Sugar Buzz

Trick or Treat night has come and gone. I had a decent number of trick or treaters show up at the house, although I'm always a little wierded out at how few of the people I know. I'm trying to decide whether it's because I am indeed the world's biggest hermit, or whether people I know just don't know where I live, or both. Eh. Whatever. On the upside, I had plenty of candy left, so that's cool. I need to put on some winter weight anyway. Another thing that bugs me about Halloween in Clay City is the sheer number of kids who aren't wearing costumes. What's up with that? When I was a kid and it came time for halloweenin' I'd grab an old sheet and some of my mom's leftover Mary Kay and go out as "Bloody Face Ghoul Guy". It's better than "Army Guy" which was the most common male costume. Or "Princess" which was the most common female costume. I'm trying to decide whether the parents are too lazy or too broke to score or make their kids a decent costume. Hell, this year I didn't even have time to make or score my own costume and I still wore my Leatherface mask all night. Hell, nearly scared a couple of kids away with it too.

Totally off the subject, but I've been wanting to mention this for a couple of weeks now. Has anyone heard of J. H. Williams III? He's one of the best artists working in the industry today. He's got an incredibly clean, realistic style, that, somehow, still has life and energy and emotion. He conducts these incredible, eye-catching experiments with panel arrangement that are both complex, and at the same time, surprisingly easy to read. And he can vary his style at will, without losing the central essence of his own art. The fact that he's been paired up with some of the best writers in the industry hasn't exactly hurt either. So far I've seen his work in Promethea (written by Alan Moore, the most brilliant of the ABC books, although Top Ten is still my favorite), Desolation Jones (with Warren Ellis, insane sci-fi spy comic, one of the most entertaining reads being published right now), and Seven Soldiers #0 (with Grant Morrison. I've spent a lot of space on this blog hyping the entire Seven Soldiers project, but even if you don't wanna check out the whole massive undertaking, #0 is worth it for the breathtaking art alone). So the point of all of this if this: Has anyone out there in ComputerLand seen anything else that J.H. Williams III has done? I'd really like to search around and see if I can find his other stuff.