Tuesday morning, 1LT Daniel Choi will face charges of "moral and professional dereliction" because he admitted that he's gay. In all likelihood, he'll be fired from the Army because he had the audacity to do what he was taught at West Point, ie, maintain his honor and refuse to lie.

The Courage Campaign is looking for 100,000 signatures in support of LT Choi prior to his trial. You can sign the petition here.

I've talked to Dan on several occasions. In fact, Dan was the primary resource for an upcoming Detective Comics issue. He is absolutely the kind of person we all should want wearing the uniform, representing and defending us. Losing him would be a crime.

Please consider adding your name and supporting him.

Starting at roughly 10 am and running until 5 or so, I'll be at Zeus Comics.

Been looking forward to this for a while, I have to admit. Visited the store yesterday, and it's a terrific space, one of the nicest I've been to, honestly -- up there with OCC, in my opinion. Never mind the fact that it's also the first "official" signing event surrounding the publication of Detective Comics #854.

Reviews of the book have been good, or so I'm told, and the feedback JH, Cully, and I have received is frankly overwhelming. I've said so before, but I'll say it again for good measure -- thank you to everyone who went out and snagged a copy and told their friends to snag a copy and so on and so forth.

That kind of push can make all the difference, and it is truly, and sincerely, appreciate by all of us.

In Dallas, and, uhm...it's insanely hot, and it's 11:30 at night, here. I can feel my pale and moldy PNW flesh already beginning to shrivel.

Be that as it may...some very, very nice words being said about today's issue of Detective Comics. Really wonderful that people are liking the work.

Talked to Cully this morning, and mentioned wanting to put up a Q wallpaper. Get to the hotel tonight, and lo and behold, he's emailed ( this )

Because Cully rocks.

Enjoy!

Detective Comics #854, today.

Douglas Wolk likes the issue. This makes me happy.

John Siuntres and I had a long chat a couple weeks ago. We talked about many things comics. You can get the pocast from John's blog site or from Newsarama.

And, because I like you all so very much, ( I made you this. )

Just completed -- and they've already posted! - an interview with Death Ray Weekly. Podcast is available at the site, if you're so inclined.

Detective Comics #854, featuring some red-haired chick and some other dame who's missing a face, this Wednesday.

Here's a little hype, courtesy of The Advocate.

I have been avoiding it. Like the fucking plague. Because, frankly, there's nothing so important in my life it has to be shared 24/7.

But I just picked this up from a friend I had back at Vassar, Mike Solomon, and I reprint here in entirety:

If you're on Twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians' access to the internet. Cut & paste & pass it on.

I am going to join Twitter now. So should you.

Edited to add: @ruckawriter, if you want to follow me there.

Long dry spell between updates, here. Been scrambling to get things in order for The Last Run, as well as the start of my Detective Comics run next week. Talked to JH3 on Tuesday during the long drive back down from the Third Place Books signing, and we're both, I think, in similar places with regard to the impending launch; we've been working on this thing for so damn long, its' hard for me to have any perspective, frankly. It will be interesting to hear what people have to say, to say the least.

Especially about the last page.

Whole new battery of signings coming up.

• June 26th, 7:30 at Legacy Books in Plano, TX.


• Big damn event at Zeus Comics in Dallas on the 27th, from 10 to 6, which is, yes, the whole day.


• Two events in Las Vegas on Saturday, July 11th, both with JH3 -- the first at Alternate Reality Comics, from 11 to 2, the second at Comic Oasis, from 4 to 7.


• Signing the following weekend, July 18th, at Olympic Cards and Comics in Lacey, on Saturday the 18th, from noon until around 5-ish. It is almost guaranteed that Eric Trautmann will be there, as well, so we can provide photographic evidence that we are not, in fact, the same person


• San Diego Comic-Con (schedule to be posted as it becomes available, and it's already filling up fast).

(And, as far as that "I'm not Eric/Eric is not I" thing goes, for the record, I'm not Keith Giffen, either. Not sure how that one started, but apparently there are people out there who suspect we're one and the same. It's easy to tell us apart. I'm the sane one.)

Was very pleased to see more information about Mass Effect 2 come out of this year's E3. For some reason I can't find a link to the video interview that Adam Sessler and Olivia Munn did with the BioWare heads, but G4 has posted more coverage here (though spoiler warnings should apply), and there's a video of gameplay available, as well. I'm optimistic about this game, especially after the brutal disappointment I suffered with Fallout 3, and yes, I know that for many, that's sacrilege. Sue me. Bethesda made a beautiful box and filled it with beautiful things. What they neglected to include was a story, and that's what I paid my money for. I am heartened that Oblivion is handlingFallout: New Vegas, as my faith in them in storytellers is pretty much neck-and-neck with BioWare--and given the pedigree between them, that's hardly surprising. My friend Morgan Wolfe sent me a link to a long interview GamaSutra conducted with Feargus Urquhart, who's work I've admired now for years. Interesting reading, for those of us who find this kind of reading, uh...well, interesting.

Tangent - Radiolab ran a fantastic story this past weekend about the (in)famous Welles adaptation of The War of the Worlds...and how people still fall for it to this day. The show is available as a download from the site, and definitely worth a listen, especially if you're a writer, I think. Mighty potent stuff, these words we use.

It's these words we use that've been giving me a headache recently, frankly, but that's another post....

There's a Whiteout trailer that's apparently making the rounds at the moment. It is not the official movie trailer, but rather the teaser that WB put together for San Diego the year before last. It's not bad, but it's not the trailer.

I have been told that, if you want to see the Official Whiteout Trailer, it will be shown before Orphan when the film is released.

More information as it comes to me.

That's tomorrow for you calendar-impaired hep-cats out there. I'll be at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, outside of Seattle, lurking the stacks as of around 6pm, and doing my one-man show from 7pm to 8pm. If you're in the Seattle area, I'd urge you to stop by -- Third Place is a fabulous bookstore, and it's becomes something of a traditional stop for me during my PNW walkabouts.

Will be posting more in the next few days -- lots of things to share, and a smattering of new appearances/signings leading up to the Madness That Is San Diego. If you're impatient, check out the Appearances page on my website.

Cheers!