The Whiteout trailer -- the official one! -- is now online. Those with interest, please examine below the cut.

( Whiteout trailer! )

And then there's this preview of Detective Comice #855, on sale a week from today. Spoiler warnings if you don't want the ending of #854 ruined!

SDCC starts in earnest for me tomorrow, with The Day from Hell. I am guaranteed to make only one of my scheduled events on time, that being the first one, the Superman panel with myself, James Robinson, Sterling Gates, Geoff Johns, Matt Idelson, and others, at 11:45 am, in room 6DE.

As others pointed out in my previous schedule post, I neglected to include A Darker Shade of Ink, discussing noir and crime comics, at 2pm tomorrow, in room 5AB. Thank you to those who pointed out the omission.

Let the wild rumpus begin!

Just a reminder that I'll be signing at Olympic Cards and Comics in Lacey, WA, tomorrow, from noon until roughly five pm. Ostensibly, this is a Detective Comics signing, but a visit to OCC is always more than that -- and I understand Gabi's come up with some goodies for the event!

Hope to see (some) of you there!

The last of the Detective 854 signings is this Saturday at Olympic Cards and Comics, in Lacey, WA, from noon to five. My favorite store in the WHOLE wide world, even if it happens to be the terrain marked by my partner in many crimes, Eric Trautmann.

Take a look at this:





Yes, that's right! A Stumptown t-shirt! Matthew Southworth and I will be giving away 50 of them as a promotion at the Oni Press panel on Thursday at the con. Perfect for the cynic, romantic, or dogged PI in your life!

Great little interview with JH3 at CBR.

And yes, he really is that nice. Considering also that he is that good, it's potentially appalling!

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.

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. )

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.

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....

Or Batwoman, for the rest of you.

Over at Newsarama. It is, in my opinion, a good interview.

You remember that Batwoman design sheet I posted glimpses of way back when?

Well, the whole thing is up over at The Source.

And it's a nice, big graphic, too, so you can pour over every detail.

Oh! And there's the psychedelic cover to Detective Comics 855 up there, too!

Cheers!