Geeking Out
Very kind of the ever-supportive Barry Nugent at Geek Syndicate to review INDIANA JONES AND THE TOMB OF THE GODS 2 and to be so positive about it. You can hear their new audio reviews here:
The book seems to go down better with hardcore Indy fans like Barry than with your general comic buyer, which is kind of interesting. I really studied Raiders… when writing Tomb and wanted to get the tone right and this fact suggests that I did, although whether that’s what your general comic-reading public wants is another thing.
Sales seem pretty decent on the book without being anything out of this world. We’ve, apparently, sold 14,552 of issue two, which puts us at number 142 in the comic charts (with a bullet… and a whip). That initially sounds disappointing but when you consider that we’re outselling major books like The Authority and Hellblazer it shows how screwy the comics market is. Basically, the top 100 is pretty much Marvel and DC with Buffy and The Walking Dead and that’s it.
In other news, did the signing at Whatever Comics in Canterbury on the weekend alongside Laurence Campbell (Punisher, which looks gorgeous at the moment and should be on your pull list), Ian Sharman of Orang Utan comics, Cy Dethem and Nic Wilkinson of Cancertown. It was fun. Seemed like lots of people came in and wanted to chat. All concerned were good company and the owners of the shop treated us incredibly well, plying us with drink and pizza once the shop was shut for the night, which was really kind of them. There’s worse ways to spend an evening. I’m aware that I told one or two people that I’d put one of my scripts up on the website and I will soon, I swear. Just as soon as I’ve worked out how to do this barring blue-tacking a sheet of A4 to my monitor and unblinkingly staring at it intensely for two days, in order to achieve this with my mind powers. Luddite fool that I am.
Writing wise, I’ve recently finished the second episode of the next LOW LIFE series, CREATION, along with the opening episode of THE GRIEVOUS JOURNEY OF ICHABOD AZREAL. I was quite nervous about writing the latter and procrastinated wildly beforehand as a result. I wanted to write in a 19th century style and hadn’t attempted anything like it before. I was really happy with how it turned out, however. And using a narrator so heavily was a different dynamic which I enjoyed. It was nice to try something different.
Speaking of which, myself and another 2000AD writer have been collaborating on a story recently, which again is something different for me. It seems to have worked quite well. We’ll see how the pitch goes and how the actually scripting process proceeds. Thus far, no major plot disagreements have occurred. No toys thrown out of pram. It’s fun to have someone to knock ideas back and fore with. Will this see the light of day? We’ll see.
I’ll post a few new interior CLA$$WAR pages by Trev Hairsine in the next day or two. They’re very pretty.
Oh, and I am, foolishly, now on Twitter. So if you time displacement is your thing and you want to ‘follow’ me go to http://twitter.com/Robwilliams71