A little Christmas cheer
First up, I’d like to wish any readers here (and this includes those who follow this on LiveJournal feed from here) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I have a ton of things going on that will filter into 2009 so watch this space for comic goodness.
I’m going to keep this quick since I’m trying to finish up on Melonpool at least before the end of the year (next week!) and still have over 700 to do.
I got a parcel this morning. I was expecting it, but it didn’t change the fact that it was appreciated. I briefly mentioned in the Melonpool review for Comic of the Week that a new book was due out, but that at the time it was a surprise. Well, I’m extremely pleased that my copy turned up in today’s post! What I didn’t explain in the article was that Melonpool had a history even before being a webcomic; four comic books - The Melonpool Chronicles - were created way back in 1996 before it became a webcomic. Steve has arranged with ComixPress to issue the books in a single bound volume entitled “The Melonpool Chronicles Revisited”, and I gots me one!
I must be careful with it though, since it is very cool since Steve has done the 10 recipients of the pre-release edition (it’s out on general release in January) proud; not only are they numbered and signed, but there’s a sketch on the inside cover too, and there were some 1995-edition bookmarks in with it too! To me this is a real piece of comic history and is one of the corner-stones of my comic collection - Melonpool was the first webcomic I ever read and this is a look back at the prequel, if you will. Except unlike Star Wars Episode I, this is a real prequel worth reading.
So, yeah, I’m a happy chappy today and to have it here in time for Christmas is just the icing on the cake really. And I know the title for the sixth book, which also makes me happy, since it’s something I’ve been wondering for the last three years.
Now if I can only get up to my former rate of 100/day getting this done shouldn’t be a problem. But I think I’ve said that before. Perhaps I should take a leaf out of Mayberry and Ralphie’s book…
“To the time machine!”