TWO FISTED HOMEOPAPE September/27 - The Unstable Fluid of Time
The EVERFROST TPB is coming! Preorder yours now!
♫ I applied for a rescue dog,
But if I get you dog,
You're rescuing me ♫
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2021 -- beyond.
THE EVERFROST TPB IS COMING.
Gonna run a huge hype train for this. The aim is to make this my biggest tpb launch yet. Just gotta figure out exactly how to do that.
Sami and I asked for it to land in December, which is a quick tpb turnaround, because we believe it’s an awesome holiday gift, as well as just our best comic yet.
If you’re a trade waiting Homeopape reader, now’s your time to preorder this baby through your LCS.
In the coming weeks, I’ll round up some quotes, some review links, and I’m gonna push this one hard. I am very excited to get to the point of another tpb launching for me. Always an exciting time to know you close out on another story.
I was also chatting with my wife and she had asked if the EVERFROST #1 launch had been a success, and I replied, “Ehhh, yeah, mostly.” She then asked me which single issue launch had been the highest selling, and I said EVERFROST #1. At which point she looked at me like I was crazy, and I most likely am. The thing is, I wanted just a little bit more success. I think I always will. So I’m doing the same with this one, I just need a firm number on what I think this new success will look like.
While I do all the behind-the-curtain maths on this, you just do one thing: preorder the book to finally buy and read for yourself, or for you to give someone else for the holiday season.
Thanks.
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Time slows down.
It’s been a week of holidays. Very lazy times, but mostly also busy. Time becomes an unstable fluid in these times.
The writing itself has slowed down. I’m not grinding away at a script this week. But I have been prepping the EVERFROST tpb, and watching more Louie Joyce art roll in for our OGN, and doing more little stuff for SPEED REPUBLIC’s launch for next year, and thinking about SHE Vol. 2, and letting my brain tinker with the story of [THE BLUEPRINT PROJECT] behind the scenes on other work because I know I’ve got a great hook for this, and the general structure is load-bearing, and now I just need to thread it all together. Why my story process takes years to neatly map things together, I will never know, but I know I need the juice percolated in my brain juuuuuuust right before I can cook with it.
I’m doing most of that thinking while I tinker on a D&D zine I’m putting together that I want to run for ZineQuest on Kickstarter next year. This is an education based-themed zine, so it’s a fun one, *and* one I can use for work, too.
Beyond that, I wrote many thousands of words in school report stuff this past week, so I need to forgive my brain for being fried.
I mean, I won’t forgive it, hahahahahaha, you’ve all been here long enough to know that. I’m obviously going to berate myself for not having my next project up and running and ready to write, but by now that kind of goes without saying, I think.
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ASD&D.
Played again last week. Managed to wild shape into a crocodile with the aim of wearing the dead body of a tempest beast as a kind of cloak in order to fool the enemy into thinking I was indeed that beast. Loved it to much, when the charade was over, I skinned the beast and made myself a fancy cape out of its skin. Looks superfly and give me extra AC when attacked from behind.
So far my druid character now has spider-web crystal boots, and a scaled cape. She’s also dead, at present, as my HP sucks due to a life of hard living while undercover and a negative 1 constitution modifier. This is the 3rd time I’ve died. I think I’ll be fine. Maybe.
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PERHAPS YOU'D CARE TO SAMPLE
Why sci fi and noir work so well together - wow, this sums up why I love these two, separate and together. Both look at lead characters taking on the system. In noir, crime usually goes all the way up to the top, and in sci fi, the world is often corrupt or broken. Usual crime stories will look at cops catching criminals, noir shows you the cops are dirty, too. Sci fi brings about dystopias, entire societies destroyed from the pinnacle and trickling down.
I like to write about people fighting against a system, a sea of iniquity, and now I get why a sci fi/noir hybrid has always worked for my writing and my reading. I just never saw it put so clearly before. The more you know.
Matt Fraction on the Kingcast talking THE DRAWING OF THE THREE - just inject it straight into my veins. Also: he has a take on King writing the three doors/characters that Roland meets, and Roland himself, that I thought was very insightful and intriguing.
A short profile on Edwin Torres - the guy who wrote the novels behind CARLITO’S WAY, a De Palma gangster flick that I absolutely fell in love with in the 90s. It’s such a masterpiece. I think I own a double-bill paperback of the novels, will have to try and dig it out.
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GRIST FOR THE MILL
FRANKENSTEIN - I’m into the home stretch on this one. It’s...very interesting. Not what you think it is based on cultural knowledge of the monster, or vague memories of the movies. It reminds me of MOBY DICK in that it’s dry in places, but the plot structure holding it all together is a ripping yarn. No idea why it starts so dry, but the monster stuff around the ¾ mark is fairly popping for me.
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Be one of the good guys, because there's way too many of the bad.
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POST CREDITS SEQUENCE
Okay, you’re a good person for getting down here, have some B&W Louie Joyce art as a treat:
This book is going to be one of the most emotionally satisfying books to complete, but also one of the most gorgeous.
I don't have much else to add this week other than sci-fi and noir are probably my favorite two genres as well. You pointed out good reasons for that to be the case. I'll have to read the full article and get into it more.
Have you consumed THE EXPANSE in any version? I've seen the first season on PRIME. I need to read the books and watch the rest. I really enjoyed it for what it is.
T-MOBILE sent us a code for free APPLE TV+ for a year this past week as well so at the moment THE FOUNDATION is top of my watch list.
I really enjoyed the Patreon flash fiction piece you sent out earlier. I'll have to come up with the $3 to get a copy of the book.
Maybe I had more than I thought to add. Have a phenomenal week and keep being awesome dude! 🙌🍻🔥