If you haven't heard, JACK HAMMER is in this month's Diamond Previews under "ACTION LAB" and is now available for pre-order.

Please support your local comic shop and independent creators by ordering the book, using Diamond code APR120744, when you pick up your comic books this week.

Or next, but don't wait too long. The first printing of the book is limited to 500 copies, but each is individually numbered and hand-signed (by me and, yes, ouch cramptastic, but you're all worth it) and is sure to be a collector's item.

The book is scheduled out on 6/27/12 and pre-orders should be good until the end of this month.

You can also order the book online from a number of the big comic book dealers 
such as:

Discount Comic Book Service
(I'd suggest here, they have incredibly deep discounts on pre-order items. The
book is only $8.22!!)

Things From Another
World

Midtown
Comics

Westfield
Comics

And even good ol' Mile High Comics (if you are a
member of their NICE program)

If you are  outside of the US or Canada, I suggest Forbidden Planet (for the UK  and Ireland) and Archonia for Europe.

Regardless of where you order the book,  you have my deepest and sincerest thanks in advance. Supporting independent comics is critical to maintaining the lifeblood of the comics industry and we
can't keep making comics without you, the readers and fans.

In other news, I've updated my convention schedule for the year.

I've already been to one show, the awesome first annual Vermont Small Press & Comic Expo in Winooski, Vermont last month and this month I'll be at Boston Comic Con. 

The show runs the 21st and 22nd, but I'll actually be in town on the 20th, so if you see me, say hi. It's gonna be a massive show this year, with tons of big name guests. Regardless of what kinds of comics, or even era of comics, you're into there'll be someone of interest to you.

More news soon, 'til then, keep reading.

Pardon for the lack of updates, I've been extremely busy. Yes, it's an excuse, but you'll just have to live with it.

So, 2012 news...there's a lot of it. First the biggest news I can share (probably the biggest news I have right now, actually).

Jack Hammer has a new publisher. Yes, it's true!

I've gotten a fair number of emails over the last 6-8 months asking what happened to Jack since issue #3 of Political Science came out last June. I won't go into the details, cuz it's hardly necessary, but I do owe everyone who wrote, facebooked, tweeted, shouted at me in the streets, etc and especially those of you who waited patiently. I appreciate every one of those things, cuz it means you care.

_As of late 2011, Jack Hammer has moved to Action Lab Comics, publishers of such awesome comics as PrinceLess and Fracture.

In other news, Ionic and I are working on wrapping up book 1 of Voyaga. He is hard at work completing the art, and shortly after the last part of the serial will be released in the pages of Reasonably Priced Comics. After that, there is a standalone tale that will appear in another magazine, announced as soon as I am able to, then we'll see about wrapping the entire thing up a neat little book. But more on that later this year....

In fact, I'm gonna have a lot of stuff to mention in the coming few months, so I'll just leave you folks with this for now. (I promise to tell you more as soon as I can. 2012 is already shaping up to be a REALLY exciting year!)

Been awhile since I updated. I know, I'm bad about it sometimes but it's only cuz I'm busy and not cuz I've fallen out of love with all of you.

So, first, the Dead Future book I mentioned in July did not meet it's funding goals. However! Some of you did contribute and for that, everyone is grateful. The book is now available online, and possibly still at some point down the road in bookstores. As you'll recall, the book not only collects the first two years of the Dead Future zombie-based anthology series, it also contains three brand new, exclusive stories including one I did with talented artist Rowel Roque entitled "Lucid Moments". It's a story I'm pretty pleased with, so please let me know what you think.

Click this here spiffy cover image to buy the book or check out preview pages. (They used a page from my story, last I checked).

Speaking of Grim Crew, I've also got a story in issue two of their hero-based anthology Extraordinary. It's the first Stu solo story, art by Ionic natch, and it's pretty amusing from what I've been told. You can check out Geoff Arbuckle's (of A Comic Book Blog) review of it here. The book is officially out on 9/21, so....definitely look for it. Here's the cover, by Oscar Celestini, to entice you!

In issue three, I'll debut the first of a series of Detective Martin solo stories where we get a glimpse into the world Martin lives in when he's not being pestered by Hound or trying to cover Jack McGriskin's butt. It's a good, old-fashioned mystery solved by determination and solid police work. I'm very proud of how the story turned out.

Lastly, for now anyway, SCIENCE! from Reasonably Priced Comics came out late last month and it contains two stories by myself. The book is a 40-page standalone anthology of five science fiction tales with an ultra-sweet cover by Ionic.

