Simon Gane shares a preview of the the cover for the upcoming Halloween Classics edition of the Graphic Classics series. More deets in this article from last week.

Sam Henderson doodles constantly. He has generated thousands of sheets of paper that are jam packed with his characters. Sometimes these get left behind… Here’s one that re-surfaced over a decade after he did it.

The debut issue of the new Adventure Time comic book series from KaBOOM! is in stores today*, and Toronto’s The Beguiling will be celebrating with an event this Saturday, featuring series writer Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics fame) and AT artist Steve Wolfhard (creator of Cat Rackham Loses It). Many comic artists work on Adventure Time – check out our survey here.

Gary Panter and Joshua White are opening a massive light show/trip city/living sculpture in a 22,000 square foot museum in Detroit. It’s at MoCAD, opening February 10th with a performance.

Sam McPheeters (of Born Against/Vermiform Records/Men’s Recovery Project/etc.) has written a novel – The Loom of Ruin – it is to be released on April 1st, 2012. He will be doing an extensive book tour and needs help filling in a few dates. Anyone seriously interested in helping me put an event together for Sam in the South Bay on May 3rd., can you please get in touch via the contact form. Thanks.

The Center For PostNatural History will be opening a storefront location on March 2nd 2012, at 4913 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA. Congrats to Rich Pell and crew! Hopefully we will have more details before the grand opening.

*Sorry, folks… Wow Cool will not be carrying the floppy issues of Adventure Time, as they are distributed exclusively through Diamond and we do not and have never done business with them. Stay tuned for news about the collected editions, which Wow Cool intends to offer for sale. So, hey, support your local comic shop!

Simon Gane brings us a preview of several panels from his 28 page adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 41 page* horror story from 1892, “Lot No. 249“. The comic will run in Graphic Classics Volume 23: Halloween Classics, due for release this August. The book will also feature adaptations of Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air”, Mark Twain’s “A Curious Dream’, and an interpretation of the silent film classic “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, with art by Matt Howarth. The story was the first bit of lit to introduce the character of the vengeful bad ass mummy — later much popularized by hollywood — right during the height of Egyptomania in Victorian England. Simon also steps out in a co-adaptation of The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde in the revised Graphic Classics edition to be released in April.

* It’s that long in “The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle“, where I have it… a few pages less in “Round the Red Lamp“, where it usually shows up.

Jason Martin brings his Power Animals to Florida today, Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2012…

POWER ANIMALS TRANSMISSION DEVICE 2012 (video projection w/sound, runtime: 1 hour, looped) @ Orlando Museum of Art, event curated by artist Johannah O’Donnell: “From Robots to Warlocks: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Art in the 21st Century.” Power Animals screening 6-9PM @ SunTrust Auditorium, Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 North Mills Avenue, Orlando FL — Features new videos, strange raw footage, works made for the internet, previously screened videos, all remixed and scored with original music for this particular screening.

Tom Hart will be opening the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) to the world this Friday, January 27 from 7 to 10PM. The Grand Opening is also a book launch party/gallery show for Derek Ballard’s Cartoon Show.

SAW is proud to open its doors to the public and showcase Gainesville comix artist Derek Ballard.
Derek Ballard has worked extensively as a illustrator and t-shirt designer and has had comics published in Vice, Juxtapoz & Beautiful/Decay, Faesthetic, Typhon, and The Drama. Cartoon Show is his first book collection. Ballard’s comics are a combination of intense imagery rooted in visionary science fiction, 80s style and modern street art, drawn with bold, angular brush strokes and vivid colors. Cartoon Show is a genre comic of futuristic originality.

SAW, is located at 17 SE 5th Ave, Gainesville, FL 32601 (behind Citizen’s Co-Op.)

SAW is a non-profit organization dedicated to the prosperity and promotion of sequential art and artists, offering comprehensive instruction in comics, graphic novels and sequential art. In vibrant Gainesville, Florida.

Among Tom Hart’s many achievements, he co-founded Wow Cool 24 years ago this month.

UNREST Perfect Teeth / 7″ Box Set from Teen-Beat on Vimeo.

