tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54147852869214672672024-03-16T02:07:55.365-05:00the Adventures of Wyatt Earp in 2999Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-36291685019865168402011-05-23T17:10:00.002-05:002011-05-23T17:10:53.355-05:00the Wild West Was Here (assembly)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAGtMbnjwsN2lULeFMzkpQLn7hRxh88snmAUNKWDh_EcPhOBM4hXfvqxWNsCuGrE2SvDb8w7YzUQYu5FknzrUaFa0Zm0m2VrcySoRvhDE5WBK2xDxoyuSGUsDN8A_R2j-rPedW_-ntSc/s1600/earp_pages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="287" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAGtMbnjwsN2lULeFMzkpQLn7hRxh88snmAUNKWDh_EcPhOBM4hXfvqxWNsCuGrE2SvDb8w7YzUQYu5FknzrUaFa0Zm0m2VrcySoRvhDE5WBK2xDxoyuSGUsDN8A_R2j-rPedW_-ntSc/s320/earp_pages.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Uncut Pages.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-72045922274352783322011-05-20T19:32:00.002-05:002011-05-20T19:32:44.771-05:00the Wild West Was Here book 1...ish @ Springcon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoGXFhBITvrg4oetJmxrQF0WVh-aFXJdlYGizI7JY7xQD2zkdqgT7ppe9HpTbKQoERIyFicJi5KZ4Zj74Rxbgtj_y8fDfxx1xMWEilzt1g6LVSKnGWBXJPPlMU-KkEh5-T1n3uzwhRTqg/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-05-20+at+7.19.53+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="247" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoGXFhBITvrg4oetJmxrQF0WVh-aFXJdlYGizI7JY7xQD2zkdqgT7ppe9HpTbKQoERIyFicJi5KZ4Zj74Rxbgtj_y8fDfxx1xMWEilzt1g6LVSKnGWBXJPPlMU-KkEh5-T1n3uzwhRTqg/s320/Screen+shot+2011-05-20+at+7.19.53+PM.png" /></a></div><br />
So its official. I have the first few copies of the book in print. It has three stories, the Bitter Cold, ...Said the Pilgrim to the Duke, and the Mirror Universe Affair. I'll be at Springcon here in the twin cities this weekend so swing by and get one. I'll also have the marvel cuties buttons, a few Yul Brynner t-shirts, and old stuff like post cards and even some of the old wyatt earp books.<br />
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Stop by and get a sketch. I hate when people charge for sketches (not commissions... I'm totally okay with $$ for those, but I don't like paying for sketches) So I'll do some sketches for free or donations or whatever. Maybe we'll do a sketch trade. You do a sketch for me and I'll do one for you. Either way, come one down.<br />
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Eventually the book will be available elsewhere. Eventually.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-35880967399247019372011-05-16T18:08:00.000-05:002011-05-16T18:08:24.535-05:00Earp scraps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSD7Yj9l2F29XhpHJlqh2Mr5k9K2i9toAdvEUy33b3-IGyre4Uu1HUQNVn1qu7Zq7h67DtPDFeJsRW3fpixvXypcbRhtVYg7C1Po5rwhjAQq5Z6FdPYmcwZESam5ON8EXuIOWHvhqozlw/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSD7Yj9l2F29XhpHJlqh2Mr5k9K2i9toAdvEUy33b3-IGyre4Uu1HUQNVn1qu7Zq7h67DtPDFeJsRW3fpixvXypcbRhtVYg7C1Po5rwhjAQq5Z6FdPYmcwZESam5ON8EXuIOWHvhqozlw/s320/Earp_Excerpt_23.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Here is a small selection of some Wild West Pages.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-44829632455890979102011-05-11T18:10:00.000-05:002011-05-13T15:21:03.914-05:00the Bitter Cold<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGC9QaCg787AdFDL_ztRK7ydD3xzc4fQ8lh-T7Ds7DW1vzgX4VX20LlQ6tSockhR-WHEnJDCjUWJEVtmEI-8EyP-Mxn1C-Fjl7J-XSPe7-rlksgdL8XbMozag5PBuq6gAm9WJr5J_sCJo/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-05-11+at+5.28.09+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="247" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGC9QaCg787AdFDL_ztRK7ydD3xzc4fQ8lh-T7Ds7DW1vzgX4VX20LlQ6tSockhR-WHEnJDCjUWJEVtmEI-8EyP-Mxn1C-Fjl7J-XSPe7-rlksgdL8XbMozag5PBuq6gAm9WJr5J_sCJo/s320/Screen+shot+2011-05-11+at+5.28.09+PM.png" /></a></div><br />
