I love Superman and am hugely grateful to have worked on ACTION COMICS for two years with co-writer and artist Aaron Kuder and a bunch of other amazing collaborators.
Above is one of the moments I love the most from our run as seen in ACTION COMICS #42.
Looking forward to the movie. 💙
I’m thrilled to report that I’m writing RETURN TO PLANET HULK #1, a 25 page one-shot story commemorating the 20th anniversary of the classic PLANET HULK storyline — and original PLANET HULK artist Carlo Pagulayan is drawing!
Here’s the synopsis:
GAMMA-IRRADIATED GLADITORIAL ACTION ON PLANET HULK!
Green blood will flow and sparks will fly! After escaping the Red King’s deadly arena, Hulk faces ferocious monsters and smashes his way through malicious machines and wild robotic terrors in one of his most important battles of survival on the war-torn planet of Sakaar! Two possible destinies are at stake! The SAKAARSON, savior of the planet, or the WORLDBREAKER, the legendary destroyer! Will his rage only fuel the chaos of this alien world?
Ask your local comic shop to pre-order the book for you today!
Here’s my blurb on the book from the press release. Hugely excited to be diving back into this world after all these years!
Working on Planet Hulk remains one of the greatest joys of my comics career, and I’m enormously grateful for the love so many readers have shared for the storyline over the years. This 20th anniversary special is a celebration and a huge thank you to everyone — and a chance to take one more journey into the dark heart of the Green Scar and add to the wild mythos of Sakaar. It’s also a huge pleasure to be working with Carlo Pagulayan and Mark Paniccia again — it’s like we never left off, and it feels like home.
Today, Twitter’s “A.i.” text generator “Grok” went full Nazi with a slew of inexcusable, reprehensible antisemitic posts.
I’m not going to quote them here. But you can see some of this trash for yourself in this NBC News article and this Rolling Stone post.
I’m begging you to delete your Twitter account right the hell now and deny Elon Musk any of your attention and money. It’s hate site that’s making the world worse every second, and it’s poisoning your brain if you visit there with any regularity.
Just get the hell off of Twitter, please.
For what it’s worth, I’m on Bluesky and I like it.
DEATH OF THE SILVER SURFER #1 hits comic shops this Wednesday, June 11! I’m absolutely thrilled with this book – written by yours truly with interior art by Sumit Kumar, colors by Frank D’Armata, letters by Joe Sabino, covers by Dike Ruan, and editing by Tom Groneman.
Please do ask your local comic shop to hold a copy for you!
And check out the lettered preview here!
Also, if you’re in Jersey, come to the signing on June 14 from 4-6 pm at The Geekery!
And if you’re in NYC, I’ll be signing on June 16 at 6 pm at Everyone Comics – more on that soon!
Just one stunning preview page to whet your appetite:
Indivisible put out a call for volunteers to create original art for their NO KINGS campaign — and I gave it a shot!
If you’re an artist and would like to join in, check out the guidelines at nokings.org/art.
My friend Shing Yin Khor has directed an incredible short film that you need to watch right now. It’s called “Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan” and it is fantastic.
In anticipation of Trump’s terrible tariffs, I made a few strategic purchases last month to upgrade my very old electronics. My biggest move was buying an M4 Mac Mini to replace my late-2013 27 inch iMac. The Mac Mini wasn’t as expensive as I feared, but a new monitor as good as my iMac would have killed me. So I did some research and learned about Luna Display, a little red plug-in device with associated software that lets you use an iMac as a monitor for under $100.
The short version:
I’ve got Luna Display working and it’s good enough for me to put off buying a new monitor for a while!
Small but key hack: turning wifi off on my iMac makes sure the system only connects via Ethernet, which is key.
Very happy both about saving money and keeping good electronics out of landfills.
The longer version:
To make Luna Display work with my setup, I had to stick the little red plugin into my Mac Mini and install Luna Display software on both the main computer (my new Mac Mini) and the display computer (my old iMac). I also connected the Mac Mini to the iMac via Ethernet (absolutely critical in my case!). (One quirk — I’m pretty sure you already need an external monitor in order to set everything up, because you can’t manage your Mac Mini without a monitor and your iMac won’t work as a monitor until you’ve set everything up, natch. Fortunately, I have a small, cheap external monitor that worked fine for that purpose.)
