to be enjoyed on the Internet. As far as I know, Khepri is the only place that has a stock of these never-to-be-reprinted gems, so if you're interested in a horror story that grossed out its own writer, get a Double Image #5 by scrolling down a bit here.
Neil Gorman's excellent comic review podcast Comicology reviews Scurvy Dogs: Rags to Riches. If you listen to the review, Neil mentions that he was attacked by a monkey as a kid, but it's not relevant to the review other than the fact he understands why pirates hate monkeys.
"Holy crap!" I think. "When is a monkey-attack story not relevant?" So I send Neil an email telling him he has to tell this story. "...looks like a little cute Mother Theresa monkey-thing changing channels with the remote control, and everything," Neil says.
The dude from Carbonated Ink talks about the Scurv, too: "It doesn’t feel like I’m jumping onto the bandwagon, but that I’m taking my own wagon and joining the bandwagon convoy: Scurvy Dogs: Rags to Riches is great."
I think somebody stepped on my grave. "Relentless in promotion of his books and brutally honest about everything else..." isn't such a bad way to be viewed by a collegue. Although I will note that while for everyone I've ever met who asks me why I thought doing The Making of Astronauts in Trouble was a good idea in 1999, there're two other folks who want to name their first-borns after me for producing the thing back then. So my usual answer is that I did it for the second set of peeps and not the first. As per usual.
Speaking of not such a bad way to be viewed by a collegue, my good pal Joe Casey shines my shoes in the first part of his interview on CBR ("Larry Young... is the all-powerful purveyor of modern pulp fiction."). And you can dig on some exclusive artwork from the soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture OGN Full Moon Fever in the second part of his interview.
