The Blurred Line Where High-Tech Works Like Magick...

Want free, independent SF audio adventure? Join host, narrator and author Mike Luoma each week on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio! Sample us this episode - hear the stand-alone short story Alibi Jones and the Wishing Stone – a tale tip-toeing up to the blurred line where high-tech works like magick, as a strange assignment brings Alibi Jones face-to-face with a phantom from his past! Adapted from a comic book short in The Adventures of Alibi Jones #2 with art by Meisha, Inks by Bill Nichols, and colors by Ken Lateer.   

Mike also explains why you're hearing this short story instead of the beginning of the next Alibi Jones novel, as promoted last week and even earlier this weekend. Evidently, there was a timeline error. We blame The Devrizium... Always free to subscribe, download and listen –The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue with Alibi Jones and the Wishing Stone on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!    

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The Last (Time) Battle

Time traveling aliens try to remove Alibi Jones from the timeline – find out if they finally succeed as Alibi Jones and the Time War of The Devrizium ends this episode with the stand-alone short story Alibi Jones: The Last Battle! Free, independent SF audio adventure with your host and author Mike Luoma. Always free to subscribe, download and listen - The Adventures of Alibi Jones continue on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!  

BONUS MATERIAL AFTER THE STORY! The four stories in Alibi Jones and the Time War of The Devrizium were originally intended for the Alibi Jones comic books. Only the first, "About Time", actually made into a comic book – The Adventures of Alibi Jones #1. As Mike has been promising, he spends almost 20 minutes revealing the Alibi Jones comic books' "sausage making" in this behind-the-scenes account. Mike goes into details on how what came out as the Alibi Jones comics wasn't exactly what he'd intended going in, in terms of story content – and why it took so long to put the issues together.   



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Vatican Assassin #4 - Unveiled!!

The print proof of Vatican Assassin #4 arrived just in time for it's grand opening - on sale tomorrow 2/27!

 

Looking for An Artist for Alibi Jones #2

Are you an artist? Would you like to join the world of Alibi Jones? We're putting together the 2nd issue of The Adventures of Alibi Jones for Earthbound Comics. Issue one was pretty well received - here are a couple of reviews:

http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2011/12/28/comic-review-the-adventures-of-alibi-jones/

http://www.comicbooktherapy.com/review-alibi-jones-luoma-friends/

Lead artist Meisha from issue one has committed to a short story for #2, but time constraints prevent him from taking on the main feature of the book. I need to find a new artist to step in for the 21 - page story Alibi Jones: Vacation - Alibi and his girlfriend Katie head to the planet Paradise, but instead of finding R&R the discover a coup going down! It's science fiction, but most of the action takes place planetside. There's lots of people running around with guns...

Intrigued? Maybe we can work together.

You can see Meisha's interpretation of the character at http://alibijones.com to give you some idea of where we're starting from. While book one was black and white, book two will be in color. I'd love to find an artist who can deliver colored pages. I'd like to be thinner and younger, too... can't always get what you want, Jagger said. So I'm open to pencilers and penciler/inkers, too.

Earthbound Comics is a small company headed by Ben Ferrari. I've been the production manager for just over a year. For compensation Earthbound usually provides a print comp to each member of the creative team and copies at cost to sell on your own. Because I'm doing the production work gratis, Ben also gives me and my teams a percentage of back end profits on our books. As my collaborator on this story, I'll cut you in on a percentage of story ownership and profit depending on your level of contribution. As I'm the writer, the letterer and production guy in one, that pie doesn't get sliced too thin. Which is good, the pies have been small - but they're growing.

Putting that all out here because I like to be transparent about all this. If it sounds workable to you, please get in touch with me - Mike Luoma - at glowinthedarkradio (-at-) gmail (-dot-) com.

"Introducing... Red Hot!" - Out Today!

Earthbound Comics releases my brand new comic book today! Artist Rhys ap Gwyn and I have cooked up a good old-fashioned super-powered coming of age story that's already drawing comparisons to Geoff Johns' run on JSA - Introducing... Red Hot! Rhys's art is drawing some great comparisons, too.

