I’m finally (I hope) on the upward climb out of a mildly nasty cold I’ve been working through the last four or five days. It wasn’t incapacitating, but it did keep me on bed/couch-rest for a few days, erased most of my social calendar, and tossed out my exercise routine. I tried working through it, as I have/had both editor-imposed and self-imposed deadlines, but didn’t accomplish as much as all of this forced time locked in my house could otherwise yield. I did manage to get out and have a normal dinner and a drink at a favorite bar for one of my best pals, Mikey Vegas, although the smoke inhalation from a few hours at Frankie’s Tiki Room might have set my recovery back a few days. Eh, it was worth it.

I know it’s been a while since any new comics of mine have graced your eyeballs, but if all works out, the fruits of the above-displayed labors should be coming your way, either electronically or digitally, in the next few months-to-a-year. The crappy artwork comes from various production stages of the sequel to the Utopian, about which I’m sure I’ll bore you with more details soon. The awesome artwork I’m digitally coloring is by Argentine artist Damian Couceiro, from a project-in-development he and I are working on … and that’s all I’ll say about that.

In other news, I’ll have announcements of upcoming events, both in the worlds of comics and music, coming very soon, so stay tuned!