Upcoming Conventions and a General Update

CONVENTIONS

We’ll see about New York Comic Con, but as of now I’m doing a couple of upcoming regional shows that might be fun.

On October 3rd, I’ll be in Lawrence, Kansas at Free State Comicon.

Check out the ridiculously great “cover” image by sleeping giant/Lawrence artist Wes Wedman:

And a bit further down the road, I’ll be at the Cedar Rapids Comic Con on February 16th next year. I spent the best years of my childhood in neighboring Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and look forward to a return trip.

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The Cedar Rapids show should just about coincide with the release of ALOHA, HAWAIIAN DICK #1 (from Image Comics). As of now, I think we’re looking at a February release. Cover here by Sean Dove:

Interior art is by the amazing Jacob Wyatt:

And speaking of HAWAIIAN DICK…Keep those eyes peeled for news about a super special one-shot that will only be available via Kickstarter.

If you’re interested in the Hawaiian Dick mailing list, head this way:

HAWAIIAN DICK MAILING LIST SUBSCRIPTION FORM

In other news, I’m working on a couple of new work-for-hire projects at the moment, as well as a couple of long form original concepts. Hopefully all of them will drop in 2016.

So, you know. Watch this space.

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O-Con (in Omaha) and something this summer…

Jeremy Haun and I will be repping Bad Karma in Omaha Friday through Sunday at O-Con:

http://www.ocomiccon.com/

Seth Peck may be joining us Saturday and Sunday. Drop in and give us love.

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I’m currently developing new books for a couple of publishers (both of which I’m extremely excited about), as well as working on HAWAIIAN DICK things, and those projects will spool out over the next year or so. But in the meantime…

Looks like this will be out in August. Big, fat hardcover that contains the issue of BLOODSHOT I wrote (my name’s on the cover, so I hope it’s in there):

BLOODSHOT DELUXE EDITION BOOK 2 HC

Written by CHRISTOS GAGE & JOSHUA DYSART, FRED VAN LENTE, PETER MILLIGAN, B. CLAY MOORE, HOWARD CHAYKIN, DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI, DUFFY BOUDREAU, JUSTIN JORDAN, and DANIEL KIBBLESMITH
Art by EMANUELA LUPACCHINO, BART SEARS, PERE PEREZ, TOM RANEY, LEWIS LAROSA, HOWARD CHAYKIN, MANUEL GARCIA, AL BARRIONUEVO, RAFER ROBERTS, and BARRY KITSON
Cover by CLAYTON CRAIN.

Out of the ashes of Harbinger Wars, Bloodshot is about to join the weaponized men and women of the Harbinger Active Resistance Division – the black budget, technologically augmented strike force where the powers are dangerously unstable and every mission is a one-way ticket into the meat grinder. With a reluctant leader calling the shots and a new crop of untested rookies manning the frontline, Bloodshot is about to take H.A.R.D. Corps on a brutal, globe-spanning cavalcade of missions against the Harbinger Foundation, Project Rising Spirit’s own rogue operators, and the conspiracy-smashing duo of Archer & Armstrong. Get ready for a gasoline-drenched, synapse-snapping suicide run where no one is safe and heroes always die trying!

Acclaimed writers Christos Gage, Joshua Dysart, and Peter Milligan join an all-star cast of artists – including Emanuel Lupacchino, Howard Chaykin, Bart Sears, Lewis LaRosa, and more – here for the explosive final act of Bloodshot’s smash-hit ongoing series, re-presented in its entirety for the first time ever in a prestige-sized hardcover format and packed with 20+ pages of rarely seen bonus materials and special features!

Collecting BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS #14-23, BLOODSHOT #24-25,BLOODSHOT #0, BLOODSHOT AND H.A.R.D. CORPS: H.A.R.D. CORPS #0, andARCHER & ARMSTRONG #18-19.

Bloodshot Vol. 6 – The Glitch and Other Tales

Somehow I missed this solicitation, but I think it should be out now?

BLOODSHOT VOLUME 6: THE GLITCH AND OTHER TALES TPB
Written by PETER MILLIGAN, DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI, B. CLAY MOORE,
HOWARD CHAYKIN and More
Art by LEWIS LAROSA, MANUEL GARCIA, WILL ROSADO and HOWARD CHAYKIN
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA

A murderer’s row of comic talents – Peter Milligan (Hellblazer), Duane Swierczynski (Birds of Prey), B. Clay Moore (JSA: The Liberty Files), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg), Lewis LaRosa (Punisher MAX), Manuel Garcia (Black Widow), and many more – come together for a collection of stories from throughout the bullet-riddled history of Valiant’s most brutal and relentless hero!

Meet the man behind Bloodshot – or is he? – when one soldier’s untapped killer instinct takes over in “The Glitch”! Then, Russian superpies don’t die easy as “Sleepers” takes Bloodshot deep into the biting cold of a former Soviet state and face to face with an enemy eerily similar to himself.
Plus: the origin of Bloodshot retold, Howard Chaykin’s “Protocol”, and much more!

Collecting BLOODSHOT #24, the oversized BLOODSHOT #25 anniversary extravaganza, and an exclusive Director’s Cut of BLOODSHOT #1 – featuring a never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes look inside the script, art, and character designs of the blockbuster first issue that set Bloodshot in motion!

$14.99 | 112 pgs. | T+ | On sale APRIL 15
TRADE PAPERBACK | ISBN: 9781939346711

Proof of Life

It’s been too long since I’ve updated the blog, so here’s a thing to look at if you happen to stumble past. A page drawn by Tommy Patterson for something we’ll be seeing down the road.

I promise there will be exciting stuff to talk about, like…soon.

