gerry duggan

Mitt Romney has lashed out at Obama for his appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. He’s upset that our President appeared charismatic and humorous. Mr. Romney has a habit of attacking, but not following up with a substantive plan, and the same is true about this very manufactured controversy. 

However I believe Mitt deserves equal time to show you what he’s made of. So here are a few TV ideas that would be appropriate for Mitt to participate in. 

Romney Dough Jams The News. Or whatever else he wants to while taking in 10 million dollar anonymous donations. 

* Fringe: Agents from the Fringe Division deal with the appearance of a Mitt Romney from an alternate universe. He looks like our Mitt, but he tries to inflict affordable government health care on the unsuspecting citizens of Massachusetts. Our Romney succeeds in deleting this almost human Bizzaro from existence.

* Mitt sits in the booth during Sunday Night Baseball from Fenway Park. He buys the Red Sox, and fires Bobby Valentine. This is probably the cheapest & easiest way for Mitt to appear fun.

* Mitt appears on The Weather Channel to announce which way he’s blowing that day.

* Mitt breaks down the most cost effective and aerodynamic breeds at The Westminster Dog Show.

* Stanley Cup Layoffs. I haven’t figured out what this is, but it sounds like something Mitt will like.

* 2 Million Broke Girls

* On Ax Men Mitt can chop trees that are not the right height.

* Mitt hangs out on Wheel Of Fortune. Vowels cost 20,000 dollars and you can only play by borrowing money from your parents. 

* Person Of Interest: …never mind. 

Hi, 

To celebrate FREE COMIC BOOK DAY I will be giving away single issues of The Infinite Horizon (while supplies last) at The Comic Cellar in Alhambra on Saturday May 5th from 11AM-1PM.

I will give you a free issue # 1, and I’ll have a few copies of the Emerald City Exclusive hardcover to sell if you would like a handsome hardcover for an award-nominated take on the Odyssey set in a dystopian future. If you’re in the neighborhood - swing by, keep me company and unfollow me on twitter in person. 

- Gerry

The Comic Cellar

 626-570-8743. 

135 W Main St
Alhambra, CA 91801

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Here’s a partial list of Image Comics creators signing this Saturday. 

Amazon is sold out of The Infinite Horizon, and their stock should be replenished soon, but the best way to get our Eisner-nominated comic is at your local comic shop. To find one go here:

http://www.comicshoplocator.com/Home/1/1/57/575

If they don’t have copies, ask them to order it for you. The Diamond order code: FEB120448 - INFINITE HORIZON TP & the ISBN is 978-1-582409-72-6

Also these shops have stock:

The Comic Cellar

135 West Main Street  Alhambra, CA 91801

(626) 570-8743

and

Meltdown Comics

7522 Sunset Boulevard  Los Angeles, CA 90046

(323) 851-7223

The Infinite Horizon collection is out in stores on April 11th from Image Comics, and I hope you’ll give it a shot. The premise is simple enough: we set The Odyssey in our not-too-distant future. Take me at my word that the art alone is worth your money.

The term “labor of love” is lobbed around a little indiscriminately for my taste, but I think it applies to my collaboration with Phil Noto. We shared a love of comic books, classic literature, dystopian films, science fiction, and westerns. Once we started hashing out the book it was clear that we had a real idea, and the idea had us. It consumed a lot of midnight oil, but that’s what labors of love need to survive. I would be remiss if I didn’t thank two men I stole from: Homer, and Jimmy Palmiotti. I took inspiration from the former, and my partner from the latter. The series would not have been possible without Ed Dukeshire, Drew Gill, Eric Stephenson and so many people behind the scenes at Image Comics.

Our only goal was to make a comic that we would like to buy, and by that metric, we were successful.  If you can, swing by a comic shop and pick it up. To find a comic shop near you go here.  There are a lot of other great comics on the stands at the moment. Comic reading is the most exciting it’s been since 1986.

If you simply can’t pull it together to leave your house, you can buy the collection on Amazon and Comixology too.

Finally, here are a few really nice reviews of the book:

Comic Booked had this to say: ”The Infinite Horizon is the kind of story that will easily join the ranks of other big comic book tales, like The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen.”

Yikes!

Ain’t It Cool wrote: “As an ode to a classic, as a modern war story, as a gorgeous work of art; THE INFINITE HORIZON masters it all.”

Digital Noob writes: “Take a long journey with The Captain along The Infinite Horizon, the long road home is sure not to disappoint.”

Thanks again to all the kind reviewers, the fans that bought the book and to anyone that recommends TIH. Word of mouth is critical for non-superhero material, so if you liked it - please tell a friend. 

Thanks, 
Gerry

PS- If this is the first comic you’re picking up in a while, consider checking out these comic books I’m enjoying.  

I’ll assume you’ve read the classics from Moore/Gibbons and enjoyed the works of Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis.

Here’s what I recently discovered or re-read - in no particular order, because I’m not getting paid for this shit:

X-Force By Remender/Opena et all from Marvel

Walt Simonson’s Thor. Also, Walt Simonson’s upcoming Avengers. PS- Walt Simonson’s anything.

Darwyn Cooke’s Parker Series

Fear Agent by Remender/Moore/Opena

Brubaker & Phillips’ Fatale & Criminal

Petrograd from Oni

Casanova by Fraction/Ba

Green River Killer

Black Metal from Oni by Spears & BB

Snyder’s Batman & American Vampire

Gail Simone’s Batgirl

Anything from Bendis & Oeming

The Cross Bronx from Image by Brandon & Oeming

Saga from Image by Vaughn & Staples

Heart from Image by Butler & Mellon 

The Walking Dead - still always fun & fucked up nearly 100 issues in.

Anything written by Jason Aaron, especially Scalped. 

I recently re-visited Meltdown: Wolverine & Havok - it still stands up as one of the most interesting experiments in comic books. 

Asterios Polyp is a must-read. 

I won’t recommend the truly magnificent Artist Editions that Scott Dunbier is editing at IDW because they’re a joy, my son wants to color them and I have no place to hide them from my son.

And my favorite comic of all time - Lone Wolf & Cub. Tremendous stuff. Buy/Borrow/Steal/Download.

The best part is that I’m still looking at a stack of comics 2 feet high that I have yet to read, that might make this list of old and new stuff that I loved. (it’s not really a list) 

Hi, 

This Friday, Saturday & Sunday Phil Noto & I will be at table Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. We’re hanging out at Table P-03 for the whole show except when we’re at Image Comics singing on Saturday from 11-12pm.

In April the softcover collected The Infinite Horizon will be available everywhere, but this weekend you can purchase a very limited hardcover of the book - only at ECCC. So swing by to say hi, or unfollow me on Twitter in person. 

Here’s a press release, if you’re into that sort of thing:

http://www.imagecomics.com/news/180/IMAGE-COMICS-PROGRAMMING-AT-EMERALD-CITY-COMICON

And here’s a list of some of the exclusive merchandise at the show, including the very limited The Infinite Horizon hardcover. 

http://www.imagecomics.com/news/175/IMAGE-EXCLUSIVES-AT-EMERALD-CITY-COMICON

And here’s a pic of the book in the wild:

Hope to see you this weekend, but if you’re not coming to the show please ask your comic retailer to order the TPB of our Eisner-nominated comic.  Order code: FEB120448 - INFINITE HORIZON TP.  Its ISBN is 978-1-582409-72-6

Thanks again & Stay Gold!

Gerry