Here’s a pic of friend and sometime SLG colaborator Chris Reilly being choked by Ox Baker (of Escape From New York fame) at a Free Comic Book Day event.

Says Chris:

Ox Baker, of Escape From New York fame had had enough of my comic
pushing shenanigans so he decided it would be best to just strangle me
with his Paleolithic period skull crushers. It was all in good fun,
but take into consideration that this is letting a guy who threw Andre
the Giant over the rope, shake your head around with his engine block
sized mitts.

(Click for larger image)

SHATTER RETURNS @ AiT/PLANETLAR – NEWSARAMA

I had almost forgotten about this comic book from the ’80’s called Shatter until I read this article this morning–the book’s beign reprinted apparently.

I loved the book when I was a teen-ager and am tempted to pick this up. I’m curious, though, to see if it holds up some 20 years later. It was entirely drawn (with a mouse) on old MacPaint and MacDraw programs–the first computer drawn comic ever. Even at the time these came out I recognized it as pretty shemelessly stealing a lot of its schtick from Blade Runner. On the other hand, so did pretty much everything else SF-wise at the time–Neuromancer (William Gibson denies the connection curiously), Akira, etc.