I’m sure some of you were very surprised that I have been missing from this site for two weeks. What’s been happening?

In the week before Wizard World Chicago, I was busy packing and had little time for posting. I didn’t even have the time to hype my comic, Metro Med #0, finally being printed! Yeah! My comic, in the works for over a year…waiting to be printed for so long…finally is in print form, and I didn’t even have time to do up a post about it or place some graphics on the site. That should tell you how busy I was.

At Chicago…well, I’ll offer a full con report later, and hopefully you won’t mind it being a week late. But I drove to/from Chicago with four of the five contributors to Metro Med #0: my good friend and collaborator Phil Meadows, and pinup artists Robert Bavington and Erik Burnham. (Colorist Roz Terrill couldn’t make it, but was with us in spirit.)

Robert, who has assisted Phil and I in designing some of our superheroes, was visiting from England and then drove home with me to be our houseguest for a week. It was delightful to see Rob again, as he’s a friendly guy with an infectious good humor. Unfortunately, he also brought the infectious Mad Cow Cold, and Phil Meadows and I have been so sniffly we haven’t been near a keyboard much for the last week. OK, I’m kidding, we don’t think it was Rob, but Phil and I have been sick for a week, which is why little has happened on the Metro Med promotional front.

Still, I’ve had a good week playing host to Robert and taking him to see the Minnesota Imax theater, the Minnesota Zoo and the Mall of America. We watched movies, drove around Rochester and played games. Oh, and since I had a foreigner in my home, I did the American thing and put him to work for no pay, ripping up tile in my basement. Rob took off yesterday, heading for Vegas. Thanks for staying with us, Rob! Rob also presented me with a full-size copy of his Magnitude pinup for our book. It looks fantastic and you’ll see it when you get a copy of Metro Med #0.

And I’ve spent the last 24 hours trying to get caught up after 11 days away from the Internet, with hardly any time for paying bills, sorting mail, doing dishes, etc.

Again, I’ll do a convention report later tonight; I’ll also have coverage of the Metro Med #0 debut, with details on the book’s availability.