2019, huh? What a weird year. I was a part of writing DC’s #1 and #5 top selling comic of the year in Detective #1000 and The Grim Knight. I launched my first creator owned in two years to more success than I ever could have hoped. I successfully lobbied for the chance to write Batman following Tom King. I got to write a comic book that the co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles helped draw. I got to work on big, event level, cosmos shattering stories in Justice League, and Hell Arisen. I got my first tattoos. My dog lost the ability to walk on her hind legs, and recovered. I herniated a disc in my back and have (mostly) healed from that. My brother got married.
Dude. Not sure if you read comments on 2+ year old blog posts. But this newsletter was one of the best things I've ever read of yours, and I'm so glad I decided to immediately scroll down to the bottom of the Archive after joining the Onion Club and read everything from the start.
You perfectly encapsulated my experience, as one of those kids who discovered comics in the mid-late 2000s. As a dedicated reader of MODERN-modern comics (we really need a new Comic Age, by the way...something to define and delineate this exact era you laid out above) I haven't had a perspective speak to my experience as a comic fan so accurately as this post.
Thanks for writing this. As someone finding it two years after its publication, I'm enjoying seeing these retrospective teases of what eventually became Department of Truth and Nice House on the Lake. And just like you outlined in the post above...I'm going to happily binge all of this Archive, knowing there's more to come...and more, and more, and more...
The Low Low Woods was soooooo good! Finally watched Doctor Sleep Mike Flanagan, would make a great director for SIKTC (jk already saw the news cant wait!)
Dude. Not sure if you read comments on 2+ year old blog posts. But this newsletter was one of the best things I've ever read of yours, and I'm so glad I decided to immediately scroll down to the bottom of the Archive after joining the Onion Club and read everything from the start.
You perfectly encapsulated my experience, as one of those kids who discovered comics in the mid-late 2000s. As a dedicated reader of MODERN-modern comics (we really need a new Comic Age, by the way...something to define and delineate this exact era you laid out above) I haven't had a perspective speak to my experience as a comic fan so accurately as this post.
Thanks for writing this. As someone finding it two years after its publication, I'm enjoying seeing these retrospective teases of what eventually became Department of Truth and Nice House on the Lake. And just like you outlined in the post above...I'm going to happily binge all of this Archive, knowing there's more to come...and more, and more, and more...
The Low Low Woods was soooooo good! Finally watched Doctor Sleep Mike Flanagan, would make a great director for SIKTC (jk already saw the news cant wait!)