A Pair of BCM DC Digital Links

Most of the work I do for DC is of the licensed or “custom” variety, both of which I enjoy quite a bit. But two of my more recent “mainstream” DC stories are always available digitally. Both were a lot of fun to do, and both were exceptionally well received (I could link you to reviews, but that’s a lot of work), so here’s a handy link to both.

First is the “Crisis in Identity” Batman story, from LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT, with art by the astounding Ben Templesmith. Here’s a sample screen:

 

And here’s another:

Here’s a link to the first digital issue (which ran in LOTDK 4-6):

https://www.comixology.com/Legends-of-the-Dark-Knight-2012-2013-4/digital-comic/26623

(This story was also collected as a single issue in print, as LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #2, and then into the first LOTDK trade paperback)

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The second story (“Exposed”) appeared in ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #38-39, and dealt with perceptions of Superman, sort of. With fantastic art by Gabriel Rodriguez, and color by Alejandro Sanchez. Have a sample:

And another:

Here’s a link to the first digital issue:

 https://www.comixology.com/Adventures-of-Superman-2013-2014-37/digital-comic/63147

(This story was collected as a single issue in print, as ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #13)

So feel free to give them a shot!

 

The Jackie Karma Playlist

I put together a Spotify playlist based on (although not quite matching) the lists included in ’76 #1-5.

Dig:

OUT NOW

This trade dropped on September 4th:

BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT VOL. 1 TP

Written by DAMON LINDELOF, JONATHAN LARSEN, TOM TAYLOR, B. CLAY MOORE, STEVE NILES, T.J. FIXMAN, ANDREW DABB and JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV
Art by JEFF LEMIRE, J.G. JONES, NICOLA SCOTT, BEN TEMPLESMITH, TREVOR HAIRSINE, TAN ENG HUAT, PHIL HESTER and others

Cover by ETHAN VAN SCIVER

On sale SEPTEMBER 4 • 168 pg, FC, $14.99 US

These new tales of Batman explore unusual sides of The Dark Knight, including his early years as a crimefighter, his method of dealing with super-powered foes and more. Collecting issues #1-5 of the digital-first series.

BCM Books 4 Sale (again)

After shipping off some overdue books and signing a few hundred copies of BAD KARMA VOLUME ONE, I’m again offering both volumes of HAWAIIAN DICK (Byrd of Paradise and The Last Resort) as well as BATTLE HYMN, each for ten dollars (which includes shipping). Paypal address: Catspaw1@aol.com

I also have copies of all six issues of JSA THE LIBERTY FILES: THE WHISTLING SKULL, which I’ll sell in complete autographed sets if you’re interested. Drop me a line for info: BClayMoore@gmail.com

OLD DOG one more time

I’ve decided to make the OLD DOG downloads available again for the time being. For ninety-nine cents. More, if you’d like, but…that’s a deal, right?

OLD DOG is about two characters. One, a retired prohibition cop whose family was taken from him years ago, and who has been asked to come out of retirement in late 40s/early 50s L.A. He’s a broken man. Just how broken remains to be seen.

The other character is a former aspiring actress who got tired of having to blow studio fatcats for bit parts in shitty movies. She’s a broken woman, and she recognizes other broken people when she sees them. Its an adult story (not because of the “fucks” and the bloodshed, but because the characters are adults dealing with the adult world), and this introduction is the tip of the iceberg.

The story is drawn and colored by the amazing Christopher Mitten, and there are pieces by Tigh Walker and John Lucas included.

If you’d like to read the (twenty-two page) story, which includes a prose piece that serves as a prologue, as well as a Ben Templesmith cover, Paypal at least ninety-nine cents to moore3kids@gmail.com, and I’ll send you a link to PDF, CBR and CBZ downloads. Simple as that.

Have a page:

And have a prose excerpt, in case reading words without pictures is a thing you do:

The grad student he used to fuck. She knew. Of course she knew.

When he was drinking, it didn’t take much to get him to tell the story, and he was always half lit when he was with her. She’d push him on it, trying to convince herself that there was some sacred bruising to his soul that would make sleeping with him more palatable.  One of the last nights in her bed, she really pushed. Post-coital conversation. “Was she the love of your life?” she asked, dabbing paint on her toenails. 

Exhaling smoke from his Chesterfield, he hadn’t given any thought to brushing the question aside. He knew this affair was on its last legs, and letting her hear what was in his head wouldn’t be something she could use against him down the road. “She was my wife. He was my son. They trusted me to take care of them. But I was so wrapped up in posing for photographs with an axe in my hand that I let my guard down. I let them down. Doesn’t matter if she was the love of my life. I was her husband. I was his father. The only job that really mattered was to protect and provide, and I failed at both.”

Have the cover image, too:

All of this will appear in the BAD KARMA VOLUME ONE hardcover, which will be out shortly.

Thanks.

BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT VOL. 1 TP (September)

BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT VOL. 1 TP

Written by DAMON LINDELOF, JONATHAN LARSEN, TOM TAYLOR, B. CLAY MOORE, STEVE NILES, T.J. FIXMAN, ANDREW DABB and JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV
Art by JEFF LEMIRE, J.G. JONES, NICOLA SCOTT, BEN TEMPLESMITH, TREVOR HAIRSINE, TAN ENG HUAT, PHIL HESTER and others

Cover by ETHAN VAN SCIVER

On sale SEPTEMBER 4 • 168 pg, FC, $14.99 US

These new tales of Batman explore unusual sides of The Dark Knight, including his early years as a crimefighter, his method of dealing with super-powered foes and more. Collecting issues #1-5 of the digital-first series.