Friday, November 7, 2008

"See! Now! Our sentence is up."

Hey guys,

I finally got to finish reading Grant Morrison's comic book epic The Invisibles this past week.

The series was very rewarding and while wanting to get to the end, it was a powerful enough saga to make me sad when I got to the end. There very likely will not be any more adventures for our favorite cell of freedom fighters. The sadness I felt when getting to the end and realizing that was almost like what I felt when I got to the end of Anne Rice's Memnoch the Devil. (You see, I thought there'd be no more adventures for Lestat and I actually cried because of it... Go ahead, laugh all you want. It's a great story and Rice actually tricks you into thinking Lestat is real in some parts...)

Anyway, that's off the subject at hand...

I realize that most of you who read this probably don't have the Invisbles on your bookshelves to go and pull off, so I'll use my trusty blog friend YouTube to post some vids of some artwork and such from the series to give you just a taste (that doesn't even scratch the surface) of the masterpiece that is the Invisibles...




A short, movie trailer-esque thingy





Miscellaneous art set to trippy dance/Eastern music





Cover art gallery





Ah well...

As I said guys, that's not even scratching the surface... Grant Morrison bascially took everything that he thought was cool and sunk it into this comic... In doing so, he churned out a magical masterpiece worthy of study, praise and repeat reads... Go check it out (with an open mind) if you're so inclined...

Until next time...

Peace...

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

MOB/ROBIN 2008



With all the hubbub about the election I thought I'd better "cast my vote"...



Art by Brian Bolland, The Invisibles (King Mob, Ragged Robin) created by Grant Morrison, published under DC's Vertigo imprint

Monday, November 3, 2008

Things du jour

Hey guys,

I typed that last post to let you know about the writing but then I got to thinking... "Man, there's been some cool stuff I've been taking in lately... I oughtta let 'em know..."

So, as before, a quick rundown of those things...

MUSIC

-THE BEATLES!!!

TV/DVD

-Heroes (Watching my DVDs of Season One after someone very special to me recommended the show... Pretty cool stuff...)

THINGS I'M READING

-The Invisibles (Yes, again!!! I just got the final volume for my birthday... I'm now about halfway through Kissing Mister Quimper... Wow, that sounded bad...)
-The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (A crazy book that touches on every conspiracy theory you've ever heard of...)



That's pretty much it, guys... If any of you want to rap about any of these things or anything else... HIT ME!!!

See ya next time... Peace...

Back in BLACK (Another little celebration...)

Hey Llog lovers...

My God... Did I just use the title of an AC/DC song to start a post about what I'm writing? My writing career is probably jinxed forever...

Anyway...

I've just finished the first draft of the script of issue #2 of the comic that I'm working on. It's called BLACK... (Yes, it has to be in all caps...)

I'll be sending it off to my resident readers that I've asked to take a look at it after I write the second draft. Don't worry all you guys that I've asked to read the thing, you've got some time...

Bascially, this post is just the Lloydster lettin' ya know what's goin' on with him right now... (Talking about myself in the third person, too... Man, I'm a rube!!!)

But anyway... Some of you guys are really behind me on this thing and it means the world to me. I just thought I'd check in with ya...

As always, feel free to comment (on anything) or let me know what's goin' on with you guys, as well..

Love and peace to all-a-y'all...

Damn, it feels good to be a writer (or a gangsta... However you roll, man, however you roll...)

Peace...