Friday, December 4, 2020

Ol' Groove's Still Making Comics With a Groovy (and Golden) Age Vibe!

Happy Holidays, Groove-ophiles!

Ol' Groove is happier than an elf with a brand-new set of toymaking tools! Why? 'Cause...

Diversions #3 is finally available in print and digital from IndyPlanet and in digital format from DriveThru Comics! The issue kicks off with the conclusion of an exciting NIGHT SPIDER mystery/adventure that has him fighting the diabolical duo of Megabyte and Googol! The art is, naturally, by JW Erwin (who also rocked the fab-a-mundo cover)!






In the middle of this mildly magnificent issue is a faux Golden Age adventure featuring THE BLACK ROSE! Our heroine must clear her name of a murder most foul in the David Vance illustrated Blue Moon Classic!




Batting clean-up is THE MIDNIGHT STRANGER! The Wraith of Wrath is back in action in a brand new tale of rigorous revenge! And best of all, artist Joe Koziarski is back for this one!





If you've never checked out an issue of Diversions, now would be a great time! Three issues are ready and raring to find your mailbox (and buying more books means savings on postage)! And if you have bought copies of Diversions, THANK YOU! Oh, and, ahem, they make superior stocking stuffers!


Hope you enjoyed this preview of my latest comic, Groove-ophiles! I'd love to hear from some of ya about what you think about what the Blue Moon gang and yers trooly are doing. It would send me over the (blue) moon if I could get enough feedback to start a liltin' letters page in Diversions


See ya next time with more stuff from the Good Ol' Groovy Age Days!

11 comments:

  1. I'm strictly a pre-1982 DC Comics kind of guy, but you sure have some impressive work here Groove! These pages are a lot of fun :)

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    1. Thanks! Night Spider pretty much is the Bronze Age Batman, while Midnight Stranger is the Adventure Comics era Spectre. Black Rose was actually created for Big Bang in hopes of making her their Golden Age Black Canary. Since DC isn't Groovy Age anymore, we're trying to keep that spirit alive!

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    2. Because pre 1982 DC was so good (rolling my eyes). I guess Crisis On Infinite Earths was inferior to Brother Power the Geek.

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    3. To some people, that's probably absolutely true (this is a 70s-centric blog, after all :D). Different people liking different things is what makes the world more interesting. I can think of a lot of things from the 70s that I like way better than Crisis--but I can still love Crisis (well, like it... or tolerate it...lol--but props to Wolfman, Perez, Giordano, and Ordway for their awesome craftsmanship for sure!). ;D

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    4. Pre-Crisis DC was a fabulous place with a unique identity. Post-Crisis, it became wannabe-Marvel.

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  2. Great stuff Groove! Will order!:). Michael M:).

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    1. Thanks so much, Michael! I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart!

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  3. I hope you are well, I keep up with your blog and you haven't posted in a while. I hope your projects are successful, it gives me hopes for my comic book project endeavors. I was intrigued by your comment that you comic was also for digital release. How do you prep your comics for digital? Do you just scan them or do you alter how you create the comic? We live in a world where the physical touch of a comic book is taken for granted and comic book stores are closing. Corporate comic book companies worry more about how a comic will display on a tablet or fast-processing laptop than the story or reading experience of the fan. (When I read digi-comics its on a laptop to facilitate the easier reading of splash pages) It bums me out to think that if I ever make my comic books a reality, my business plan will have to involve digitally publishing them for tablets and laptops, but its life now....

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  4. Hi Allen! Thanks for checking in, Groove-ophile! I don't post here much anymore because Blogspot has made it pretty difficult, so I do all my new postings on the Diversions of the Groovy Kind Facebook page--almost daily. Click the FOOG button in the upper right column and come join us! :D As for your publishing questions, well, I do publish both in print and digital formats--it's the way things are now, so I roll with it. I publish digitally through DriveThruComics and GlobalComix, while I do print comics through Ka-Blam!/IndyPlanet. Like you, I love and prefer print comics, but honestly, I sell as many (sometimes more) digital comics as print. As for preparing them for digital release (which does require scanning original art and formatting them to the printers' specifications), I use the same files I prep for printing. Since Ka-Blam! requires digital files of the comics they print, I saw no reason to avoid offering comics digitally. So, I offer (and get) the best of both worlds! Good luck with your comic!

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