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!

I haven't been updating this site much lately but thought I'd check in and let everyone know that GHOST PROJEKT -- my first creator-owned title, co-created with Steve Rolston, is on track for a March 2010 release from Oni Press.

Steve just sent in the art for issue #3 and it's family fare like this that warms the cockles of my horror-loving heart:

In truth, we slaughter a whole bunch of Russians in this book (apologies to my Russian friends -- these were the bad sort we were after, not you).

It's my first title with the company, but not my last. THE HASHISHIAN is due to come out at some point later that year (we hope?).

More to come. Much, much more...

I have had an incredibly up and down year. Can't even begin to get into details in this post, though some of the better machinations will be playing themselves out in this space in the months to come. But you know I had a good year, overall, when it starts getting cold outside and the Yankees are celebrating deep into Autumn.

I grew up on the last Yankee Dynasty. Endured a childhood rife with Mets fans celebrating the only Championship they've won in our lifetimes, to see Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Andy Pettite and the great Mariano Rivera go on to win 4 World Series titles in 5 years, two additional Pennants and a string of 13 consecutive playoff berths which finally ended with Joe Torre's departure in 2007.

I slept on sidewalk after filthy sidewalk for tickets, saw the overwhelming majority of great moments that happened in the old Stadium in my lifetime, and take everything the Yankees do very, very personally. They are my religion, my passion, my love.

And goddamn the Yankees are back now, huh?

To the haters, the prognosticators, the equivocators and those who can't bring themselves to admit one of the most dominating AND classy group of professionals you'll ever enjoy watching play the greatest game on earth just won the World Series... I'd dedicate this victory to you...

Only I'm enjoying it way, way too much!

Go Yankees! See you at the parade on Friday!