The kids are also now on Graphicly, so you can read Varmints on almost anything with a screen with just one account!

And what witchcraft is this? You can even embed it all over the dang internet?!

OUTRAGEOUS.

Man, oh man, I’ve been busy. The guts of #2 have been done for nearly two months, but a stint as a high school art teacher delayed getting the packaging finished and ready. It should be up on the tubes sometime this week. That’s at darnvarmints.com, at least. The goal is to get both issues up on Graphicly, Nook, Kobo, and hopefully Kindle as well in the near future.

I’ll be at Austin Comic Con once again November 11-13 with 4-6 new books on hand. That includes both Varmints, hopefully the Oz paperback, and two or three minis starring this little guy, whose name is a pun too wonderful to give away:

See you there?

Guys! Gals! DarnVarmints.com is the place to be! There’s a six page preview as well as $1 downloads of issue #1 in PDF, CBZ, and EPUB formats! Maybe you’d like to give it a look? Maybe tell a friend? Maybe tell a comics-reading enemy? Maybe…maybe tell your dog?

-is what I’ve been working on, and I just finished the guts of issue 1. Logo, cover, and website to come. For now, just look at those two! Who knows what they’ll be getting into? Hijinks and adventure, I’ll bet. Shenanigans and monkeyshines? Wait and see.

When you buy this comic, you have bought a COMIC, not a license to read it via one application. You OWN it. Back it up. Read it with whatever software you want on whatever device you’ve got. Hell, PRINT the thing and pop it right next to your other issues.

Thanks to everyone that’s been going to their local store and supporting us this far. I, along with Tommy and the rest of SLG, make no mistake, wish you could have a complete run of RHO, nice and neat, bagged and boarded, but it just couldn’t quite happen.

THIS is a thing you can find at same around the end of June, I imagine:

You can tell it’s the big finale because of that KUH-RAZY KOVER. What am I up to after this? ONLY I KNOW.

The first three issues have already been run through the digitizer, but we have to wait our turn for the fourth. Keep an eye out, maybe, they’re only a buck.

Delightful.

But that’s not it at all, that’s just me being an jerk.

The thing is, when I’m working on the book, almost everything in my sketchbook is an incomprehensible mess, visually illegible, often even to myself. Every once in a while maybe I could post something like this thumbnail for the cover for RHO #3.

“Well, hey, that’s pretty cool,” you say, “Why not post thumbnails, those are interesting.”

Here’s the thing, though. That thumbnail was specifically drawn to share. My working thumbnails look more like this:

And that’s a nice one. It’s got little annotations, shading indications, and is relatively organized.

This is more typical. It’s got an itty-bitty panel layout, some numbered panels, group compositions scattered about, and essentially indistinguishable figures.

This is…what is this I don’t even. It’s thumbnails for three pages, one of which might be misnumbered. I… I don’t even know if all of the panels are on there; I may have left some in my head. If they are there, they aren’t labeled in any way.

Character/creature/prop design pages tend to be much neater. The thing with posting characters, which really only applies to this project, is that if you see them here, you aren’t surprised to find them in the book. I imagine that’s part of the fun of RHO, seeing what characters from Oz show up, and what they’re like in this interpretation. So while this sort of material is more presentable, it shouldn’t necessarily be presented, you know? Spoiler alerts and all that. On the other hand, do people look for this kind of material and not expect some sort of sneak peak? I would think that’s the appeal in the first place. It is a conundrum, is what I’m getting at.

So in summary and in conclusion, most things are messy and you probably don’t want to see them anyway.

I…jeeze, I’m happy people have been enjoying it. Thanks so much to everyone that’s given it a shot. Stick around, you won’t be disappointed. Oh, and check out this month’s Previews. RHO #2 has a full dang page, not that I could tell you which page. It’s a thick catalog.

Speaking of which, check out this cover that is OVERFLOWING WITH DANGER AND SUSPENSE:

I don’t know about you, but I am FILLED with purchase intent right now. As far as I know, you can expect to see this one in stores September 29th.