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TIME CORPS #21
Many years ago, I was contracted to write 12 and a half issues of this fun science fiction comic book, and now, my run is three issues from completion.
The Time Corps is an extradimensional organization charged with keeping weird things from popping up in the timestream -- dinosaurs at the Super Bowl, astronauts in the Arthurian castle, stuff like that. When I wrote this, I had not seen the first episode of Loki but I did have a pretty strong background in pop culture time travel stuff. The Time Corps, ironically, is based on an old TTRPG concept of a hierarchy of divine powers working together to administrate the universe. The brilliant mind of publisher Nate Wunderman saw this as an corporate structure -- directors and politics and what have you, all running a group of field agents plucked from the moment of their death. If they had not done enough good or enough bad to earn a "final disposition,"" according to their own belief system, they could earn an a fate more befitting them. I ran with it and his team in the 2003 Venice Beach substation and it gets intense. Here's a preview from this issue ...
Time Corps #21 is available now from Amazon, Google Play, Global Comix, DriveThru Comics, and Kobo
The Sundering
I've asked my dear friend Quinn McGowan to step into the world of the Zwari Nation and wow, has he been hitting it out of the park. I'll offer you a sneak preview of some of the personalities and items you'll see in the next edition of The Sundering from Laguna Studios ... as soon as I finish writing it (I'm about 65% done).
BLEEDING COOL? KQBH? NERD-O-RAMA?
For 19 years, with only two breaks, I reviewed comic books: first for Comic Book Resources, then for Bleeding Cool. On a random Wednesday in May of 2022, I just didn't. One week became three. Three weeks became two months. Two months became eight. I tried to write one, went to post it, and had been locked out of the site for inactivity. "I'll ask them to unlock me," I said. Three months later, I hadn't remembered to. I didn't plan to retire at nineteen years, but I think my life did it for me.
I loved doing my show on KQBH, but it didn't seem like I was growing an audience nor did it seem as worthwhile after Mixcloud cut off how many shows could be posted. Even being on FM radio in Los Angeles has its costs, in terms of time and focus. I think I just wanna mix for myself and very rare special events (I'm doing a wedding in February).
Tawala and Mo are some of my favorite people in the world, but all of us had a somewhat similar feeling with the Buy Pile on Nerd-O-Rama. Was it connecting? Were people engaging with the work? If not, why do it?
I'm still writing comics (new War Medicine is coming this year), I'm running paid Dungeons & Dragons games now, I'm feeling a lot of love from the TTRPG space ... I'm very happy with who I am and what I'm doing, so I'm gonna do that. Speaking of ...
GIRL, BYE!
I've got a grillion things going on, but that's what's up right now. Happy Kwanzaa! Oh, or if you celebrate something else, enjoy that as well!