Friday, August 29, 2008

Thursday, August 28, 2008

KLIK KLAK

KIRBY07

Jack Kirby, born today, would've been 91 years old right now. He believed the Earth was visited by flying saucers. He was also the king of comics.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A SUPERMEK

A SUPERMEK

The THB heirarchy of synthetics goes like this: tools, machines, robots, meks, supermeks, super-com-meks, and finally, megameks. This is a supermek, courtesy of the incredible Feroze.

THB

Saturday, August 2, 2008

HEAVY LIQUID

HEAVY LIQUID

The new hard cover version of Heavy Liquid is in stores Sept. 24th 2008-- completely redesigned in 2 solid pantone colors. Overtime, I have come to believe the colors in the original version are a bit garish and hard on the eye--so I've picked a red/blue pairing which leans more to the somber side. The results look much better, I think--more artfilm than blacklight poster. Based closely on the French edition which debuted earlier this year from Dargaud, this new format including 12 pages of additional material--developmental sketches and other unpublished "ramp-up" drawings.

If I could re-do only one thing in this story (there is more than one thing I'd do differently now, but if I had to pick just one), I would re-set the date for this science fiction tale in the year 2038, making it consistent with my other DC/Vertigo books, 100% and Batman:Year 100. Heavy Liquid is set in the year 2075, which I somewhat arbitrarily chose without much serious consideration. The technologies shown in the story seem reasonable for a view into the world of the next few decades, and not much more. As it stands, I doubt anyone can imagine how vastly different the world of 2075 will be, and when I read articles like this, I feel rather pessimistic trying.