Starting today, “Evil Inc” will begin appearing in front of 800,000 more people. The Trend, circulated throughout the suburban areas of Philadelphia, covers eight counties within the Delaware Valley.
The Trend is a weekly publication, and it will run six “Evil Inc” strips in every issue. As I do in my graphic novels, I will convert the strips to read in a continuous narrative — resulting in a short, standalone “Evil Inc” story in every edition.
Trend readers will be brought into the “Evil Inc” world from the beginning with a few months of “best of” strips from the series’ start that will eventually dovetail with the strips being sent out to other newspapers (such as the 150,000-circulation Philadelphia Daily News, which runs the series in its comic-strip format every day).
After the Oct. 1 launch, “Evil Inc” will be added to other community editions of The Trend, as well as The Star and the Northeast Times — two other weekly newspapers published by the Trend’s parent organization, Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.
Through this roll-out, “Evil Inc” will have been introduced to a whopping 1.2 million new readers by January 1, 2009.
Readers of The Trend may already be somewhat familiar with my work, as the paper has prominently featured me in its coverage of Wizard World Philadelphia for the last two years.
There are some Bigfoot problems that hit harder than others — and for certain legendary figures, male pattern baldness anxiety isn’t just about looks… it’s about legacy. Today’s comic imagines what happens when one very famous cryptid starts wondering if his myth might not survive a receding hairline.
What I’m Watching: Invincible, JJK, and the Great Animation Trade-Off
I’ve been watching Invincible with my sons, and I’ve got… thoughts.
First off: the story? Very, very good. Genuinely compelling stuff — even though the violence and gore is way past my personal comfort range. I'm not super comfortable with one character shooting another. The stuff that happens on a median-level episode of Invincible is a real challenge for me.
As someone who does NSFW comics, I'm constantly amazed at how perfectly acceptable Invincible is... yet an animated series based on Phil Foglio's XXXenophile would have people losing their ever-loving minds.
Further, it's a little disappointing to go from watching Jujutsu Kaisen (which we're also following at the moment) to watching Invincible.
JJK features jaw-dropping visuals and animation that constantly raises the bar episode after episode. It's phenomenal.
On the other side of the spectrum, Invincible clearly put all of its budget into getting celebrity voice talent. Some of them are very good.
I just wish a few of those Amazon dollars had been spent on the animation. Some of the scenes are pretty clearly PNGs that get enlarged to show an object moving through space, and it's a goddamned embarrassment.
But the story itself is very, very good.
