Okay, so this is rad. One of our forum members has a sister. Actually, probably more than one of them has a sister. Or is one personally.

But anyway. This specific sister of a forum-er is a pretty cool kid. To wit:

My name is Hope Robins. I am almost 13 years old. This will be the third time I have cut my hair for Cancer. I also make sure that the hair is donated to make wigs for kids who have lost their hair because they have cancer. I cut my hair the first time when I was 8 and I raised $1,100.00 in pledges, the second time I raised $2,700.00 and this year my goal is $5000.00. I would be honoured if you would help me. This year I am proudly supporting The Terry Fox Foundation in its ongoing work to fund innovative and progressive cancer research programs. I very much hope you will consider making a donation in support of my effort, confident in the knowledge that your kindness will impact the lives of so many people living with cancer.

If that sounds like something you’d be “into,” then clickaclick right here. Donations are welcome, but so are kind words!

(I am joking)

The best part is that all the copy and pasted Cap pictures are already owned by Marvel and going into Marvel products they also own. The only hang up is the backgrounds are from Atomic Robo. Wait. Gimme a second.

Brian Clevinger, do you give you, Brian Clevinger, permission to use your own IP?

Yup!

Score!

All right, so, things are a little hectic around here. I’m juggling something between five and a million writing gigs.

One of them is Captain America: The Fighting Avenger and in some ways it’s the most daunting. There’s just so much history and material to draw from. And everyone wants to see their favorite early Cap moments. Or at least have them alluded to. But there’s only so many pages in an issue, and who knows how many of those we’ll get to do and — ARGH — it’s just a ton of pressure.

Now, here’s the thing. In this industry, artists get paid a ton more than writers. Like several tons more. It’s crazy. I mean, okay, they earn it. The poor bastards can only draw so many pages in a day, generally one, while jackasses like me can just write script after script consisting of giant splash pages that take all of ten seconds to figure out and ten hours for some other idiot to draw. But, all the same, fuck that noise, GIMME DAT ARTIST MONEY!

Well, luckily, I’m a genius so I figured out how to get in on that action by using my years of experience as a sprite comic artiste! I don’t want to give away too many spoilers, but check out this exclusive preview of Captain America: The Fighting Avenger #1.

Pretty amazing, right?

The best part is I can do like three or four of these pages every day. I’m callin’ up Quesada in the morning with this. Gonna start doing the art on New Avengers or an X-Men or something.

I finished the fourth and final issue of The Avengers and the Infinity Gauntlet last week. SPOILER: Spider-Man and Dr. Doom get all the best lines. The first three issues are already available for pre-order. If you’re into that sorta thing.

And I kinda hope you are!

Also wrapped up some outlines for next year’s Captain America: The Fighting Avenger. You can get an idea of what that’ll look like if you pick up World War Hulks: Captain America vs. Wolverine* #1 and #2. Gurihiru, the ultimate art science squad, and I have a ten page backup story in each of those issues, and we’ll continue our team up with Cap.

And I’m far enough ahead on Volume 5 of Atomic Robo that I’ve got the next two months clear to help write a fancy big time video game for your X-boxes and your PS3s. OH DEAR GOD WHAT IF I SCREW IT UP AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGH!!!

I’m fine. Really. Just need tons of coffee all day so I can stay alert and active, and then tons of vodka at night so I can sleep.

*c’mon, guys, let’s try to make a long title next time, huh?