Crimebuster

I went to a comic book show yesterday, and there was a dealer who had a few longboxes of stuff they hadn't gotten around to pricing yet, as they were new arrivals. I usually don't like that sort of thing, but I decided to take a look at the one box that wasn't already being poured over by other dealers. I found this in the box and said, "I gotta ask, how much?" He said, "Oh, it's in pretty bad shape. How about $10?" Deal.

Thanks very much, I really appreciate the support! I'm hoping in the next two weeks to announce the Kickstarter launch date for #2, and hopefully I'll also have the Boy Comics #121 variant cover done soon to show off. We'll see how it goes!

Hey, if anyone is going to be attending NorthEast Comic Con this weekend, i will have a table and will be selling my comic The Crimebusters as well as some cool prints. Forget WalMart, do your Black Friday Holiday gift shopping at my booth! https://necomiccons.com/

This year has been a series of kicks to the junk, but luckily, it's nearly over! And I do have a couple cool announcements. Tomorrow, I'll be appearing on a Disney YouTube livestream to discuss my comic and how the latest issue was influenced by Disney theme parks! And this weekend, I'll be appearing at the NorthEast Comic Con in Boxboro, MA, so if you're at the show, stop by and say hi! I made a little video about these announcements: https://youtu.be/WJlXIn03IAo

I like how they say "based on the best-selling novels." Which is technically true. but it's obvious to anyone who has played the video games that they are adapting the games. They just just don't want the stigma of being a video game adaptation, because those are always horrible.

I'll be sure to remind you, thanks again for the support! I'll probably post here as well when the time comes. I don't think I ever posted in this thread the Kickstarter exclusive variant cover for #2. Each issue, I do a cover you can only get through Kickstarter, which features the original numbering continued from Boy Comics. So this second issue will be #121. This issue features a backup story spotlighting one of my supporting characters, Vera Veritas. She's a science major at Chuck's college, and like us, she's also a hardcore sci-fi geek. The story is, in part, about how sci-fi inspires us; in the story, Vera's inspirational touchstone is an old, well-loved copy of Planet Comics #71. So I had to do an homage cover, with Vera saving the rest of the Crimebusters from The Ghost Bride!

That lamp shade behind him reminded me of this: https://www.comicartfans.com/subnewsdetails.asp?nid=96

I saw it. I was expecting a dumpster fire, and actually, it wasn't bad. It also wasn't great. This film is almost every way The Force Awakens for the Terminator franchise. The plot is exactly the same as the first Terminator film, and almost every sequence is designed to be a callback to sequences from previous films in the franchise. It's basically fan service, relying on your nostalgia to provide the emotion. Like The Force Awakens, it also features a more modern, diverse cast, and these elements are the best part of the film if only because some of the discussions they generate in the film are the only original parts in the film. I'd give it a 6 out of 10. It is a bit neither here nor there, though, in terms of audience. Nobody is going to see this who hasn't already seen a previous Terminator film, but the people most likely to appreciate it would be new viewers who don't have expectations about what the franchise should be. I think they were trying to do a Mad Max Fury Road thing here, but they didn't go big enough or bold enough with the direction and it sort of just ended up in no-man's-lad, pun intended. Not bad. Just... not what anybody was looking for either.

I'm working hard on the second issue of my self-published series The Crimebusters, which is a mystery-adventure series in the spirit of Scooby-Doo that also carries on the continuity form the Golden Age series Boy Comics featuring Chuck Chandler, Crimebuster. I'm currently doing the linework for pages 26-27 (out of 31), but I took some time out of that to work on the cover for #2. The story is a haunted house tale that takes place on Halloween (in 1956), so I wanted to get the cover done for Halloween. Here it is! I'll be taking the comic to Kickstarter at the end of January, with some variant covers as well. But I'm pretty happy with this one!

Here's another picture from 1978, this one has me in it, wearing the Honda shirt - this is from the Superfriends waterskiing show at Sea World in Orlando, Florida. I have to imagine there are a lot of tourist photos of this show out there.

Thanks for all the kind words, everyone, I appreciate it.

Here is one of my favorite photos of my father, who passed away quite unexpectedly two months ago. From 1978:

Life has been extra lifey this year, so I haven't had much time to post updates. And the next couple of months are going to be among the busiest of my life, so I don't know how often I will be able to update everyone. But I am making progress on The Crimebusters #2. I'm currently working the linework for page 26 of 31 on the main story, and I'm still expecting to head to Kickstarter in January. I took a little time away from that to color the regular cover for issue #2. There will be at least three variants, like last time, but I am in discussions with another artist to do guest art on one of the variants, so that's exciting. It's also a bit daunting! There's contracts and stuff involved, so it's a bit out of my depth, but a good learning experience, anyway. Here's the regular cover for issue #2. No doubt I will make some small tweaks before it's published, but since the story is a classic haunted house tale that takes place on Halloween night, 1956, it seemed fitting to get it done in time to show everyone for this Halloween. Happy Halloween!

