Tales of Syzpense #73

A con-fluence of events, a Frank Miller-style birthday in New York, and the spinner rack strikes out

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Con-fluence

Spring is usually my favorite time of year. My part of world is waking up again, the Dodgers are back on the mound, and WonderCon kicks off convention season in a big way. Only this year, well. The Dodgers did start their season as scheduled, but then I got sick a few days before WonderCon and missed the whole thing. I’m used to getting sick after a convention, but doing so before is pretty bad timing. So it goes.

So I suppose for me, con season will get rolling a month later, which isn’t too long a wait, anyway — I’m a guest at Super Jersey Comic Expo, a show I’ve never done before but it’s one that’s lined up a solid array of comic creators.

Even had I made it to Wonder Con, it would’ve only been for Saturday since I had to fly to New York on Sunday for a number of meetings this week. I’ll be here for my birthday tomorrow, April 2, too. New York is due have some inclement weather that day so I can come pretty close to celebrating it the same way Frank Miller once portrayed April 2 in New York back in his Elektra Lives Again graphic novel:

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Press Hits

Because of my travel, this week’s newsletter will be a bit of an abbreviated one. But here are a couple bits of Syzygy news I saw over the past week, anyway.

Comic site You Don’t Read Comics offered up a nice review of the recent Dreamweaver Giant-Syze Special that Nelson Daniel and I released. One of those reviews that just got what we were trying to do with the comic, which is especially nice to see.

I love the new cover that Nelson put together for that issue but this is the image we almost went with. Nelson’s new cover was much more appropriate for a comic-book cover but foe a while, I was amused by the idea of putting out a comic with a cover like this. Good sense and great new art prevailed, though.

And Zach Howard, co-creator of our coming Moonshine Bigfoot series (also colored by Dreamweaver artist Nelson Daniel) did a new interview about the coming series with Byron Brewer at Dynamic Forces. Issue 1 is out April 16 and looks a lot like this:

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Spinner Rack at the Bat

And speaking of baseball season, there just aren’t as many baseball-related covers in the modern age as there used to be. Bonus points for the gorilla catching on this Wonder Woman cover but for my money, it doesn’t get any better than the invisible batter on this Strange Sports Stories cover. Also, DC Comics used to publish a comic called Strange Sports Stories!