UNREST’s landmark indie-rock album, Perfect Teeth, has been out of print for 15 years. Their last, and widely considered their best album. Featuring M.T.V. hits “Make Out Club” and “Cath Carroll”, the other 8 songs, plus 6 non-LP tracks.

it is being re-released in it’s original 7″ vinyl box set format, revised with a 7″ 24-page booklet filled with photographs of the band by Erin Smith and recording session photos by Mark Robinson, six records all on color vinyl, full-color labels, replicas of the Unrest and Teen-Beat stickers, and a download coupon. Just like the original, the box will be printed by Independent Project Press, this time with metallic gold ink. Each box will be numbered.

You may pre-order it today at http://teenbeatrecords.com It will ship in Spring, 2012.

It is no secret that we at Wow Cool *heart* Unrest all over like a cheap suit.

Adam Arcuragi and The Lupine Chorale Society – with Andrew Gerhan on Bass – kicks off a one month US Tour on Wednesday, January 18th at Los Angeles’ Bootleg Bar. More local to Wow Cool HQ, they will be in San Francisco at The Hotel Utah on Thursday. They’ll be hitting 22 states, so there is a good chance they will be playing somewhere near you soon. Their album Like a fire that consumes all before it… will be released on January 31st on the Thirty Tigers label.

Andrew Gerhan is, of course, the chief audio mixer and general knob fiddler for Wow Cool. Two of the records he added massive polishing to will be released this spring. Stay tuned for more news…

Kramers Ergot #8 will be having itself a release party at Family in Los Angeles at 7pm on Thursday, January 19, 2012. Contributors Ben Jones, Johnny Ryan & Tim Hensley and editor Sammy Harkham will be in attendance. Can’t make it? The book is now in stock at Wow Cool.

Read Sean T. Collins review of Kramers 8 at The Comics Journal.

Welcome to the linkdown and shop update for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend. My five-year-old told a very curious tale about King Luther, whose ‘last name is Junior’, when he came home from school the other day. He also executed the assemblage above out of junk we gathered by the train tracks near the Wow Cool office in Cupertino. Note the wooden train track. We found several of these. If you follow Wow Cool on Twitter, you might have noticed there was a fire near those same tracks last week. We’re fine, the office is fine, but it sure stunk like smoke that afternoon.

I managed to skip doing any kind of best of 2011 lists for music, comics or anything else, but I did note several others. The best rundown you could want of those for comics is provided by Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter. On the music side of things, you should welcome Kid Kameleon to the lineup at Peter Kirn’s excellent Create Digital Music, and spend a few hours with his The (electronic) Music of 2011 list. Of special note is the Kid Kameleon mix of Om Unit further down in the post. You will also want to check out Om Unit’s end-of-year mix for XLR8R from a month ago. We ran a little piece on Kid Kameleon here just a few weeks ago. He knows his stuff.

In other news:
On the ‘How Mid-Westerners See The North East’ side of things, you should check out John Porcellino’s King Cat Winter Tour Diary posts on Maybe Blogging Will Help.

Jeffrey Lewis talks about Bob Dylan on American Songwriter.

Steve Ditko’s cover to his new book Sixteen is previewed.

Alan Moore gets the ‘comics aren’t for kids anymore treatment’, but worse, and also better, in the following:

OK. New in the Wow Cool shop.
The big stars this week are two solid hardcovers that are much less than a million miles apart.

Although originally seen at some shows and available some places back in October, due to a distributor switch it has not been until now that we are able to offer the excellent collection of Jesse Moynihan’s Forming from NoBrow Press. We also have his previous book Follow Me available.

And then there is Kramers Ergot #8. The book made it’s debut at December’s BCGF in Brooklyn, but is only just now on general release. It is a package seemingly designed to encourage discussion (or argument of plate throwing). Few reviews have surfaced yet, but this short write-up and interview with editor Sammy Harkham by the very knowledgeable James Romberger on Publisher’s Weekly is well worth your time.

In the meanwhile, there is not much NEW new stuff in the shop this week, but a number of older titles of interest have been floating in. You may have missed these: Funny (Not Funny), edited by Ryan Standfest who also gave us Black Eye; several books by David King, including his recent Lemon Styles and a stellar contribution to the new Study Group Magazine; the serious gem of a jamcomic Play Overlord by Sean Christensen, Amy Kuttab & Theo Ellsworth; we got some of the last available Wowee Zonk #3 in; one we’ve had for a while that deserves another look is the Stalagmite anthology with Kevin Scalzo and Brian Ralph; and, then there’s Grendel Tales: Homecoming by Dave Cooper, Pat McEown & Matt Wagner… about the oddest thing Dave Cooper worked on, but a real classic.

