I know, where have we been? Well we are still alive. Just sidetracked by our “daily lives” is all. We do promise we will be back soon. A huge thanks to those that have supported in the past and those that will support us in the future. MONOLITH will live on.
Jason
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If you know any of us MONOLITH folks, or have been reading any of our various blogs, then you have some idea how much we were putting into getting ready for the New York Comic Con.
Well, it’s done now. That book is done and all the set-up, prep, marketing, and sales are all done. I had a week off of work immediately following, and I really needed it.
So now it is back to work at my day job, and back to work on our comics. But now, with so much of that stress lifted, it feels like we are just cruising.
There is this ad that I always hear on the right-wing AM radio that I listen to in the morning. It is an ad for shipping by rail. Not a specific company, but just rail in general. I guess they had extra money in their budgets and decided to convince the average radio listener that rail is a really great way to move goods.
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We seem to spend all of our time reading, and writing, and thinking about superheroes.
Why? Because they do what they can to do what is right. Right? That is it. Isn’t it?
We are fascinated because they don’t just do the right thing, but they take obvious, and drastic, measures to say “now I am doing what is right”. Those costumes aren’t just disguises, they are statements of purpose and belief.
And we love them for it.
Meanwhile, in the real world, some piece of garbage decides he needs a little more money for whatever pieces of garbage need money for. He walks into a comic book store in Grand Rapids, MI, pulls a gun, robs the place, and then cements himself as a piece of garbage by shooting the guy at the register when the haul wasn’t big enough to satisfy him.
Comic book stores scrape by. They stay in business to give us the goods. And this guy got shot for it.
He’s alive, but in the hospital. Folks in the local comic shop community are pitching in to keep his shop open, but hospital bills are piling up.
He’s one of ours, comics fans. This is your chance. Step up and make a statement about what you believe is right.
There is a page set up accepting donations here iFanboy
Thanks for your help.
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2007 came and went.
Like most years, it had its ups and downs. The good times are better than the bad times, so we keep going on.
On into 2008.
The end of the first decade of The Future.
So, what does The Future hold for us?
Look for first issues of Rapid City to debut at the New York Comic Con in April.
Details about this keep trickling in. I am so excited about this book and this event. I want it to be tomorrow. But, you can’t rush the future.
Josh
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Just when you think the hype is dying down, more much-deserved love gets heaped on our very dear homeboy, Jason Howard.
Check out this great interview over at Newsarama.
In it he talks about his early career and says “My first published work was way back in the letters pages of Savage Dragon #17; soon after, I did my first book for a small publisher in Detroit.”
Well, guess who wrote that book? Well, some other guy started it, but when he was unable to continue, guess who was asked to come in and pick up the pieces and finish the script?
Yeah. It was me! That comic was called “Wraith”, and even then Jason Howard was blowing me away with style and technique that I could barely even conceive of. He was impressive then, and he deserves every bit of praise that he has been getting lately.
We could not be more proud. Good job, Jason.
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Last weekend, the core of MONOLITH gathered in the downriver area of Detroit for the wedding of Jason and Mandy. It was a lovely ceremony, over which Micah presided with dignity, class, and humor.
Everyone knew it would be a great time, and it was. The only surprise was how all of us really managed to focus on the festivities at hand and not talk too much about business or comics.
That was nice. But it is all over now. Jason will be back from his honeymoon very soon, and then we will be back on some kind of schedule.
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Tim Armstrong’s new solo album, “Poet’s Life”, came out last week.
Despite the cringeingly self indulgent title, it is a really great album.
Getting this album was weird for me, because I am such a big Rancid fan. I have a Rancid tattoo, the story of the Rapid City comic book is structured around the development arc that I imagine taking place from album to album.
It is great, but it is absolutely not what I expected.
If their earlier albums were about defining, focusing, and re-inventing a musical identity, then my comics are about defining, focusing, and re-inventing one’s relationship to one’s own superpowers (this metaphor is just a loose guide for me).
So, if I were to be strict about applying the metaphor, this album could predict the future of some of our characters.
Where does it show them going?
Can I abandon my guiding metaphor at this point?
I don’t have to. This album just drips, snarls, and snorts confidence. To step up and put out an album which is not just unlike anything his band has done in the past (ok, there are hints of it here and there), but unlike any new music released in the US since the 60s, is an amazing display of confidence.
Where does that put the characters and story of Rapid City? The answer is that it doesn’t matter. Because, by the time you get to that point. By the time that all of us have made it through that journey together, the future will be a bold new path to wherever-the-hell-they-want-to-go captained by those with the skill and confidence to pull it off.
Josh Dahl
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