Surreal

We're blasting the new Oysterband CD, so I've got that sound drifting in from the living room. Closer by, Elayna is getting dressed, while singing a Hilary Duff song really out of tune. Some DJ should make a mix out of this.

Three DC Books

DC has announced three books at WizardWorld Chicago that I'm intrigued by. The first is a new Challengers of the Unknown, written and drawn by Howard Chaykin. The last six words of that sentence are some of my favorites, as I'm a huge Chaykin fan, and I love the Challengers concept (one of the plots I'd been seriously thinking about pitching at times involved a Challengers revamp). Alas, it's only a six-issue miniseries, but I'll take what I can get.

Second, Rick Veitch is revamping The Question. Frankly, this is the DC book he should have been doing in the first place, not Aquaman (a character who has been adequately written by only two people in sixty years).

And finally, DC is doing a horror anthology called Toe Tag. And the first arc will be written by George Romero! Art will be by Richard Corben, which is a minus (Corben, like Humberto Ramos, is an artist who seems to consistently get put on great stories, with no other purpose than holding back a good storytelling writer). But Romero is Romero, dammit!

There were also a whole bunch of announcements about DC books I could give a rat's ass about (as well as lots of Marvel news of "writers" like Chuck Austen), but those were the big ones.

Why I won't be posting much

The Lord of Castle Black arrived today. And yes, rollick, I've already found one passage (on page 24, running for about half a page) that will have you screaming.