Coming Soon: Kill All Monsters!

As FallCon was approaching, I mentioned that there was something I wanted to tell you guys, but was waiting for an official announcement first. I like waiting for official announcements because then I don't look silly later on if something goes wrong and the project never takes off. Even though I'm 100% confident that the giant monsters vs. giant robots webcomic that Jason Copland and I have created will be coming soon to a computer monitor near you, I still didn't want to say anything here until the good folks at Review 2 A Kill, the website that's hosting us, did first.

But...I got all excited and wanted something to talk about at FallCon, so I made some flyers and passed them out at the show, saying that the webcomic would launch on 5 November. As you're undoubtedly noticing, that's today, but we're not quite ready to launch. This is nobody's fault; it's just technical difficulties. We're the first webcomic that Review 2 A Kill has hosted and they want it to look snazzy. It's my fault for printing a release date when it hadn't been announced yet.

But since I did - and since some of you got a flyer and may be wondering what's going on - I figured it's time to at least bring everyone else up to speed on what I've been hinting at. Jason's been talking about it on his blog anyway (and sharing art; go look!), so it's safe enough.



Without making any more promises about the launch date, here's a brief summary of what the comic's going to be about:

In Kill All Monsters! the giants have already won. It's a post-apocalyptic setting in which the world has been completely overrun by giant monsters. Pockets of humanity are hiding and surviving as best they can, but no one's found an effective way to defeat the beasts...until now. Operating out of a hidden temple deep in the jungle, the African Defense Force has created a small until of giant mechs, operated by an international team of the best pilots humanity has to offer. The story begins with the unit's first trip out of their home continent as they try to assess some of the damage done to Europe. What they learn there is even more terrifying than they imagined.

That's all I'll say for now except that we'll be squeezing in a lot more than just giant monsters and robots.  We'll also have mutant animal-people, barbarians, and secret societies of mad scientists, so keep your eyes here for more information about the launch date and watch Jason's blog for more preview art. This is going to be fun.

Remember, Remember...

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd (or by God's mercy*)
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Hulloa boys, Hulloa boys, let the bells ring.
Hulloa boys, hulloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!

Arts Show: Dreamers' Tales

Conan



By John Buscema. [The Pictorial Arts]

We would gallop through Africa



By Sidney Sime. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Just how sincere was that pumpkin patch?

Maybe we're just slow, but Diane finally realized this year why the Great Pumpkin passed Linus by. Just how sincere is a pumpkin patch with a privacy fence?

Pass the Comics: Let'r go!

Raiders of the Lost Ark



Chuck Forsman's selling a print that re-imagines Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Popeye-style comic strip from the '30s. [/Film]

Batman



Colleen Coover made the coolest Batman comic strip ever.

Art Show: Sleuths, Psychos, and Superheroes

Muppet Adventure of the Final Problem



By George O'Connor.

Psycho



By Brent Schoonover.

Black Canary



Much better pictures of Meagan Vanburkleo's Black Canary costume than the ones I posted from FallCon.

Land of the Lost: Season Three (Episode Nine: Abominable Snowman)

Season One: Part One, Two, and Three.
Season Two: Part One and Two.
Season Three: Part One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Eight.

Episode 9: “Abominable Snowman”

The Land of the Lost gets wackier and wackier. In this episode, Will and Jack find a unicorn in the jungle and bring it back to Holly as a pet. When Enik wanders by the temple and sees it though, he warns the Marshalls that its presence is bad news. He says that it comes from the Land of Snow and is game for a creature called Tapa. Enik speculates that the recent earthquakes have opened a passage between the Land of Snow and the rest of the Valley. He’s also quite sure that the Tapa will come searching for the unicorn, bringing devastation with him.

Jack and Will are oddly unconcerned. They’ve given the animal to Holly and aren’t interested in taking it back. They say that if Enik wants Holly to get rid of it, he can ask her himself. Enik angrily agrees, but by the time he finds Holly, the unicorn has already gone missing.

Holly and Cha-Ka are franticly looking for it and aren’t attracted to Enik’s offer of a jeweled toad if they’ll forget about the pet. “I’ve heard toads give you warts,” Holly says, “and I don’t care to find out for sure.” I suspect that’s Holly’s sense of humor talking and not genuine belief in the old wives’ tale, but it’s still a weird response.

Yeti unicorn-ranchers, after the break.

Art Show: Dinosaurs love princesses

Jungle Girl



By Mihail Petrov.

In a pinch, Triceratops will eat your head



By Jacob Barss-Bailey. [Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs]

Happy Daniel Boone Day

Daniel Boone was born on this day in 1734. Though he actually preferred beaver-skin caps to raccoon and would be 276, if he was alive today he'd still be the rippinest, roarinest, fightinest man the frontier ever knew.

Incidentally, cheerleading was also invented this day in 1898 at the University of Minnesota. See how cool Minnesota is?



Image ripped off from The Resurrection Hub.

Penelope Cruz in Pirates 4

It's weird not having to do a daily "31 Things" post anymore. For one thing, I don't have content preplanned for the next month, so I've got to think of new things every day. And when I'm behind on checking art blogs like I am, that can be difficult.

So today: how about a photo of Penelope Cruz in costume for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides? Schockya has a couple more in addition to this one.

And as long as I'm thinking about last month's Halloween countdown, many thanks again to John Rozum and the rest of the Countdown to Halloween folks for spearheading that month-long celebration. It was a lot of fun.

Political ads on this blog

Following the wisdom of Linus, I work hard to keep this site free of religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin. I've noticed though that Google's chosen to rotate some political ads through (not all of which are for people who'll be getting my vote) and I've struggled with what to do about that.

Where I've come out on it is to let the ads run with the following disclaimer: I'm endorsing no political candidates on this blog. Please vote, but vote your conscience. If you live in Minnesota and need help deciding who to vote for, I highly recommend Minnesota Public Radio's Select a Candidate survey.