And the second Comic Con booked is...

MegaCon Live in Manchester on the 30th and 31st of July.

MegaCon Live

Just booked my first Con for 2022.

I just booked a table at the Tripwire Bristol Comic  Con in September. II haven't done a Comic Con in Bristol for a very long time, looking forward to it. 

Hmmm, it seems such a long way away, I need to get a few more in the bag.

Tripwire Comic Con

Kingdom - The Model

Well Jon Ayre has completed his modelling of Kingdom and this is the pose that we'll be looking to print. It's all very new to me so I've no idea how much this will cost and whether it'll make sense financially but I need to see these on the table at Cons across the country. 

Jon has offered to see if he can find somewhere that will print it off.

I can't wait to get one myself and paint it up.

The 42nd Post

So, 2021 was a bit like 2020, and 2022 isn't promising to be much different.

We did get to a few Cons at the end of the 2021, which is great, but sadly sales (despite them being record breaking for us) didn't create enough space in my storage locker and so I'm still unable to print any new books.

Books that are ready to print:-

• WesterNoir Volume 2
• Right Place at the Right Time (Blessed/Cursed)

Books that are complete and are having covers/internal pages etc designed 

• Stephenson's Robot 

Books that have all art complete and need lettering and then the design work

• Thick Skin (Blessed/Cursed)

Books that are well underway and will be ready for lettering / design very soon

• Stephenson's Robot - Companion Book
• Kia Wordsmith 3

Books being coloured

• WesterNoir Volume 3

Books where the script is with the artist

• V2A - Wasteland Chronicles - Book 2
• A Kia Wordsmith spinoff title - I'll come up with the title at the end I think
• The Shadowless Man GN

...and I know I'll have missed something...

I'm also working on that Young-Adult SciFi book that I seem to mention every year. A few weeks ago Jemma, my daughter, issued the challenge to see which of us could complete a book before the end of 2022. I think I've learned something about my character as this has really energised me.  Bring it on.

Well, I do hope that 2022 is better than the last two years (plus). 

I hope that all who are able to take up the vaccine do so and we globally get on top of this pandemic and stop giving the virus room to mutate. I hope the anti-vaccine crowd actually pick up a few science books and read the facts rather than listen to people who were probably asleep in their biology lessons when they were at school. I hope those people who are forced to live in lockdown (still) because we haven't got control of the virus are able to step out of their houses safely in 2022. 

Kingdom looks fabulous

 Just came across this on Twitter.

Jon has finished adding all the little details and 'Wow'.. doesn't he look fabulous.

Now we just need to work out how best we can produce some for sale.

Kingdom Comes

I can't believe how good this is looking.

It's a prototype of the Kingdom 3D figure I've been wanting to produce for years. 

Sadly I don't have the time (read technical ability) to do such a thing myself but very fortunately I know a man who does.

Jon Ayre, the co-writer on my Stephenson's Robot Companion titles is still busy at work modelling and printing this off of his own 3D printer. 

The plan is the then pick a pose for him and see if we can get a mould made somewhere so we can then produce a batch of them for people to purchase and paint.

I'm still smiling at how good this looks.

Disney+

So, a few months ago I cancelled my NOW subscription and started one for Disney+.

I've been enjoying the MCU movies and from what I'd seen, read or heard it looked like the TV shows that Disney+ was producing were quite good. 

I really enjoyed most of the Netflix efforts from a few yers ago so I know what is possible.

I must say that I've not been disappointed. 

In order of viewing I went for 

1. Falcon and Winter Soldier 
2. WandaVision
3. What if
4. Hawkeye 
5. Loki

Wow. 

Where to start, some were very clever (WandaVision and Loki), some had a lot of heart (Hawkeye and strangely Loki) and some where just enjoyable as they developed some of the lead characters (Falcon and Winter Soldier) or introduced new ones (Loki, WandaVision, Hawkeye and to a lesser degree Falcon and Winter Soldier).

As a long time reader of Marvel comics I guess I picked up things that people who just follow the movies will be unaware of, but I'd be surprised if that in anyway lessened their enjoyment.

and What If was fabulous too.

I'm not a big Star Wars fan but I've dipped into some of those too and enjoyed the Mandalorian  (first season more than the second). I'll check out the Boba Fett series when it lands. 

Well worth my money.