Vertigo, DC Comics’ mature readers line, now has it’s own squawk box.

Which means that any news about the new projects I am doing for Vertigo will show up there before it shows up here.

That said, nothing of mine can be discussed at this time.

While I maintain radio silence, go over there and drool at all the Mike Kaluta art action. He’s doing a stint on Madame Xanadu.

Yum!

DarkGlobe, a regular poster at the long gone A Distant Soil Message Board posted this incredible link. In the year 2000, an enormous crystal cave was discovered in Mexico, with huge pillars 20 feet high, extraordinary walls of shimmering rock, and the largest formations found on Earth. It looks exactly how I envisioned the crystal caves on Ovanon. I didn’t realize crystals could get that big on this planet.

Apparently, the subterranean formations grew in a high temperature, water laden environment, so steamy one poor explorer was baked alive. Ew.

It does sort of tie in with my idea that Ovanon was originally a hot planet, but I don’t know how big crystals like this would survive after the world cooled.

Click the link to see the pics. They really are the most amazing cave photos.

Over at SpaceWeather.com, check out these gorgeous pics of light columns. I have never seen such a thing, have you? That really must go into A Distant Soil at some point. It looks exactly like the sort of thing one ought to see in the skies of Ovanon.

Originally posted on the old blog.

More pics from the vaults!

If you are into J-Pop, you are terribly impressed to see me with Sanada Hiroyuki in this pic from about 1990, taken at the Japan Society. You may even be impressed to see the last of my natural blonde locks before I started coloring them every hue in the rainbow.

But if you don’t know who Sanada Hiroyuki is, he is the man behind the original Ring films, and starred in The Last Samurai.

Very badly damaged photo. My goodness, that flood is still pissing me off all these years later.

The Black Mermaid gang at one of their displays! That’s pretty Julie Ditrich, and the long locks belong to Jozef Szekeres. The mermaid in the middle is unidentified, as is the other dude.

Neil Gaiman’s amazing magic powers cause some sort of scary hoodoo effect to appear on the film. Jeff Smith is impressed. Around year 2001.

Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, me. 8 years ago? Do not believe the time stamp on the camera.

One of my hair colors poses with Denys Cowan and Dwayne McDuffie.

Good lord, ancient history. That’s me pointing at the camera, sitting next to me sweetie, Frank Kelly Freas.

James Owen, Puerto Rico, 1994.

About 1989, I’m sitting next to Scott Saavedra, whom I do not really know at all. But he’s in this picture.

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Now go buy my books.

Originally posted on the old blog.