Chris is maybe jumping the gun just a little with his Dukes of Hazzard comic - The movie starring Johnny Knoxville, Sean Williams Scott, Jessica Simpson, and Willie Nelson (!) doesn't launch itself into theaters until August 5 - but I don't care for two reasons:

1. Any Dukes of Hazzard joke is okay in my book. The television show was high camp at its finest. Just thinking about it brings a grin to my ear.

2. Chris's writing and illustration is so sharp, it’s like someone delicately painted my eyes with some sort of liquid happiness. Possibly LSD. I can't be sure. Just look at that rendering of the General Lee. But a beauty to behold!

I think it's criminal that Please Rewind does not get the recognition it deserves - especially considering Chris's pedigree with The Asylumantics.

If you're already reading his comics, then you are extremely switched on and I am preaching to the choir. But if you're not, then you are doing yourself a grand disservice. Anyone who likes Theater Hopper will find more than enough to love in Please Rewind. The characterization is top notch.

That said, I hope you enjoy my rendering of his characters in my buzzComix incentive sketch. Vote for Theater Hopper to view it.

Beyond pimping Chris's work and thanking him profusely, I have little else to say. You might want to click back one day and read the second blog I posted late yesterday afternoon. It has a lot of details you shouldn't mix.

For example, I'm doing 5 guest comics this week in preparation of unveiling the new site design and marking my return to the comic on Monday, May 2!

Set your watches!