The first issue of my End of Nations mini-series from DC Comics when on sale last week. You can get it on your iOS device or online from both Comixology and the DC Comics site.

Issue #0, which was given away as a free premium at San Diego Comic Con 2010 is also available as a free download, so you can get a taste of the world of End of Nations before committing to a purchase.

Issue #0 features the artwork of my friend Cully Hamner on the cover and the super talented Yvel Guichet on panels. The regular series switches to Chris Sprouse on covers.

Go grab your copy now. Who doesn’t like free comics?

Lots of very cool toys for the kiddies this year. My faves are these baby vampire “vamplets”, some really amazing Punch and Judy like puppets, and some plushies that have emotional challenges like frustration and indecision. Accompanying books show how they work through their issues. Brilliant.

And of course been promoting Alganon, which is why I came in the first place. Me and Derek Smart, guy who runs Alganon, at the bottom.

DC did an outstanding job with the transfer and the guided panel view is really fun.

If you haven’t downloaded the apps, do it now and check out Alganon. Good read and it is free, yo!

Until today. Got a box in the mail filled with RE trades! It was fun going back through and re-reading it after such a long hiatus. The art work by Kevin Sharpe and Jheremy Raapack really is awesome.

I’ve always had sort of a morbid fascination with death. Not the gross, dead body, kind of death, but the iconography and subtext of death. In college, my second video project was a pseudo-documentary shot with real footage of behind the scenes mortuary action. I have skeleton tattoos. Like I said, iconography.

My new comic script let me play with that, just a little. Not sure who the artist will be yet but am super excited to see who it might be.

Resident Evil #6

It was a December to Dismember for me. The final, bloody issue of my Resident Evil series finally hit shelves, as did the spine tingling finalé of Telara Chronicles.

I actually started working on the Resident Evil book back in September of 2008, if you can believe it. First issue was released in March 2009 with art by Kevin Sharpe, who I really enjoyed working with. Starting with Issue 3, where the lives of the two main characters Holiday Sugarman and Mina Gere finally converged, Jheremy Raapack took over the artistic duties. I also really enjoyed working with him. The switch in art style took the book in a very different direction, but it kind of worked because the story moved from a sterile space station (Mina) and an Afghanistan like desert canyon (Holiday) to the steamy jungles of South America where zombies are running riot. Changing the artist reinforced the change in locales and the increasingly dire situation our heroes found themselves in. Now, more than two years later, the final issue is out. Going back and reading the whole series is almost like reading someone else’s work.

Telara Chronicles #4

Telara Chronicles was a very different experience. Instead of waiting, waiting, waiting, it was HURRY! HURRY! HURRY! Especially for story artist Pop Mhan, who I ABSOLUTELY LOVED collaborating with and is working on Ender’s Game now. The Zero issue for SDCC ’10 was on an amazingly short time table. And once we moved from the Zero issue to the mini-series, things didn’t let up. We (art, edit, color, letters) were literally getting things in at the last possible minute. But I have to hand it to the folks over at Wildstorm, they know their stuff and can work a deadline. My editor over there, Jim Chadwick, is a peach. Hard working dude who made every step of the process as easy as it possibly could be. Of course, I can’t talk about Telara Chronicles without mentioning my dear friend Joel Gomez, who did the back up stories. We have been trying to find a project to work together on for evar! Finally did and he really did an awesome job.

The trade edition of Telara Chronicles will be out soon as well, bundling all 5 issues (Zero through 4) into a single book. Looking forward to that. But the edition I am most looking forward to will be included in the RIFT Collector’s Edition game box. It is a hardback that also includes all five issues. But it’s a hardback. Come on. You know that’s kinda cool.

So 2010 was a good year for me and comic books. Resident Evil. Telara Chronicles. And I also did a three part story for Square-Enix’ Nier game. I’m hoping 2011 will be even better.

If you’re curious about the book, be sure to check it out. On shelves tomorrow.