Brains in Jars Attached to Robot Bodies Hate Cephalopods

By my friend and partner-in-awesomeness Jason Copland, who's birthday is today. Happy Birthday, pal!

Kill All Monsters! pp 24-26

Chapter One comes to a close with the first look at one of our heroes outside her Bot. With all the monster fighting that's been going on so far, I'd sort of forgotten how much of a genius Jason is at facial expressions and body language. I'm so proud to be working with him on this thing, you don't even know.

Captain Squidd Comes to Town

Jason Copland has a fun experiment going on the Poutine blog that he shares with Noel Tuazon. I'll let him explain it:

Here are the pages to an unplotted/scripted story I did while on vacation in Las Vegas. I'm putting these pages up for all you writers/storytellers who want to try their hand at constructing something interesting out of them[...]feel free to move the pages around into whatever order you need them to go. Think of them as pieces of a puzzle of your own design.

So I did. And because I'm awesome, I lettered it in PowerPoint. I'm pretty sure that's how Todd Klein does it.























Now I kind of want to find out what happens next...

Stoked about Kill All Monsters!

Last weekend I spilled the beans that the Kill All Monsters! webcomic is going to be hosted by the fine folks at Review 2 a Kill, but that a launch date hadn't been set yet. I should be able to announce that soon, but for now I'm excited to see that the comic has been mentioned in Ian Explosivo's comics column "She & Him." While talking about the tentacle monster in Marvel's Generation Hope, Ian says that he's also "all stoked about Review 2 a Kill’s upcoming Michael May/Jason Copland original KILL ALL MONSTERS!"

We are too, Ian. We SO are too. 

Coming Soon: Kill All Monsters!

As FallCon was approaching, I mentioned that there was something I wanted to tell you guys, but was waiting for an official announcement first. I like waiting for official announcements because then I don't look silly later on if something goes wrong and the project never takes off. Even though I'm 100% confident that the giant monsters vs. giant robots webcomic that Jason Copland and I have created will be coming soon to a computer monitor near you, I still didn't want to say anything here until the good folks at Review 2 A Kill, the website that's hosting us, did first.

But...I got all excited and wanted something to talk about at FallCon, so I made some flyers and passed them out at the show, saying that the webcomic would launch on 5 November. As you're undoubtedly noticing, that's today, but we're not quite ready to launch. This is nobody's fault; it's just technical difficulties. We're the first webcomic that Review 2 A Kill has hosted and they want it to look snazzy. It's my fault for printing a release date when it hadn't been announced yet.

But since I did - and since some of you got a flyer and may be wondering what's going on - I figured it's time to at least bring everyone else up to speed on what I've been hinting at. Jason's been talking about it on his blog anyway (and sharing art; go look!), so it's safe enough.



Without making any more promises about the launch date, here's a brief summary of what the comic's going to be about:

In Kill All Monsters! the giants have already won. It's a post-apocalyptic setting in which the world has been completely overrun by giant monsters. Pockets of humanity are hiding and surviving as best they can, but no one's found an effective way to defeat the beasts...until now. Operating out of a hidden temple deep in the jungle, the African Defense Force has created a small until of giant mechs, operated by an international team of the best pilots humanity has to offer. The story begins with the unit's first trip out of their home continent as they try to assess some of the damage done to Europe. What they learn there is even more terrifying than they imagined.

That's all I'll say for now except that we'll be squeezing in a lot more than just giant monsters and robots.  We'll also have mutant animal-people, barbarians, and secret societies of mad scientists, so keep your eyes here for more information about the launch date and watch Jason's blog for more preview art. This is going to be fun.

Spencer Kills a Monster

One last post for the day. I could've put this in the Art Show, but it deserves it's own post. It's a giant lion-bot fighting an enormous cephalopod by Jason Copland. From a project he and I are working on.

More info coming sooner than you might think.