Scott Kurtz alerted us to this interview with Jim Valentino on Newsarama

I hadn’t realized that Todd Nauck’s Casting Call had sold out! Again, I do have to wonder about all of the sellout issues of late. Seems like it could be explained as a lot of low orders so that vendors could free up cash for issues of JLA/Avengers, but that’s just a guess…and allegedly these…

PvP #4 should be out next week. In the meantime, here is a

Scott Kurtz has posted a news item about computer coloring over at PvPonline. Artist Kelsey Shannon gave the tutorial at Scott’s house for the benefit of a number of local artists. Here is how Scott had it colored originally. Here is what it looked like at the end of the session. Either way, I have…

Top Cow and Image Comics present a new four-issue miniseries of Magdelena, who is a warrior for the Catholic Church. Has anyone read the earlier appearances of the character? Feel free to discuss it in the Forum.

Scott Kurtz reveals that he has just been offered his first non-PvP comic book job. We’ll have more on this as he reveals who has offered him what comic and in what capacity.

GI Joe crosses over with the Transformers in a new six issue mini this summer. Interestingly, the two series get reinvented just so that they can co-exist in this reality. I like those kinds of crossovers (like the classic Batman/Captain America) as opposed to the rip-in-dimensions type. I don’t know that I’ll pick up this…

Scott Kurtz explains how to fill up a half page that he had left after finishing his story for PvP #2. Click here to get a sneak peek at his space-filler!

Geoff Johns reviews PvP in his “One of the Good Ones” column over at Fourth Rail.

This is old news for a lot of you, but I LOVE PvP and I was giddy at the chance to finally pick up the new Image comic. For the benefit of any new readers, I’ll recap: I live in Rochester, MN, where we don’t have a good comic shop, so I get my comics…