Here are a couple of preview pages which unfortunately do not show the lettering by the ever-perspicacious Ed “New Reliable Press” Brisson.

*(Those of you who remember my covers from Outnumbered #5 and #6 will recall they were published by CHC)

Click on the pics below to make them LARGE. And yes, Aaron and Chris, my handsome and talented models of users and pushers, I’ll have a copy for each of you!

All I want for my birthday is a week-long gaming fest in which I can play D&D and Gamma World/Mutilator and Savage Worlds and Mouseguard and Mutants & Masterminds. Is that too much to ask? If it’s not, how about all that plus leftovers from my X-Mas wish list?

• The new Ghostbusters game for XBox 360
• Ponyo on the Cliff DVD (the one with japanese language and english subtitles)
• Miniatures from Hydra Miniatures. Sadly Strategies Games cannot order them for me.
• Home Movies: Season Four (1999)
• Space Ghost & Dino Boy
• Powerpuff Girls Complete Series
• Birdman and the Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
• Tom and Jerry: Spotlight Collection, Volume One (1946)
• The Hilarious House of Frightenstein: Vol. 1
• Tenacious D Complete Masterworks 2

And if anyone is still reading, I happily accept used DVDs. In fact I’d rather you get them from a thrift store than from WalMart or Chapters (do they sell DVDs at Chapters? I don’t know I never go in there.)

PRESS RELEASE
Exploded View Saturday March 6 | Launch Party at Ayden Gallery | 7pm

Vancouver, Feb, 16, 2010
For immediate transmission – Cloudscape Comics is pleased to announce the launch of their fourth publication, Exploded View. A science fiction anthology featuring twenty-five artists, all current or former residents of Vancouver, Canada. This book showcases the broad range of talent in the comics artist community. Notable contributors include Camilla d’Errico, who has been making waves with her manga influenced paintings in and outside of Vancouver, and is the artist for notable titles such as “Burn”, “Tanpopo”, and “Sky Pirates”; Children’s book Illustrator Scot Ritchie; Angela Melick, creator of the acclaimed “Wasted Talent” Webcomic; John Christmas, the artist on the recently released “Barack the Barbarian”; Jonathon Dalton, creator of “Lords of Death and Life” and “A Mad Tea-Party”; Edison Yan, whose work can be
seen on “Scribblenauts” on the Nintendo DS; Colin Upton, who has been pioneering mini- comics in Vancouver since 1985; Local Rocker, actor, and Illustrator Toren Atkinson; and Jordyn Bochon, a contributor to the independent comics anthology “You Ain’t No Dancer”. The group includes established artists, underground cartoonists, web comic creators, animators, illustrators, and manga artists all working together. Their focus is on telling meaningful, intelligent stories through the medium of comics.

This book represents the Cloudscape comics collective’s most ambitious project to date, with a huge roster of talented artists and their highest production quality. Motivated by a desire to see their work in print, Cloudscape is moving ahead without an established publisher or outside funding, raising the money it needs exclusively from the artists within the group.

Cloudscape will be launching their new book at the Ayden gallery in Tinseltown, Vancouver on March 6th at 7pm. Most of the artists will be in attendance to sign autographs. This will be your first opportunity to purchase this fantastic new book.

Contributors: Toren Atkinson, Jordyn Bochon, Aaron Bouthiller, Chloe Chan, John Christmas, Jonathon Dalton, Camilla d’Errico, Jeff Ellis, Lou Ford, Kevin Forbes, Megan Furesz, Jason Harris, Steve Lecouilliard, Christopher Leinonen, Wei Li, Colleen MacIssac, Angela Melick, Scott Ritchie, Scott Ritchings, Paul Soeiro, Curt Steckhan, Cat Tang, Colin Upton, Edison Yan, and Eric Zawadzki.

Ayden Gallery: 88 West Pender Street (2nd floor) International Village (Tinseltown) Vancouver, BC
Phone: 778 891 431 email: info@aydengallery.com website: www.aydengallery.com/

Press Contact: Jeffrey Ellis, email: info@cloudscapecomics.com
For more information, visit: www.cloudscapecomics.com twitter.com/CloudscapeComic
www.facebook.com/pages/Cloudscape-Comics/14079033969

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Source: Jeffrey Ellis Press Contact Cloudscape Comics Vancouver
www.cloudscapecomics.com
info@cloudscapecomics.com

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Here’s the newest (rough) colour sketch for the nefarious and wholly nasty villain Death Wattle

Earlier Version

He will be featured in the World Wildlife Federation of Justice

supplement for Mutants & Masterminds published by Atomic Overmind Press, which means you can read his secret origin, and compare his stats and power level against other WWFJ characters. And if you’re a player of Mutants & Masterminds the roleplaying game you can pit him against your superhero group. Sure…why not?

He is the arch-nemesis of Astromandrill, in case you were wondering, which makes him a fearsome foe indeed! He is also the leader of the Flock of Evil.

See more drawings of WWFJ characters by visiting

http://www.thickets.net/toren/category/wwfj/ and view the ‘official page at:

http://www.thickets.net/toren/world-wildlife-federation-of-justice/ for a preview of the cover of the book (which will be a pdf to start).

Though it doesn’t look it now, there will be clothes on everyone. Probably something punkapocalyptic. Big army boots, converse shoes, raggedy blood-stained tanktops, choker collars, metal wristbands, that sort of thing. Hardcore big-busted gore-soaked butch lesbians kickin’ ass.

I’ve blocked it out with a lot of heavy blacks and color-coded the various figures for clarity. I like some more than others. My fave is the girl on the far right which is supposed to be pink but my scanner sucks hoof. I like the idea of the chainsaw but it’s actually a bit distracting shoved down in the bottom corner.

Another direction would be to give Jesus (yes that’s right) his sweaty crown of thorns and instead of the chainsaw he’d be wielding a huge wooden cross. I feel as though that would be some degree of awesome, and that feeling of awesome grows even as I finish typing this sentence.

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I’m having professional comic letterer Ed Brisson redo all of my unprofessional lettering from the first 4 pages.

It’s dead at work so I’m browsing gaming mini websites.

There are some good ones on armorcast like this steam-powered buddha.

They also have lots of cool steampunk robots and post-apocalyptic terrain. One of my favourites is the ingenius ’soda can topper’:

Upside down soda/soft drink cans look cool as storage tanks, but what do you do about the depression in the top of the can? Armorcast has solved the problem for you with Soda Can Storage Tank kits. You supply the cans and Armorcast provides a base with recesses for two or three upside down soft drink cans and detail pieces that fit into the tops of the cans. Drink a soda, build gaming terrain and recycle at the same time!

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