Here's a screenshot from page 1 of "the Bitter Cold"Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-54592612109926145662011-05-06T18:24:00.000-05:002011-05-06T18:24:53.967-05:00...Said the Pilgrim to the Duke pg1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hC_geQId0XLRifUy7Ks_TNrcabQK9MNO1-9g1QvlCEw3OPD-puVFq9OlSyuy0UenwKcEYD8yoIhs9LHAUHENCGR_pdIssz3tJmaOJx47_xDcKjNmKAVCmCV_4t852bDXf_Gj77vSShA/s1600/pilgrimduke_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="247" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0hC_geQId0XLRifUy7Ks_TNrcabQK9MNO1-9g1QvlCEw3OPD-puVFq9OlSyuy0UenwKcEYD8yoIhs9LHAUHENCGR_pdIssz3tJmaOJx47_xDcKjNmKAVCmCV_4t852bDXf_Gj77vSShA/s320/pilgrimduke_01.jpg" /></a></div><br />
You may remember seeing the pencils and inks for this page a year or two ago... or maybe more. Well that's how long it takes to do a single page. Fact.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-74993003029283106072011-04-23T08:56:00.004-05:002011-04-23T14:50:36.569-05:00check it out! Wyatt Earp Stuff....In preparation for this next issue going to print I've been going back through and reformatting old pages. Last time the book saw paper it was a very widesrceen approach where as now we have adopted the standard web comic format. There are pages that were drawn a few years ago in the old layout that now need to be reformatted (since this has been something like 3 or 4 years in the making...sorry) take a look. The originals are on the top. The reformatted versions are on the bottom.<br />
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Also here are the front and back covers for book 2. If you find the colors to be garish its probably because you're using Firefox which handles colors in an odd way sometimes. If you are overly concerned and are loosing sleep at night load the image up in another browser. It will look fine. If it still doesn't look fine you can consider the possibility that you may have poor taste.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-y-DdUo6f90NXbWrsmN3ig5jBPV6P2Nltm_Gkd3X8M_K41rd96WgUYIxX9Ts6JuegkRhH1OOCLIk2ysxmaHQNxYgj48uC3TbpmqMLQNLKU1HPs_kf6iJbE_a-J6E2zu9lu9a9sxlsqD4/s1600/book2_cover_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="139" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-y-DdUo6f90NXbWrsmN3ig5jBPV6P2Nltm_Gkd3X8M_K41rd96WgUYIxX9Ts6JuegkRhH1OOCLIk2ysxmaHQNxYgj48uC3TbpmqMLQNLKU1HPs_kf6iJbE_a-J6E2zu9lu9a9sxlsqD4/s320/book2_cover_01.jpg" /></a></div>Also, if you are reading this you should go <a href="http://justinpollock.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/arcane-1-featuring-hazards-by-justin-pollock-on-sale-now/" target="_blank">buy Justin's story in this magazine!</a>Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-26184828391490236712011-04-18T21:26:00.002-05:002011-04-18T21:28:40.430-05:00Cross-Post: DON'T ASK, JUST BUY IT!Buy a magazine that contains a story I wrote and show publishers that you support authors with sideburns:<br /><br /><a href="http://justinpollock.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/arcane-1-featuring-hazards-by-justin-pollock-on-sale-now/">http://justinpollock.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/arcane-1-featuring-hazards-by-justin-pollock-on-sale-now/</a>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-78072362355827803582011-03-27T13:03:00.003-05:002011-03-27T13:05:43.323-05:00Cross-Post: Two New Stories Slated for Publication in April 2011In case you are interested, info on the stories I wrote, where they will be appearing, and when:<br /><br /><a href="http://justinpollock.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/two-new-stories-slated-for-publication-in-april-2011/">http://justinpollock.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/two-new-stories-slated-for-publication-in-april-2011/</a><br /><br />Also: haircut travails. Miss it not!Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-76824974975737992742011-03-22T22:53:00.004-05:002011-03-22T22:58:27.710-05:00LOOKSo it's not done yet...needs a bit of fine-tuning, I suppose (add more blogroll links and do more with them)...but it is <span style="font-style: italic;">live and out there</span>, so I can share it with you. Test drive it, if you like:<br /><br /><a href="http://justinpollock.wordpress.com">http://justinpollock.wordpress.com</a><br /><br />Now that I actually have published work coming out, this place needs to exist. Not a replacement for this blog (although I have been neglecting it lately - <span style="font-style: italic;">did I not tell you about The Internet Troubles</span>?), but a supplement. The blog you're reading now will still be <span style="font-style: italic;">Wild West Was Here</span> updates and comics, the new one will professional updates and horror.<br /><br />Or at least that is the plan...<span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-56739823921405509002011-03-17T10:37:00.000-05:002011-03-17T10:37:53.367-05:00Earp in progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52nmWF-rV9Mc30b7lQISnrm5EIr4Azdz_7oiqjMzpYtWXHQaSg56u_IFReYkmloAtgQwkiOspXK4WtN01a20lwrqaXGWl2qLR9AeDHZKAplmL27g8SRM_wmaVYUSL1wjE0zMjtnV7_F0/s1600/AWE2999_Mirror_07_progress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52nmWF-rV9Mc30b7lQISnrm5EIr4Azdz_7oiqjMzpYtWXHQaSg56u_IFReYkmloAtgQwkiOspXK4WtN01a20lwrqaXGWl2qLR9AeDHZKAplmL27g8SRM_wmaVYUSL1wjE0zMjtnV7_F0/s320/AWE2999_Mirror_07_progress.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Congratulations to Justin on his news. Here is a progress shot of an Earp page. There was a fair amount of debate on whether the pages should be toned with a spacey <a href="http://joshlynchart.blogspot.com/2011/03/earp-color-tests.html" target="_blank">blue/green</a> or the more western themed tan. Its still a bit up in the air but for the time being we're leaning towards the tan.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-13109276279429829672011-03-11T23:14:00.004-06:002011-03-12T00:02:42.664-06:00You have not heard the last of meHey dudes. You still drop by once and a while? Aside from the faithful commenters who let me know VERY INTERESTING POST THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOU BUY IMITATION ROLEX WATCH CHEAP, YES?<br /><br />I haven't posted anything lately because I have had what is known as The Internet Trouble. So I thought I would get you up to speed with what has been going on.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Liam is very nearly ten months old now</span>, and he's grown his two front teeth on top. There's a decent-sized gap between them, however, and I cannot help but think that he looks like a baby <a href="http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/madjimj10.jpg">Terry-Thomas</a> (and, therefore, also Mad Jim Jaspers).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have been getting into </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Concrete</span> for the first time thanks to my local library. I am several decades too late to inform you of how good this is, but <span style="font-style: italic;">it is really good stuff</span>. It's just so <span style="font-style: italic;">earnest</span>, you know? You'd never get away with it today. I mean, it's high concept, but there's absolutely no "elevator pitch" with it, you know? "So a senator's speechwriter gets his brain transplanted into a super-tough concrete body? So what's he do with it, fight the aliens that did this to him?" "What? No, those aliens are gone, I don't care about the aliens. Mostly he does things he thinks would be interesting, like trying to swim across the ocean or help out a struggling farm family. Oh yeah, and in one issue he writes a letter to his dying mother." CLICK. Dial tonnnnne.