Update wise around here we’re getting into full swing as convention season really heats up! Red Handed is going to end up catching the later season this year as we’re going to be sidetracked just a little bit by the birth of a brand new baby boy right in the midst of the SDCC and Chicago Comic Con time frame. Don’t think this is going to keep us out of the game for long though! We’ve already confirmed a table at the Champion City Con in Springfield Ohio, and our applications are in for both the NYCC and Wizard World Texas in Austin this year! If you catch us at any of those shows you’ll be able to see our brand new convention set up, which is looking to be something out of this world! You’ll also get ot meet some of the creative teams, check out the cool stuff we have for sael which will include the brand new forthcoming Fallen Justice Trade paperback edition, and have a great time! More convention updates coming shortly folks, so keep an eye out for all of that.

Lastly in the Red Handed store you may notice we’ve added links to each and every issue of Fallen Justice giving folks yet another way to get our books. In partnership with the Indyplanet service we’ve made all our books available through them as well for a number of reasons. For one, it helps us keep our back stock down so we don’t have to store a ton of books. Plus, they take care of all the shipping concerns, and you get the same exact comic as you’d get right from Red Handed Central! That, my friends, is a win win scenario. So scoot on over, check them out, and if you haven’t picked the books up yet get on it!

In addition to the Indyplanet news, we’re also looking for any and everyone to tell your local comic shops they can order Fallen Justice from the distribution arm of the company, called Comicsmonkey! That’s right, your retailer can now get the entire Fallen Justice series at retailer discount and shipped right to the store! They simply click onto the Comicsmonkey site, sign up, and order away. You can’t get much easier than that!

Harold has been such a rock in this whole comic making process. Not only has he completely spoiled me, but he does things out of the blue that really show his commitment and desire to see this project succeed in ways far beyond what most anyone else would put forth. I got some art in the mail today, most of which was the second third of issue #7, the final issue of Fallen Justice. He’s got 12 more pages to ink in this extra sized blow out issue, but he took the time to ink this piece up for me and send it along because he figured I’d like it, and because she’s such a bittersweet character. This promo kinda sums up everything I’ve been feeling about this series lately, coming to the end of it…looking forward to the future and our plans for the Dynagirl series. It’s just…pretty damn cool. So here you go. Ms. Anarchy in the clouds. This one i’m having painted.

See how cool that is? I’m still freaking out! And I got a mail from Ross today, as we discussed back and forth with the colors for issue 6, and he said something that just kept that whole feeling going. I mentioned to him that I’d scanned the second third of the issue 7 inks, and he said: “It’s hard to believe we’re almost done…”. Truer words I’ve never heard.

When you step back and you look at this thing, we’ve been working on this project for a while! I posted the ad for an artist in late 2005. So we’re into our 4th year on this baby! That alone represents a huge chunk of time and life’s blood. I still get a “wow” every time I think about it.

And now it’s almost over. Unreal. But, that’s the point of a limited series. It’s LIMITED! And the whole Dynagirl project pretty much takes the sting out of any empty nest feeling we might start getting trust me! That thing is going to be a serious monster when we get it rolling, you have no idea.

In other news, an interview I did for Jazma Online went live today, and you can check that out here.

And that, as we say, is a wrap.

If you’d rather go a different route, check out Haven Distributors, where our books will be available starting right now and for as long as we’re publishing.

Next, if that doesn’t work for you, go to Indy Planet and have them print you up an issue or three and send em right out. Indy Planet is a great way to get the book in case we’re currently out of stock, so if nothing else works, go for it!

You can’t beat that for availability!

Ugh. My phone lit up today non stop with people calling trying to sell me credit card service. I found out it was in connection with my having signed up for a Tax ID number last week. Evidently the State gives out your phone number to these vultures! Nice! But I think I’ve dissuaded them, at least for the moment. But like always, tomorrow is another day!

Getting fired up for the show this weekend! STAPLE is gonna be a blast! We’ve already got our Watchmen tickets for the afternoon show on Friday, so we’ll be seeing that to kick off the weekend! Then we’re planning to hit the pre-STAPLE party before heading to bed. It’ll be a full day. After the show we also have a post party to attend, and then we’ll be on the road Sunday driving back home for a much needed rest! Come on out if you possibly can, we’d love to see you!

