Last Stop!

My amigo Brandon Graham fixed up the poster for our last stop of the WEST COAST MEGA TOUR - come on out to Golden Age Comics, downtown vancouver, tomorrow!!!!!

King of the Road

This november, I'm hitting the ol' dusty trail to promote HABITAT. First stop:

LONDON! At Forbidden Planet in London, I'm doing a lil signing from 6-7 pm on November 3rd,
Followed by a chat with Chris Thompson of Pop Culture Hound in a cosy little bar around the corner! 

That weekend, I'm heading up to Leeds to spend the weekend at Thought Bubble, a wonderful Convention i've heard lovely things about!

Lastly, starting Nov 18th in Los Angeles, Matt Sheean, Malachi Ward and I are co-touring up the west coast! (Peep the poster below for info)

Come on out and say hi if you've got a chance!

HABITAT - Final Order Cutoff Sept 26th!

My final little push of pre-shipping promo - order this book up! Grab it on Amazon, or bully your local comic/bookstore to get some copies! FLOOD THE EARTH WITH MY CANNIBAL BROOD! 

Hustle HUSTLE

Inspired by the ceaselessly industrious Matt and Malachi's efforts, I've put together a flyer to help encourage retailers to buy up Habitat when it comes out! With pull quotes from two of the greats!

Get your local comic book shop to snap it up, using this code - AUG160697 - or even pre-grab it on Amazon, to read at your future leisure!

Plus its foolishly priced at ten bucks, for easy purchasability! WE MUST BE CRAZY TO SELL AT THESE PRICES!

Habitat, the Collected Edition

Order code: AUG160697

“All his life, Hank Cho wanted to join the ranks of the Habsec-the rulers of the orbital habitat his people call home. But when he finds a powerful, forbidden weapon from the deep past, a single moment of violence sets his life-and the brutal society of the habitat-into upheaval. Hunted by the cannibalistic Habsec and sheltered by former enemies, Cho finds himself caught within a civil war that threatens to destroy his world.

A new barbarian sci-fi adventure by SIMON ROY (PROPHET, JAN’S ATOMIC HEART, Tiger Lung), originally serialized in ISLAND MAGAZINE.

In Shops: Oct 26, 2016

SRP: $9.99″

Yo my book is in previews! Talk to your local comic store so you can snag it up this fall! 

The finale of Habitat!

I've been largely using tumblr lately, but for this momentous occasion, I'm back to robotblood! This weds, the 40-page finale of "Habitat" will be running in Island #8, alongside work by Ben Sears, Michael DeForge, and Xulia Vicenta - go take a look! A labor of love that has taken me literally YEARS to complete, finally done!

EMERALD CITY

I know i neglect this space (i'm a tumblr man now, sadly) but i have an announcement - I'll be tabling with Brandon Graham this year at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle! We'll be sitting at table Y-12, with this shiny new print (colored of course)!

Come on down!

How Dinosaurs Can fix your Religion

Today, we have a guest post from my amigo and editor Daniel Bensen! His wise words, below the image...

There comes a time in every spec-fic writer's life when they must take a good long at themselves and think: "is this novel I've written nothing but a vehicle for my made-up culture?"

You bet it is! I was working on a lost time-colony of bronze-age humans in the Late Cretaceous period for ages before I finally figured out how to work them into a novel about intercultural romance and the difference between power and strength (buy it here!) I had the whole shebang: languages, population genetics, rituals, and of course religion. Ahem.

The people on the timeline called "Maastrichtia" are most likely the descendants of an apocalyptic cult that stole a time machine and went back to the time of the Chixulub Impact about 65 million years ago. It's that "about" that turned out to be the problem. Their time machine was only accurate to a margin of error of .01 million years, and it dumped them out more than five thousand years before the impact.

In the subsequent millennia, most vestiges of the cultists original religion have vanished. The Maastrichtians have adopted a number of belief systems, most only vaguely Abrahamic.

The Ethlek tribes who herd triceratops around the alluvial plains at the site of the first colony believe their land itself is God. To the west are the forested hills of God's Brows and to the east the sea, his eye. He sends his angels up to live on his face as humans, animals, plants, and some natural features. This monotheism evolving into animism by way of reincarnation and ancestor-worship is common on Maastrichtia.

The Memorialist church of the polar sea civilizations has a conservative approach. They believe God left the universe in the charge of angels, many of which forgot their duties and became demons. Demons control the destructive storm or the hungry mosasaur, but angels live in reliquaries and may be made to do work. Some reliquaries are called radios, others steam engines or arc lights. These miracles are kept, maintained, and very rarely reproduced by the priesthood, their secrets hidden lest they become corrupted and turn into demons. In the Thalassocracy on the north coast of North America, Memorialist dogma exists side-by-side with an animist tradition where totem animals and nature spirits patronize social organizations like warrior societies (ankylosaur, mosasaur, etc) priestly orders (troodon etc) and political parties (magnolia etc).

When confronted by time travelers from the 21st century, the Memorialists look at high-tech soldiers and think, "powerful entities we must enslave lest they become demons." The Ethlek think, "Aha. An opportunity!"

Blurb:

Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018UD6DH2/ ) is a time-travel romance with dinosaurs, available now as a kindle book.

Back-of-the book information:

Former soldier Andrea Herrera isn’t happy with where her life’s taken her. Specifically, to Hell Creek, Montana, 65 million years before the present. As far as careers go, making sure the dinosaurs don’t eat her paleontologist clients comes in a pretty dismal second choice to serving her country. But when their time machine malfunctions, Andrea and her team are trapped in a timeline that shouldn’t exist with something a hell of a lot more dangerous than terrible lizards: other humans.

Links:

Dan's website (http://www.thekingdomsofevil.com/?page_id=1884 )

Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018UD6DH2/ )

Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28007296-groom-of-the-tyrannosaur-queen )

TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/GroomOfTheTyrannosaurQueen )

Tumblr (http://www.tyrannosaurqueen.tumblr.com/ )

Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/The-Kingdoms-of-Evil-218960014786258/  )

Twitter (https://twitter.com/Evil0Dan )

Deviant Art (http://bensen-daniel.deviantart.com/ )

NEXT WEEK: PROPHET EARTHWAR!

Next week, the first issue of Prophet: Earthwar comes out, after much strenuous labour! 

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