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This issue is finally up! The Spanish version was available since Monday, but i like to announce when both of them are ready to go.

So, yeah! Grab a copy now and enjoy forever! And check out the rest of the Wyliman books available for you.

In related news, production of Issue 18 is going good, a bit behind, but catching up quickly, hopefully I’ll have news about it by the end of this month. Still, stay tuned since Chapter 18 starts this coming Tuesday.

Aaaaand, we’re getting closer to get ready all the material for the second TPB “Good You and Thank Night”.

Mario A.~

Greetings humans!

Just a pseudo quick note to let you know, if you are near the area of any of this shows, that I’ll be attending 3 conventions this year in the US.

First stop will be the San Diego Comic-Con, July 22 – 25. I’ll be there since the 20th and will be attending preview night on the 21st. Once again, I’ll be sharing the room with a mighty powerful group of people. So it promises to be one hell of a trip this year. I’ll keep you guys updated for any get together like the Drink and Draw thing, or any of that, and if not, let me know if you are going to be around and we can hang out or something.

Second is SPX (Small Press Expo), in Maryland on September 11 and 12. This one is the one I’m looking forward the MOST. As overwhelming and amazing SDCC is (and my third stop as well), I’m going to those cons as a mere mortal, walking around and meeting people, which is great, BUT,  I’ll be having a table for this show, so I’m already urinating my pants in excitement. I’ll be sharing the table with Miss Kate McElroy, so insanity ensues. Obviously, I’ll be selling copies of the first and second (coming soooooon) TPB of Wyliman, and probably whatever single issues I have abailable by then, and doing sketches and all that jazz.

And the third stop is the New York City Comic Con, on Octeber 8 – 10. I really didn’t have this one in mind for this year (since I thought it was going to be in April or May like past years and I can’t move from Mexico until June), but, throught the invitation of Kate and letting me know this year’s dates, I’m all in for this show. This is my first time going to New York for whatever reason, so it promises to be a great time.

Anyway, that’s all for now, let me know if you plan to attend any of these cons or you just live near any of this locations and you can make some time to make me feel like someone cares, heheh.

Mario A.~

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Finally after several weeks, I take some time to babble of just about THE BEST BAND EVER!

Primus: I stumble upon the band right around that time when you start getting sick of that crappy peppy commercial music in junior high (well, some of people do, other just keep going forever and that’s sad). The band was, and IS like nothing I’ve heard before (and as many of you know, in almost every issue of the comic (missing like two issues) there’s at least one Primus/Les Claypool reference in there). It’s really hard for me to really put it down into words the exact reason why I love the band so much, but it’s just this “connection” of their ideas, ways to approach their art, the stories they tell and the risks they take, and how I do all of that myself. But this is about them. All what every review of the band seems to focus is on the mastermind behind the band, Les Claypool, and yes, he is the driving force behind the band (and behind ‘em many great projects), but, it’s a BAND, it wouldn’t be anything without the uber amazing work from Larry “Ler” Lalonde and Tim “Herb” Alexander (and when the time came, from Brian “Brain” Matia as well), who just are more depth and value to all the eclectic sounds this guys produce. With 10 albums under their wing, it’s a great band to get a great new musical experience. And remember kids, Primus sucks.

Tim, Les and Ler. Brain when he was with the Limbomaniacs and Trouz Cuevas, Primus’ road manager.

Les, Ler and Tim, circa 2003

And let the band talk about themselves… or something. 1998 interview in Germany, with Brain in the line up ( Here’s Part 2).

Primus on Letterman, 1995(ish?), around the time Tim left the band for a bit.

That’s it for today, I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do for next week, but then again, I never do. More news to come this coming weeks, so stick around.

Later days, Willie Mays!

Mario A.~

Greetings!

Not much to report this week, Issue 17 is now with the printers and hopefully, soon enough it’ll be available for purchase, so stick around!

Now to our Sunday business, and I got an interesting one, I hope.

The Residents: Few bands really blow my mind from moment one. The Residents is one of them. And it’s not only about their music, which is the most eccentric, experimental and original stuff I’ve heard in my whole life, but their history, starting with, 40 years in the business, nobody knows who they really are. Their discography spans for over 40 albums, and those are just their main ones, and different eras, in which the band has strongly getting better, creating new material every year, and not just living of their 60’s stuff like some others. I could ramble on and on about them, but I’ll let you guys get immersed in the Residents universe, they’re equally fascinating musically and biographically.

From the Icky Flix tour

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I had a hard time just choosing one video, so I went with this, a live performance in Oslo from the Demons Dance Alone tour, this is part 1 of 4, and I strongly recommend you watching the other 3 parts:

“An artist can only produce pure art when the expectations and influences of the outside world are not taken into consideration.” ~ N. Senada

That’s it for me this week, which was a sort of build up for the Killing Boredom I got you guys prepared for next week, so stick around!

Mario A.-

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OK, there’s a little change of format with this week’s Killing Boredom, it’s basically me ranting about one subject.

Anyway, let’s start with the worst of it all:

So as you can see, this is the bastard, meth induced, mutant child of the live action Chun-Li and Dragon Ball Z movies (and yes, even as lame as the first Street Fighter movie was, at least they nailed most of the outfits right or they got quite close).

I don’t know what to think of this, I know you gotta appeal to the younger audiences, but really? I mean, it’s not like there’s something worthy in there anyway, and you can’t kick in the crotch the hard core KoF fans like that.

ESPECIALLY with the outfits. And I don’t even mean the Mai one, and as a big a perv I am, I agree, the outfit sucks and that girl is hot, but she can’t fill the suit, if ya know what I mean. I go more to complain about the Mature and Vice outfits, especially Vice’s. Maybe I’m bias because I LOVE the design of Vice, it’s elegant and sexy, so how hard it’s to deliver this:

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Seriously, you can go to Sears and find the damn outfit in there, I’ll pay for it, damn it, just get it right!

I won’t even complain about the, what seems to be, story, because to this point, the story has turned in such a whole mess in the games themselves anyway, it useless to try to follow it. So much that in the latest game (KoF XII) they didn’t even bother to put a story.

I don’t get it, if she’s a reporter from the US, why she speaks in a heavy Asian accent?

And that’s another thing: the franchise seems to be wanting to destroy itself from every angle. Let’s say new comers and fans go both to see the movie. The fans will be pissed anyway and go back and play all the 90’s games (and I even dare to say go back and play Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting, as atrocious as they were) and rant even more than me how they screwed up. The new comers will be driven away from the games anyway because of what it’s presented to them on the screen. But let’s say some get hooked and get interested in the games. Which one they’ll give a try to? The newest one would be a good starting point, someone might think. Well, not exactly. For me, and I’ll get yelled at for saying this, the best KoF game is XI. I was always a Street Fighter kind of guy (until SF3, which again, I’m going to get yelled at), but I love that KoF game, the animations are great, it’s less methodical and the fights are fun. This one (XII) is just a pain in the ass. The animations are beautiful, I’ll give them that, but the rest is just a poor washed down selection of characters, absolutely NO story going on (and not because it’s a mess, but because in fact, there’s no story in the game) and you finish the single player game in just 5 fights. No bosses, no secret special challengers, nothing. And the online multiplayer is the same thing, just slower. And what’s with this policy lately of no Mai in the games? I know she in XI, but you gotta unlock her before being able to use her as a character.

In a way it’s sad to see this fighting game going to the crapper, I’m not that fond of the older games because I’m yet to ge used to them, but when I was starting to like them, they do all of this.

Well, there’s always the good times.