Metro Med Special Edition #1 - NOW AVAILABLE!

Toldja there was a big announcement coming!

Metro Med Special Edition #1 is now available at IndyPlanet.

It's 36 beautiful pages, with two Metro Med stories, pinups, character profiles, a new Annotations section, plus an all-new color 1-page story on the back cover. As a bonus, I included my out-of-print story "Melvin and Marvin Middler, Time Meddlers".

In 2005, I published Metro Med #0 via my buddies at Shooting Star Comics. A thin volume selling for $2, this #0 issue was rushed to the printer in time to have it for Wizard World Chicago. Unfortunately, the quality of the printing was not what we would have liked and it ended up as our ashcan edition. (I'm still glad we published when we did, since afterward not only did someone else do a superhero hospital book but there was also another superhero using the same name as one of my characters. Thank God for ashcans!) Shortly afterward I lost my artist on the book, so it's taken me a while to decide how to proceed. While I'm looking forward with some new artists, I decided it was time the first volume got a quality printing.

I didn't tell you any of this because, until I saw it at Wizard World Chicago, I wasn't sure how the printing would turn out. Yes, I was in the same "no proof" boat I was in back in 2005. However, the final result is stunning. I thought the quality of #0 was just disappointing, but once I saw the quality of this new one printed through Ka-Blam/IndyPlanet... well, I regret ever showing anyone the old one. THIS is how Metro Med was meant to be.

Well...at least until I can get it redone in color.

Take a look for yourself. IndyPlanet has a six-page preview.

Yes, I'll be talking this up for a while.