Your friend and mine, Zach Weiner, who you definitely know from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal,  has teamed up with Chris Jones to create Captain Stupendous.  It's his first book through a major publisher, and it'd be awesome if we could help make it a success.  If you like deconstructed superheroics, give Captain Stupendous a look.

At the moment, I'm putting together the packaging art for the box for PatchTogether's Robin DeSanto statue.  The statues are shipping out from the overseas factory tomorrow, with expected delivery at the end of the year or the beginning of next.  There's only 20 of these statues left unbought, so you'd better get on her before she's gone!

Next I need to figger out what Ethan's statue is gonna look like.

And finally, today Something Positive name-drops Roz, because the name on her birth certificate is actually "that crazy girl."

Robin may not be a winner in the polls, but this statue is friggin' triumphant, that's for sure.  I mean, I look at it, and I'm like holy crap.  And then I say holy crap like 30 more times.

Robin's statue is finalized, and so now that folks can see the final product, it means it's time to sell this thing hard.  Not that I think it'll be very difficult, looking at this thing!  I mean, dude.  But remember, once the preorder price ends, a batch of Robins are made, a very small handful of extras beyond the number preordered are produced, and then that's all the Robins ever forever.  So if you want to make sure you get one, you have to preorder one now.

I mean, seriously, dudes, look at this wonderful thing.

Robin's available for the special preorder price of $35.95 until next Wednesday, November 10! On Wednesday, she'll be $39.9

Whoa, dudes, it's the first pass on colors for Patch Together's Robin statue!

You know, my wife keeps saying that this is totally the best statue Patch Together has done for me so far, and I think I agree.  Robin really comes alive in 3D.

Now, there's still some small things here and there that I want to change before I give my final approval, but I wanted to share this image with you anyway.

The Robin statue is currently up for preorder, and if you preorder one before it goes into production, you get a sweet lower price!

Check it out!  (And preorder here.)

Unlike with Amber and Mike, I only required one revision on Robin's sculpt.  Patch Together's sculpting team gets better with each figure!  And I just wanted her hands bigger.  Now that they're fixed, I feel okay just showin' you the whole dang statue.

I've already sent off the pantones for her colors, so hopefully soon I'll be able to troubleshoot those with Patch Together until they're perfect and then we'll be able to show you the completed statue.

But until then, keep those preorders coming in!  Robin's $5 off the final price until the preorder period is over.  Don't miss your window!  Preorder her today!

With Mike's statue dealt with, it's time to turn our attention back to the next Shortpacked! statue!  Check out this preview of Robin here on the left.  She's still being finalized, but I wanted to share a sneak peek anyway.

Robin's in the preorder stage, meaning you can grab her for $5 off the full price.  If you're on the fence, now is better than later to decide!

Just got back from Scott Pilgrim. Have a statue preorder.

I get on a plane this afternoon for San Diego, because there's some sort of convention there that I need to be at.  It's full of people, most of the dressed as the Joker, and their Twilight panels can be heard from space.  It's Comic-Con San Diego, the con so huge it might kill you!  Over and over.  In fact, I've been dead for years.

I've got a bunch of stuff for you this year.  Book 3, of course!  That's new!  And I've still got Roomies! Book 1 and Shortpacked! Book 2.  And if my memory serves me correctly, I left a handful of Shortpacked! Book 1s in Maggie's closet in her/our parents' home, so I'll have those to sell for the first fifteen minutes or so of Wednesday.  They're all I have left.  If you want one you better be first in line!

And there's the bumper sticker and the magnet and the "Brings Back the Eighties" poster!  Oh, and something new I'm trying are Sketch Cards!  You can see a batch of them in the image on the left.  They look super pretty, if I may say so myself.

I am going to see SO MANY OF YOU this week!  I'm excited!   I expect to be super energized by your presence.

Right before crashing from exhaustion on the way home.

I mentioned Tuesday that the Mike statue is getting ready to ship.  (You can still order one, apparently!)  Like for Amber, I've designed Mike a sticker to be put on the face of his box.   This is it!

Click the image and see it.

Man, I can't wait to get mine in my hands!  My Mike statue.  "Get mine in my hands" sounds kind of, uh, questionable out of context.  Even in context, a little!

Next up is gonna be Robin.  Gonna have to draw up some sketches.

I'm determined to get two books out this year.  Shortpacked! Book 3 is the preorder everyone should be familiar with by now, but Roomies! Book 2 better be out by the end of this year, too!  It's faaarr too soon to solicit it, since SP!B3 is still in production, but not too soon to finish putting it together.  An idea for the cover hit me last night, and no sooner than this afternoon I had it completed to my satisfaction.

Take it in.

Also, I was sorely in need of some freebies to hand out at C2E2, so I designed and ordered some double-sided bookmarks.  There's a strip on each side - my recent Skeletor/Luthor team-up strip for ToyNewsI seemed suitable, and of course you gotta have Batman DDR on there, so I cropped it down into the requisite number of panels to fit.  I'll be handing these out at Penguicon this weekend.  A huge purpose of convention-attending I've been neglecting is the romancing of new readers.  This'll help me fix that.  (If you're already a reader, you're still, of course, allowed to grab one.)

Since the new site went live, one of its most awesome features is the ability to order prints of individual strips simply by clicking the $ icon below each strip.  Ha ha ha, so obviously the first one that got bought was Mike's freaky smile creep show.  This is great, because I had to take this file into the print shop and have them give me strange looks as it comes up on the screen and again out of the printer.  How much is my dignity worth?  Apparently $10 and shipping.