Or at least, release the books!
Two big announcements, one totally expeted: Lion and the Eagle Announced. Here’s some preview pages
AND THEN… Yesterday DC announnced that I was drawing issue 3 of Soul Plumber (I was helping John out from issue 1 and by issue 3 I’d ended up doing all of the layouts and about half the inks, still waiting to see what’s happening on issue 4)
DC’s announcement feels vaguely like a sea change in my career – it’s very front and centre, the headline THE TERROR CONTINUES WITH SOUL PLUMBER #3 with the subheading: Artist PJ Holden to Draw Issue #3 of DC HORROR’S Hit Series with John McCrea.
John is ok, but suffering with long covid, making work hard to do, especially the grinding work of monthly comics. I’ll be honest, John’s pages are a load better than mine (even when I’ve done the layouts John has made those pages sing) so I’ve been placated by the fact that well, I was only helping out, but finding my name in the sub heading there feels weird.
BUT – I suppose, DC comics pushing my name out in the header of press release (on the third issue of a comic) I think is them getting ahead of “why isn’t John McCrea drawing issue 3” (so making a feature out of a bug) but also I think it suggests my profile has raised a bit.
Anyway here’s some pages from this:
Soul Plumber is absolutely bonkers.