WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?

Good question eh?

Well the short answer is depressed, the long answer comes down to pretty much the same thing.

Between losing my job and losing my father this spring, it seems the summer of 2015 mostly revolved around me losing my mind.

Not a fun place to be.

That said, the time for feeling sorry for myself and stressed out is over.

It's been swell, but the swelling's gone down.

I fully intend to get back on the horse and start writing again.

Effective immediately this blog, the Four Colour Café is now the official blog of all my endeavours, including Zenith Comics, Tin Hill Press, Lady America, Celtic Viking Radio, and whatever other stuff I do/come up with.

I will write one entry a week, minimum, or I don't get to watch movies until I do!

I will link this to zenithcomics.com, which in turn I will link all over the world to try and drive hits to my website and not other corporate ones.

Etc...

Wish me luck!

Cheers!

Andrew Collas - Lost in time and space...

Zenith Comics Presents: The Podcast - Issue 2!

Go here!

Warning there is only a very large file up right now.  John is gonna break it down into smaller files for me later this week!

Cheers!

Update!

Anthony and I had a meeting today.  It went well.  We had decided two weeks ago to scrub the previous art and go in a whole new direction, a more "animated" direction.  That doesn't me going in a Timm way, but instead going for a more simplistic yet dynamic direction/style.

About 3 days ago I started to have doubts and began second guessing myself.

Well after seeing all 10 characters pencil sketches (which I will start previewing here and on various boards tonight or tomorrow), of which 6 were done at the table, I can say that this was the smartest choice we made!

Zenith Comics will now have a definite style and look to it which is a really awesome thing.  I say this because for me "branding" has become a very important process for me.  I recognize the strength and the power of it and I look forward to having the Zenith "shield" become something of an association with quality.

Dan House is hard at work on a new front page image for the website as well, which is based on a classic comic cover and will be sure fun.

Also another decision I came to today is this.  While I will be selling villain roster books, I am going to be giving away heroes for free on the website.  Why?  Well with players in your games already playing heroes, what you would need more than MORE heroes would be a hole in the head.  Villains?  Sure.  Absolutely, but to try and sell hero books doesn't sit right with me.

Oh and I will be giving them in BASH, ICONS and M&M3rd variants, which eventually all the villain roster books will be released in as well.

The also I am happy to announce a new member of the Zenith Comics family, Jim Stoner!  Jim has an understanding of building characters that just blows my mind.  As such he has come on-board to the stat blocks for the villains to be in "Zenith Comics Presents: Public Enemies Volume 1", and I hope to keep him for all future volumes as well.

Beyond that my end of it all, the writing, is back on track and I am shooting for a mid-July release of the first book, end of August at the latest.

Oh and the first issue of "Zenith Comics Presents: The Podcast!" got a great response with over 300 downloads!  Issue 2 (interview with Steven Long of HERO games) is in production now and have set a date for the Issue 3 interview with Jeff Grubb.

It's shaping up to be a very Zenith summer!

Steve Long Interview

Hey all,

I am interviewing Steve Long of Hero Games this Sunday.

Anyone got any questions for him?

Zenith Comics Presents: The Podcast - Episode 1

Hey everyone.

While the webpage is being worked on (and is not ready yet) I have decided to at least put up the first episode of Zenith Comics Presents: The Podcast for everyone to listen to.  The first guest is none other than Jeff Dee, of Villains & Vigilantes fame.

The webpage will be coming soon.

Take a listen and feedback is always welcomed.

Cheers.

Updates Mania!

So just got back from another art meeting for "Zenith Comics Presents: Public Enemies Volume 1" and we are now up to colour and cover discussions. So that's awesome!

Gonna go with an exclusive distribution via DriveThroughRpg.com and their POD service as well I think.

Look for a June release at this point.

Also recorded the first edition of the Earth Alpha Podcast on Sunday, wherein I interviewed Jeff Dee (of Living Legends/Villains & Vigilantes fame). Should have that all edited and up for download next week if all goes according to plan.

And last but not least, been looking for a way to export this blog to my webpage and it isn't going well. This means I may move the blog over there to a WordPress based blog and only post update links here moving forward.

We shall see.

Otherwise, things are looking good, spring has sprung (despite 4 inches of snow yesterday that is all but gone today) and the Zenith Universe is in full swing.

Cheers!