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Been catching up on a lot of comics through the library</span>. I'd been mildly curious for some time to read the Jim Kruger/Alex Ross/Doug Braithwaite joint <span style="font-style: italic;">Justice</span>, but I'd never had the opportunity, particularly since DC packaged the 12-issue series in three separate trades of four issues instead of one package like anyone sensible would do. The art was surprisingly hard to follow. I'm not sure that the "realistic" painting approach translates well to superhero action comics, because I spent the whole time going, "Wait, is that a laser beam? What exactly is happening to Clayface here? Man, could we get John Byrne to draw this or something?" The writing does that thing I hate that every superhero writer thinks s/he has to do where it tackles why superheroes are reactive and just uphold the status quo instead of, you know, feeding the hungry, curing the sick, that sort of thing. Except there is <span style="font-style: italic;">no good answer </span>to that, so asking the question just draws attention to something we're supposed to ignore. Even Grant Morrison did it in <span style="font-style: italic;">JLA </span>#4<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>and it was just as unconvincing there. <span style="font-style: italic;">If I am willing to play along with genre conceits like superpowers and secret identities, I will also play along and accept that Batman causing massive property damage to stop the Riddler from knocking over a bank is the socially responsible thing to do.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Oh yeah,<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I also sold two more stories this week</span></span></span></span>, so apparently there is something to be said for this "believing in yourself" thing. Let's hear it for <a href="http://www.darkhighlands.com/">Dark Highlands</a> and the newly launched <a href="http://www.arcanemagazine.com/">Arcane</a> for thinking that I am worth somebody's time to read. More on this as it develops.<br /><br />Battery's running down gotta go now laterz<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-72368208264723550942011-02-17T13:24:00.004-06:002011-02-17T13:32:59.581-06:00Earp Page<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDeUNe-XfbMNpyvu56i-8QJZkvAN3StGX2Gf1DizQf9kDlqJ3xqazZKQkSg3QFRxYH3cmhPP7NHRRWkpEjA5AhPz_u1zsRhheXnTMq74y_MzU_uRclO6Z5qsHc6GHixj30V1aF8pZayI/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDeUNe-XfbMNpyvu56i-8QJZkvAN3StGX2Gf1DizQf9kDlqJ3xqazZKQkSg3QFRxYH3cmhPP7NHRRWkpEjA5AhPz_u1zsRhheXnTMq74y_MzU_uRclO6Z5qsHc6GHixj30V1aF8pZayI/s320/Earp_Excerpt_12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574742819188544466" /></a><br />Big ups to Justin on his first official paid story. Isn't he awesome? Here are some pencils for a panel from the Wild West Was Here, "the Mirror Universe Affair" page 9, written by Justin and drawn by myself.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-87291522345687207702011-02-07T23:04:00.003-06:002011-02-07T23:22:25.058-06:00GUESS WHAT DUDESSomebody's bought a short story that I wrote.<br /><br />I have had it confirmed that <em>this is a thing</em>.<br /><br />Not like that <em>other</em> thing where a magazine was <em>going</em> to buy a story, and then they had to "indefinitely suspend publication." (They were <em>super </em>nice about it, though, and I can hardly hold it against them.)<br /><br />It's going in a themed horror anthology. You will be able to buy this book, and when it comes out, I will insist that you do so.<br /><br />Gettin' paid, gettin' published. Not gettin' paid <em>a lot</em>--we're talking dinner at like an Applebee's, you understand. But it's a start.<br /><br />More on this as it develops. Should probably post some new material as well, huh? Maybe a page of script from <em>The Wild West Was Here</em> coming soon...Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-78266928090453985932011-01-24T15:06:00.003-06:002011-01-24T15:21:37.081-06:00Still earping in 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDboxVOhfROfb24F_WjFbkqM2S0vXOt_rYabm0ls_RHj4e-mdtbjExJWlmFwSplznNH5-IwAg4jVzwKwtDpnNOaiyvqjxC91sD7klzV0g1yh_9of2M62ErcbXfDtwhuRT3VnOz1EnYoI/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDboxVOhfROfb24F_WjFbkqM2S0vXOt_rYabm0ls_RHj4e-mdtbjExJWlmFwSplznNH5-IwAg4jVzwKwtDpnNOaiyvqjxC91sD7klzV0g1yh_9of2M62ErcbXfDtwhuRT3VnOz1EnYoI/s320/Earp_Excerpt_12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565865276121562994" /></a><br /><br />Alright, here it is. Nearly finished. And although my pages come along really really slowly justin has been plugging away on his writing. He recently sent me an amazing script. I think he should upload a small excerpt of it here.