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Sounds in My Head

This one goes out to all my brothers and sisters in San Diego nursing Comic-con hangovers this morning. ♫ http://blip.fm/~tw447

World Balloon podcast Part Two

Also here's the second part of my most recent chat with John Siuntres on his Word Balloon podcast.  I think we rambled a lot in this one, talking about Johnny Cash and William Peterson and maybe some comics as well.

My new gig: WHERE THE HELL AM I?

I'll be writing a new column for Comic Book Resources beginning next month.  It's titled WHERE THE HELL AM I? and is about my experience breaking into comics and my thoughts on where I've ended up and where I'm headed and whatever the hell else I wanna talk about. 

Details here.

Project: God Loves Batman

Fred Phelps and the folks from the Westboro Baptist Church are a rather infamous group of bigots and hatemongers who love to picket all sorts of events, including funerals of American soldiers.  Unfortunately we see them a lot here in Kansas City because they're based right down the road in Topeka.  They picketed my son's school about a year ago.  Now they've turning their attention to Comic-Con.  As always, the best way to deal with these people is just ignore them, since attention is all th...

Sounds in My Head

Things that bring me the most joy in life: 1) My family & friends. 2) My job. 3) Songs like this. ♫ http://blip.fm/~tiw1v

We are all fucked

The Taliban is training machine gun-toting monkey-terrorists to kill us all. Make peace with your god today.

Taliban trains 'monkey terrorists' to attack US troops

ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN & WOLVERINE #2 preview

It's out this week. It's drawn by the amazing Adam Kubert. It features Wolverine righting robots, a gun that blows up planets and a really REALLY big version of Dr. Droom. Click the above image for a preview.

Harvey Award nominations

Thanks to everybody who voted for the Harvey Award nominations. I've been nominated for Best Writer and SCALPED has been nominated for Best Series. If I win either award, I promise to braid the trophy into my beard and wear it around forever.

http://www.harveyawards.org/

Beard progress -- July 2010

Beard progress -- July 2010, originally uploaded by Jason Aaron.

I am coming for you, Alan Moore. I am coming.