oopha. hi. still alive.

the things:

• i have a forum now. come and say hello and waste time with us.

• there's a 7-page CASANOVA preview up today at NEWSARAMA.

• Here's the first CASANOVA review by Mr. Ian Brill, he who wrote the first press on the book ever. Fitting.

(An aside: Xeno is not in fact visually based on Rebis, but rather, like Rebis, a reference to the iconographic Bandage-Wrapped Men of the silver age. Note the skinny tie.)

• Here's the first full review of THE FIVE FISTS OF SCIENCE.

• CASANOVA #2 is so freakin' awesome I can't stand it. It's weird, being in a space where issues are being done, written, drawn, lettered, whatever, and yet we're in the Nobody's Read It bubble. I'm wrapping #5 this week. Man I hope people like it. I'll get the sidebar updated soonish.

• Did you see MI3? did you see that MyCokeRewards ad that came on before the movie? We did that.

• WOLFMOTHER! WOLFMOTHER WOLFMOTHER WOLFMOTHER! WOLFMOTHER! WOLFMOTHER WOLFMOTHER!

• WOLFMOTHER!!

• The new Dresden Dolls ain't bad at all. They've gotten quite good at being The Dresden Dolls and I think "Sing" is so good I'm going to catch them live in July, just to watch them close a set with it and blast the paint off the walls and the tears from all of our eyes.

• I am inordinately excited for HeroesCon. Are you going? You should go.

• Good news! PUNISHER: WAR JOURNAL is mentioned in WIZARD!

• Bad news! They misspelled my name! Surely this is payback for the stinkeye I gave 'em over the HeroesCon thing.

• There it is again! HeroesCon! Say it soft and it's almost like praying! Say it loud and it's like praying LOUDER! HEROESCON!

• I need to not neglect this place so much. I am the suck.

• Things that are awesome: springtime baseball. Friends not having cancer. Harveyville prom. Zombies. WOLFMOTHER. GØDLAND. Ariel Olivetti's art on P:WJ #1 page 22. Ariel Olivetti in general.

• Things that are unawesome: retarded clients. lonnnnng and unrewarding jobs. being tired all the time.

• diet pepsi with lime. that's good, too.

• ALSO: another interview done with vito delsante I forgot to link to earlier in the day is here and was fun to do and I feel bad I forgot until just now.