Issue 134- "Winding Down, Cranking Up"

Written, Pencilled, Inked by: Heath Parker "Leonard" Lail

Hullo, all. Just dusting the cobwebs off of the Cafe here. Not too dirty, I've been coming back every so often and hopefully I can continue that during this semester. Today marks a new beginning, as last night wound down my first week back, and today begins the spiral upwards towards the second of roughly fifteen weeks of class this semester. Classes are quite tough this go around but I honestly did not expect a cake-walk. I am using my downtime to read up on class notes and such as that, no time for Kellerman or Swamp Thing this semester. I have stopped at issue 140 on Swamp Thing for now, which ushered in the new creative team after Nancy Collins and Scot Eaton's departure. Therefore, I have exactly 30 issues left to complete my run of Swamp Thing vol. 2, where Alan Moore began his wonderful run on the book and paved the way for all of Swampy's adventures with other writers after his departure with number 64. 

Speaking of Swamp Thing, after trolling the message boards online last night, I discovered that a second trade paperback of Rick Veitch's ST stories will be released in either December or January. It will be called Spontaneous Generation, and cover issues 71-76. Hopefully this means that one day, we will get to see Veitch's complete saga on the book (he quit the book after issue 87, citing differences, leaving his Time Travel saga unfinished, at least by him).

Well, guess I'm gonna go but there is your comic education for the day, hope that helps if you get on Jeopardy! Until then...

Best,

Heath