Project Luna: 1947 will be an 88 page original graphic novel written by me with art by Jim Boswell, who I worked with a little while ago on a four page sci-fi strip for Futurequake.

Contracts with Markosia are signed and we’re good to go.  Above is Jim’s first mock-up cover, a try out as he gets to grips with the characters, sorts out their hair colours and builds, designs the ships and what not, and it looks rather splendid.

Jim’s a great artist and I’m really looking forward to seeing his pages as they come in.

So, some good news to end the year on.  Who knows . . . next year might not be complete shit after all.

Most people would probably have announced their new comic column just as the first one was hitting the net, but we do things differently around here.

So, I am announcing my new-ish comic column, It Came From Beneath The Bed, which I write for GeekPlanet.  Issue six, in which I talk about the Sub-Mariner and insult a major Hollywood celebrity, went up last week.  You can read them all here.

It’s weekly but irregular (like the bowel movements of an elderly man or a woman of any age) and is full of pictures and about 1000 words of waffle about comics.

It is probably the most best written comic column on the internet.  And no mistake.

Crossed by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows.

It has everything the regular Ennis reader expects from a comic: murder, rape, cannibalism, infanticide, nuclear explosions and, of course, copious amounts of buggery. And Burrows’ art is, as usual, brilliant.

Issue two just came out from Avatar.

Spot the difference . . .

I’m not sure which one is scariest.  At least Lon Chaney could take the make up off at the end of the day.