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-1885071934132163342011-01-03T17:09:00.004-06:002011-01-03T17:33:40.501-06:00Earp in 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpjIEWx-7uG9xGtky6IzjBvwwGPQI2wYFqiOXqqj4O2uh9g-RYL9z-KN8aG6HpsdqlpVCy9OCbiEk525UNLnsidm6gXjZ6-MGCck974qMuIJf0inOIbKmLG1hBrvFkM3BeqVk1ZCoPKM/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_11.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpjIEWx-7uG9xGtky6IzjBvwwGPQI2wYFqiOXqqj4O2uh9g-RYL9z-KN8aG6HpsdqlpVCy9OCbiEk525UNLnsidm6gXjZ6-MGCck974qMuIJf0inOIbKmLG1hBrvFkM3BeqVk1ZCoPKM/s320/Earp_Excerpt_11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558101891100010210" border="0" /></a><br />I hope Justin isn't offended that I'm taking the first post of 2011. Lets hope to see some progress on the book this year. I guess that would start with finishing this page.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-63521996909625757812010-12-16T23:03:00.003-06:002010-12-16T23:32:48.611-06:00Silver Age Snootchie BootchiesI've had a thought, and I don't know if it's nothing or if it's something. It's probably nothing, or at most, a very <em>small</em> something.<br /><p>In the DC Universe of the 90s, Wally West was the Flash, Kyle Rayner became Green Lantern, Connor Hawke took over as Green Arrow, Aquaman got the metal harness-thing and harpoon-hand...and so on, yeah? The landscape looked very different. And now in 2010, most of the Silver Agers are pretty much back in the saddle, back to their Silver Age status quo. For better or for worse, <em>for better or for worse!</em></p><p>Now, this usually gets traced to Geoff Johns and <em>Green Lantern: Rebirth, </em>and he's done an awful lot of Rebirthing, true enough. But I was thinking about it...</p><p>...does it <em>really</em> start with Kevin Smith on <em>Green Arrow </em>in 2000? Was Oliver Queen the first Silver Ager to reclaim the role from his Modern Age successor? Did that kick down the door for Hal Jordan and Barry Allen to come back? <em>Did Smith start this thing</em>? There's even a bit in there with Ollie telling Aquaman that he should go back to the orange shirt, and Black Manta's back in his classic gear.</p><p>Considering that Smith's <em>Daredevil </em>launched Marvel Knights, which got Joe Quesada the Editor-in-Chief job at Marvel that he still holds...wouldn't it be <em>damned weird</em> if he was, somewhere up the chain, a huge influence the <em>other </em>company as well? </p><p>Are superhero comics the way they are in 2010 all because of Kevin Smith?</p><p>...</p><p>It's <em>probably </em>nothing...</p>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-45184829413073227292010-12-16T18:27:00.002-06:002010-12-16T18:28:43.206-06:00Earp-cerpt<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxaVY31PCA1eGrkHK6dgJ1othuaI13v770pd0xa4XvVOoVuW13IUGfW6xBUoTWt3cOz_0iW3Ednyhh087ASFc1ooydFC1VtJBIdYRy-OwuqMCy0RN40yuuHv_S4N_rrOQDUxnhojVYPk/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_09.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 101px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxaVY31PCA1eGrkHK6dgJ1othuaI13v770pd0xa4XvVOoVuW13IUGfW6xBUoTWt3cOz_0iW3Ednyhh087ASFc1ooydFC1VtJBIdYRy-OwuqMCy0RN40yuuHv_S4N_rrOQDUxnhojVYPk/s320/Earp_Excerpt_09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551441429241487970" border="0" /></a>Chuggin' along...