Comics are up. The color for the big comic will be posted after a good night sleep

Sam, our editor at Dark Horse Comics, is such a tease. Yup that’s right, she is holding advance copies of Applegeeks Volume 2.

Sorry the comic is going to be late. Ananth will be out of town for awhile so I decided to hang out with him before he heads out.

The comics are up. Is it even possible to write a TMNT Batman fanfic?

Hey guys! Thanks for all the recipes, I copied and pasted them into a file for later use. Maryland is having a lot of summer days, wherein it is hot during the day and it cools off at night. Sitting in front of a fan is one of the simplest and best pleasures during days like this! The late evening heat just isn’t so bad.

I have been reading some comics lately! I got a copy of Sinfest Volume 1 via Sam, our editor, and I am enjoying the hell out of it. It really is one of those things that gets better in print – since it’s built on all the structures of a traditional newspaper strip, there’s something nice about reading it in the same format as I read Calvin & Hobbes.

I should preface this next book by saying that while I admire books in other languages, typically I don’t get into them the way I do books in english … I don’t get too attached. That said, Yuko brought a book back from Japan called Gunjyo Schooldays by Aki Irie … the title sounds corny, but it’s a manga collection of short stories all with a slightly surrealist bent. It’s a little hard to make out the themes in some, and in others it is pretty transparent. I am totally in love with it and I’ll likely go pick up the others. It’s put out by Beam Comix and Enterbrain – I’ve actually been looking for a translation of it, but sadly I don’t think such a thing exists. It’s too bad – the stories look utterly charming. Actually, I’m also wondering if any of you out there have heard of it! Let me know what you know. :)

I’m having a hard time recalling anything else I’ve read recently – my schedule has mostly been a flurry of work, e-mails, general day-to-day stuff and wrapping up loose ends that piled up during the convention season. What are you guys reading?

I’m sure most of you follow Penny Arcade and agree that their latest work is killer. Since I have become a huge fan of Automata, I decided to thank Tycho and Gabe for putting out excellent work by creating an automata pinup for them.

Here is a somewhat start to finish process…

I tried to keep it true to Gabe’s artstyle. At the end I was pretty happy with the end result.

Wallpaper version:

Wow, you guys are awesome. Thank you for the tips on how to deal with my old books. Who needs google when I have you.