Thanks for giving!

Yes, it is I. The irregular Wow Cool link dump. Usually posted on a Monday or Tuesday, often in two parts, often skipping many weeks. We are well back from the holidays, and therefore it is time to obliterate every open tab and share the good bits that emerge.

We open with the fight song from of the original St. Trinnian’s films. As you may have heard, St. Trinnian’s creator Ronald Searle passed away a few days ago. He has been remembered far and wide. I tried and failed to find what I thought would be the perfect image to present, so I went with the video instead. If you are going to read only one obituary of the late British cartoonist, you should read the one by Steven Heller in the New York Times. And, hey, I actually liked the newer St. Trinnian’s films.

If you have a couple days to spare you really should take the time to read this interview with amigo Steve Bissette – part of the Comics Reporter holiday interview series. I could list about half of the rest as must reads too, but I’ll let you pick your own favorites.

I was hit totally from left field to see that the Comics Journal had run this astoundingly comprehensive profile of the great Motorbooty zine assembled by Frank Santoro. Mark Dancey is the man and make no doubt.

Our late friend and inspiration Dylan Williams, of Sparkplug Comics, is being chronicled in bloggy fashion at the DYLAN WILLIAMS ARCHIVES – The life and work of Dylan F. Williams 1970 – 2011. “We are attempting to archive the life and work of Dylan Williams: Collected writings, comics, artwork, sketches, letters, stories, photos and tributes. This is an ongoing project compiled by Dylan’s friends and family. If you have something you would like to contribute, please write to tom (at) iwilldestroyyou (dot) com” If you knew Dylan, then the Amazon reviews will make you chuckle and miss him all the more. I lied a couple paragraphs ago, you also must read this Comics Reporter holiday interview with the current proprietors of Sparkplug.

I would be amiss to not give a shout-out to Sean T. Collins for giving us a Shout-out in this post-holiday roundup of amazing comics stuff. It’s part three of… how many? Does this guy ever sleep? So much goodness out there.

In related news, CBR’s Robot 6 has gone into overdrive the last few days (while most of us were relaxing) with great news, bits, previews and more. Seriously, too much to mention, just start digging.

And give special attention to this Robot 6 exclusive preview of titles coming from Koyama Press in 2012. We’ve just added a couple more Koyama titles to the shop here at Wow Cool. Snatch those up, because they are low in quantity and not likely to be reprinted.

OK… in more related news, just one more specific Robot 6 link, and another Koyama-related bit, even… you should really read their recent interview with Michael DeForge, who is also one of the featured artists at Wow Cool.

I’m not sure if Wednesday or Thursday is new comics day where you are. All I know is Paul Grist’s Mudman issue 2 is out from Image. Go get that!

I’m sure I could go on… but I refuse. Carry on… single file, begone with you!

Link dumpage composed while listening to Tom Ravenscroft sitting in for Gideon Coe on BBC 6Music.

Yup. Tapes… as in cassettes. New in the Wow Cool shop are two full length releases from former Brown Cuts Neighbors Jason Martin and Marc Arsenault. First up – on Yeay! – is Jason’s “Harmonic Time Cycles & Scary Guitar Man” and on Hollow Home Ministries is the debut release from Girls of Slender Means – the electronic music lab of nickname: Rebel – Marc Arsenault, Nick Carpenter and Michael Keegan, with special guests Pete Von Petrin and Andrew Sullivan. Break out your Walkmans and crank up the funk.

In the east bay this weekend? You like some alternative press? Get on over to this! The East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair is going on at Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, December 10, from 10-4. Dig it.

Jason Martin will be presenting Power Animals in a variety of formats
at several events in New York City during the next week:

Saturday, December 10, 2001 – Power Animals & Rachel Mason at The December Store

Monday, December 12, 2001 – Power Animals Videos at Home Sweet Home

Friday, December 16, 2001 – Art Pussy: born into this at The Paper Box

The Power Animal Systems video installations are still on view through January 14, 2012 at E10th and Broadway, and a second installation at 80 Washington Square East, Manhattan, NY. “So please come peep the dimensional portals and assist us in transmission! Two solo installations in windows: photographic prints, video, sculpture, teleportation.” Jason talks about Power Animals in this interview.

