Cover art by Drew Johnson. On shelves the end of this month!

Solicit Copy: THE TELARA CHRONICLES, based on the highly anticipated MMORPG from Trion Worlds, is the story of a world being devastated by magical tears in the veil keeping it safe from the outer planes. These rifts come without warning, unleashing fantastic and terrifying invasions on a people already engaged in civil war. Telara’s champions have been forced to choose: join the Guardians and fight to restore the faith of a world that once was – or become a Defiant and embrace long-dead technologies to usher in a new age. From one of these competing factions comes Asha Catari, a plane-touched warrior with magical abilities. Follow Asha’s story and discover the war-ravaged world of Telara in this 4-issue miniseries prequel to the game.

Cover by Chris Sprouse and Karl Story for End of Nations issue 1.

Comic book solicit: Economic disaster brought world governments to their knees. Industrialized nations, for the first time, experienced hunger and poverty on a scale not seen outside the most stricken third-world countries. The Order of Nations, a new world power, stepped into the chaos and restored order, imposing a tyrannical rule. But they pushed too hard and people everywhere began to openly challenge them. Follow the story of one resistance group as they struggle against the totalitarian regime of the Order of Nations in this 4-issue miniseries based on the highly anticipated, massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game End of Nations from publisher Trion Worlds and developer Petroglyph! On sale OCTOBER 27

I have developed a sudden interest in dice games. Not craps. Things like Dungeon Dice, Zombie Dice and Cthulhu Dice.

I don’t know why. I have sudden spurts of interest in things. I once developed an interest in Goth Dolls. Thankfully that one didn’t last long.

So while having all kinds of dice games rattling around in my head, I spent a sleepless night pondering things I could do nothing about. In an attempt to distract myself, I came up with a set of rules for a dice game. I got about 80% of the way there while lying in bed staring at the ceiling, wishing I was asleep.

Over the next two days I have come pretty close to perfecting the rules. The game uses standard polyhedral dice (a set of dice with more than six sides for you non D&D literate types.) It has a leveling system, character classes, a quest system, and a player vs. player system.

I’ve only play tested in a little bit, but the two people I’ve played with have both said it’s a challenging strategy game. That’s good, btw.

I still need to do some more perfecting, but another week or two and I may have a full on game I developed. Still haven’t come up with a name though.

My toy blog BugEyedMonster.com is seeing a lot of action lately.

I have been clearing off the old hard drive and ran across a bunch of content I had prepped and just never posted. Figured it was about time. I’m also unloading a bunch of toys that I’ve no room for, so I’m snapping some new pics as well.

Most recent update on the toy site includes:

• UK Version of Rom the Space Knight
• Some 12 Inch Mego Superman Figures
• Zee Toys Firebirds
• Lion Rock War Heroes

The other comic series I’m working on, End of Nations, also based on a game from Trion Worlds, had a zero issue given away at SDCC as well.

The cover for this book was done by maestro artist Cully Hamner, who I previously had the pleasure of working with on the Warren Ellis penned episode of Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider.

Included below for your viewing pleasure.

End of Nations 0 Cover by Cully Hamner