Before that I'd just gotten off the phone with the lead singer of a band of ninjas who practice Rock Star Style Kung Fu. I was asking some follow-up questions to our interview last week, about the show where she hit Elvis in the throat with a shuriken. A band entirely com

I'm currently brainstorming comics ideas with an artist -- not just any artist, this fucking spectacular professional illustrator whose skills, range, speed and humility utterly blow me away. He and I both need portfolio pieces, so we're talking about doing a short (8 page? 16 page?) story together to begin with, and if it goes well we'll do more.

I've got a plot idea I'm pretty happy with, and I'm turning it into a script now. It involves sword fights and t