<br /><img src="file:///Users/josh/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///Users/josh/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-1.png" alt="" />Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-67494508844240149282010-12-14T20:24:00.003-06:002010-12-14T20:27:53.282-06:00Now I have a gimmick Twitter account just like everybody else<a href="http://twitter.com/YrUpstrsNeighbr">http://twitter.com/YrUpstrsNeighbr</a>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-10108527685240598662010-12-14T18:37:00.003-06:002010-12-14T18:38:59.273-06:00Earp scraps<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCimwxG-scGE48Josgxtoxl_hssfS1BMMFJDrUMi0DksdGudYYBM2JFD29rRnuGTUvifCl90KsWEA07Dl-5zhiQ5RzRBqYZS4Yf9vY6D8OQMxYm3etJj96r5KmkEv8ijxGzKB0Gi-iWuY/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_08.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCimwxG-scGE48Josgxtoxl_hssfS1BMMFJDrUMi0DksdGudYYBM2JFD29rRnuGTUvifCl90KsWEA07Dl-5zhiQ5RzRBqYZS4Yf9vY6D8OQMxYm3etJj96r5KmkEv8ijxGzKB0Gi-iWuY/s320/Earp_Excerpt_08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550701850289475378" border="0" /></a>I managed to squeek out a few more panels. Here is an excerpt.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-87028319601911667952010-12-12T21:25:00.003-06:002010-12-12T21:33:34.982-06:00A Web of Romantic EntanglementsDid I forget any?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6DR4tGTMetuyHEHTrcuctbKGIe-I6bqyGremT6F-ubREff0CBmkNo-thZ3bNEhOiRIPnHEpLuT7ywpJDtG1G__Jh5Wt7CPFg9IaIFxKIz-M_tgDjgXsJukH-JhQemNwxvpJ2Owf5yUI/s1600/Web.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550004013747152850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig6DR4tGTMetuyHEHTrcuctbKGIe-I6bqyGremT6F-ubREff0CBmkNo-thZ3bNEhOiRIPnHEpLuT7ywpJDtG1G__Jh5Wt7CPFg9IaIFxKIz-M_tgDjgXsJukH-JhQemNwxvpJ2Owf5yUI/s400/Web.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>It's <em>kind of</em> weird, right? When everybody gets together, it's either <em>really</em> awkward or <em>really </em>comfortable.</div>Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-34707495351122551742010-12-07T18:13:00.001-06:002010-12-07T18:15:08.932-06:00Earped<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZjyB_Ujl6V__ijyNQmKOd4BlOzxSgagZMINLYlHUoVOTV3fUIdI9WzdPV4IRGU-O1h1Bl_5LDETrf6aIi4ljzMuKnEhCFYbAh2AiMf0NricQKzjCG2eJahKazhfDuABnu-pwq4doGG8/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_07.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZjyB_Ujl6V__ijyNQmKOd4BlOzxSgagZMINLYlHUoVOTV3fUIdI9WzdPV4IRGU-O1h1Bl_5LDETrf6aIi4ljzMuKnEhCFYbAh2AiMf0NricQKzjCG2eJahKazhfDuABnu-pwq4doGG8/s320/Earp_Excerpt_07.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548098001654918738" border="0" /></a>While Justin was living large in Miami hanging out with Dexter (thankfully sans Rita) I was slaving away drawing Wyatt Earp pages and digging my car out from under all the snow.Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-37773249786556434402010-12-06T22:36:00.007-06:002010-12-06T23:14:13.980-06:00Man of Kleenex<em>Oh hai</em>.<br /><br />Last week I was on a trip to Miami for a work-related thing. It was an interesting time. I ate at Joe's Stone Crab, saw a bunch of local landmarks you'd recognize if you've ever watched <em>Dexter </em>(which I have not), and watched locals bundle up for 65-degree-Fahrenheit weather, knowing that when I returned to Wisconsin I would have to dig my car out of some snow.<br /><br />I also got to fly on a plane, which is still an enormous treat for me. (Less exciting: <em>Eat Pray Love </em>as the in-flight movie.) Which brings me to my little anecdote for today.<br /><br />Somebody asked me on the trip what it's like to have a baby. And my standard answer is that I don't have anything interesting to tell them, because it is <em>just like what everybody else says it is like</em>. You know? "Um...I don't know, man, it's like...it's the greatest thing, although all of a sudden you're more okay with the idea of handling somebody else's poop and it takes you about fifteen extra minutes anytime you need to leave the house." Really, just listen to any stand-up comedian with a baby, and whatever he says probably goes for me as well. I don't usually have much to add.