Oops, I forgot to feed my journal again.

Uh, I totally meant to update a couple of months ago but I got distracted by a sudden desire to eat a turkey sandwich and somehow lost track of time. Seriously not my fault. If you're gonna blame somebody, blame Turkey. The country, not the bird. If you ask me, there's something seriously wrong with a country named after a bird they don't even export! What do they export, you ask? Pickles!... Or babies or something. Whatever! I can't put babies on a sandwich, now can I? Not without pickles anyway.

So yeah, RSOM vol 7 is in stores now and I gotta say I'm disappointed with how dark and muddy Ares Maier ended up looking in print. A damned shame is what that is, I tell ya! Damned!

...But go pick up a copy anyway.

Ooh, I got my ear split in half about a month ago after taking a baseball bat to the head. That was exactly 40 stitches worth of fun and I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat. There's barely a scar on the outside of the ear, too. Damn miracle workers them ER doctors are. Thank you George Clooney! Thank you for From Dusk 'til Dawn and Three Kings! But fuck you for Syriana. How are you gonna make a movie about 2 hours of nothing and fail?! You can have my ear back.

So what's ahead for Dan? Well, I was recently approached by Tokyopop with an offer to tackle a three volume manga project. It's yet to be green lit (the official pitch should be early August), so I won't discuss story details until I know the whole thing is a go. Still, things do look promising as of right now as the project has a nice buzz about it over at Tokyopop (or so I'm told). I'll keep you updated, but for the time being you can check out some recently uploaded sample pages I drew up for Tokyopop for demonstration/pitch purposes.

You're welcome, journal. You're welcome.