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Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S. #1 arrives on October 4. Wrap a week of G.O.D.S. coverage with a look at Phil Noto’s G.O.D.S. #3 cover featuring the entire cast!…

Recently, DC announced the first wave of James Gunn’s new offerings! WHAT HAPPENED? James Gunn, who has brought us Peacemaker and Suicide Squad previously, has been put in charge of the newly created DC…

SEPT. 1, 2023 (PITTSBURGH, PA) — The moment everyone has been waiting for has arrived! This year brought Mad Cave Studios’ biggest annual Talent Search yet, with hundreds of entrants…

So, I've been a little bit grumpy about how everything played out with the Kickstarter that I still think borrowed a little too heavily from Cupcake Scouts (and how it raised over $100K with 'my idea'... if I'm being honest). I've kind of avoided Cupcake Scouts stuff for the last few weeks, which has been fine, because I've gotten a good deal of Army Ants '81 stuff done, and I'm very happy with how that's turned out, and I probably wouldn't have started that at all if not for the Cupcake Scouts snafu.

ANYWAY.

Mary is out of images for the Instagram she maintains for Cupcake Scouts, and asked for a drawing of the girls in a cemetary fighting zombies that are coming out of the ground. She really likes Halloween. So, I did this drawing, and as I was working, I realized that the composition of this piece is really strong. I didn't intentionally design it this way, but it sort of happened. But then I realized that 'good design just sort of happens' is what you get when you've been trying to get better at something for a few decades. I like how the whole image uses triangles - there is a line that goes directly from the hand in the lower-left along the arrow, up across Harper's arm, and then across Bri's arm. There is a straight line down from there along Bri's left side and her leg; there is a line back to the hand across the ground. Everything goes to a focus point on Bri's face - everything in the frame directs you back to that. I'm just really happy with how this turned out - when I do a full supplement for Cupcake Scouts, odds are really good that this is the cover.

 

Check out all the variant covers for October’s CAPTAIN MARVEL #1, the start of exhilarating new run by Alyssa Wong and Jan Bazaldua.   New York, NY— September 1, 2023…

This half-formed rpg setting idea I got the other day. It could probably work with something D&Dish but might be better suited to something else. Anyway, the world that the players' would know and explore is a sort of mythic forest, a dark fairytale sort of woodland with no apparent beginning or end. Within the woodland are areas of human habitation, where everyone probably speaks the same language, and probably some enigmatic ruins, suggesting perhaps a once united human culture or series of cultures, but nothing like that exists in the present and nothing more than fables that hold any memory of it. Memory, like everything else, gets swallowed by the forest.
The woodland can be a strange place. There are dangers there, even horrors, but there are also places of beauty and enchantment. These last are perhaps hard to find again after visiting, though.  Adventurers are wanderers in the wood, dealing with the things the forest brings them.
I envision it as something like an adult, darker Over the Garden Wall. Perhaps with a bit of Ravenloft with the forest replacing the Mists. The forest might give a similar uncanny vibe to the Zone in the film Stalker. Other inspirations: Grimm's fairytales and the film Company of Wolves. Maybe some stuff from the rpg Symbaroum though it's a bit less "Brother's Grimm meets Acid Western" than what I'm envisioning.

Tintin meets Tarantino in this 1950’s New York action crime noir. A tale of beatniks, blood, and betrayal. Offbeats: the deluxe trade edition is now available direct from Amazon. This new…

Check out a new design for the In-Betweener, the first of many new cosmic entity designs that will debut in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S. this October.   New…

The story of former Chief Judge Barbara Hershey is rattling towards its conclusion. Created by John Wagner and Brian Bolland in 1980, Hershey has been a mainstay of Judge Dredd’s…

PROJECT: CRYPTID #1 (W) Paul Cornell/Mark Russell/Grant Morrison (A) PJ Holden/Jordi Perez Cover A: PJ Holden/Jordi Perez Cover B: Taki Soma   New AHOY anthology series, featuring Bigfoot, Yetis, Nessies,…

AUG. 31, 2023, (PITTSBURGH, PA) — Putting a little bug in your ear… Mad Cave Studios is proud to announce the forthcoming horror/sci-fi series, SKEETERS, from the Ringo Award-nominated dynamic…

Army Ants isn't just a game, it's a veritable media empire. 

The Game

- The Core Rules for Army Ants '81 are now a PWYW release.

The Comic

- The original series is being re-mastered and released a page a day.

Other Cool Stuff

- Brandon posted a youtube video review of the game. on his RPG Overviews channel.

- Quinn made a fillable character card. Thanks, Quinn!

Covers Spotlight Fan Favorites Jetfire, Skuxxoid, and the Quintesson Prosecutor LOS ANGELES 08/31/2023 — Skybound, in collaboration with leading toy and game company Hasbro, announced today that hit series Void Rivals will receive…

Rainbow Rowell and Andrés Genolet kick off Jennifer Walter’s new era on October 18   New York, NY— August 31, 2023 — Writer Rainbow Rowell and Andrés Genolet’s Eisner-nominated work on…

 Now accepting artist submissions for opportunities for collaboration and mentorship with international talent ABU DHABI, UAE, August 31, 2023–Sandstorm Comics, a soon-to-be unveiled new regional comics studio was first teased at…

Check out designs and teaser images spotlighting Cubisk Core, a new character debuting in Jonathan Hickman and Valerio Schiti’s G.O.D.S. this October!   New York, NY— August 31, 2023 — Marvel’s…

Acclaimed horror production company Blumhouse brings two new live entertainment experiences, “The Purge: Dangerous Waters” and “Blumhouse: Behind the Screams,” inspired by some of its blockbuster films, to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. A trio of bone-chilling…

NEW COMICS 4 THIS WEEK (08/30/23) *All comics will be rated on a scale from 1 to 10* Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special # 1 Danny Ketch: Ghost Rider #…

First Friday Celebrates Creativity, Entrepreneurship Auburn, N.Y. (August 30, 2023): As a part of the First Friday series, the monthly celebration designed to promote entrepreneurism and creativity, artist Ed Catto’s…

I'm having the longest experience of déjà vu... back in the mid 1990s, I went to a comic convention with two projects in hand. I had a box of Seymour #1, a fantasy comic about a teddy bear that fused pro wrestling with Dungeons and Dragons and my emerging sense of how I wanted to tell stories that I'd been laboring over every detail of for weeks. I also had a bunch of army ants mini-comics that I'd thrown together in like three hours and printed up on my way to the convention.
People could have cared less about Seymour, but they were all about the Army Ants. Almost everyone I talked to grabbed a copy (that I was charging maybe a quarter for, which didn't even cover the costs of the printing, so I was not the greatest businessman). 
Fast forward almost 30 years later. I have a book that I spent a bit of time laboring over, trying to get every detail right about a group of scouts going on fantasy adventures - and then an army ants book that I put together remarkably quickly, and put up as a pay what you want for the heck of it.
And, again, people are responding to that. I'm not at all unhappy about it - I'm thrilled that people are responding to Army Ants, which was my first love and the thing I've created that is the most uniquely 'me'. 
Two quick things to share:
@rpgoverviews posted a review of the game, which I truly appreciate. 
There was a request for a character sheet, so here's a blank version of the card I posted for Phil a few days ago...