Hammertime!

The Hammer is up at ComiXology!

Here's a celebratory sketch:

Monday Round-Up

Good day, Untrue Believers!

A new week rolls in and we roll out the goodies!

The Hunter II page 23























Kung Fu Monkeyface page 7























And coming to ComiXology this Wednesday - The Hammer returns for a victory lap 'round the web!























I'm headed off to the land where titans clash for a couple of weeks of ocean and Ouzo, so no new Untrue updates until September. Keep your eye on the Monkeybunnyüberblog though for new goodies whilst I am away.

Enjoy the rest of August!

Hardcore

It's Friday! The gateway to the weekend!

Thought today we'd give you a sneak peek at page one of a little project in the works: HARDCORE

Hardcore is a comic I'm doing with Spencer Platt creator of Agent Happy Death and Dollface, among other things. I'm writing and coloring, Spencer is handling the line art. The story follows Flint "Hardcore" Wupaski, cop with an attitude, as he goes about his over-the-top 80s action-movie business. This thing started out as another 8 page Zuda pitched but poor Zuda went the way of the dodo before we were finished, so I wrote up another 8 pages to turn it into a done-in-one short story. Not entirely sure what we'll do with it when it's done, but gee, I guess we'll think of something.

Y'know, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Coloring is hard. I swear it takes me longer to color a page than it takes me to draw one. I don't know how the colorists in the comic biz do it. Much respect.

Have a good weekend!

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Monday goings-on

Good morning virtual world!

Here's the scoop and the skinny on all things Untrue:















Hunter II page 22






















Kung Fu Monkeyface page 6

And the news of the day: The Hammer will be launching on ComiXology and the DC Comics App on August 25th. The first issue is free, so mark your calendas in Pink and get on board for the big ol' bunny reunion.























Have a great week!

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Thought I'd post the line art for that Deadly pin-up I did.
Just because.























Deadly issue 2 is out now on Comixology.
I really like that comic.
I may have mentioned that a time or two.
I may very well mention it again.
That's just how I roll.

Lothar the Mindkiller

Gee, I almost forgot...

I have a new comic too.


Check out Lothar here.

Licked

Check out Joshua Tyler and James (Deadly) Fosdike's new comic just out now: Licked

It's wicked cool.

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New Week. New Stuff.

Round and round it goes!

What's new this week:






















The Hunter II page 21

















Kung Fu Monkeyface page 5

Add howsabout some fan art for
Sean Causley's Panda Force?
























Panda Force is some fun stuff. Always good to see fellow former Zudites making their own way in the rough and tumble world of webcomics.

Abraham's Long Walk

Good morning internet.

Today we're serving up yet another rejected entry from the long lost land of Zuda.
















Abraham's Long Walk

Words by me, pictures by Gabe Ostley and color by Steve Steiner.

This one was originally a part of me and Gabe's submission for a Zuda anthology series - Bizarre Mysteries of Zuda. Needless to say, it didn't pan out.

Here's a look at the half-finished intro panel we'd worked out for this one:


















Have a good ol' day now, hear?

Comics I've read lately

So comics. What's good these days?

Well, I just read a couple of Batman Books by Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen. Private Casebook and Heart of Hush.

These are the best Batman stories I've read in a long while. Cool, clever, mostly stand-alone stories that you can enjoy without having to read a million other books. Great art from Nguyen too. I'd like to see him do a whole graphic novel in the style that he does those Batman covers. I think I heard something about Dini doing a new Zatanna series too. I just might have to pick that up too.

You know what else I like? Oddly enough, Peter David's

X-Factor.

Again I like that it mostly stands alone and I can enjoy the stories while only being vaguely aware of the larger continuity goings-ons. David really seems to have an interesting take on Jamie Madrox. He's turned this guy into a really cool and complex character. And I like what he's done with Layla Miller too. Fun, old school book.

Warren Ellis is a writer who rarely lets me down as a reader. The latest from him is No Hero with Juan Jose Ryp.

Another superhero deconstruction tale, it's good ultraviolent fun in the same vein as Black Summer. Some nice twists and turns and fabulous hyper-detailed art from Ryp. Here's a dude that just keeps getting better and better. I really dig the famous cover homages in this book too.

I also checked out Ellis' first Astonishing X-Men arc

Ghost Box.

I thought this was just OK. Gorgeous art by Simone Bianchi, but I wasn't blown away by the story. I thought Whedon's run was the best since the original Claremont/Byrne days, so maybe this just had too much to live up to. I'll be picking up the next collection from Ellis and... did he do an arc with Phil Jimenez? Or is the latest thing with Kaare Andrews the next arc? Unsure. But I like Ellis' X-Men enough to pick up the next collection when it comes out in paperback.

