The comics arrived from Mixam last night, and the results were perfect. What a great printer I found several years back when planning Blueboy Brown Comics #1. They always hit it out of the park.
I’m sliding the comic into bags (done) and then putting the comic into the mailers that I’d already prepared with the stretch goal goodies. I did a few of those last night and it was easy. So I finish that up today and buy postage online and slap the postage on the mailer. Tomorrow, August 17th, I ship.
With this cycle coming to a close, I begin the next issue of Blueboy Brown Comics, #6. The next five issues are planned as the Black & White. Tough times are coming for the Brown family, and Blueboy gets the worst of it. There are no vampires, walking dead, space aliens or post-apocalyptic scenarios, just the battle between real good and real evil. I’ve lived long enough to have seen both and come to an understanding how both of them tick. That’s the great pleasure of doing this thing, comics, at the tail end of my time in the temporal world. Every writer or artist, in presenting original work (as opposed to commissioned work like Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, commissioned in 1485 by the de Medici family), is saying this is how the world is, or at least this is how I see the world as I understand it. I’m no different.
Watch out for the “Smith” family, the counterpart to the Browns. There is an anatomy to evil, a skeleton that the Smiths portray, like an x-ray at the doctor’s office.
Pay attention.