Dragon’s Lair is having its 20th Anniversary bash this weekend and celebrating with some creator signings at all three of its stores. If anyone’s in the Austin or San Antonio area, pop on by one of the Dragon’s Lair stores and say, “Hi!”

Here’s the signing schedule:

AUSTIN SCHEDULE
10-12 Josh Howard/Kristian/Terry Moore/Matt Sturges
1-3 Gail Simone/Scott Kurtz/Jeffery Stevenson
5-7 Cameron Stewart/Chip Zdarsky

SAN ANTONIO SCHEDULE
10-12 Cameron Stewart/Chip Zdarsky
2-4 Josh Howard/Kristian/Matt Sturges
5-7 Gail Simone/Scott Kurtz/Jeffery Stevenson

ROUND ROCK SCHEDULE
10-12 Gail Simone/Scott Kurtz/Jeffery Stevenson
2-4 Cameron Stewart/Chip Zdarsky
6-8 Josh Howard/Kristian/Matt Sturges

It should be a lot of fun (especially with putting that much comedy and sarcastic wit in one room), so don’t miss out.

Tags: comic, signing, dragon’s lair, Gail Simone, Scott Kurtz, Terry Moore, Matt Sturges, Josh Howard, Cameron Stewart, Chip Zdarsky

A question about… well, I’m not quite sure…

Okay, so let me give you a little back story on this situation to lead into my question, so you’ll have all the information available. I went to this conference last year in October, I think. No, it was definitely October because I remember talking with someone at the bar at the conference about shopping for a costume the week before I went because I was going to a friend’s party where the theme was “Classic Fashion Disasters.”

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Tags: The Creative Adviser, advice column, breaking in, screenwriting, filmmaking

Chicago, technically, and I’ll be here for a couple more weeks (but I get to fly home for the weekend). But things have kept me from the blog… coding (and in some cases, recoding) 5 websites (yes, five!), working on the comics/webcomics, writing another screenplay, working on some columns, and working on some pitches.

But, I’d rather be out here commenting on The Mutant Chronicles, the CNN Exchange, and the short film/commercial director brought on board to direct the Halo movie. Give me another couple weeks, and I should be able to get back into a regular blogging groove.

Until then… beware the olives.

Tags: mutant chronicles, cnn, Halo, Blomkamp, gamasutra, sci-fi wire

In this issue, the team gets drunk, blows up a tree, gets gassed, blows up an old military building, gets a bad head trip, blows up a… you get the idea… Well, you would if it all happened in that order. Join us for the killing, the conspiracies, and the crayon drawings.

Check out the preview to Task Force 1 #2 over at Image Comics!

Tags: comic, military, science fiction, task force 1, Image Comics, Jim Valentino, Shadowline, sniper, EOD, HALO

1. Driving up into the parking garage at the hotel and into a wall of smoke where firefighters are dousing a flaming mini-van.
2. Hearing tales of my little girl at home opening up both ends of a fruit snacks bag to wear them on her forearms like Wonder Woman’s bracers.
3. Venture Brothers.
4. Having a team come together for a project I’m co-creating/co-writing.
5. Planet Karen
6. The artery clogging, but ever-so-satisfying Monte Crisco sandwich.

Tags: fire, wonder woman, venture brothers, webcomic, sandwich