Today was the 2nd Annual Comic ‘Festival’ in London. It was shit. And I say this as being the best thing I can actually say about this organized fiasco of a convention. Fair enough this is a small time thing, but you’d expect the Capital of the Anglophone speaking sector of Europe would be able to host a better comic convention. Also they’re a lying bunch of bastards. £5 down due to Grant Morrison pulling out of the actual lecture/interview he was going to have with Jonathan Ross. Jonathan pulled out it would seem last week, and Grant said you know what if he can’t be bothered then neither can I, which I think is a crying shame as I would have loved to see this, I was looking forward to this all month, ever since I found out about it and ever since I read Grant’s Interview in Comic book Scriptwriting. The interview with Grant is unbelievable, the entire book is brilliant but it’s worth it for that interview alone.

Having just completed reading the final book of his New X-Men run, thus completing his tenure in the Marvel Universe I was actually looking forward to seeing this guy up front.

The only good thing I got out of it was meeting Micheal Avon Oeming, who’s a really nice guy. Even drew a naked picture for the big-fat-pervert/typical-fucking-comic-book-geek-giving-us-enthusiasts-a- REALLY-bad-name (and he smelled) of Deena from Powers.

Really weird because I wanted him to draw something cool for me but all I got was a head sketch which to be honest isn’t the worst thing in the world, I just wish that I’d actually asked for Triphammer, would have gotten more detail in the sketch.

Still no one can beat the Mark Buckingham Death Sketch.

I’m pleased to announce that the first PLOT DRAFT of my first book is complete. Yes I know it’s a plot, and it’s the first draft, but it’s 15,000 word plot and I’ve hammered a lot of details in that. It’s editing time, once I’ve got that I’m going to actually start work on the script which should basically take us till the end of the year, which means it’ll have taken me an entire YEAR to finish one script for an original graphic novel.

What’s depressing is that this is the ‘EASY story, as I don’t really have much in terms of research to do. I don’t want to talk about what it’s about just yet because I realise how important it is to get the brief wording of a book correct so that expectation are set correctly, and I’ve not come up with my one liner, yet.