Speaking of aquatic comic characters . . . (and I hesitate to share this link because it's sending you to a place of awesome, incredible, stupendous art that makes me look like a 4th grader . . . a talented 4th grader, but a 4th grader none-the-less) (nothing against 4th graders, incidentally, I was one myself once) (and if I stopped providing links to artwork better than mine, I'd never post links here, would I?) Project Rooftop announced their winners and runners-up (runner-ups) (could I use more parentheses in one sentence?) for their most recent contest: redesigning Aquaman (one of the few mainstream characters I would love to get a chance to write) (managed to get another parenthetical in there!).
The contest itself is not big news, although I really enjoyed looking at the winners. What I was excited about was to see my good friend Mike Maihack was one of the runners-up. Runner-ups. Whatever. And I loved his interpretation of Aquaman.
Mike Maihack can be found here:
his blog or
his ultra-awesome webcomic Cleopatra in Spaaace! (which you know is awesome because by spelling "space" with three A's he's telling you exactly what you're getting: Cleopatra, space, and pulp adventure) (and I just got in a few more parentheticals).
If you're enjoying Broken Trident, I'd love to hear from you. I know, three pages -- especially three pages that don't reveal much -- isn't really enough to know if you like something. Still love to hear from you, even if it's to say "three pages -- especially three pages that don't reveal much -- isn't really enough to know if you like something".
~ Ben
, which will include issues 0-4 as well as short stories with artwork by Hector Sevilla (the artist of the fantasy Lullaby, from Image, which I co-wrote) and Mike S. Miller (the artist of both Hedge Knights, again scripted by me, and co-writer of Lullaby). The publisher of The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles used those two short stories as back-ups in another series, The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles: Jack and Cat Tales, but they expanded a couple scenes from the main series so they were included in this collection. The book is due end of March, but I just may have MY copies next Wednesday. And visitors to C2E2 will be able to buy exclusive copies next weekend (although I will not be there).
. I scripted the adaptation of a Robert E. Howard story, a fun follow up to the story I adapted for Fantasy Classics
, which was a H.P. Lovecraft story (Robert E. Howard even made a cameo in the Lovecraft story, as a friend of the narrator -- Lovecraft and Howard being colleagues in real life).
