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Day: May 15, 2008

5-15-08

5-15-08

Day 643 of 365 More.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. At least I hope.

This is Omaha the Cat Dancer. Maybe the single biggest influence on me for Cosmic Hellcats. My friend Jenn had bought me all the trade paperbacks except for one years ago. They’ve all been out of print for a while. One of them, volume 5, Jenn was never able to get me. I have the individual comics, but the collected volume was amazingly rare, not because of the story (which is a briiliant exploration of human sexuality and modern feminism through the metaphor of anthromorphic animals by Reed Waller and Kate Worley), but because it happens to have a two page foreword by Neil Gaiman and fanboys are idiots.

But it came back into print this week. And now at long last I have it. What’s more, soon I will have previously unpublished volumes 7 and 8, thus completing the Omaha story, after all these years (it originally started in 1986, and it ceased publication mid story in 1992). But now I will finally know the end.

I can’t wait.

Probably, even among you that are comic book fans, what I am talking about is way too obscure for anyone to care about. I don’t care. Just trust me, this is awesome.

365 days

5-14-08

5-14-08

Day 642 of 365 More.

I like this whole being a celebrity thing.

I was on The Hafl Show today, promoting Cosmic Hellcats and the 365 Days Podcast. Actually, I taped the episode on Wednesday, and they only played half the interview today, with the other half (heehee, that’s a joke) coming next week. Anyway, it was a really fun show. I was amused to find out they played my old Muddy Waters wrestling theme song (Mannish Boy) as they were announcing me coming on the show. I should really update my wrestling page with my current theme music (Hard Out There for a Pimp). Anyway, it was a good time, so definitely check it out..

Got the most recent Cosmic Hellcats web comic posted tonight too, so go check that out as well. Sarah makes her first webcomic today. Let me know what you think.

Ugh, it’s 4:30 AM. I was working on some stuff and fell asleep on my couch around midnight. I really have to get into a normal person rhythm one of these days.

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