Well I'm moving steadily into doing Torture Squid, but "The Miner and the Cave That Ate Time" trudges on in post-post-production. Here's one of those wide panels:

Pelicans - wide panel glimpse

What the hay is that about? There are ever so many strange and wonderful bits you haven't seen yet. We'll have to wait until it's on the shelves!

This is the first comic by a guy named Colin Panetta. It was sent to me because, by all accounts, Colin Panetta seems like an upstanding dude. It's numbered "-3" reportedly because he's "working up to number one."

I thought it was pretty great. The only bit I didn't like is the logo. And, thankfully, despite the look of the cover, the book seems to have nothing to do with zombies.

It had a scene that genuinely creeped me out, followed by a scene that genuinely made me laugh. The goodness is multiplied by several clever and funny ideas, presented in a way that makes you wonder what the heck is happening. A guy is patrolling an underwater city in a boat, for who knows what reason. He has a talking stun-gun and his boss is a madman who only seems to want to talk about the latest episode of "Freak Out or Die."

The art does have some rough edges, it feels like a student busting out on his first ambitious story, though with some artistic muscle shining though. Really, it's exactly the sort of thing I like seeing: a confident fantasy in a weird and interesting world drawn in a raw black & white style. I love seeing this sort of thing from new artists.

So, go check out the web site for Dead Man Holiday.