Bye for now!

Deadly hits Comixology

Hey ho how does it go?

One of my absolute Zuda favorites hits Comixology today.

Check out James Fosdike's Deadly!

Did up some fan art in hizzoner:

Go get 'em, Foz!

Movies I done seen in July

Seen some good movies recently.

How come I barely heard anything about Solomon Kane?

This is an awesome, kick-ass, old school sword and sorcery movie. Mark Anthony from the equally awesome Rome series plays the titular Robert E. Howard puritan swordsman. And he's terrific. The movie is Kane's origin story - how he goes from evildoer to God's warrior. The sword fights are bloody and brutal. The supporting characters are vivid and sympathetic. And the bad guys are wicked cool looking. The ending's a bit predictable, but that's just the way these kinds of movies are. It's not quite as bone-grindingly awesome as Arnold's Conan the Barbarian, but it's pretty close.

Finally saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

I quite liked this one. Christopher Plummer is great. It does suffer a bit from the missing Heath Ledger bits. You can see how they tried to work around it, but it's really just distracting. What a shame. Otherwise, it's pretty much your classic Gilliam oddity that I really dig. But the CGI often seems to mesh awkwardly with the more practical stuff. I prefer the old-timey effects from Gilliam. His worlds looked so cool and dirty and real in Munchausen and Brazil and Time Bandits, but it loses it's realness a bit with the CGI in this one. Interesting to see Andrew Garfield at work here, as he's since been hired as the new Spider-man. After watching him do his thing, I'd say he's actually close to perfect for Peter Parker. So that's something to look forward to.

What else? Grown-Ups with Adam Sandler and friends was pretty funny. No classic, but diverting enough. The Ghost Writer started out strong but ends up a bit ridiculous. Entertaining if you don't think too much about it. Youth in Revolt was OK. Michael Cera does his thing. I like that thing, but it's charm is probably going to wear off pretty soon. The Bounty Hunter was garbage. Gerard Butler needs to not do any more romantic comedies. And Jennifer Aniston needs to concentrate on small supporting roles in quirky independent films. Those are the only kind of movies she's ever remotely interesting in.

So there you have it. Or revore!

Books by the Cold Pool

I like to read books. I read a whole bunch of 'em whilst I was vacationing by the Cold Pool as it is always and forever referred to in my house. It's not in my house, mind you. Or even at my house. I don't have a pool. The Cold Pool is in Vegas. And I like it there. Here's a picture of the Cold Pool.

Those are my hideous feet.

So one of my absolute favorite things to do is to sit by the Cold Pool and read books in between getting in and out of the Cold Pool. This summer I read all the rest of Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt vampire detective novels.

There are 5 books in all and I found them to be immensely entertaining, although not quite as hardcore cool as Huston's Jim Thompson trilogy (Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things, and A Dangerous Man). It's good old fashioned pulp with a nifty vampire twist. I like the fact that it's a finite series and that each book builds off the previous one and keeps tweaking the status quo. And Huston's got a great ear for hardboiled tough talk. Really ugly book covers though.

The other book I read by the Cold Pool is Game Change by a couple of political writers from Time and Newsweek or something.

I don't generally read political books that aren't written by Al Franken, but this book was fascinating. It's a behind the scenes look at the 2008 presidential primary and general elections. The book follows the Obamas, the Clintons, The Edwardses and the McCains (and to a lesser extent the Palins) from before the first primary right on through to election day. Everybody comes out pretty bad except the Obamas. I was really surprised at the extent of some of the revelations in this thing. Apparently, Bill Clinton has never really stopped fooling around. Everybody knows it's going on and just kind of ignores it. Him and Hillary have a really weird relationship. There's mutual respect and affection there, but they seem to do a lot of staying the hell out of each other's way and communicating via intermediaries. The McCain's relationship isn't much better. Affairs all around. And interesting to see just how completely half-assed his campaign really was. Edwards, it turns out, is just batshit crazy and completely out of touch with reality. The chapters dealing with him and his wife and his hair are jaw-droppingly hilarious. And a tad scary, when you think how close to high office this nutbag was. Nothing new about Palin here really, since all her nuttiness was pretty much on display and picked apart by the press while the world watched in horror. Only the Obamas come off smelling all daisylike. The one sort of negative thing is that the guy seems too have almost too much self-confidence. He does really kind of like himself a lot. But gee, I'd like myself too if I was that cool. Anyway, good book. Easy read by the Cold Pool. My girl liked it too and she's a dang foreigner.

Go on and get readin' something then!

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More Things and Stuff

Yello.

So here's a thing:

The Hunter II page 20

And here's some stuff:

Kung Fu Monkeyface page 4

Seeya!