Hey my little monsters. Good news to be had for all my fans. Midnight Menagerie issue#2 is finally available on Comixology starting tomorrow. Enjoy full screen, high-end art right on your tablet or smartphone, anywhere, anytime. Also, every issue you buy helps to support the series by actually giving me the funds to work on it. And at only $3.99 an issue, it’s a great bargain! Issue goes live July 30th, so don’t forget to buy it tomorrow!
So for anyone who was under the impression what I was somehow going to neuter Romero by not having him attack humans, I hope those concerns have been lifted. Only a couple of pages left in the chapter now, and then the cover. That week when I post the cover I imagine lots of people are going to be angsting over what happens next. So I’m apologizing in advance.
When I was in the library last week I found a couple of really cool books in the discard pile which I imagine for future story lines will be super useful. First is a horror anthology that lists some of the best horror films, short stories and novels and what makes them so great. It’s from the late 80s so it’s missing a lot of more modern titles and doesn’t cover horror comics (a rather significant omission by my account, but in the 80s comics were still a largely disrespected medium, so I’ll forgive it) but it definitely has a lot of stuff I hadn’t heard of before and will want to track down for research.
The other extremely cool thing I found was a book called The Headless Haunt, which is a collection of African American ghost stories. This is super cool because a lot of times folk lore from minority ethnicities is overlooked in western pop culture, which a real shame because I don’t think there’s a culture on earth that doesn’t have at least have a few interesting myths. While right now Midnight Menagerie is focusing more on traditional horror fare, in future story lines I plan to feature less well known monsters, myths and legends that Shawn and his buddies will encounter.
It’s the middle of summer now and things are really hot now. It isn’t always easy to motivate yourself to draw when you’re cooking in your own juices, especially as hot as my house gets. I don’t know what it is about the heat that makes you so sleepy, but I’ve been fighting the fatigue to keep updates on time. I sorta wish there was a real Midnight Collectables where I live so I could cool off by watching movies at night. At this point I’d even be okay with vampire management as long as they offered sodas.
There’s just three more pages left in Chapter 3, and then the cover, before I submit the chapter to Comixology. If you haven’t bought issue 1 yet, what are you waiting for? Digital copies are only $3.99 and work on almost any smart phone or tablet. The chapter looks really snazzy onscreen.
Also I’ve talked to a couple of people about guest art for the series. For the regular pages that won’t be feasible, but I am thinking of letting people do guest covers. If you run a web comic and want to do a guest cover for Midnight Menagerie, get in touch with me at webmaster @ bwillettcomics.com so we can set it up.
