Newsletter #36: Seven Hours Of My Voice And Face

No wonder I keep blowing my fucking deadlines

First of all, let me congratulate America on another straight-forward and smooth election process. The world truly holds you up as the gold standard.

THANK YOU

Wait … you’re American?

YES

But … you’re me. And I’m Canadian.

BUT I’M THE YOU THAT SPEAKS WITH PERCEIVED AUTHORITY, SO

Huh. Weird.

Anyway, what a time to be alive!

Speaking of being alive! A new issue of STILLWATER is out today!

AMAZING SEGUE, CANADIAN

Thank you.

This issue gets in deeper with our core cast and introduces my favourite character, Mrs. Lillow! We learn a lot about how things work in the town, and it all looks so goddamned good thanks to Ramon and Mike. Honestly? You should buy it. Here’s a preview!

LOOKS GOOD

Um, YEAH. It IS good.

You know what’s not good? Me. And my voice. And I guess my face as I grow my beard back. But wouldn’t you know it? It’s popped up a bunch in the last little while. And if weak-chinned, nasally white men are your fetish? Well, baby, get ready for a FEAST!

First, our good friend Ken Plume has a two-part SEX CRIMINALS WRAP-UP interview with me and Matt.

The first part is about the entire series up to issue 30:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/sex-criminals-42222089

And the second part is us looking back now that it’s done:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/sex-criminals-43255432

If you were a fan of the series, then this is our big discussion about, well, everything. It’ll be fun! It’s just, uh, three hours long.

Next! My good friend Chip Mosher interviewed me for the virtual THOUGHT BUBBLE show! It’ll only be 37 minutes of your life and has the best, low angle, double chin visual of my new face!

And also for THOUGHT BUBBLE, I got to play my first-ever full-on RPG with my good friends in comics and also Ed Brubaker! Kieron “It’ll Be Fun I Promise” Gillen arranged a very special game around his comic/RPG/lifestyle DIE, and it was actually quite fun. I played comic fan Gary Nutfluff and I’ve never felt more alive tbh:

What’s that? You want more? Well, boy oh boy you’re in luck! Cause here’s two more fuckin’ hours of me talking!

Unbelievable.

IT IS … A LOT

It really is. You know who doesn’t talk all the fucking time? Marvel Comics™ writer Ed Brisson. He’s cool, calm and a man of few words. So, unlike with me, when he talks, people listen. Right now he’s launching his first Kickstarter for his OGN with Lisandro Estherren called CATCH & RELEASE: A MURDER BOOK STORY, and if you’re keen on crime, or crime comics, this is one to back.

So, hey! Check it out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/linneycomics/murderbook

OKAY I WILL

Great!

Oh! And I almost forgot! LORDS OF EMPYRE is out today! Collecting a bunch of the one-shots from the Marvel Event™, this volume has the wonderful Emperor Hulkling story that Anthony Oliveira wrote, with amazing art by Manuel Garcia, Cam Smith and Triona Farrell! I “co-wrote” it, but really that means I just watched Anthony write a perfect story while stood around cursing his talent. Go get it!

And that’s it for me this week! I’ll leave you with these: t-shirts I was going to sell at conventions for some comic characters gone too soon.

Bye.