Monthly Archives: October 2003


All the cool kids are Ancient 1

The order of honorary Ancient Ones continues to grow each week. Today we got a photo from none other than Tony Harris! For those who don’t know their “Dr. Strange” history, Tony introduced the design for the mark of the Ancient Ones in his “Flight of Bones” storyline a few […]


Jemas says Marvel move is voluntary 1

Last week the news broke that Marvel was undergoing some managerial changes, with Epic founder Bill Jemas moving from his COO position to a newly created CMO. Some speculated that this was the begining of a move to transition Jemas out of the company. Today Newsarama.com published a statement from […]


Halloween Comics

Around this time last year I had a letter published in Comics Buyers’ Guide discussing my annual tradition of giving away comics on Halloween. The letter encouraged publishers to support this activity by producing low-cost comics in October that people like me could pick up cheap and distribute to impressionable […]


Rob at Motor City

Anyone who is in the metro Detroit area and wants to collect a free YAO tattoo or get a sneak peek at the art for “Young Ancient One” should come by the Motor City Comic Con this weekend. I’ll be there on Saturday (not as a guest or anything…just milling […]


Crabtree gets A- from EW

Flipping through the latest issue of “Entertainment Weekly” (the one with Jack Black on the cover) and right there is a bit of “Young Ancient One” colorist Bill Crabtree’s work. The magazine reviewed “Invincible“, the tradepaperback collecting the Image mini-series written by Robert Kirkman with art by Cory Walker and […]


Marvel announces reorg

Marvel issued a press release officially announcing the corporate shuffle at the top. According to the release COO Bill Jemas is not leaving the company at this time, but will be transitioing to the newly created, non-executive position of Chief Marketing Office. Reports from Friday speculated that Jemas might stay […]


On the airwaves 5

Apparently I’m going to be a guest on some kind of online radio talk show today. The folks at New Black City have invited me on to talk comics. I’ll be a guest on a show called “The Afternoon Blackout With Uncle Rudy” which runs for 12:00 to 3:00 CST. […]


Wear the mark! 7

They’re mysterious! They’re magical! They’re really, really, really old! They are the order of the ancient ones and people know them by their mark. Now you too can wear the mark of the anicent ones! Anyone who catches Rob Worley, Andy Kuhn or Bill Crabtree at a comic convention from […]