Also got some cool mail today! Three more sets of prints showed up and they of course look awesome! I’ll be posting these up in the store for sale once I get back and get things settled next week.

And I think we have a name for our secret project! It’s called “Seppuku Blues” and I’ll let that stand for now, so you can infer what you want from the title. Suffice it to say…you won’t be disappointed.

In RHS news, we’re confirmed for STAPLE! in Austin on March 7, 2009! Looks like we got one of the last tables because when I went to their site they’d announced the show was sold out for exhibitors! So yeah, got in right under the wire on that one! From everything I’ve heard this is a great show so if you’re near the Austin area and get the chance, come on out! We’ll be signing books, selling books, and hopefully other wicked cool merchandise as we get that arranged. Fun will be had by all!

I received the balance of Fallen Justice #6 in the mail this last weekend, which means it’s in the queue to be colored right now and is also being lettered! (I’ve got pretty good communication with the letterer and he feels certain it’ll be done in the next couple of weeks!) I also have it on god authority that the seventh issue art will begin arriving at Red Handed Central in the next week or so! If we keep up this pace we’ll have Dynagirl pages in before spring! Yikes!

One project we’re looking at is putting together a bunch of shorts we’ve completed over the years into one book and putting it out so people can get a feel for just how widespread the stuff here at Red Handed really is. We do make some bad ass superhero comics, but that’s by no means ALL we make! We’ll be including the Grace prologue, as well as the Totem 12 page story completed for Small Press Idol two years ago. I’ll also toss in several pin ups and concept art from all sorts of things I have laying around here, as well as another little short story that I hear might be done soon. We don’t have a name for it yet, but stay tuned on that front. It won’t be long.

In other Totem news, Brant Fowler (writer/creator of Wannabez) is still onboard as the letterer for Totem. It was his gig when we were doing the contest and I felt like if he wanted it, he should have it. So he’s graciously agreed to continue in that regard, and we’re glad to have him!

And…I have in my hand the art for the highly limited edition print available only to subscribers! And hell yeah it rocks! I could put it up here, but I won’t till we wrap the final subs numbers and lock in the print number. These will each be signed by the ENTIRE creative crew and numbered with a certificate of authenticy along with it. As I mention over in the subscriptions section we’ll print these to number and that’s it, we won’t ever print it again. So if you want one the only way to get it is sign up for a series subscription. And you better hurry too, cause it won’t stay open for long!

That should do it for today folks. I’ve got a couple of other things to announce here soon, once I get off my ass and wrap a script or three, but for now, we’ll leave it at that.

Then we have the future. Dynagirl starts on the heels of Fallen Justice as we pick up with our girl five years after the events of Fallen Justice. She’s a fish out of water, and the world is a different place than it was five years ago. But we don’t give her much time to get used to the new world order as we throw her right into the fire with the first story arc entitled “Reap the Whirlwind” You’ll be seeing some old favorites from Fallen Justice, and a ton of new faces as Dynagirl pushes forward into a whole new era. Harold Edge and Cary Kelley bring this new ongoing series to life witha bang!

Totem, the Small Press Idol semi-finalist is still int he mix as well. The original 12 page short will be printed shortly to comply with the Idol contest rules, and then we will reprint it in full color right here at Red Handed! We’ll team Totem with a couple of other shorts, including an 8 page Grace intro, and maybe a 4-6 page horror short we did a while back if we can round it up. We have no intention of starting up an anthology by any means, but it’s good to keep things in print, and the best way to do that is put them together and get them out there! Be expecting the Red Handed Handfull issue late in 2009. Just in time for Christmas!

The Kansas Hit has had some retooling and is now a full length Graphic Novel telling the complete story in one volume! We’re hard at work on that right now, and while we don’t yet have a comletion date, keep your eyes on the Kansas Hit page right here on the Red Handed Site for more details as they become available.

This is also the place for convention appearances. Everyone loves a comic con, and we’re certainly no different! We’ve got sveral appearances slated for 2009, and as those start to confirm we’ll let it out right here so you’ll be up to date on where you can get books, sketches, autographs and more!

Thanks, to all the people who’ve supported us and made this dream a reality. We couldn’t have done it without you!