JMS already turned Superman into a terrible hipster in his Superman: Year One, we’re just taking it a little further.

ALSO: Chris and I were honored to be chosen to be in Dallas’ comic comedy ensemble The Variant‘s season 2 finale episode! Check it out. You see my ass.

-cof

Okay, so if you haven’t heard yet, today has been a big news day for us.

No, not the Watchmen thing. I mean, I’m sure we’ll do something about that, but that’s not what I’m trying to talk about now.

As Curt pointed out/embedded our guest-starring episode of The Variants finally debuted today.

By a strange cosmic coincidence, the news also broke today that I’m going to be drawing a book for Boom! called “Captain American Idol”. Here is the cover and the solicitation for said book:

CAPTAIN AMERICAN IDOL #1: During World War II, Captain American was America’s #1 entertainer, thrilling audiences stateside and on the front lines — until a Komikaze attack on his show seemingly took him away forever. But now, a TV talent show looking for fresh blood instead finds the Captain’s frozen body. Written by Rich Johnston (no, really!), drawn by Chris Haley with a cover by Mark Stafford, CAPTAIN AMERICAN IDOL ships on April 25th with a Diamond order code of FEB12 0847.

If you want to order it from your local comic shop, it’s in the Previews that just came out today.

Now, you may have noticed from the title in the picture that this book (and several others that accompany it) is being written by Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool fame/infamy.

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have also noticed that there were some people who were really upset with me for taking this gig because Rich was writing it.

I’m not sure what to say to that exactly.

I mean, I could tell you, we do this comic for $0 and I’ve got bills to pay if I want to keep eating and living indoors, so when a fucking for real comic company calls and says “We want to pay you to draw a comic for us!”, I’d be pretty stupid to say no.

I could also tell you that some of our biggest traffic when we were trying to get this thing started came from Rich Johnston linking to us over at Bleeding Cool.

I could also, also tell you that Rich Johnston has never been anything but friendly, professional, and helpful to Curt and myself. He’s linked to us without us asking. He’s linked to us when we’ve had something we really needed linked to. For some reason he asked me to present an award at his Bleeding Cool Awards at C2E2 last year, and gave me an introduction that was so flattering I was honestly a little dumbstruck.

And most importantly, at a time when my financial future was looking pretty terrifying, I find out he has suggested a major comic publisher invest their money in me as an artist worth paying.

So, if knowing all of that, you still want to hate on me for taking this gig all I can say is..

Or perhaps..

Or..

Or maybe..

Or maybe even..

Nah, that’s probably too far.

Better just stick with..

And if any of you are so upset that I had to take a paying gig with a real comic company working with a writer you don’t care for to keep the lights on, I’m more than happy to point you to:

1) Our sad-faced little DONATE button that’s to the right underneath every single comic we do.
2) Our STORE from whence you can buy Let’s Be Friends Again things.
3) My COMMISSION RATES which are basically always open and happy for your business.

For all of you that have been supportive and congratulated me, I cannot thank you enough and all I can say is I hope you like the book when it comes out.

My best to you all.

xo
chrishaley