Although it's still early, I did want to let folk know I'll be at Comicon. I'll be on a number of panels and will, as I've done for the past several years, conduct my writing seminar. I'll post my panel schedule sometime next week once it's firmed up. I was going to the Argentina convention but the city of Buenos Aires has just been hit hard with the swine flu and the festival has been sadly cancelled. I have a few other cons lined up as well, and I'll announce them when the time is right. Please, if you live in the area, c'mon by and say you read this blog. I'd be most appreciative.

By the way, with all the celebrity deaths of late - has anyone counted how many cycles of three have there been? - one seems to have slipped through the cracks. Gale Storm died on June 27th. For those who are close in age to me you know who she is and thinking about her TV shows, as silly as they probably were, will still bring a smile to your face anyway. The funnest trivia about Gale Storm is she entered a CBS radio "Gateway To Hollywood" contest whose first prize was a one-year movie contract with a studio. That contract also changed her name from Josephine Owaissa Cottle to Gale Storm. In other words, whoever won the contest would have been named Gale Storm. I like the Gale Storm we got, but I wonder if, say, Jack Lemmon entered and won, would we know him as Gale Storm, too?

The three things you need to know about Vigilante to date:

1: Vigilante had been operating unseen in Europe for several years before moving back to the U.S. He'd been going after local mobs and criminals. Nobody knows why.

2: Vigilante assumed the face and identity of (the now dead) small-time thug, Joe Flynn, to work undercover in the NY mobs. Flynn is not Vig's real ID. His real first name is Dorian. We don't know his last name yet, but we will learn it and who he is in #9 just before he leaves the city.

3: Vigilante is after files stolen from Lex Luthor's Lexcorp. The files have moved from mob to mob and are now in the hands of Meta crime boss Tobias Whale. Nobody is certain what is in Luthor's files, and everyone wants the answer.

That's it. All these questions and a lot more will be answered by #9. And, as I said, even if you've never read an issue of Vigilante, you can start with #7. I am very, very pleased with this issue as well as the four issues I've already written that follow it.

Vigilante #7, On sale Wednesday.

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One of my absolute favorite comic series that I wrote, The Man Called A-X, is back, this time on the iPhone and iPod Touch. A-X is one of the series I totally loved writing, and working with artist Shawn McManus was a complete blast. And now it's back electronically for your phone or music player. Even better, issue #1 is completely free and after that you can get each following issue, one a month, for only 99-cents. If you're interested in checking it out, CLICK HERE and it should take you to the Apple App Store where it's under Books/The man Called A-X 01.

The book sold very well for Bravura, which is like saying Curly is the smartest Stooge, but it did sell relatively well and actually garnered some very good press. The first series was 6 issues - which is what we had planned. We were doing a series of mini-series rather than a continued book. The idea being we'd actually have time to do our very best, which I think we did.

This was the time when the comics market tanked. We didn't tank. Bravura, and Malibu were bought by Marvel who instead of continuing to publish the books and characters they just spent a fortune on, killed the entire company. None of the characters were seen again.

But since Shawn and I owned The Man Called A-X we brought the series over to DC Comics and did our second mini-series there. Unfortunately, the market really collapsed this time and we went away after completing our second mini series.

I loved the books however, even wrote a two spec TV pilots for it, one turning the "Man" in The Man Called A-X into a woman, and the other leaving him gender unchanged. But now, amazingly, the book, all the issues, are back, this time not in comics form but for the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch. Check it out. The first issue is completely free and after that we'll be releasing them one a month for only 99-cents.

As I say, I loved the series and I hope those of you technologically advanced, will check it out and love it as much. And remember, issue #1 is FREE!