Hey! Peoples in Brooklyn and nearby! Be on the lookout for the eleventh issue of Smoke Signal! You can grab them from Desert Island, 540 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn NY 11211 and elsewhere nearby. They should be showing up soon online exclusively in the Desert Island web store. This issues features a lovely cover by Charles Burns and a strip by Benjamin Marra and Michael DeForge. Also inside is an ad for Wow Cool, designed for us by Steven Cerio. We will have copies available for bay area peeps just as soon as our new shop in Cupertino opens. Still picking out displays and matching doilies and whatnot.

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival 2011 is happening this Saturday, December third in Brooklyn, New York. The event has become the go-to show for the type of art comics/comics art that we peddle here at Wow Cool, and a great many of the artists whose works we distribute will be at the show (Full exhibitor list). Many excellent new books will be making their debut, and we will be featuring several of them in the Wow Cool shop as soon as we can. Among the titles to look out for: Sam Henderson’s new book Free Ice Cream, š! #9 ‘Female Secrets’, guest edited by Ryan Sands from kuš! komiksi, Smoke Signal 11 with a Charles Burns cover and six pages of goodness by Michael DeForge and Benjamin Marra (also, look for the Steven Cerio designed Wow Cool ad in this issue), DeForge himself will have two new digests available, Zack Soto’s anthology title Study Group Magazine #1 (also with DeForge!), and the much anticipated Chameleon #2.

The guest list this year is simply stunning and includes appearances by Al Columbia, Gary Panter, Phoebe Gloeckner, Brian Ralph, Jack Davis, Lisa Hanawalt, David Mazzucchelli, John Porcellino, and Michael Kupperman.

Keep up-to-date on BCGF goings-on via their blog and on Twitter #BCGF or #BCGF2011 (can we get an official hashtag?)

BCGF 2011
Saturday, 12/3/2011

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 275 North 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY
12-9 pm Free and open to the public

AND

Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue #A, Brooklyn, NY
1-8 pm Free and open to the public

Be the next person to order any of these three items from the Wow Cool shop and you will receive a custom heavy duty canvas totebag at no additional charge:

Offset Needle Radius Vs. nickname: Rebel CD (this tote is also available to purchase separately)

These are 6 oz. cotton canvas totes. Size: 15″ x 16″. Natural color. Screenprinted. This offer will remain open until completed.

We also have a selection of lovely items that are on sale, including several graphic novels.

The new shop is forever growing, so keep watch on the new items page. Recent highlights include Bowman by Pat Aulisio, Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga, Never Learn Anything From History The first collection of Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton, R.A.V. #5 by Mickey Z, the much acclaimed Pope Hats #2 by Ethan Rilly and the 30 page monster minicomic Stay Away From Other People by Lisa Hanawalt – a 2009 Ignatz Award Winner now back in print.

I’ve been finding the strangest stuff while unpacking and stuffing filing cabinets. Today, the long-missing “Mark Martin” folder was uncovered, also a xerox collection of very early strips that Mike Kupperman sent to me to use in the old Tuna Casserole anthology. Wondering now why we never said, ‘hey Mike, we should print a whole book of this stuff’. Many, many other gems… Once the scanner gets moved I’ll scan a few and share them here. I’ve been planning on digitizing and posting massive chunks of the Wow Cool archive over the course of the next year or so. More on that when it starts happening. (illustration above is a scan from a memo by Mark Martin to the Hyena artists)

In other exciting news there is once again a Pee Dog publication available from Wow Cool. We did a printing of Pee Dog #1 back in the early 90′s and were working with Jocko & Eddie to get a Pee Dog Collection into print for about five years at three different publishers until when – literally the week that production was starting on the book – they pulled the plug on the project, presumably to spare their poor mothers the worry. Now, Picture Box has printed a new edition of Pee Dog #2 and we have that available to you here along with a dozen other fine PB publications.

