I was sitting around this weekend watching Power Rangers with my son when I got two packages. One was the Aeon Flux cartoon DVD collection that I had bought for 10 bucks (Swwwweeeeeeeeeeeet) and the other was three copies of the new Sentinels Anthology!
During my long tenure as a comic book critic Sentinels was one of my favorite indy books. I quickly developed a friendship with its writer/creator Rich Bernatovech and we've remained great friends ever since he dropped the first two graphic novels in my lap.
Long story short: After 4 graphic novels the Sentinels story was finished...ALMOST. Rich asked his friends to do stories for a new graphic novel the Sentinels Anthology and he asked me to do one for Serpenta - who guest starred also in a Philly crossover.
From Rich's lips:
Serpenta
Ryan McLelland of “Wise Intelligence” and “Philly” fame wrote Serpenta’s story. Its knock-down funny, just as you’d expect from Ryan.
Andrew Charipar is the artist on Serpenta’s story and you’ll see why he is the only artist that could do it perfectly. You can check out some of Andrew work and his excellent original series, “Tales from the Cornerstone”, at
http://www.misfitcorner.com.
The GN turned out GREAT and what he said was true...my story was pretty much knock-down funny. ;) The book will be in stores SOONISH...I know he's going through Previews so it might not be in bookstores for 3 some odd months... but via Rich's site
http://www.sentinelsonline.com you can order it. Well...doesn't seem like you can order it YET...but soon baby soon!
Paybacks are a bitch though...I roped Rich into helping me scan pages for the new Wise Intelligence miniseries that will be out later this year!