I'm not a big player, I like to find deals in dollar bins. I think I have only spent three figures on a back issue maybe 5 times in 35 years of collecting. One of those times, though, was for a comic that I saw on the boards and just had to have a nice copy. Something almost nobody cares about, but as soon as I saw the cover, I was like... yep, I am going to the mattresses for this one.

The first person to ever buy a ticket to a comic convention was future Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, who snagged the first ticket when they went on sale for the 1964 New York Comic Con. Martin also has credited the Wonder Man story in Avengers #9 for teaching him the power of killing of characters the reader is emotionally invested in. Here he is explaining how the Avengers are repsonsible for all the deaths in Game of Thrones:

I'm at 4.0 with the subscription crease.

Above the M in "Comics" front cover top center - are those white marks a printing thing? It almost looks like staple holes or something similar but it's hard to tell from the photo.

Every month I email readers the latest Crimebusters Case Files - and tomorrow I'll be sending out the October edition. This month's Case Files will include my thoughts on the one element every good story must have. Plus, I'll have a progress update on issue #2, news about upcoming con appearances, a report about last month's show including mini-reviews of some comics I picked up there, recommendations for current Kickstarter projects, and the creation of a new resource for fans of Golden Age superheroes. And more! If you haven't signed up to become a Junior Crimebuster yet, just click here to get deputized and you'll get the new Case Files when it goes out tomorrow, as well as a digital ashcan with previews for both issues #1 and #2 of The Crimebusters. Adventure awaits!

I was at a shop last weekend and found a copy of True Life Secrets #25. I love how the cover seems to be a sequel to #23! Unfortunately, the copy I found was a remaindered copy, so the top third of the cover had been torn off, down far enough that it affected the art. I ended up not buying it, but I'm thinking maybe I should go back and get it.

"to close out his Jersey saga." At this point, this saga has had more false endings than Return of the King.

I don't, but I do pick these up when I see them, as they seem pretty rare. Of course, there's also no demand, so even rare they aren't expensive or necessarily hard to find online. I rarely see them in the wild, though. I picked this up in a dollar box the other day. Never heard of this title or seen it before.

Sure thing! The art gets better as it goes I think, I learned a lot during the long process of making this issue. I always try to write nice messages to the postal workers. A lot of times it just seems like people are yelling at them with the notes on the packages, so I think a little niceness is more likely to get the job done. I received a comic book once from ebay and the person had written on the envelope "Do not bend! BABY PICTURES INSIDE!!"

I don't know the answer to the original question. However, as a kid in the 80's, I was introduced to the concept in Ambush Bug thanks to the spinoff character Jonni DC, Continuity Cop, who would patrol the comics making sure continuity wasn't messed up. Jonni DC seems to have had a little more shelf like than her predecessor, as she re-appeared just last year in the pages of Harley Quinn.

Man, the updates are coming fast and furious! I've just finished setting up a new mailing list entry portal, and I wanted to share it with everyone here. I just send out one email a month to give updates on The Crimebusters - a little more often when it's actually time for a new issue - so if you're interested, it's a great way to get the direct scoop. Anyone who signs up now will get a welcome email that includes a link to a new digital ashcan which has short previews for both issues 1 and 2, as well as variant covers and a new pinup. And I'm going to try to offer fun digital content to people on the mailing list as well from time to time. Anyway, no hard sell here, just wanted to let you guys know about it. Thanks for the interest and the support, I appreciate it! Here's the link: https://mailchi.mp/35996240ec7f/adventure_awaits_with_the_crimebusters

First, thanks to everyone who supported the first issue of The Crimebusters and helped make it a reality. I'm super grateful! I'm currently hard at work on the second issue, and one thing I'm trying to figure out it what to do for the Boy Comics #121 variant. I've got two basic options - I could do an all-new original design, or I could do another homage cover. I think a lot of people really liked the homage to Captain America Comics #3, so I am leaning towards doing another homage. but then the question is, what cover should I homage? Right now the two covers I am considering for an homage are very different: Adventure Comics #74, by Simon and Kirby featuring the "new" Sandman. Or Eerie #1, widely considered the first horror comic. Here's a look at these (not my copies!) Or I could do something else instead! This is a ghost story, but it also has a dream aspect to it as well, which is how I ended up with these two possibilities. So what do you guys think? What would like to see for the cover of Boy Comics #121? One of these? Something totally different? A brand new design instead of an homage? Let me know what you think!