There’s about a hundred more books and other stuff in the shop since last mentioned here in the engineroom, so, please do some browsing. Highlights include Kate Beaton’s first Hark! A Vagrant collection and the Nedroid collections from Topatoco, a large selection of books by the artists behind Adventure Time, Caroline Paquita’s 2012 Calendar, Mickey Z.’s R.A.V. books (expecting #5 to show up any day now), A very nice and very affordable print and also a very nice and very thick minicomic by Lisa Hanawalt, and the very strange event of when Michael Kupperman (him again!) worked for Timely Comics – All Select Comics #1 featuring The Blonde Phantom and Marvex!

OK. Now for the Tweetdown. The best and brightest bits of news from the Twitterzone from the last few days (follow Wow Cool, already). Usually posted on a Monday.

Liz Suburbia posted five new pages of Sacred Heart late on Wednesday, November 16th. She swears she’ll be getting some of the printed editions to us soon.

Bill Moyers is returning to television, and he has a personal letter to YOU about it.



Jeffrey Lewis will be playing at Pat Aulisio’s studio in Philly on November 23rd. Read the recent write up here on Jeffrey.

Ron Regé Jr. is taking your money and doing you drawings. I can think of worse ways to spend 75 bucks.

The must read item of this list is this interview with the awesome Annie Koyama of the press of the same name on CBR. And, no, I didn’t know she worked for the National Film Board of Canada either. No joke, we get plenty of those productions this side of the border too.

Gary Panter’s skateboard design for Pharmacy is a joy and a wonder to behold.

Dan Clowes’ Wilson may become a film. Slightly more information at the very end of this interview with director Alexander Payne.

Wow Cool is officially the last place on the interwebs to post a link to this video of Alan Moore talking about Harvey Pekar.



Oh… and though we teased it within minutes of everyone else, if not much earlier, and through the burnt sage grapevine of the Comic Relief Alumni psychic friends network knew all about it at least a few hours earlier, we are now about the last to report that, yes, there will be a big fat fucking book of King City finally. Creator Brandon Graham has the most enjoyable report of this impending publication. The book, will, of course, be available from Wow Cool. M. Graham will also be writing the new Prophet series for Image. Oh, the news of the new complete edition of King City was first announced in USA Today, of all places. The complete King City is to be a 424 page book from Image Comics, released on February 22, 2012 for a meager $19.99 at the ‘Golden Age’ size. Uh Huh. Yup. As mentioned before… we’d like to see an expanded Escalator collection with a special color section.

You like some J. Church? My much missed fellow MRR shitworker Lance Hahn’s unreleased demos have been digitized and unleashed for you to download. I will be re-hosting these here soon, so that you don’t have to deal with the idiocy of Sendspace. Um… remind me if I forget. Seriously. Busy damn week.

OK. That’s probably it until next Tuesday or so. We’ll see how the move goes. As mentioned before, there are many, many books that are in stock at Wow Cool that are not yet listed online. The goal is to get the vast bulk of it ready by good ole’ Black Friday, including the staggering amount of Robert Crumb titles we have. Otherwise, when the new place in Cupertino is open to the public, announcements will be made prominently in all the likely locations. Local pick-up will also be added as a shipping option in the store checkout. You can get in touch through the Contact Us form to make an appointment if you like until then. Thanks for reading.

This teaser image has just been released to the world by Image Comics. What does it mean? More King City, perhaps? A collection? Hmmm. We’ll just have to wait to find out. In the meanwhile, will someone please bring Escalator
back into print?! In other B.G. news you should check out his drawing-rich post from a few days ago with a preview of his “The Speaker” comic for Dark Horse Presents #7 and much more tasty goodness.

If you are near the twin cities this weekend – November 5-6, 2011 – you should get down to MIX, the Minneapolis Indie Xpo. Wow Cool distributed artists and publishers Dale Flattum, Koyama Press, Tom Neely, John Porcellino, Sparkplug, Top Shelf, and Anthony Clark, creator of Nedroid will all be exhibiting at the show.

All the additional info you could possibly want about the show can be found in Tom Spurgeon’s interview with MIX director Sarah Morean on the Comics Reporter.

You can also follow the action live on Twitter.

This week’s Rodan comes from Simon Gane, who shared it this morning via Twitter. Just a little tease of his upcoming issue of Godzilla Legends. It’s starting to look like a bit of a departure from the sytle Simon used in his previous monster book.

In non-kaiju news…

Today is an other second Monday, therefore Michael DeForge has posted Ant Comic 5.

