I dropped off the face of the earth more than three months ago, but here I am again slogging back into the swamp.

All my spare time was consumed finishing a comic book. Twenty-five years ago (twenty-five years!) Roy Thomas and I collaborated on a four-issue mini-series for First Comics called Alter Ego. It was a chance for us to play with Golden Age suiperheroes. The gimmick was that a current-day kid with a love of Golden Age comics (something of an oxymoron) finds a certain comic that opens a gateway to a universe where the GA heroes were real.

Slow-forward 25 years. Dennis Mallonee of Heroic Comics has been reprinting the original First Comics issues. He asked if Roy and I would do a sort of "reunion" issue, an Alter Ego #5. to mark the anniversary. This time we took a shot at 1950s crime comics, a genre I'd always wanted to work with.

The project proved to be a lot of work, shoehorned into my schedule wherever possible. The fun was tempered by my realization of how much I'd forgotten since 1986--and how much 'd never learned.

I've posted the cover mockup to my gallery. It's strictly old-school, like the interior. Like the creator, for that matter.

I've managed to make a occasional entries to my blog. I invite all of you interested in obscure comics to give it a glance.