Tuesday October 29th 2013, 8:58 pm
Well, really on Wednesday morning. But I wish we had done a special midnight release this Tuesday night. Here is the cover below. I’m not doing my usual process blogs for these Sandman covers because some of that will be used for the Special Editions versions for each issue. And I’m not doing any thumbnails for composition on these either, so I can’t even show that. I’m letting them dictate to me as I draw and paint what the full compositions will be, letting them be dreamed up as I work, so to speak. This becomes extremely evident for the cover to issue 3 when you see that later.
Thursday October 17th 2013, 2:22 pm
Here is a list of music that was listened to while drawing pages for Sandman Issue 1…
2013
Apr. 4th-
Chelsea Wolfe: Apokalypsis
Chelsea Wolfe: The Grime and The Glow
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away
Sound City: Real to Reel
May 9th –
David Bowie: The Next Day
Those Poor Bastards: The Plague
Julian Cope: Black Sheep
May 30th –
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Specter At The Feast
Fitz And The Tantrums: More Than Just A Dream
The Twilight Garden: A World We Pretend
June 13th-
Calexico: Spoke
Nellie McKay: Obligatory Villagers
Black Sabbath: 13
June 14th-
The Warlocks: Heavy Deavy Skull Lover
Death In Vegas: Dead Elvis
Stereophonics: b-sides
August 6th-
Gogol Bordello: Pura Vida Conspiracy
Marnie: Crystal World
Julian Cope: Revolutionary Suicide
August 23rd-
Ad Astra: Jewels Of The Nile on vinyl
Joey Ramone: “Ya Know?” on vinyl
Music Inspired By Star Wars And Galactic Funk By Meco on vinyl
Sept 2nd-
Rush: Presto
Rush: Fly By Night
Love and Rockets: Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven
Sept 10th-
Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks
Nine Inch Nails: Hesitation Marks Remixes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito
Sept 20th-
Love and Rockets: Express
Love and Rockets: Earth Sun Moon
Sept 23rd-
Love and Rockets: Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets: Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets
Sept 25th-
ELO: No Answer
ELO: ELO II
Sept 30th-
ELO: On the Third Day
ELO: Eldorado
Oct. 1st-
ELO: Face The Music
ELO: A New World Record
ELO: Out of the Blue
Oct. 3rd-
ELO: Discovery
ELO: Time
ELO: Secret Messages
Oct. 5th-
ELO: Balance of Power
ELO: Zoom
Rush: Vapor Trails Remixed
DEVO: Hardcore Volume 1 on vinyl
DEVO: Hardcore Volume 2 on vinyl
The Mission: The Brightest Light
Oct. 6th-
Chelsea Wolfe: Prayer for the Unborn
Chelsea Wolfe: Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
Chelsea Wolfe: Pain is Beauty on vinyl
The Damned: The Stiff Singles 1976-1977, vinyl 45s
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: The Proposition- Original Soundtrack
Those Poor Bastards: Songs of Desperation
Those Poor Bastards: Hellfire Hymns
Oct. 7th-
Blondie rarities (homemade compilation #8)
Blondie rarities (homemade compilation #9)
Blondie rarities (homemade compilation #10)
Oct. 8th-
Ghost Dance: Stop The World
Wednesday October 16th 2013, 10:30 am
Clearing up some confusion as to when our last issue of Batwoman is to be published…
It’s this week in Batwoman issue 24. The big showdown between Batwoman and Batman kicks off this issue. And was going to run into the next 2 issues, a real knockdown heavy hitting battle. This issue was only the first part of it.
I’m depressed over this a bit. And frustratingly the issue will give no arc conclusion, or conclusion to our run. We apologize to you readers for that. It wasn’t what we wanted to happen.
Issue 24 was already written and being drawn by the time fallout came from our decision to leave the title. There had already been an issue 25 written by us and turned in, but at this point I don’t think this will ever be published. Issue 26 was to be the final chapter of the arc and is left unwritten by us currently. So DC isn’t publishing the end of the arc. Or at least not in any way we intended. If there is ever an offering of a conclusion to the last 7 months of storytelling, it most likely will be by the hands of others, and we have no idea how exactly that direction will proceed.
What saddens me about it is that our issue 26 two months from now would have ended in a place that would serve as an adequate end cap to our run in a lot of ways. We knew how we were going to wrap things by issue 26, and felt we would have done so in a satisfying manner, or so we hoped. There was SO much stuff going to happen, some crazy reveals, the reveal of Bones’ past, just how he connects to Kate and Beth Kane, and a confrontation with Jacob Kane and his Murder Of Crows. Batwoman having the final throw-down with Batman. We were going to give large plot points on how Beth became Alice. Bette Kane a.k.a. Hawkfire shocked and horrified by something Alice/Beth does during the rescue mission. Ultimately bring the entire family to some form of a beginning to heal, and how Maggie would fit into all of this. Chase, seeing the horrors of what Director Bones is doing, was going to cause her to make a radical decision that would forever change her life. This was all set up after altering a major plot point to suit DC’s needs. We would’ve been able to end our run at good spot for the next creative team. But that must only be happening in some parallel world. So the first 7 issues of this fourth arc will leave the story in a sort of limbo and not fully resolved, at least by us.
So I guess we have to say goodbye to Batwoman for real now. We love you Kate.
Here is the cover to issue 24…
