A new blog is being added to my every growing series of entries. This new one titled Jonah’s Joe’s is dedicated to my love of GI Joe. From the toys of the 80’s and 90’s to the classic cartoon and 155 issue Marvel comic book series. If it’s about GI Joe, it’ll be posted there.
I have been cleaning up my collection and selling large portions of it in order to start paying off some debt, which I hope to have cleared by the time the new baby arrives. I hope to post some pictures of the collection to share with you all. I most recently started going through some custom figures that I had made a few years back and have the intention of posting pictures along with descriptions on this blog. Several of the figures had been added to www.joecustoms.com, and can still be seen there under the handle, Jogunwarrior. I can’t really remember where that handle came from; I think it had to do with a narcissistic variation of Shogun Warriors. I have always been fascinated by feudal Japan. I remember changing it from the previous online handle Wldcrd78 after a stalker started using an all too similar variation of it (Wldcrd70) to harass my girlfriend. I never did learn the identity of the Internet stalker. But I digress…
If you want to see the work of a man who had way too much time on his hands you can find it here: http://jonahsjoes.blogspot.com/
Notice I used past tense, because I have not had that much time on my hands for quite a few years.

On to more important matters: My wife and I had our ultrasound this past Monday to determine the sex of the baby, and ensure that it has all it’s limbs. I am proud to announce that the baby is healthy and on track as far as developmental stages go. It is also a boy! People always asked if was hoping for a boy or a girl. They assumed a boy since I already have a daughter, and one day will need someone to pass along all my toys and comic books to. There is a part of me that was really hoping to have a boy to pass all my manliness along to, but most boy children I see are complete douche bags. And I’m not going to be one of those parents that says, “My kids never gonna act like that!” Because the truth is that they probably are and then I’d look like a dick. Having another girl would have been cool to, but I already have two women in the house bossing me around and another one may lead me to drink heavily on a regular basis. The truth is that I would have been totally happy regardless of the sex just as long as he/she is healthy.
Our daughter went with us, and afterwards we are all went out to lunch. We went to the Olive Garden where I ordered the seafood-pasta-stuff and had them hold the syphilis (that’s a long story for another time).

What else is going on? Not much on my end other than the exciting baby news. I got a promotion at my day job, which means more work, and less time to sit around thinking about useless shit to blog about.

Not much has changed in the Antidote world since the last update. Anthony is still drawing Bloods Own issue 2. Chris is still drawing Children of Circus. I am going back and forth on scripts for several stories in the works such as Freedom Guard and Black Jack…I’ll have the forty-plus outlined issues completely scripted by the time anyone gets around to drawing issue 2. I need to hire an artist, but that takes something I am lacking right now called – what’s the word – Oh yeah, money! I am also working on some proposals for other publishing companies on the off chance I ever pitch one of the big dogs an idea it’ll be ready. There had been some discussion at the last antidote meeting, which I unfortunately missed, to reduce the page count of each issue from twenty-two to twelve. This would hopefully reduce cost, as well as the time it takes to complete an issue. Issues could have some bonus stuff added like sketches, and maybe even script pages. The reduced page count would come with a lower price tag to the consumer, which is nice. I am not totally on board with these changes, as I enjoyed the current format with the visage of being able to go head to head with the big dogs, but I am willing to try anything to get more quality products out sooner. I also need to realize that ultimately this is just a hobby.
With Diamond’s changes in their distribution guidelines (my friend and neighbor, Matt does a good job summing it up in his own blog here: www.cupokryptonite.com we will probably not be submitting Black Jack or any other titles to them anytime soon. We will stick to the convention circuit for now and may review alternative methods of distribution when we have more books available. Once again, I need to remember that this is still just a hobby!

Hopefully I’ll have some more stuff for next week, and remember to check out the new GI Joe pages!