Hey guys,
Just wanted to let you know that Kevin has posted is SDCC Heavy Metal booth schedule via his blog. Click the pic for the detailed list.
Category: Comics
Forever War Being Re-Drafted!
In an inpromptu chat this morning with Forever War writer (and all around awesome guy) Steve Murphy, GGM was told that the long time Mirage writer has scrapped his first approach to his upcomming “Archie” swan song, The Forever War, and is coming at it from a whole new angle!
Steve’s Words:
“It seems to be back on track. I’ve scrapped everything to date and started with an entirely new approach.”
“It will probably move the date out… but then again it might not. Very hard for me to say.”
I don’t know about you, but even if it does move the date out, I’d rather he have something he is really happy with!
-Stephan
Tales of the TMNT v.2 #62 cover inks // pencils by Fernando León González, Inks by R. Brown (( September 2009 ))
Tales of the TMNT #62
Available for pre-order in Diamond Comic Distributors’ July catalog, “Previews” V19 #250
Ship Date: September 14, 2009
Format: 32 B&W pages, full color cover, standard size comic
Retail Price: $3.25
Cover art by Fernando Leon Gonzalez, Ryan Brown & Steve Lavigne; plot/layouts by Ryan Brown, script by Dan Berger, pencils by Fernando Leon Gonzalez, inks by Ryan Brown
“Adventures in Bunnysitting” – Michelangelo’s Utrom friend, Klag, asks the good-natured ninja to take care of his pet bunny while he’s away. Unfortunately for Raphael and Mikey, Klag was unaware that the rabbit was a test subject for mutagenetic studies – and once the little critter gets agitated, things go from bad to worse – much, much worse! Based on a true story… well, kinda…
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TMNT 31 & 32 in progress ..
TMNT 31 & 32 in progress
Peter Laird :: ” have pretty much finished the tones for issue #31 of TMNT, and if all goes well in the lettering stage (which I hope to begin tonight or tomorrow), #31 might be sent to the printer within a few weeks. The photo above is of the cover page of a “proof print” I did so that I could see how the tones were going to look (sometimes things look different when they are printed than when you were looking at them on a computer monitor). I also wanted to get a look at one particular page on which I think I spent the most time doing tones of any page in all of Volume 4… and I’m not sure people will be able to tell. We’ll see, I guess.
So this means, I think, that if anyone wants to write a letter of comment for possible inclusion in issue #31, they should probably do it in the next couple of weeks.
And in a related bit of news, Jim Lawson has started penciling issue #32 — I think he’s done four or five pages so far.” — PL
A.C. Jumps In To Talk About His Leo Bust!
Earlier today I was pleasantly surprised to see the great A.C. Farley came over and left a comment about an older post regarding the Leo bust he sculpted back in the day. As I know most of you probably won’t notice a comment on a post that old, I thought I would bring it up to the top 🙂
Hi,
Here’s a few facts about this bust… It’s one of the few sculpts I’ve ever done and the ONLY sculpture I’ve ever done professionally. It’s very rare, since it was planned to be a 500 run limited edition, but only around 80 were made. I have two of them… the one that I assembled and painted as an example for the guy that painted them, and one in a box unpainted. There are some painted and some unpainted out there in the world. I don’t know how many were painted.
We at Mirage had originally wanted to do full figure ‘Mirage type TMNT’ sculptures of all four Turtles, but Mirage had a contract with Playmates that included rights to any full figure TMNT product. We ran into a lot of this kind or brick wall because of licensing. We couldn’t even make our own Mirage T-shirts with TMNT on them for awhile, because a company had purchased exclusive rights to make TMNT clothing. Weird, huh? So the best we could negotiate with Playmates was permission to do a limited edition bust, instead of a full figure. The model making company that contracted to cast the busts COMPLETELY dropped the ball on this project and so there were only around 80 made, cast in plain resin, instead of the 500 bronze filled resin busts that we had planned for in the beginning.
So the busts are even more rare and even more limited than anyone planned at first.
That cover photo is the actual unpainted, Sculpey build. I gave that to Pete Laird after the casting.
Later,
A.C. Farley
Thanks for the insight A.C.! Glad you enjoy GGM!