Lots to announce, but first let's see what's happening on Zombie World:

I really liked that episode.  I hope you did too.  And now this…

Now, if you live in the Los Angeles area, next Thursday night I will be giving a presentation on Axe Cop at Mindshare LA.  If all goes as planned I will be debuting the new motion comic there of episode 3 and I will go into the process of making comics with Malachai and the Axe Cop journey.  It's a 21 and over open bar event.  I should be selling some of my sketch books and Axe Cop merch there as well.

Also, in the Topatoco store we have some new merch in the store!  First there is the Axe Cop and McNinja on a team 18 x 24 print illustrated and colored by both Chris Hastings and myself:

Then there are now wall poster versions of these two popular Axe Cop images.  The Michael Maher painting is 18 x 24:

and the HUGE 22 x 39 inch Wexter on the Moon poster:

In case you are wonderng, the prints we have been selling in the art shop are high quality gallery quality prints made for framing.  The posters above are more like movie poster print quality.  If you are looking for something to tape up buy these, if you are looking for something to frame, buy the prints in the Axe Cop art shop.

Also… check it out, Blair Butler reviews the Axe Cop “Axe Can” from Comic Con on her Fresh Ink podcast:

And that's all for today!  By the way… a McNinja/Axe Cop tee shirt is on it's way also, designed and drawn by both Hastings and I, and it's awesome.  See you tomorrow when I MAY have an Ask Axe Cop episode for you.  If not, you'll at least get the next page of the Ultimate Battle.  See you then!

Ethan

Today is a special day because the Ultimate Battle (or as I refer to it, TUB) finally continues.  It is also a special day because the winner of our limerick contest dies in this episode.

Yes, his name is Andrew Wilkinson and he submitted the most original limerick in the sea of great limericks that were submitted.  His stood out because it was made up entirely of sound effects from Axe Cop.  The rhyme scheme all works and it's pretty fun to recite once you get the hang of it:

Spear impale foomp lop chop bachow
Rustle quack chuck scoop chormp eat kpow
Shoonk shink pok jab shpt phbt
Hitch thud sock fizzle phbbbt
Twirl shiv rumble plop stab chalk chpow

Congrats Andrew, and may your artoon likeness rest in peace.  See you all tomorrow as the story continues of Planet Zombie World!

Ethan

So… you may have noticed I didn't blog this morning when the episode went up.  I mean, I guess I don't really have to.  But my excuse is that I actually did all the updates from my Droid phone whilst still laying in bed.  To be precise, I house sat for Doug T last night and was laying in there playing with my phone and everything worked to update except the blog.  But… here it is in case you are one of the 12 people who reads the blog…

Yep, the last page of the story.  It started out as a one page idea for a guest strip and exploded into a 10 page, 2 week event.  It was a lot of fun.  As someone who has great love for both comics I have to say that while both does their own thing well, they are a great match up and I'd love to see Axey hit that button again some day when he really needs ninja or medical help (or a combination of both).

Well, the weekend is here.  Thanks to this cross over I have been able to get a week ahead of schedule, which is a great feeling!  Up to that point I was basically finished every page on the day I posted it up.  Let's see how well I can stay ahead here.  See you Monday… the Ultimate Battle continues!

Ethan

It's the second to last page of the big cross over, enjoy!

Some people were  a little concerned about the blatant product placement in yesterday's episode.  All I can say is we reallly don't have much to gain at this point trying to force the book on people when it won't be out for months.  Malachai simply desn't separate conversations or storylines out in his head, so if we talk about books, then the idea of the Dark Horse robot book comes up.  To him it is all one big story no matter where we tell it. 

In other news, I did a drawing for the Riff Trax guys and they are engraving it onto an iPad and selling it in a Sweepstakes.  I wish I could have it!  Check it out:

If you would like to enter to win this thing, go to the sweepstakes page.

See you tomorrow at the conclusion to the Dr. McNinja team up.

Ethan

Blatant product placement in today's episode…

Yeas, if you read the Comics Alliance interview with Malachai and I about our book deal with Dark Horse, you saw that Malachai proposed that the book be able to transform into a giant robot suit that can have it's own army.  So that got worked into the story here and is pretty genius product placement if you ask me.  Dark Horse still has not commented on how faithful they will be to Malachai's proposed schematics for the new book.

Two more days of McNinja madness!  See you tomorrow.

Ethan

some of Axe Cop's DNA shows up in today's episode…

In other news…  I was a little suprised yesterday to see that the Axe Cop collection  that is due out in December is already up for pre-order on Amazon.  The cover isn't showing yet, but trust me, it has a cover and personally I really like it.

Also, if you are ever looking for a horrible, VHS only movie to watch with friends and get a huge laugh out of… Never Too Young to Die with John Stamos is pure gold.  I watched this at my friend Eric's house last night with a bunch of friends and it was more fun than summer camp. 

Ethan

So, you probably know it already, but Axe Cop will be spending the week with his new friend Dr. McNinja over at his website this week.  There will be 5 updates, one per day until friday.  I know we said this was going to be a 6 page story, but we lied, it's 10.

Of course if you are trained to click on the thumbnail and not read anything I'll put it here just for you…

Another interview about the Dark Horse Comics news is up at Newsarama today.

In other news, check this out… we have new merch in the Axe Cop store at Topatoco.  Axe Cop zip-up hoodies and the logo tee shirt that I was selling at comic con.

I'm sure I have more news then that, but I need to go have breakfast, considering it is past noon.  Enjoy your second half of the McNinja crossover, I sure had fun drawing it.

Ethan

Today's 5th page of the Axe Cop/McNInja cross over marks the halfway point in our journey.  Turns out I'll bedoing 5 pages too, and they will all be going up next week at Dr. McNinja's site.  So, happy friday and enjoy page 5:

Ethan

We talk to Ethan Nicole about the upcoming Axe Cop comic from Dark Horse, Comicon, the Dr. McNinja crossover and Episodes 23, 24, 25 plus Ask Axe Cop 14.

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Axe Cop and Dr. McNinja's team up continues…

I penciled out my portion of the story today and it looks like I'll be doing 5 pages too… so next week the story will come out daily on Dr.McNinja's site every day.

I also penciled out the rest of the Ultimate Battle and figured out we have 14 more pages left in that sucker.  It's quite epic, and I guarantee you can not even begin to predict where it goes.

If you aren't hip to CHOP you need to be!  It's the Axe Cop podcast featuring James and John of Nobody's Listening Podcast and me, all talking about Axe Cop.  We announced the winner of the limerick contest last night and so far they have not responded.  Perion, are you out there? 

See you tomorrow with Chris's last page for the week and the end of the first half of “Stolen Pizza, Stolen Lives.”

Ethan