Yeah, still getting steady mail about how people miss Yirmumah. Here’s a funny one I got this morning:

“Ass, - Are you done yet with your super hero crap, because I miss me some Drama Llama. Hang up the tights, pansy boy!”

I’m thinking that was from BOB, emailing me from an anonymous address….. Hey, I miss it too, so I’ll see what I can do about that. Honestly, Hero By Night is my #1 priority, because I intend on revolutionizing the comic book industry with that.

All kidding aside, the reviews have been flowing in and they’ve been great and humbling to me. I thought I must be nuts setting out to do a “super hero” story. They’ve been done to death, and re-done to death, so I was worried that I’d get thrashed. I was pre-thrashed a little for it, or people who don’t give it an actual looksee.

The BEST reviews are from the people who are like me… old jaded comic book fans. This N3RD cast review (LINK) has been my favorite, because these dudes pull no punches. They rip everything equally and tell it like it is. I was so afraid listening that they’d just completely trash HBN, but I was happy to hear them praise it. The only thing they didn’t necessarily like was the “cartoony” artwork, but overall they loved it. It’s weird for me to hear how people are shocked to hear that I do it all except the coloring, writing/art/lettering. I think that just comes naturally when you’re struggling in independent comics, you just learn to count on yourself.

So, yeah. I’m humbled. Humbled and energized. I’ve spoken about it here before when I was first writing HBN, of how I wanted to create something familiar but DIFFERENT. Something that smacked so familiar to old readers, new readers, people who aren’t even comic readers, and it worked. I followed that golden rule of doing something YOU’D LIKE to read. It’s just my opinion, but I TRIED to read comics on the newstands the past couple years, and they were all too adult and grown up. Lacking FUN. I learned a lot from just having kids, handing them a Spider-Man book and they’re bored. It was sad to me. So, one of my golden rules with HBN has just been to straight up KEEP IT FUN. I think that’s why the art is cartoony as well, in a way I’d like to hook young readers. If Platinum put me out there in some way to get that target audience, they’d eat it up! Right now, the target audience is “comic shop buyers” and “webcomic readers” - and that’s going well, but WOW, I really think if we can get this into 7-11 year old hands we could have something CRAZY on our hands.

Did I mention while I was out in LA, my 8 year old took the book into his class, and 4 other kids started a comic book club with him! Man… That’s it right there for me. Hearing that, seeing that…. wow. There’s some little bit of magic there. Something we’ve probably all long forgotten. I know I had. Getting a little taste of that back, it’s priceless.

Back to the drawing board for me.

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