in the zone.  I had pinched a nerve or something in my lower back, hip area, last week raking leaves and stuff outside.  Bugged me a little bit while I was in Texas this past weekend, and again yesterday REAL bad, today wasn’t going much better until probably about an hour ago.  Things all of a sudden got like 1000% better, so I’ve had a Monster, had some dinner, and am working on getting in to juggernaut mode here for the next 6-8 hours and making up for some lost time.  My daughter is downstairs right now baking brownies, so barring any unforseen shouts of “daddy, there’s a FIRE” coming from the kitchen, I think I’ll be in good shape until my wife and son get home from cub scouts in about an hour.  Going to crank out the last 2 pages here on my current batch of pages, then get RIGHT into formatting and digitally inking/cleaning up more pages.  I might just send out this next set of 22 to get flatted for me as well, I can do it myself fairly quickly, but I think I could probably have all 22 DONE in a week and a half if I had them flatted.  I’d like to have time here to get some bulbs in my track lighting in the studio replaced in the next couple weeks.  gets sort of dark with just the lamp on in here at night.
DJ and I will be cranking out the issue 3 cover to HBN this week, or early next week as well.  Additionally, we’ve got…..looking at the calendar real quick here…..4 more updates for the November installment of the webcomic.  So we’ll have to jam those out as well to wrap that up.  Lava monster origin is coming soon, and I’m not spoiling anything really, as some of the readers have guessed what it is that’s coming, so unless you’re a reader of the webcomic and you ALSO happen to read my blog….If not, you SHOULD be reading.  It’s reminding me of those classic Johnny Qwest type of adventure comics that used to be around.  fun stuff… alright, back to it here!