Christmas is a RISKy business.

Yep.
Time again for the annual RISK challenge.
Me vs my daughter.
Would I reverse a trend?

Hmmm.
My green arm, if I can call them that, ran out of continents and ended up fitting their last engagement in Australia.
Maybe next year I'll fair better.

Mind you... it's difficult competing with die rolls like that ... just saying.

Spider-Ham, Spider-Ham, does whatever a... err...well...

Went with Jemma to see the new animated Spider-Man movie.
It was this one or Aquaman and we decided on this as we didn't think it had much time left in the cinema.
Was it a good choice?
Yep. A great little film full of heart.
Is it the best Spider-Man film I've ever seen?
Yep, I think it is. Lots of laugh out loud moments too.
If you do go and watch it then do stay for the post credits extra ... very funny.

I hope they do a sequel.

Next up - Aquaman. I hope it moves DC movies in the right direction. I've just heard that Titan here pulling the plug on the DC comics they publish for the likes of W H Smiths. Hope things pick up for DC soon. marvel is doing some great stuff, but it's good to have a decent alternative.

Lindor Loveliness.

Well, gone are the days of fighting over the dark chocolate Lindor chocolates.

At the local Sainsburys you can pick and mix.
Damn.
Luckily I only noticed this on the way out.
I might have to pop back tomorrow though...
Damn.

Coming in 2019 - Working title 'The Changeling'.

I wrote a story about 3 years ago, another in my Blessed / Cursed series.
Gustavo Tataje illustrated a tale in issue 3 of Tales of WesterNoir, to see how he did at story telling.
Wow.
I gave him the script.
It's a pretty big script.
A year and a bit later (he had to fit it around his fabulous personal projects) and it's largely completed.
I've read the first draft, and made my usual requests to re-write bits in an attempt to lift my writing to the level of his art (much as I do with Ian's work on Kia Wordsmith).
It should be ready sometime early next year.
I think people who liked the earlier Blessed / Cursed books will love it.

Yep, this will certainly be out, but it won't be first.

Portsmouth 2019

First Con booked for next year.
I'll be flying the Accent UK banner at Portsmouth.
Last year, which was their first, was great, so I'm really looking forward to going back.

Illustration Cupboard.

I popped into London yesterday and one of the things I wanted to do was to pop into The Illustration Cupboard for the last time.
Sadly it's closing at the end of the year.
Rates were increasing year on year and had just become too expensive.
Very sad news.
I'd met David McKee in store earlier in the year and bought some of his originals.
I'd also promised myself a Shaun Tan one day.
Doesn't sound like they will be opening up elsewhere.
I love unique little shops like this.
It's a shame that they are struggling to compete and becoming fewer and fewer as time goes on.

Collaging.

I was happy to find an old collage book.
Something I'd played with years ago.
Cutting and pasting.
Trying to make no sense of images brought together on a page.
this little notebook has an image that I want to include in my SuperWeirdoes book.
I'll have to scan him from this page, that's the problem with collaging. Once it's stuck down it's stuck.
Made me smile to find him again though.