An Important Announcement For YOU, The Reader!

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, your regularly scheduled Week In Ink will be up tomorrow night, as the shipping delay means I either give myself some extra time to read the comics, or just post a bunch of reviews like: “Hey, this issue of Daredevil looks awesome” or “I remember when I got these Gunsmith Cats stories as single issues” or something.

Rest assured, though, you’ll be able to find out if Dark Xena matched the abject majesty of the first issue in a mere 24 hours.

But tonight, with nothing else on the schedule, I thought I might go ahead and make an announcement: Thanks to the inimitable Jim Shelley, friend of the ISB and head honcho of Flashback Comics, I’ll be heading up to Charlotte on June 15-17 for HeroesCon 2007!

Check it out, we’re right there in Indie Island under “Flashback Universe,” along with Jim, Chad “Danger Ace” Bowers, and Flashback artist Pierre Villeneuve! And what’s more, we’ll be there in the same general area as guys like Matt Fraction and Kyle Baker, which is pretty exciting.

As for just why Chad and I are going with Flashback, well, that’ll be pretty obvious in the next few months.

Anyway, if you make it out to the con and catch me in a sure-to-be-rare moment of sobriety, swing over and say hi, and you might just get to walk away with this:

 

 

Yes, the ISB 2007 Convention Special, and no, your eyes do not deceive you: Along with five suggestions for cheap comics to pick up at the con that I’ve never reviewed on the ISB, you’ll find a special two-page advertising section and an all-new chapter from my upcoming novel, The Chronicles of Solomon Stone: Book One: Enter: Solomon: Stone Me Deadly, featuring the super-sweet cover by EKN (above) and–buckle up, suckers–illustrations by Dave Campbell.

To paraphrase Snoop Dogg: Sims and Campbell together? Now you know you in trouble!

I’ll even have my crayons with me, and while I can’t imagine it actually being the case, I’ll be happy to draw you a picture of Iron Fist or something.

If any more information comes up, I’ll keep you posted. Now then, back to those comics…

14 thoughts on “An Important Announcement For YOU, The Reader!

  1. Damn. Living in the UK can be a bummer (and not in the Sims-and-Campbell-together way). Let’s face it, I’m not going to get over to HeroesCon but – dang – do I wish I could meet the author of Solomon Stone: Book One: Enter: Solomon: Stone Me Deadly! It sounds awesome!

    My, there’s an overabundance of colons in that title.

    Will you post the contents of that all new chapter here on this blog after the convention?

  2. Meeting you in person might just shatter my personal, Adonis-like mental image of you!

  3. Campbell & Sims – it’s like The Beatles and The Beach Boys forming a super band!

    good luck at the Con. If you ever get rich and famous try getting over to the UK so your colonial betters can get a look at you, sir!

    Olav

  4. I concur. A UK based Sims appearance would be the most awesome thing this country has seen since the Magna Carta.

  5. Hey, I’ll be there too. Heroes Con might be the best convention on the circus. Just large enough to be entertaining, but intimate.

  6. Oh, I’m sure I will. I always have a really good time at HeroesCon, except when I got drunk and decided that every single one of my friends (except Josh) was an asshole and that I needed to fight the Luna Brothers.

    The Luna Brothers continue to be unaware of this fact, which is probably for the best.

  7. That cover looks pretty awesome. Hopefully the content inside turns out to be twice or even a googleplex as awesome as the cover, you’ll be rich.

    As a teenage unpublished in print author, this gives me hope that I can one day acheive something at least three quarters of the quality of this. Keep on writing.