The entire way home, even when we were talking about stuff that wasn’t the movie I’d stop and go “It was so good. It was SO GOOD.”

The move was awful. Just straight up and down terrible, even though Kenny helped tremendously on Monday I just wasn’t prepared enough so it went long. Longer than it should’ve, and then Tuesday was just…just not good. Then I had to go back to work on Wednesday.

One of the first times Gwyn came over to my place I told her there was a new trailer for the Avengers. I knew she’d seen the Iron Man’s and had liked them so I said “Do you want to watch it?” Seconds after she said yes YouTube was up on my TV and it was playing. When it was done I looked at her guiltily and said “I want to watch it again.” So we did. Later I said “If we’re still together in May, maybe we can go see it together.”

In the theater, just before it started, I leaned over and reminded her of that. “I was thinking the same thing,” she said. I then proceeded to squeeze her hand and knee a lot during the movie and make lots of unmanly noises.

“This made the whole terrible week worth it,” I told her. “Not just seeing the movie, but seeing it with you and knowing that we’re going back to our home, together, and that as crappy as this week was it was only temporary. Us being together isn’t.”

So yeah. Let’s get back into it.

Today, April 30th is the last day to get my supernatural horror novel SHADOW OF THE PAST free on Smashwords. It’s currently 99 cents on Amazon and will be 99 cents again on Smashwords once I get to that point where I’m about to pack up my computer and rely on phone-internet (the crappiest kind of internet). So yeah, get it in all major eReader formats now for free while you can. But if you want to give me a dollar for it later that would be cool. Writing a positive review of it once you’ve read it and if you like it would be cool as well.

Super-Fly Podcast #99

We’re almost to show 100 and it’s getting crazy! With Jared playing music for the kids at the prom, First Aid Comics‘ own Kenny Taylor (thesassyblacknerd) returns to the show to help out with the Previews Preview show. We also talk about Nick Fury being a black guy, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and fake holograms! Listen in.

Opening music: Mr. Ozio – One Minute Shakin

Closing music: Mr Ozio – Flat Beat

Be sure to check the hashtag #SuperFlyPodcast on Twitter and follow along with the show.

So yeah, there’s a couple of things for you to do while I pack and unpack and try not to wear myself out.

Fingers crossed!

Super-Fly Podcast #97: C2E2 Special

It’s time once again for the Super-Fly Crew to meet in Chicago and all be in the same room again to recap the event that was C2E2. We talk Diamond Retailer Summit, the show floor, who we met and more! Special guests include First Aid Comics’ own Kenny Taylor (thesassyblacknerd on tumblr, @DoctorTheeKenye on Twitter), Super-Fly customer/hired gun Brian Bryan Hawke (he’s on tumblr somewhere, @batmanjohnson on Twitter) and a cameo by PCW host Gavin (he is not on tumblr, but is @alphanaught on Twitter)!!

Opening music: BadBadNotGood – Salmonella

Closing music: BadBadNotGood – Listeriosis

Super-Fly Podcast #98

The week after C2E2 and the crew is still a little loopy. This week, we talk how we did at the big show and the shows we’re going to be at this year, Chris Roberson taps out of DC over the Before Watchmen books, Mark Waid and digital comics and other random stuff. Did I mention this show was random? Because it was. (editors note: we talked for about ten minutes about the girl from Real World Seattle that got slapped in the face)

Opening music: Deftones – Around the Fur

Closing music: Death Grips – The Fever (Aye Aye)

Be sure to check the hashtag #SuperFlyPodcast on Twitter and follow along with the show.

I did end up hosting the Q&A panel for Neal Adams, which was a lot of fun and fairly easy to do seeing as how Neal is basically a runaway freight train of conversation. He was “on” the second we hit the stage about ten minutes before it was supposed to start and we ran right up into the allotted time. Huge thanks to him for having me and also a huge thanks to my friend and co-contributor Tito at PoP! who helped me prep for it. Looking back it’s almost a little silly remembering how nervous I was, but once I got to the podium it all pretty much vanished. Given how weirdly and unexpectedly anxious I can be in some social situations it was nice to see that I could actually do something like that. One of the most helpful things was Gwyn insisting on being there and telling me “If you get nervous, just look for me. Talk to me and everything will be okay.”

Everyone at PoP! and Super-Fly had a great show and I think we all set the stage for amazing things to happen in the future. Being there with all those guys and all of those creative people was incredibly energizing and really made me feel alive. I had a couple of signing and meet and greet appearances at the PoP! Booth and those went well, culminating in me meeting some cool comics folks and signing anything folks brought me since I don’t have physical copies of SHADOW OF THE PAST to sell. I didn’t get to see as many people as I’d like and I barely got a chance to spend any time in artist’s alley, but in every way the show was successful. Even any potentially awkward personal drama was deftly sidestepped as I realized “Fuck it, we are just here to work and have fun. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.”

Some of you may have heard that Shia LaBeouf made an appearance at the show and not only is that accurate but the PoP! group was responsible for bringing him there. Needless to say there was a bit of a brouhaha after the fact, and I dashed off an Op/Ed for the PoP! site about the situation. You can also hear me on the PoP!-Cast recorded live Sunday after the show as the tale of The Beef is told and I read the email we all got from him. There will be a Super-Fly podcast up hopefully later today that was recorded that Sunday evening as well, in addition to the show we recorded last night that will go up on Monday.

As for others things, most of that is going to be on hold as I prep to move in the next week. Pretty much all of our plans are up in the air, but one was or the other Gwyn and I will be in our new apartment on the 1st. It’s just going to be a rocky road until then. In the meantime, SHADOW OF THE PAST is still free on Smashwords, and will be through the end of it’s “birthday month.” After that, I’ll have new short fiction debuting on a monthly basis after that. There will be news of the comic horror story I wrote that will be in an anthology later this year, as the art is rolling in and looks freakin’ gorgeous. I’m hoping the artist and I will be able to work together on other stuff after that, possibly funded via Kickstarter.

Lot’s of stuff in the air, but when it settles it’ll do so with a bang.