Back to LA

This past Sunday I flew back to Los Angeles after three weeks away in Massachusetts, and I was thrilled. Three weeks in Massachusetts visiting friends and family was perfect. It gave me enough time away where I missed Los Angeles and I feel very energized now that I am back, which is awesome.

You know what else is awesome about me and Los Angeles? From September 26th-28th I will be at Artist Alley Table E12 at LA Comic Con at the Los Angeles Convention Center. If you are in the area you should come on down and visit. I will be with my regular table partner Chris Robinson. We will have books for you to check out, we will be ready to sign books you bring to us, and we always great conversation ready for you too.

Los Angeles Comic Con was the first convention I ever tabled at last year, you may recall, and it was a wonderful experience. This will be my second time doing a table there, and my four time tabling in general. It also looks like it will probably be my last table and signing experience (unless something awesome comes up) for 2025, so I want to make the absolute most out of it.

COME ON DOWN!

Two Left In the Year

Thanks to everyone who bought Cruel Universe II #2 yesterday. And if you are going to buy it in the days ahead? Thanks for doing that too. This is the issue that had the story I wrote, drawn by Riley Rossmo, and colored by Inaki Azpiazu called “There’s an Alien in my Basement.” I finally saw the issue in person yesterday and I was happy with how it turned out. It is truly one of my favorite stories I have worked on to date, and I hope you check it out.

This story will also be my second to last comic of the year. Again, unless something really cool happens out of nowhere soon, the next comic from me probably won’t come out until 2026. Again, that’s only due to timing and how far in advance we make comic books. I could start working on a project in two weeks, but it wouldn’t come out until 2026.

On the one hand? It’s a bit of a bummer. The last few months I have had the most work come out since I finished up Man-Bat back in 2021. It’s been cool to have this much stuff come out. And I need to appreciate that. I more than doubled my output from last year, especially if I include my index writing work for New History of the DC Universe, and I am going to be proud of that. Do I want to start writing something else immediately? YES. And trust me…I am working on it. Between last month and the end of this week I will have sent out roughly a dozen project proposals. If any of them get picked up…I would be thrilled. If we all put our manifesting powers together and had the universe get all of them approved? I would feel like I won the lottery.

What’s the last comic I have coming out this year? That would be the short story “Between a Rocky and a Hard Place” in the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Darkest Hour Deluxe Hardcover that will be on sale on September 30th. I wrote that story, it was drawn by the awesome Esdras Cristobal who I will be interviewing later this month, and colored by the terrific Jão Canola. As I said before, I am a lifelong Power Rangers fan, getting to write a story for that franchise was a dream come true, and I would do it again a heartbeat.

That’s it for this week.

I am going to keep the posts weekly probably until the last two weeks of the year. With that being said, with my future projects developing, or being a bit of a ways out, I am deifnitely going to need some assistance coming up with future posts. So…if there is anyone you would like to see me interview who I have worked with in the past, I’m open for recommendations. If there’s part of the comic book making process you would like more insight on? Maybe I could write about it. Or if there is a project I worked on in the past, preferably as a writer but I’m not opposed to talking about editing, that you would like me to talk more about? I’m open for recommendations. If you respond to the email this Newsletter post was in or email me at [email protected] I will get the ideas.

Until then?

Stay safe!

—Dave Wielgosz