The Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon begins later today. In the meantime I'm in my hotel room working on Nightwing 136 - and thanks to everyone who's been saying such nice things about the new issue, 133. I think this arc is exactly where I wanted this book to get to and so far it's working out just the way I hoped it would. I'm completely thrilled that the response has been so positive. By the way, for those who have been asking, Eddie and Liu are completely new characters but they - especially Liu - have been affecting the way Dick Grayson deals with women, since he was 16. The story is called 321 Days and in my mind is the best Nightwing arc I've done so far. Jamal Igle's art on this issue is also outstanding.

Noel and I only had a few minutes to talk yesterday, but later today we should be able to have one of our anticipated video chats using the Mac's iChat function. If you haven't ever done a video chat, you really should give it a try. It allows you to see the people you care about in real time, and at least with iChat you're seeing natural movement (no stilted series of still photos - this is true video conferencing) and the sound is perfect. When you're away from home this brings home right back to you. It's like someone is sitting on the other end of a long table, but they are there for you to see as well as hear. Despite doing as many cons as I sometimes find myself doing, I actually don't like leaving home for any length of time, but as I say, this makes me feel like Noel and I are together, and since if she sits in my office our dog Elle Dee comes in, too, I get to see the barking fuzzbutt, too (No, LD's fuzzy butt doesn't bark. Get your head out of the ground).

I headed up to Toronto a few days early because of a job I'm working on up here. Can't talk about it right now, but it's going to be pretty big, so if you want to know what I'm doing, you'll just have to come to Comicon International, San Diego this July, and see for yourself.

But back to the con. If you're in Toronto, please come by and say hi. If you're not, remember next week I'll be at the Philly Wizard World. I don't do a lot of East Coast cons and have no others planned for the rest of the year, although I do have at least one international con set up for this fall.

Tonight if I have time I'll post about the con. Tell you what's going on, maybe show some pictures if I take any, etc. In the meantime, I hope to see as many of you as I can while on this east coast trip.

Labels: Nightwing, Paradise Comicon, Toronto