<br /><br />But I had five hours of plane ride back home on Saturday, and so I decided to watch some Dini/Timm <em>Superman </em>and <em>Batman</em> episodes on my iPod. One of them was the <em>Superman </em>pilot, "The Last Son of Krypton, Part I," which, as you may or may not remember, is all the Krypton part of the Superman origin. And I've seen this episode before. And I've read or seen countless "Jor-El and Lara put baby Kal-El in the rocket and send him to Earth before Krypton explodes" scenes.<br /><br />But this time I had to turn it off, because I'm sitting on a plane and I feel tears welling up, and I don't want somebody to think I'm crying at <em>Eat Pray Love</em>.<br /><br />Like, he has to put his baby on that rocket, man. He has to <em>send him away</em> and he'll never know what will become of his son. And that baby...! Kal-El has <em>no clue</em>. He's <em>sleeping </em>when he's put in the rocket; he falls asleep in his parents' arms, he wakes up someplace else and they're gone. Bruce Wayne remembers his parents and that's the whole point, but (barring some sort of super-infant-memory, which I'm sure was probably featured in at least one story over the years, right?) Superman has <em>no memory</em> of anything that happened there.<br /><br /><em>*hnkkk*</em><br /><em></em><br />Man, I did not sign up to choked up about Krypton, you guys.Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-55016308261117040412010-12-06T18:15:00.000-06:002010-12-06T18:16:36.520-06:00continuing the Earp-cerpts<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxD9NqeqtG30sAj2qUDqv819EPUF-EADTRS-bs7KK_fuBc3ezzHM51ERTHp2RZT7JA9HxphMb0KPFgFkwFcNBaogZFblgR772hmFrYTM9Ji2IFRVELzvEioF4VizigqubW19L1DTA6x0/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_06.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxD9NqeqtG30sAj2qUDqv819EPUF-EADTRS-bs7KK_fuBc3ezzHM51ERTHp2RZT7JA9HxphMb0KPFgFkwFcNBaogZFblgR772hmFrYTM9Ji2IFRVELzvEioF4VizigqubW19L1DTA6x0/s320/Earp_Excerpt_06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547727589090838530" border="0" /></a><br />bit of a spoilerJoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-65345554258647085042010-11-30T18:03:00.003-06:002010-11-30T18:04:30.018-06:00More Earp-cerpts<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLdkHKUJN6w474BvzgexoFwOBSyZhKLCvp6eWez5Q7mzQOyATd6QZYJprPYdWBunHefIiryZxa9exYRbPCA3i21pcOb0GlGAmpSBWhl-d1Pfx-z5t6h05_8l_XUhsj2z0jMFv2CkEgQEA/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_04.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLdkHKUJN6w474BvzgexoFwOBSyZhKLCvp6eWez5Q7mzQOyATd6QZYJprPYdWBunHefIiryZxa9exYRbPCA3i21pcOb0GlGAmpSBWhl-d1Pfx-z5t6h05_8l_XUhsj2z0jMFv2CkEgQEA/s320/Earp_Excerpt_04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545497930489694114" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7MUh6eq_hLyN5gMuYz-1GcpwS-dqmMAqIeL9b37hJSc4r77nqm5_t8LZ7ok4mifk1XSJCeQ4W_di4qiSuT91w6mamGS1wUkarVBLICjyFd-6JBHSweDsQ_EN9youKmXH4PxE5dM6LCsI/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_05.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7MUh6eq_hLyN5gMuYz-1GcpwS-dqmMAqIeL9b37hJSc4r77nqm5_t8LZ7ok4mifk1XSJCeQ4W_di4qiSuT91w6mamGS1wUkarVBLICjyFd-6JBHSweDsQ_EN9youKmXH4PxE5dM6LCsI/s320/Earp_Excerpt_05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545497884540239922" border="0" /></a>Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-19136853660905284342010-11-22T15:37:00.001-06:002010-11-22T15:38:45.034-06:00more earp-cerpts<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruCp75T5gf3-Lx8P3ZwZJ7x2AtH-GC5eLj4ilSuK9vOGJo38OgawN18wxQb0E73qFPY6Egb4BK3vgDyceORiLQsa4zWWXRIw1aY4VuNLp3QB4WqHybAWUTENom9CuUEEDV4SUaA0oFYU/s1600/Earp_Excerpt_03.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruCp75T5gf3-Lx8P3ZwZJ7x2AtH-GC5eLj4ilSuK9vOGJo38OgawN18wxQb0E73qFPY6Egb4BK3vgDyceORiLQsa4zWWXRIw1aY4VuNLp3QB4WqHybAWUTENom9CuUEEDV4SUaA0oFYU/s320/Earp_Excerpt_03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542491618481329666" border="0" /></a><br /><br />more scraps...Joshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.com0