Monthly Archives: December 2009

When art imitates life and vice versa.

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As many of you know, writing comics is something I do at night. Considering that lots of other people do things far more devious, shameful, immoral, perverse, and disreputable with their nights, I see no shame in this.

But it means I have to do something with my days. And what I do with my days is write software. I rarely blog about this, but just in case any of you are wondering what it is all about, this small flowchart from the wonderful xkcd essentially sums up how my life works during the waking hours, Monday to Friday.

“Nemesis” Asks: What if Batman was The Joker? – Comic Book Resources

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nemesisIf you cruise the comic book websites, you are almost sure to have the teaser image from Mark Millar’s new mini series “Nemesis” doing the rounds on the new sites and forums.

The series once again teams Millar with fan-favourite artist Steve McNiven and basically asks the question, the quote Millar himself, “What if Batman were a c*nt?”

Whilst the premise may not seem that original when compared to DC’s existing “Negative Batman”, Owlman of Earth 2, the few snippets available on the web do promise some definite bar-raising in terms of the level of death and destruction one man with a mask and a fancy belt is going to cause. A lot of people blast Millar for being too commercial, for writing comics deliberately for the screen, and for his general self-agrandising and publicity whoring but I am rarely one of them.

Mostly because I would be just as bad, given half a chance ;-)

So, from one comics publicity whore to another, if you haven’t read it yet, cast your eyes over this rather interesting interview at CBR … “Nemesis” Asks: What if Batman was The Joker? – Comic Book Resources.

Valia Kapadai will kill you

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hypergraphia_facebookgrouppicSo …

It started as a harmless bit of fun, a Twitter hashtag kick about between Valia, Rich McAuliffe, and me. Hypergraphia, you see, needs victims. Lots of victims. As Valia does a fine line in likenesses and cameos, we thought it would be funny to kill of Rich. So did other people. Then … those same people wanted us to kill them as well.

They don’t know how we’ll do it. They don’t know how the story ends. But they want in. Personally, I think that is just plain weird. Nice weird, in a “that would be cool, Chris” way, but still weird. Weird is the common demoninator in this fraction of oddness.

So …

Now there is a Facebook group for people who want Valia and I to kill them, and its growing.

I’m writing this blog post now not to promote it, the damned thing seems to have a life of its own, but just to go on record that whatever happens next … the story was already written. Honestly.

First pencilled pages for Hypergraphia

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I received the first pencilled pages yesterday for my new Insomnia story “Hypergraphia” this week, drawn by the very talented Valia.

hypergraphia_pencils_002I can’t say much about the story without spoiling it, but suffice to say that this once is a heady mix of Greek mythology and Faerie lore, and should have hypergraphia_pencils_001enough little “Easter Eggs” in it to satisfy everyone. As always, I’ve had a great time going overboard with the research.

I’m hoping Valia will have time to include some cameos from my writing alumni, as there is room for plenty of extras. Of course, as this is one of my stories, and Insomnia seem to be foolishly giving me free reign again … they may not be so please to be included as will be to see them there.

I’ve put some simple letters over Valia’s pencils, so you can get a bit more of a feel for what the story is all about.