Bonus Back Cover Art

This is the back cover that appeared on the mini-comic version of SLAM-A-RAMA #1, back when it was still called THE SQUARED CIRCLE. It provides a look at Andy Reddick in happier times. Part of the fun of publishing single issues (which I may still do with all this stuff one day, who knows) is coming up with fake ads like this; it immerses you a bit more in the comic's fictional world, and is far less distracting than real ads. Plus, it allows you to sit around dreaming up names for characters you'll never have to draw, like "Velvet Elvis", for instance.

Grunt! The Movie

My buddy Jason Eisener (if you haven't seen his awesome Hobo With A Shotgun trailer--soon to be a major motion picture starring Rutger Hauer--go here and check it out before you do anything else today! Be careful, though, it's most definitely NSFW) recently brought this movie to my attention. I've never seen it or even heard of it before, but it looks pretty fantastic. Here's a link to the trailer on YouTube. Has anyone ever seen this thing? I'm all kinds of intrigued.

And yes, I'm still working on some new pages, I just want to get a few stockpiled before I start publishing again! Just give me a couple of weeks and we'll be back on track.

A Bit Of Inspiration...The SHOCKMASTER!

A few readers spotted this one as the inspiration for Andar The Berserker's ill-fated debut...in a lot of ways, when my buddy Alex Kennedy first showed it to me, it was the seed that grew into the whole idea for SLAM-A-RAMA many years back. Go here to check out video of the debut of The Shockmaster! It's shocking, but for all the wrong reasons.

Bride of Fan Art

This newest piece of awesome SLAM-A-RAMA fan art comes from Graeme Partridge-David, or as I like to call him, GPD (see, GPD can stand for stuff other than Geriatric Profanity Disorder!). Its arrival in my inbox was followed by a worried question that the piece's claim that "Susanna Hoffs is hot" might not be era-appropriate enough--would "Susanna Hoffs is a babe" be more likely for the time period? I replied that either would have worked for me in 1988. What do you, the readers at home, think? Thanks, GPD!

Son of Fan Art

More sweet fan art, this time from another Atlantic Comics Kingdom alum Gino Collins! Check out more of Gino's work at his blog, and also at his deviantart page. Thanks, Gino!

Fan Art!

While I'm stockpiling the next bunch of pages, here's a look at some great SLAM-A-RAMA fan art from Shawn McLeod! Shawn is one of the fine folks behind the Atlantic Comics Kingdom minicomic anthology (on sale now at Strange Adventures), and you can find him on the Web here! Thanks, Shawn!

Page 62

And with that, it's time to announce the winner of the halfway contest...and it's Chad Boutilier! Chad will be taking home a WWE Survivor Series DVD and a drawing of the SLAM-A-RAMA character of his choice. Congratulations Chad, and thanks to everyone who entered!

I'm going to refrain from posting new pages for the next month--back when I started this series, I had a nice backlog of material--a lot of which I accumulated during the week where I broke my toe and couldn't go to work. I've slowly burned through that backlog, and I'm worried that if I stick to my current schedule, the quality of the work will suffer if I want to maintain my deadline. So, the solution was to either a) break another digit and stay home from work again, or b) take a short hiatus in order to stockpile some more pages. The second option seemed more realistic, and certainly less painful. So, Page 63 will debut in mid-August, with the rest of the series to follow after with hopefully no more delays. I'll be posting in the meanwhile, with some cool SLAM-A-RAMA fan art and other fun odds and ends, so stick around, and once again, thanks for reading!