Get it in print - POD - from Indy Planet for $3.99: http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6589
Get the DL from Drive Thru Comics for 99 cents: http://comics.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=98677

Read Glenn's review at CRIKEY: http://www.crikeyuk.co.uk/Hot.html
Read Gordon's review at Blog THIS, Pal: http://www.blogthispal.com/2012/01/introducing-red-hot-review.html
Hear the We Talk Comics guys Talk Red Hot (at about 1:11:40):


There are a couple of previews out now, too!
Major Spoilers: http://www.majorspoilers.com/sneak-peek-red-hot-1
Graphic Policy: http://graphicpolicy.com/2012/01/23/preview-red-hot-1/
Comic Related: http://comicrelated.com/news/14911/red-hot-1-preview

You can also scroll down for a preview here on my blog :)
More info at http://earthboundcomics.com

Introducing... Red Hot! #1 out next Wednesday!!

My first full-color modern super powered hero book comes out next Wednesday! Earthbound Comics releases "Introducing... Red Hot!" #1, written and lettered by me with art -pencils, inks and colors - by the talented Rhys ap Gwyn, on February 1st. It's a super-hero coming-of-age story - young Red Hot is trying to prove himself a hero worthy of following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. Unfortunately, his latest tip leads to a bank being robbed by a most unusual criminal - the founder of the The Team! "Introducing... Red Hot #1" will be available Print-On-Demand at IndyPlanet.com and as a digital download from DriveThruComics.com.

Here's a preview!

"Think Frank Miller’s HOLY TERROR without all of that bat-shit annoying Frank Miller-ness and you’ll get the drift of this one..."

"This is a fun book which empowers women while it entertains and inspires hope."

Sometimes you get a review that makes your MONTH. This review of Ben Ferrari and my Souverain #1 by Ambush Bug over at Ain't It Cool News did that for me. Souverain #1 is Earthbound Comics' book for December:

"Collecting five short stories featuring the female vigilante Souverain, this issue is a great introduction to the character created by Ben Ferrari and written by Ferrari and Mike Luoma. Set in the conflict of the Middle East in Iraq, Souverain serves as a masked force for justice, operating by going AWOL from her military unit in order to fight crimes that happen on foreign soil. Part revenge fantasy/part bold superhero adventure, this is a character that one most likely wouldn’t see in a mainstream comic. Ben Ferrari writes and draws the first tale, a bit of an origin story for our heroine. Mike Luoma steps in to write two hard-biting, hot button-pressing  prose tales. Think Frank Miller’s HOLY TERROR without all of that bat-shit annoying Frank Miller-ness and you’ll get the drift of this one. This book successfully mixes real world issues with superheroism, while remaining respectful to the men and women fighting overseas and pointing a finger at atrocities performed around the world. This is a fun book which empowers women while it entertains and inspires hope. - Ambush Bug"  http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52200#11

I corrected "prose" because that's not quite right - I did write a brand new prose piece, "The Kid", for the book, but he second "story" - the interconnected "One Nation - Under God - Liberty and Justice for All" is a good old fashioned comic book story with art by Ben and letters by Matt Grant and myself.

Get a digital download for 99 cents here: http://comics.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=96675
Order a print copy here: http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6337

Another cool review here: http://www.blogthispal.com/2011/11/life-during-wartime-review-of-souverain.html
(Thanks, Gordon!)

SOUVERAIN #1 is OUT!

My new book is out today - SOUVERAIN  #1! More a group effort than mine alone, of course. The character was created by Earthbound Comics founder Ben Ferrari, and he wrote the origin story in this issue. And Ben draws and inks all the comic book stories collected here. Former Earthbound honcho Matt Grant letters three of the four stories - I lettered the fourth and did the production work on the issue - spending a bunch of time on things you won't really notice but that hopefully make the book more cool!

For those who asked - Mike, love Souverain, but do I have to buy all those Lady Fight issues to get her whole story? Not anymore! All four of Souverain's Lady Fight stories are now gathered here under one cover -  And what a cover! With pencils and inks by Seth Frail and color by Chuck Michael Obach, the brand-new cover art really sets the tone for the issue - Beautiful!

For those now wondering - Mike, why should I buy this new issue if the stories are from those other books? Well, I've written a brand-new prose short story "The Kid" with new illustrations by Kitae Kim - there's a bunch of brand-new material!

For those of you wondering who the hell Souverain is, in these pages you can "Meet the woman who works with the U.S. Army by day and strikes out at night delivering justice on her own as the vigilante SOUVERAIN!"

It's in print here (Indy Planet): http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6337

Get the 99 cent download at Drive thru Comics: http://comics.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=96675

And there's been a review: http://www.blogthispal.com/2011/11/life-during-wartime-review-of-souverain.html