FOUR STORIES
3 Stars from Tony DiGeronlamo

A nice mini-comic anthology that features, in part, the art of Eric Adams from Lackluster World.

“Integral” is a short story about the father of a young girl that stops a mugging in a busy subway. He may or may not have superpowers ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú it’s unclear.

In “Passenger”, a man, depressed about his ex-girlfriend, dreams about her. The ex-girlfriend shows up in the dream to help the man.

In “Snowblind”, two co-workers drive down a snowy road after an office party and discover that their world is not what it seems.

In “Stuart”, illustrated by Adams, a friendly little self-sufficient boy wanders around a hospital doing good deeds.

The stories are short so telling you any more details would probably give them away.

“Passenger” was the only one I didn’t really get, but I didn’t mind at all. All in all, it’s a nice anthology and I would like to see more. There’s no price on this and that’s a shame. I wouldn’t mind paying a buck for it. Publishers, pleas price your comics, at least so we critics know what to tell people.

Copies of FOUR STORIES are still available. Email me or leave a comment if you’re interested.

First and foremost:

My bud, Chris Arrant, will be at the mega-enormous SAN DIEGO COMIC CON this week with copies of his freshly printed anthology book FOUR STORIES. Each self-contained story within is written by Chris and illustrated by a different artist: Matt Bayne, Jessica Hickman, Joanna Estep and myself.

I’ve already told you a little about the story I’ve illustrated, entitled STUART. Here’s the first page, unlettered.

Anyway, if you know Chris, find him on the floor of the show and he will hook you up with a copy. If you don’t know him, just wait, I should be receiving my own sample copies any day now.

You can get more info about FOUR STORIES from Chris’ website.

RELATED NOTE: I will NOT be at San Diego Comic Con.

Here is the first page, unlettered:

Babbling about comics, time and such behind this cut:
(And this cut thing is experimental, so let’s see if it works)

It took much longer than expected to finish the marker work on this story. It’s a big reminder that I’m out of practice and an even bigger reminder that LW#4 is still lying here waiting to be finished and that I need to get back to it. This 6-pager was the perfect warm-up.

It’s been like clockwork. Every time I’ve tried to get back into LW, I’ve been interrupted by client work and blown every release date I’ve announced for the past – jeezus YEAR. It’s discouraged me and as a result the art has just sat, untouched. There is clearly no way I can wrap it up and have it printed before HeroesCon, but there is still time before Chicago.

It won’t be easy. Other responsibilities are still in progress: continuing my Newsarama column, finishing the big LW web redesign, and then a few smaller things I’m not at liberty to discuss. Fortunately, work is slow. So, I’m taking two or three weeks off client work over the next six.

Arg, six weeks to Chicago. That’s not much time.

Living, eating, and breathing comics all day, every day for a six week period. I’ve done this before. I can do it again.

It’s strange. There is something enjoyable about putting myself through the trauma of sleep deprivation, the intense focus on a project, and racing to meet a difficult deadline. I guess it all comes down to one thing in the end – a feeling of accomplishment. Accomplishment is my crack.

Wish me luck in my coming zombietude.