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The various comics sites are running our just released free 13 page preview of GHOST PROJEKT #1 and since I can't choose which one to link to, I'm just going to paste them all here... the rest continues after the break.

Note: GHOST PROJEKT #1 will be on sale March 10th, not March 3rd as previously listed.

GHOST PROJEKT #1
Written by Joe Harris, Art by Steve Rolston, Colors by Dean Trippe.

Russia is often remembered from the shadow cast during the Cold War-era when every stranger was a spy, but now that the Cold War is long over, some things left behind from that era may not stay lost. An abandoned Soviet research facility somewhere in Siberia has been home to a strange and dangerous weapon that is now in the hands of thieves claiming it for their own. U.S. weapons inspector Will Haley has been assigned to find out what dangers the weapon poses and with the help of Russian agent Anya Romanova they will find the answers, but it will be far from easy.

Diamond Code: JAN10 1074
In Comic Shops 3/10/2010

The solicits are out for the second issue of GHOST PROJEKT. The book will be released by Oni Press on April 21st. If you're headed to the comic shop, please let your retailer know you want to order a copy:

Diamond Order# FEB101047

(W) Joe Harris

(A) Steve Rolston

As U.S. Weapons Inspector Will Haley and his Russian counterpart Anya Romanova begin to uncover the truth behind the mysterious military project known only as 'Dosvidanya,' those most closely associated with the program keep turning up dead. Can this pair of sleuths get past their cultural differences before the body count rises even further, or is this just a prelude to the nightmare the Soviets planned for their enemies?

Part Two of my interview with Bloody Disgusting has been posted. Many more GHOST PROJEKT details dropped including character stuff, story elements and influences. Any chance in which I get to profess my old school fondness for Brian Lumley's legendary NECROSCOPE novels, I am happy.

Part One is available here.

I did an interview with old friends at Bloody Disgusting. Lots of GHOST PROJEKT details dropped.

Check it out!

Check out the ad running in Oni Press' hit color titles RESURRECTION by Marc Guggenheim and STUMPTOWN by Greg Rucka:

Diamond Comics Order #JAN101074

GHOST PROJEKT, the new supernatural thriller comic series from artist Steve Rolston (Queen & Country, Mek, Emiko Superstar), Oni Press and myself hits the stores in March and Diamond has made the book a "Staff Pick" in the upcoming issue of PREVIEWS:

Fans of the hit series Queen & Country may rejoice now that Oni Press is once again trodding down the road of action-espionage with their new supernatural spy story, Ghost Projekt.

Russia is often remembered from the shadow cast during the Cold War-era when every stranger was a spy, but now that the Cold War is long over, some things left behind from that era may not stay lost. An abandoned Soviet research facility somewhere in Siberia has been home to a strange and dangerous weapon that is now in the hands of thieves claiming it for their own. U.S. weapons inspector Will Haley has been assigned to find out what dangers the weapon poses, and with the help of Russian agent Anya Romanova, they will find the answers but it will be far from easy.

Readers of Queen & Country will feel at home with illustrations by Steve Rolston, but writer Joe Harris, a contributor to several Batman and X-Men titles, is the new addition to the Oni Press stable. Oni Press is usually known for its original graphic novels but 2010 may just be the year of great comic books from a company already known for its diverse, award-winning titles.

See PREVIEWS page 279.

(W) Joe Harris (A) Steve Rolston U.S. Weapons Inspector Will Haley has seen his share of scary stuff. When your job routinely involves donning a hazmat suit, grabbing your Geiger counter and jetting into sometimes-hostile territory, "scary" feels almost normal. But when the alarm sounds at an abandoned Soviet facility, Haley, along with Russian "operativnik" Anya Romanova, must track a stolen weapon unlike any they've encountered before. What is the "Dosvidanya" project... and are they too late to stop it?

Diamond Comics Order #JAN101074

I'm going to be updating the site as called for as we get closer to launch with news of promotions, convention appearances and previews. Steve Rolston is knocking himself out getting this book looking as good as it does, and colorist Dean Trippe is helping make this a nice followup to Oni's recent color series successes, RESURRECTION and STUMPTOWN.

Please let your retailer know to order you a copy!

***REVISED

Check out these special preview images by Steve Rolston and Dean Trippe!

The solicits are out and CREEPY #3 will be released on February 24, 2010. Included is the twistedly, mind-fuckingly climactic third and final chapter of THE CURSE by yours truly and Jason Shawn Alexander.