The lead story, "Surefire Means" is a punchy five-pager I wrote awhile back for another publication that ended up being cancelled. It has art by Joel Cotejar and I VERY happy with the way the whole thing turned out. It's virtually perfect...no, really.

Also, I have a 10-pager done with Rowel Roque specifically for SCIENCE! It's got sort of a Twilight Zone feel and it, also, is very sweet.

You can check out Geoff Arbuckle's review if you don't believe me. It's right here on A Comic Book Blog.

You can get the book in print for $2.99 (for 40 pages? Crazy good deal, bro) here or $0.99 cents digital right here.

Oh...and one REAL last thing. Reasonably Priced Comics, with my sci-fi series VOYAGA, is now on Graphic.ly, for 99 cents a book. If you aren't familiar, Graphic.ly is a comic reader app for various mobile devices and it is pretty slick. I just entered the current decade and got a smartphone, and I've downloaded a crapton of comics onto it through Graphic.ly. Seriously, it's awesome. So...check it out.

A few things to mention today.

First up, Reasonably Priced Comics #3 is out July 27th. It contains not just the third part of my sci-fi series Voyaga (with art by Ionic) but a preview of my western series Western Addition with art by Leandro Panganiban, as well as the first official appearance of Kidthulhu, by Martin Brandt and Jason Stephens. Below is the amazing cover by Ionic, and you can check Reasonably Priced Comics's website for more info.

Next, a request for assistance. Grim Crew, publisher of the Dead Future and Extraordinary anthologies series and the upcoming Kidthulhu on-going series, is looking to expand its distribution and audience.

You may remember that I did a story for the Dead Future series awhile ago with extremely talented newcomer artist Rowel Roque. That story, entitled "Lucid Moments" was meant to be a bonus story for the Dead Future trade paperback, collecting the last two years of Dead Future stories.

Grim Crew is looking to have this book done in a single print run for wide distribution (possibly even through Diamond) and, unfortunately, the cost is staggering. That's where you come in. They are running a Kickstarter campaign to try and raise the additional funds they need.

There are a ton of cool gifts in exchange for donating, and you'll be helping to further the comics career of well over a dozen comic creators, in addition to guaranteeing yourself a copy of the massive 246-page book.

The link to the campaign is below, as well as the horrific cover by Paul Petyo.

http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Dead-Future-Continues

Just a quick update: I've just booked an appearance at Super Mega Fest in Framingham, MA this November. It's a huge con that usually draws a number of non-comics media figures like Christopher Lloyd, Marina Sertis (Counselor Troy from STNG) and the stars of Boondocks Saints in additional comics folks. It'll be a good time, so check the appearances page for details or click the link above.

And don't forget, Jack Hammer: Political Science #3 is out this Wednesday. You can go to Reasonably Priced Comics' website for details or hit me up.

Morning, party people.

A quick update; Jack Hammer: Political Science #3 is out June 29th. It's late, due to some production issues, but it's almost here and it's awesome.

Jack finally confronts the puppeteer and we learn a little more about what, exactly, is going on in Jack's world.

Check out the incredible cover Ionic did featuring Night.

It'll be available the usual places and I'll remind everyone, of course.

If you're new to Jack Hammer, there's still time to pick up the first two issues and see what you missed. Head on over here or you can find copies at Earth Prime Comics in Burlington, Vermont and select other comic retailers.

As I said I would the other day, I just wanted to let everyone know where you can get Extraordinary #1.

It went up DriveThruComics today and you can find it here for only $0.99 http://tinyurl.com/Extraordinary001

Also, while I'm here, I'll have copies of Slam Bang (vol.3) #6 in a few days. So hit me up if you're interested.

Quick update today:

John Lees, a member of the Comix Tribe reviewed the first issue of JACK HAMMER over on his website. Check it out, if you're interested here.

Thanks for the kind words, John! Glad you liked the book.

Second, Extraordinary #1 came out this past Wednesday. Extraordinary is a new superhero-related anthology from Grim Crew Comics, publishers of DEAD FUTURE (the next issue of which I also have a story in), KIDTHULHU and GRIM FURRY TALES. The lead feature in Extraordinary #1 is a Hound story I did last year, Hound being a character in the JACK HAMMER continuity who'll appear alongside Jack in a future issue of that series.

I'll let you folks know where/how you can get a copy when I get mine, or you can reach out to Grim Crew through their website.