A Princess of Mars

Well that kind of sums it up, doesn’t it?  I could make excuses about the extended delay, but I won’t.  We’re back.

ALSO, I’ll be at Heroes Con 2013 this coming weekend in Charlotte, NC. I’ll be doing con sketches and selling stuff, including prints (Princess of Mars is one of them) and the print edition of Chaper 1: On The Arizona Hills. So drop by and see me at table AA-1930.

WAIT, SAY WHAT??

Yep.  They arrived the other day and look pretty dang good.  So I’ll have these for sale for $5 this weekend (20 pages, full color).  I’ll definitely be looking into getting them available to everyone else once the convention is behind me.

Amazon.com currently have the Kindle edition of John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood available for free.  The book description on Amazon:

It took 100 years to bring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars to the big screen. It took Disney Studios just ten days to declare the film a flop and lock it away in the Disney vaults. How did this project, despite its quarter-billion dollar budget, the brilliance of director Andrew Stanton, and the creative talents of legendary Pixar Studios, become a calamity of historic proportions?

Michael Sellers, a filmmaker and Hollywood insider himself, saw the disaster approaching and fought to save the project – but without success. In John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood, Sellers details every blunder and betrayal that led to the doom of the motion picture – and that left countless Hollywood careers in the wreckage.

JOHN CARTER AND THE GODS OF HOLLYWOOD examines every aspect of Andrew Stanton’s adaptation and Disney’s marketing campaign and seeks to answer the question: What went wrong? it includes a history of Hollywood’s 100 year effort to bring the film to the screen, and examines the global fan movement spawned by the film.

You can pick it up here.  Should be an interesting read.

Well, since it’s been like a bloody month since the last comic, I thought I would explain what’s been up.  Especially since I’ve gotten 2 snarky comments lately that people’s free entertainment has been late.  This was going to be long and detailed, but I figured, meh. let’s just sum it all up.

The holidays themselves didn’t really affect things much, which might have been everyone’s first guess.  Instead, there were 2 illnesses, which affected my deadlines a goodly bit. As I’ve said before, my deadlines come first — they pay the bills that let me keep APoM free — so I’ve been trying to catch up there.

The good news is that I think I’m getting back on track, and have even gotten much of the last comics of Chapter 1 thumbnailed. The next comic is completely laid out. So my hope is that by next week we’ll be good to go!