Scott Chantler

Another guest of the upcoming Paradise Con, is Scott Chantler. Scott is the writer and penciller of Northwest Passage and the upcoming Hawaiian Dick ongoing series with B. Clay Moore. Scott has also pencilled other books like Scandalous and Days Like This and both are fantastic works with J. Torres. You can find Scott from time to time hanging around the Image Comics Forum.

Con Season

Con Season is finally upon us... yeah I know Wizard World LA already took place and a few others as well... but I am talking about MY con season. The first one is the Toronto Comicon on June 8 - 10 2007. I have come to prefer the Paradise Cons held in Toronto over the "other" Toronto Con guy who's name is slipping my mind. With guests like Matt Wagner and Nicola Scott, not to mention Marv Wolfman and Gail Simone, how can you go wrong. Can't wait!

What the hell do I do now?

OK, so all of the shows that I watch are over... Lost, Heroes, The Office... all done for the season! No tv to watch. Now I have to find ways to entertain myself? Huh... well that should be interesting in itself.

I could actually finish building our book shelves. (Labour sucks.)

I could pick up my pen and take a shot at writing something. (If I could think of something to write about.)

I could build a website. ( I could use the practice.)

I could finish reading my book. (It is actually pretty good.)

I could... fuck it, thinking sucks. I'm going to go watch WKRP in Cincinnatti.

All you can eat at Dodger Stadium

Wow this just seems crazy to me. Maybe it is the fact that I have actually started working out and trying (stress trying) to eat right that makes me think it is nuts. Does anyone really need all you can eat hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, soda, etc? I can already see someone taking a header down the stairs when his heart stops because he just ate 15 Dodgerdogs and 5 nachos.

Of course I would be right in line for this if I was a baseball fan!! :)

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-dodgers-allyoucaneat&prov=ap&type=lgns

Atomic Revolver

What can I say about Atomic Revolver that hasn't already been said? Probably a fair amount as they haven't been around for very long as an official group. Atomic Revolver is made up of B. Clay Moore, Jason Latour, Jeremy Haun, Seth Peck, Tony Moore and Jason Aaron and this may be the most talented collection of comic book professionals ever. That's right!! EVER! Clay has carved out a place with his writing with Hawaiian Dick, Battle Hymn, the yet to be finished Expatriate and countless other stories. Jason Aaron is in the process of doing exactly that with his books Scalped and The Otherside, both of which have been critical successes. Tony Moore is the artist for The Exterminators from Vertigo, as well as being the co-creator of Fear Agent with Rick Remender. Seth Peck is a new writer just starting to make a name for himself with Sorrow (also with Remender) from Image as well as a book called 76 that is currently planned for Dec. Jason Latour and Jeremy Haun are two of my favorite artists working in comics today. Jeremy has done the art for books like Battle Hymn, and The Leading Man (both written by Clay) as well as an Iron Man/Captain America one-shot for Civil War. He is currently doing the art for Marvel's Excalibur. Jason is the artist for The Expatriate (Clay again,) and has also done work for the 24/7 anthology both from Image. He is well aware that we are all waiting for him to drop that "Neutron Bomb of Awesome" know as Expat #5.

OK, now that I have gotten the who they are out of the way... the most important thing I can say is that Atomic Revolver's talent level is definitely surpassed by what great people they are. Some of the nicest people I have ever met. You can find most all of them on the Image Comics forums, as well as at their respective sites or blogs which as usual I have tried to link through their names.

Oh yeah the sketches... the first one is Kid Flash by Jeremy Haun, I love the design he used on this sketch. The second is my Jason Latour Deathstroke the Terminator, I really like Latour's grittier style on this character. And finally Beast Boy by B. Clay Moore, I had to insist on getting this sketch from Clay (hence the lesson he wrote next to it.) That lesson is why it is one of my favorites.

Back to the sketches with Andy B.

This Speedy sketch was done for me by Andy B in Toronto at a very small fan appreciation con. Andy has quickly become one of my favorite artists to see at cons as he is always enthusiastic and friendly. It doesn't hurt that he is a fan of Lost.