From Dark Horse's Site:

Uncle Creepy is back with the third thick and icky issue of Creepy! This issue Doug Moench and Angelo Torres team up to tell a tale of demonic devotion and organized crime, Joe Harris and Jason Shawn Alexander wrap their warped three-parter, "The Curse," and a weird revisionist look back at the fall of the Nazi empire reveals a shocking truth-evil never dies! Plus an all-new Loathsome Lore, a bonus Creepy classic story, and more!

* Creepy debuted to rave reviews in July 2009, and the first issue sold out!

"Terrifyingly good!" - Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Publication Date: February 24, 2010
Format: B&W, 48 pages
Price: $4.99
UPC: 7 61568 15862 5 00311

As previously mentioned, Part Two of THE CURSE in last quarter's issue suffered a printing error. As a result, Dark Horse has made the entire 10-page story available for free online and it's still up for your consumption.

Just stumbled upon this sort of retrospect look at the SLINGERS book ChrisCross and I did for Marvel back in 1998-1999. Very strange to look back on it. But it did make me smile.

I was a complete newbie writer. Early 20-something. And I'd somehow slipped under the Marvel Comics fence and into the House of Ideas... which wasn't a very functional place, in those days. The company was still in bankruptcy. The X-titles, which I would eventually contribute more to, were running on fumes while trying to find their footing and everything felt transitory around the old offices on Park Avenue South.

SLINGERS would launch in a void in which the core Spider-books (themselves riding a similar wave of fatigue and reader dissatisfaction) took a brief hiatus. The title was my first monthly endeavor after writing a few fill-in issues of X-FORCE and X-FACTOR and I had to learn on my feet. I made some choices I'm probably proud of to this day... as well as some strange ones that make me scratch my head and wonder what the fuck I was thinking now that I'm nudged to recall some of them. I was just a kid, lucky to be there, even if the company was in dire straits and suffering a terrible malaise.

We weren't helped by the silly sales gimmick that saw variant interiors stretch through four separate editions of the first issue... but we did try to deliver well-characterized stories of real young people in extraordinary situations. At that time, I didn't have a role model for what I wanted this title to be. I just wrote it as though attempting to fill a void I thought was there, at the time. And I still get emails from fans of the book who kept me oddly informed of the eventual fates and re-appearances of Ricochet, Hornet, Prodigy and Dusk over the years in the pages of books like Marvel's RUNAWAYS.

Makes me smile to look back on this. Though now I have this strange pang of regret that I never got to tell that Asgard story I'd planned for year two.

Just wanted to let everyone know that CREEPY #2, which contains the second installment of my story, "The Curse" was finally released yesterday by Dark Horse Comics... only there were a couple of unfortunate printing errors.

First, this second chapter of "The Curse" is mis-credited. A different writer's name is printed on the opening page when I did, in fact, write it. Same as I did "Part One" of this serialized tale of murder and mind-fucking, as well as the forthcoming "Part Three." Dan Braun has a terrific story elsewhere in this book... it just isn't "The Curse."

Second, page 8 of this 10-page chapter is missing text.. as in, all of it. No balloons. No captions. No nothing. And, I assure you, where there's certainly a time and place to get silent on a comic book page, the climax of this story's chapter was certainly not one of them. It's a weird production mistake that slipped through the cracks and, though it sucked to see this really fun and twisted story so gorgeously drawn by Jason Shawn Alexander presented unfinished and incomplete, Dark Horse Comics has made the entire 10-page story available for free online to make good.

The printed version will, obviously, be corrected in any future printings and collections. But, for now, I'd really appreciate it if people who read any press or reviews pertaining to CREEPY #2 could be made aware of this.

Like everyone else involved in the relaunch of CREEPY, I have a great deal of affection for the title and its history. Honest mistakes happen in the maddening process of getting comics out on time, though it still hurts to see one's work presented as less than was intended. I am proud of this story and wanted to set the record, however small, straight.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Best,
JH

According to IMDB, I'm up 96% in popularity this week. Oh my.

When you make horror movies, they truly do live forever (for better or worse, sometimes, it's true). Alas... THE TRIPPER continues its run on Showtime while DARKNESS FALLS returns to pay cable (ch-ching!) with a nice run on STARZ and STARZHD. There's no HD version of DF so I'm assuming this means "widescreen" to most.

Your market's times might differ. These are taken from my New York City IMDB listings page.

Anyway, check 'em out and help support writers' residuals -- a worthy cause this holiday season!