More Schlocky Commentary...

[seawasp]

I have only two complaints about the Shlock Howard sent me:

1) It's too blasted short. Comic collection books should be big thick things, like... like... coffee table books. Hundreds of pages.

2) It starts in the middle! I want the early adventures bound up too! (I'm wondering if Howard, having refined his style over the years, wants to go back and tweak the earlier strips. If so, no, just print them up, dammit!)

I mean, really, how can you NOT start out with the story that includes things like the "tear-apart" drive ("TERAPORT!")...

Other than that, it's awesome. I want another volume. Now. In fact, if they're all going to be this skinny, Howard, I want another THREE volumes, right now. :)

Comments

[howardtayler.livejournal.com]

The next volume will be marginally thicker (maybe 90 pages) and will be the next story in sequence.

The following two volumes are going to be fat -- 200 pages at least -- and between the two of them I'm hoping to get all of the first 1000 strips in print. These won't be re-colored, but there will be bonus materials. I don't know how much they'll cost, either. Expect them sometime in 2007.

--Howard

[jerith.livejournal.com]

Yay!

*starts saving his lunch money...*

2007???

[seawasp]

That means I have to wait at least 7 months! YOU EVIL MAN, YOU!

Re: 2007???

[howardtayler.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's time to reset expectations: Figure on a YEAR before you have Book 0-a in your hands, and another six months past that for Book 0-b.

Schlock Mercenary and Boundary

[(Anonymous)]

Just read Boundary and almost fell over when I hit the passage about "carbonan" spacesuit fabric manufactured by the "Tayler Corporation". Was immediately consumed by curiosity regarding whether Eric or Ryk was the Schlock Mercenary fan, although in retrospect I should have known. In any case Seawasp's livejournal answered the question before I had time to ask it.

Don't have any of the standard ID methods the "post comment" function supports, so I will just claim unverifiably to be York Dobyns; Ryk may or may not remember the name, as it's been several years since we last corresponded. In any case, I'm delighted to see the way Ryk's writing career is building, since I've hugely enjoyed everything he's written so far.

Re: Schlock Mercenary and Boundary

[seawasp]

Of course I remember; "York Dobyns" is just about as common a name as "Ryk Spoor". Glad you enjoy the stuff, I'm writing more as fast as time allows.