PeasOfCrap

I was pretending to be doing work!

"The Crow" follows Eric who sits reading "forgotten lore"as a method to forget the loss of his love, Shelly. A "rapping at [his] chamber door"reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". A similar rapping, slightly louder, is heard at his window. When he goes to investigate, a crow steps into his chamber. Paying no attention to the man, the crow perches on a Bowen Wolverine bust. Amused by the crow's comically serious disposition, Eric demands that the bird tell him its name. The crow's only answer is "Bosco!". Eric is surprised that the crow can talk, though it says nothing further. Eric remarks to himself that his "friend" the crow will soon fly out of his life, just as "other friends have flown before" along with his previous hopes. As if answering, the crow responds again with "Bosco". Eric reasons that the bird learned the word "Bosco!" from some "Schmo" and that it is the only word it knows. Even so, Eric pulls his chair directly in front of the crow, determined to learn more about it. He thinks for a moment, not saying anything, but his mind wanders back to his lost Shelly. He thinks the air grows denser and feels the presence of angels. Confused by the association of the angels with the bird, the narrator becomes angry, calling the crow a "PLOD" and a "Presser". As he yells at the crow it only responds, "Bosco!". Finally, he asks the crow whether he will be reunited with Shelly in Heaven. When the crow responds with its typical "Bosco!", he shrieks and commands the crow to return to "Idaho", though it never moves. Presumably at the time of the poem's recitation by the narrator, the crow "still is sitting" on the bust of Wolverine. The narrator's final admission is that his soul is trapped beneath the crow's shadow and shall be lifted by "Bosco!".

Bringing out the b-boy in me...some street art on an X-Men #1 Blank Cover. Silver Surfer hurdling over planets like Luke Skywalker! (still gotta clean up and add some thing here and there) Can you see the yourself in the reflection?

a work in progress... i got a buddy of mine to draw magneto... its part of for a jam piece which is going real slow...

Those pics you drew? thanks for the comments, my first dabble on drawing on a cover. the moon one was paint and the spidey was done using a white out pen and a black paint marker.

On an all black cover 9/11 tribute Marvel Must Have...one is from last week, the other from last year.

a new Jim Lawson commission, again its 11x17 like the last one with Mikey!

a new JL commission, again its HUGE like the last one with Mikey!

yes, watercolor. i think Mikey got his skills from Daredevil. *hint* the thing is huge, 18x20? maybe a little bigger if i remember correctly.

an excuse to post my Jim Lawson commission! I need to get this framed.

cookie puss?

Yes it did Glenn!!!! HOLY SHEETTT!!!! I can't wait to get out of work and pick this up!!! Here's a little teaser for you Glenn, yours is the bottom right Thanks Steve!!! Cant wait to pick this up! I apologize to everyone for the cheesey letter!

Yes it did Glenn!!!! HOLY SHEETTT!!!! I can't wait to get out of work and pick this up!!!

i went to school with Jen, i wonder what she is doing these days? her last facebook update was kinda cryptic, something about sexting.

i am trapped at work, did anyone pick up the new issue? how slim are the odds that my email made it onto Letter Hacks?

Adam those totally kick arsh!!!

