Books x Imagination = Awesome.

A silent diversion from my usually wordy strip, so I’ll make up for it here.

First up, Comics Should Be Good’s Line is Drawn feature has hit yet again, so get along and check out my X-Babies meets the Muppet Babies pin up, and the many other great pieces, including a dynamic, crazy-good Captain Caveman/Captain America mash-up. Don’t forget to hit Twitter and suggest something for this week’s challenge. Comic characters in different times! 30AD Spider-Man, Shakespearean Batgirl (played by a man?) etc. Direct your suggestions to @csbg. Join the fun!

Second, a reminder of Fan Expo this coming weekend, where I will be selling Max books, and scribbling in them, as well as selling original art and sketches. At booth A150, across from DC (and Tron! Yeah!) We’re listed as Postscript-Celadore in the official program.

And lastly, Max is obviously reading a horror book, which more kids should do. I don’t mean go out and rent Hostel, Wolf Creek, etc. but “kid-friendly” is becoming increasingly “safe”, in my opinion, in this offend-nobody world of today. As a kid from the 80s, who doesn’t remember the room of heads screaming at Dorothy in Return to Oz? The Nothing in the Neverending Story? Or the Skeksies (and their crab minions) from the Dark Crystal! (I still jump when we first meet Fizgig, even!)

I dunno. Scary is good. Not gore, but clever scary. Let’s bring it back. For the children.