After running through the settings and enabling some permissions, the whole thing just worked — the iMac became a monitor for the Mac Mini! But there was terrible latency — meaning there was a lag between moving the mouse and seeing it actually move on screen — because the system automatically connected via internet instead of Ethernet. When I went through the settings and told the system to only connect via Ethernet, the connection improved fantastically. There’s still a tiny lag that I can see while typing, for example. But it’s miniscule and doesn’t bother me.
The main problem is that when the computers go to sleep, the connection is usually lost. So waking the computers up from sleep usually requires restarting the Luna Display program on both machines. And then the system would usually default to wifi again — even though I had it set to only connect via Ethernet. This was really frustrating — it added extra minutes every time I sat down at my desk, which isn’t fun or good.
Eventually, I figured out that turning off wifi on my iMac would disable the wifi connection and now the system only connects via Ethernet! I still typically have to restart Luna Display on the computers when waking the computers up from sleep, but they connect again immediately via Ethernet, so it’s vastly less annoying.
UPDATE!
A few more details/quirks worth sharing:
Hey, friends! It’s been a long time, but I’m back with a really exciting news – today is the final order cutoff day for DEATH OF THE SILVER SURFER #1, written by yours truly with interior art by Sumit Kumar and Frank D’Armata and covers by Dike Ruan!
The book is absolutely gorgeous and may be one of the best things I’ve written in years. You can read about it here and here and here.
Please do ask your local comic shop to pre-order a copy of the book for you today!
The tl/dr version:
I very much hope you’ll consider asking your local comic shop to pre-order a copy of the book for you. It’s gonna be good!
As an added tease, here’s a page of heretofore unreleased, uncolored art from Sumit Kumar. Just absolutely stunning — intimate, mindblowing, surreal, and entirely human. You don’t wanna miss this!
Thanks so much for your consideration!
Hey, NYC! I’m gonna be at FanFaire NYC this Saturday and Sunday – tabling in Artists Alley (412) and doing a few great panels with awesome folks like Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey, Amy Chu, Joe Illidge, and more!
My panel schedule:
Saturday, 11 am – Character Reincarnations with Amy Reeder, Amy Chu, and Ivan Cohen.
Saturday, 12:30 pm – Giving Your Characters Character with Joe Illidge and Fred Van Lente.
Sunday, 3:30 pm – Comics Are the Best Way to Tell a Story with Amy Chu, Ryan Dunlavey, and Ivan Cohen.
Come see, come see!
A cool person asked me on Bluesky for advice for up and coming comics writers the other night, and a lot of people seemed to appreciate the thread I posted in response. So I’ve collected it here so people can find it easily. Enjoy — and have fun!
Make comics. Actually make them and FINISH them and MOVE ON and make another one and another. Start small. Make a one panel comic. Make a one page comic. Make a two or three page comic. Make a five page comic. Now you’ve really learned something! Keep going.
And if you can’t find an artist, draw yourself. Even if it’s just for yourself, something you might never show anyone. Write and draw these small comics projects and you’ll learn so much.
I came up through film, and learning to do all the jobs on no budget short films was HUGE for learning.
Also read a lot. And not just comics. Go to plays, watch documentaries, learn about stuff. Literally anything you actually read and learn about anything you’re interested in will make you a better storyteller. Your little weird obsessions? That’s what makes you and your stories interesting.
Also: if a club won’t let you in, screw ’em. Find your own people and build your audience. Easier said than done, I know. Takes years, usually. But chasing after specific awards or honors or credentials can be a sucker’s game. Build your own audience, step by step.
These are lessons I learned in film in the 1990s from folks like Wayne Wang and Spike Lee. I knew that as an Asian American trying to make movies with non-white characters I was gonna have a hard time. Just had to find my compatriots and make it happen and build an audience, step by step.
Also too: regarding all those little short comics you’re making? A bunch of them will be terrible! And that’s OKAY! Give yourself permission to suck. You’re LEARNING! Genius is a myth, seriously. Everyone sucks until they really work at it and figure stuff out and get better. Embrace that!