wow, this thread was bumped off the first page! cool article from USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-05-09-Chew27_N.htm It took John Layman years for people to believe in his cannibal comic book Chew. And its current popularity is allowing him to take a risk venturing almost a full year into the future. Those who read Layman and artist Rob Guillory's Image Comics series starring cibopathic FDA agent Tony Chu — a guy who gets extra-sensory insight from what he eats (and at times, yes, he has ingested human meat to solve a murder) — will probably wonder why they devoured issue 18 last month but issue 27 is waiting in their pullboxes on Wednesday. Reason No. 1: Layman already wrote the issue, and it gave him a chance to feature Tony's sister Toni, a NASA employee who's the exact opposite of Tony's sourpuss character. (You'd be a sourpuss, too, if you ate as many beets as he does.) Reason No. 2: It was a fun writing exercise writing for two different audiences: the monthly readers who enjoy the crime-procedural aspect of Chew, and the people who wait for the trade collections (aka "trade-waiters") who will probably never realize he pulled this stunt when they read the issue in the sixth collection next year. Reason 3: When you win an Eisner award for best comic series, are up for three more this year and have Showtime developing a TV adaptation of your sci-fi foodie action comedy, you garner a little bit of leeway to enjoy yourself. "I thought, 'Why not throw it out there?' " Layman says. "I'm always very aware of the monthly readers, because they pay our monthly rent. We get big checks twice a year from the trade-waiters, and I don't begrudge them. But if we can do things to keep people interested on a month-to-month basis, we will." Those who remember all the way back to the introduction of Tony Chu in the first issue of Chew will see a lot of similar panels in issue 27, a solo adventure for his sister, Toni. They both handle their overbearing bosses differently, and when she enters a "chicken speakeasy," her fellow agent — unlike Tony's partner, Colby — doesn't get a hatchet upside his head. If you're wondering exactly what a chicken speakeasy is, let's get up to speed: In Chew, an avian flu wiped out millions of people, so chickens and the eating of them were prohibited by law enforcement — namely the CIA-ish FDA and the spy-like USDA. There are cibopaths like Tony, and saboscrivners like Tony's girlfriend, Amelia Mintz, who can write about food in such a way that people can actually taste it. In the current story arc, a weird alien message has lit up the sky, and Toni is on the case when a bunch of "chogs" — genetically bred chicken-frog hybrids, because frog tastes like chicken, obviously — go missing. It's a lot to take in at first, but Layman tries to make every issue accessible to new readers — even one set in the future. "It's hard to tell people, 'Hey, this issue 27 that is part two of something that's not going to appear till a year from now, is a good way to jump on,' " he says. "Every issue is self-contained and is its own case. Again, I want you to pay $2.99 every month rather than paying me twice a year. There are so many Marvel or DC books that are part of a six-issue story, and you get to about the fourth issue and there's nothing that happens. It doesn't get you back into the comic-book store week after week." Chew has been one of the major cult-to-mainstream successes the past few years, alongside the likes of The Walking Dead, Locke & Key and Scott Pilgrim. "It's shocking," Layman says, adding that it's even more surprising since he pitched Chew to editors at DC Comics' Vertigo line for years to no avail. "I probably didn't sell it very well," Layman admits. "Here's a cannibal comic book about food and the bird flu, and when you hear that, it doesn't really capture the sense of fun that was in the book." Layman and Guillory decided to do five issues on their own, and then it took off as a female-friendly series that often fans would give to their pals who usually wouldn't step near a comic shop. "It's not giant, super-idealized, muscular and busty women hitting each other like comic books are thought of in America too much," Layman says. "The other thing that no one realized, including myself, is I didn't pitch it as a food comic book, even though it was. That's so universal. Everyone eats, and here's a comic book where every story arc touches on food and everyone can relate to that, whereas everyone can't relate to a guy who flies and saves the world." Layman has also created a supporting cast à la Seinfeld that orbits Tony and his crazy adventures. "Jerry Seinfeld was really the most boring of the characters, but he was the most grounding character for all the oddballs around him," Layman says. "Tony Chu is like that: He's the quiet guy who took a little while to get to know and is kind of a grump, but everyone around him is more animated and interesting than him." The writer has found two characters with whom fans have fallen deeply in love: Colby, Tony's partner who was turned into a cyborg of sorts after getting that hatchet embedded in his face, and Poyo, the karate-kicking chicken that works for the USDA. Layman received lots of worried notes from people when Poyo got pumped full of bullets at the end of issue 18. "I got so many 'How could you kill him?!' (letters) and I'm like, 'Wait a minute. This is a world where a guy can take a butcher's knife in the face and come back as a robot.' I thought it was pretty obvious I'm not killing him, I'm setting him up to come back as Super Chicken, but no one seems to have figured that out yet," says Layman, who envisions a Secret Agent Poyo one-shot someday during the planned 60-issue series. Layman is planning more "screen time" for other characters, including Toni — whose "powers" are suggested in both issue 27 and the following 19 — and Tony's teen daughter, Olive, as well as an unnamed sportswriter who gives Tony and Colby the evil eye and a guy who can name the ingredients in anything he imbibes. Layman and Guillory designed a Last Supper-inspired cover to issue 15 that showed the majority of Chew's main characters. For those wondering what's up with the skeleton in the baseball uniform Toni was holding, Layman teases he will pop up again in the next story arc beginning in issue 21. "Tony gets kidnapped by really hardcore baseball fans who know about his powers, and they are digging up dead baseball legends and feeding them to him so they can write the definitive biographies of these characters," says Layman, adding with a laugh that it's "awesome and horrible at the same time." That's all in the future, though, as is the Showtime series. It's still early in development, but Layman's read the -script and it maintains the absurd tone, both grotesquely and humorously, that has made Chew a savory success. "It's not exact, and I knew Chew was too weird. You're not going to have Arctic observatories and -fighting secret agent chickens. But they got the spirit of it," says Layman, who has a Godzilla: Gangsters and Goliaths miniseries out next month for IDW and is working on an upcoming Dark Horse graphic novel with Sam Kieth. "Part of the fun's gonna be what's different, what's the same, but the tone is the most important thing and that's what they've caught. It'll be interesting to see where things go."

no one talking about the new issue?

We missed Dooney, Lawson, and Berger PLUS a brief Laird appearance at the Paint and Pixel Festival in Northampton, MA this past weekend.

that was my key. i sold a pair last week and the last one is on the For Sale boards. i am willing to trade for a signed series #1 as well.

on point, i was going to say $40 -$60.

awesome!! 9.9

how do you slab a phone?