You may still need to purchase “Harmonic Time Cycles & Scary Guitar Man“, the new cassette release by Jason Martin.

Here is a lovely review of the latest Retrofit Comics release Drag Bandits over on the Google Double Plus Good.

Digital Music News got a makeover and no longer looks like a website from the 1950s.

Occupy San Francisco seems poised to transform into a zombie crawl today. No idea how this might overlap with the usual over the top SF Halloween festivities.

Tune in to the Travel Channel tonight, Sunday October 30th, 2011, for their new special “Halloween Crazy”, which includes a segment on San Jose’s Psycho Donuts. The spot features photos and videos produced by Marc Arsenault and Wow Cool, largely as part of the Psycho Nurse Calendar project.

From $1000 pumpkin carvings to a terror fest in a former prison, we’ve dug up the most spine-tingling, wacky and festive Halloween traditions in the nation.

Halloween Crazy debuts at 9pm Eastern/Pacific Sunday, October 30. Repeats are at 5pm and Midnight on Halloween.

The New York Times talked to Jason Martin about his Power Animals installations, videos and performances as part of a longer piece on Brooklyn’s Microscope Gallery and the live birth that recently happened there. A version of this article appeared in print on October 30, 2011, on page MB1 of the New York edition with the headline: For a Gallery at the Edge, Fame Is Born Tuesday. Jason’s Power Animals Systems NYC Windows installations run through January 14, 2012.

THESE risks include screenings and performances by emerging local artists, like Jason Martin. Mr. Martin, 38, makes what he calls “power animal videos,” in which he dresses as a wolf or dog and conducts séance-like rituals intended to contact the half-animal, half-human creatures that visited him in dreams as a child.

Read the whole article online.

Power Animal Systems, an installation by Jason Martin will be on view through January 14th, 2012. A solo show in windows on Broadway and Washington Square in Manhattan. Viewable 24/7. Works in photography, video, sculpture, and teleportation. Presented by 80WSE Galleries.

Power Animal Systems asks you to please assist in transmission. There are many creatures beyond our perception, but we have technologies to evoke some. These are attempts to bring inter-dimensional, species-queer, animal/human hybrids into a collective reality. They appear here staring intently at us. What do they want? To live! It is only with your participation and contemplation that we can make them come alive. Please assist us in transmission.

RUB THE BLOOD is an Art Comix tabloid that explores the lasting influence (for better or worse) of the Early 90′s Collector Boom comics of Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, etc. on today’s most fringe underground cartoonists. RUB THE BLOOD features never-seen-before comix and artwork by: PAT AULISIO (BOWMAN), JOSH BAYER (RAW POWER), WILLIAM CARDINI (HYPERCASTLE), VICTOR CAYRO (KRAMERS ERGOT 6), IAN HARKER (SECRET PRISON), PB KAIN (PEELING GLASS), KEENAN MARSHALL KELLER (DRIPPY BONES), PETER LAZARSKI (IMAGINARY MONSTERS), BENJAMIN MARRA (NIGHT BUSINESS), JIM RUGG (AFRODISIAC), THOMAS TOYE (COLLECTIVE STENCH), MICKEY Z (RAV). Pledge packages include, among many other fine incentives, a VHS ‘behind the scenes’ tape and copies of Secret Prison.

RUB THE BLOOD will debut at the 2011 BROOKLYN COMICS & GRAPHICS FEST and will only be available in person, or from backing the project on Kickstarter.

WARNING: Some NSFWish penis drawings and f-bombs in the second half of the video.

…and you’ll just have to go find that comic when it hits the streets December 28 to see his art. No preview images available right now. Godzilla Legends #2 was written by Jonathin Vankin and illustrated by Simon Gane. Two covers are available, one by Chris Scalf, the other by Arthur Adams. 32 pages. Color. IDW Comics. $3.99.

The spotlights on Godzilla’s greatest foes and allies continue! This issue focuses on the master of the skies— the mighty Rodan! When Rodan’s egg is stolen and kept at military research facility, the winged beast is tireless in its attempts to retrieve it. However, the human intrigue and betrayal inside the facility will ultimately hold the key to whether Rodan and child will be reunited again!

Also be on the lookout for Nelson from Blank Slate Books which features a hefty contribution from Simon.

Bonus feature. Simon recently moved and he shared a picture of his freshly-shelved comics on Twitter: