The biggest news for today, is that today – DAY 21 – marks the day I cruised past 50k, which is kinda huge. I’m still well behind where I wanted to be today, both in terms of the word count and in how much more I have left before “the end” but let us take a moment to bathe in the hugeness of hitting 50k in 21 days. WOO!
Today’s word count: 2,532
MS today word count: 84,793
Inspirational image for something I was writing about today:
There’s a new She Has No Head! up on Comics Should Be Good and we’re celebrating the two year anniversary with…well, basically a links post. But for those of you who haven’t been reading since the beginning, maybe you’ll discover something new!
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Best day yet! Hopefully only 15 – 20k before I hit “the end”. But it keeps being longer than I think it will be. Here’s hoping we’ll hit “the end” before the weekend so I can move on to edit and “prettifying” over the holiday weekend.
Today’s word count: 4,515
MS total word count: 82,267
Inspirational image for a scene I was writing today:
Badass jacket is badass. ;)
Some CBR Reviews this week:
“Legion of Monsters” is one of those mini-series that you find yourself wishing was an ongoing immediately. Easily one of the best books I’ve been reading from Marvel of late, this series is completely fun, full of great characters, and tightly plotted…”
“The idea of Magneto visiting the Avengers Academy seems to write itself. Here, unfortunately, it didn’t and it feels like a wasted opportunity. The combination of Magneto, ultimate reformed bad guy, paying a visit to the kids that are being trained specifically so they don’t turn out exactly like him should be gold, but a combination of too many characters, too many plot threads, and mediocre writing and art leaves us with something shockingly dull…”
“Supergirl” #3 feels entirely unlike the first two issues of this series. Unfortunately, that’s not a great thing. The first two issues of “Supergirl” had clear, impeccably kinetic art and an incredibly decompressed story. It was too decompressed, in fact, but at least the stunning art and slow burn were compelling enough to warrant picking up the next issue in the hopes some real meat would eventually reveal itself. Unfortunately, the meat is here and it’s pretty bland…”
As always, likes and retweets are awesome, and you can read all my CBR reviews thus far here.
Tags: comics!
Some of you may have heard that X-23 has been canceled.
This is sad news, as X-23 is one of the only (the only? I’ll have to double check) female led titles over at Marvel. While the art teams on the book have not worked for me consistently, Marjorie Liu has been delivering a very well-written book throughout the run, and when she was doing it with phenomenal artist Phil Noto, it was one of the best books I was reading, so this is a real shame.
I can’t help but wonder if a better and clearer artistic vision for the book and covers that better reflected the story inside might have helped this title, but I guess we’ll never know. I’ll be sad to see it go, thanks Liu for some great work with a character I never expected to have such affection for, X-23.
And here, in an exceptional example of a horrible costume being nicely reworked, is a commission of X-23 from Peter Nguyen:
Tags: comics!
Had to get some sleep catch up today, write a bunch of a blog posts and a column for Monday’s She Has No Head!, plus still fighting off sickness, so didn’t come close to any of my word count hopes and dreams. But still not a bad day. Hopefully cleared out enough space for tomorrow to be very productive. For those of you just checking in and looking for Drunk Cover Solicits…they’re going to be done over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Bad news? You have to wait another week. Good news? You’ll have something to distract you during possibly boring and/or uncomfortable family time. Woo!
Today’s word count: 3,041
MS total word count: 77,752
Inspirational image for something I was writing about today:
Are shredded t-shirts back? They should be. In fact, I'M bringing them back! WOO!
From Declan Shalvey in Brian Wood’s Northlanders #46 this week:
Awesome.
Tags: comics!
Easy call this week since Skottie Young was participating. His John Carter: A Princess of Mars #3 cover is 100% win:
Tags: comic covers, comics!, Cover Of The Week
Still not feeling so well, but not full blown sick yet, so trying to make sure and get as much done as I can while I can. I still have a column to get down for Monday and if not too sick, DRUNK DC COVER SOLICITS…so there’s no time to not get a word count in. Almost to 75k…woo!
Today’s word count: 2.057
MS total word count: 74,721
Inspirational image for something I was writing about today:
This was my first day that felt like a real failure. I’m not feeling well and my head was cloudy, I got easily distracted, tired quickly and had real trouble focusing for long stretches (which kind of all mean the same thing, which pretty well illustrates the writing issues I was having tonight). I also left the ms in a difficult place, which is never good and makes it very hard to start again. We’ll see what happens tomorrow I guess. Hopefully I’m not getting sick, as I’m trying hard to get to “the end” on this thing before Thanksgiving.
Today’s word count: 1,947
MS total word count: 72,664
Inspirational image for something I was writing about today:
