Return...of the king? Sure, why not.

So, it's been awhile. Yeah...sorry about that. A new schedule and some new events (like going to Hawaii) threw off my equilibrium for writing. BUT, I have returned, with gusto! Or, well if not with gusto, at least with a bluster.

Let's get right to it. A lot's happened since I last checked in. A lot of it pretty trivial, like the situation with the NFL. Some it it fun, like the NCAA tourney starting (and even though I still have 7 of my 8 Elite Eight teams and all of my Final Four, I don't feel confident about that with the way things have been going). And some of it has been tragic, like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. I watched, as I'm sure many of you did, in horror as the footage from the quake itself came in and with the nuclear reactor scares, the whole thing is frightening on so many levels.

But to try and keep with the happy-go-lucky style of blog you, as readers, have come to expect I shall dive right back into the good stuff.

Since I've been gone a lot of my work has been published over at 8 days a geek, I trust you've all been keeping up with that via Twitter and/or Facebook but for those of you that are new to the blog or those that may have missed them, here ya go:

The first was Phonogram, which is a truly great British comic. I highly recommend it. The next was Blackburne Covenant, the first of my new style of article which includes picture inserts from the book as well as the introduction of my rating system based on a five-star scale. After that came Ultra which is a really good book. If you're a fan of digital art and have somehow missed this book, check out the article for a sneak peak and then I'm positive you'll want to run right out and pick it up. I followed that up by venturing into the dark side of Transformers and G.I. Joe in this Dreamwave production from the early nineties. The art is spectacular. Then I took a big step forward and ventured into mainstream with Superman: For All Seasons which takes a look at the man of steel from a new perspective. Next came my review of Random Encounter, the Viper Comic from a few years back. The guys over at Viper liked it so much they actually sampled it and put it up on their site! Check it out HERE. As you can see some of the coding got messed up in the transfer, but still...very cool! And last, but not least, my most recent article steps back into the mainstream with Marvel 1602. Alternate reality timestreams are fun! More to come! Bookmark the site, because aside from my awesome Bin Fodder featured articles going up every Friday, there's tons of other great stuff on the site!

Well now that I've overloaded you with information I feel obliged to just ramble for a bit and let all that soak in.

Spring is in the air, both metaphysically and actually (since it's after March 21st now). So what does Spring mean to you? I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

I started and completed a new script in the past two weeks (about 10 hours of total work put into it, mostly in two really long writing sessions). I like the idea a lot but I think the script needs some work. It's a first draft and I've turned it in to my editor so I should get some good feedback from him in the next couple days. There's also some really big things in the works, not specifically related to comics but definitely related to writing, stay tuned!

Let's see...what else. Well, C2E2 was this past weekend. Did you go? I didn't. For a couple reasons. First: with everything that's been going on I lost track of what weekend it was and timing just didn't work out. Secondly, because of the first part I never got around to getting my professional pass so I would have had to pay to get in...nuts to that! What's the bonus of being a published comic book writer if you can't reap the benefits. I would have liked to go; conventions are fun. BUT it will only inspire me more to go to Wizard World Chicago later this year and shop my wears...hopefully I'll have some wears to shop.

Ok...so at this point I've run out of things to say, or...at least, I've grown tired to rambling...for now. Don't worry, I'll be back soon and ramble some more!

Peace,

Tb