Speaking of LiveJournal, did you know you can add Theater Hopper to your friends list?

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I realize that I’m pretty late on the whole "Ha, ha! Peter Parker listens to My Chemical Romance!" bandwagon. Heck, some people have integrated the gag into their comic with long-running characters! I guess I didn’t bother commenting on it earlier because, when the trailer came out a few weeks ago, I was in Texas busy being robbed. Regardless, emo Spider-Man is tailor-made for our own emotionally despondant character – Goth Jared! I felt it was high time to dust him off again.

Not a lot to talk about today. If you checked the blog yesterday, you’ll see that I’m kicking around the idea of an interactive talkcast similar to what Scott Kurtz from PvP has been doing with and application called TalkShoe for the past few weeks. I’m planning on doing a dry run this coming Monday at 10:00 PM central time just to get a sense of how the technology works. There’s no format just yet. No structure. Just me on the air for and hour or two (probably talking about movies and comics) and you can either listen in, send text messages in a chat room setting with other audience members or (if you have a microphone) "call-in" to discuss topics with me. I’m already trying to round up a few guests from my circle of friends over at Boxcar Comics, so if you listen in, there might be an extra treat for you.

I encourage everyone to go to the TalkShoe and Skype web sites and download their applications in preparation. Then, 15 minutes before the broadcast on Monday, go to this page and dial in so you’re ready for us when we kick things off. It’s going to be a fun experiment and I look forward to talking with everyone!

One last thing I want to mention before I sign off…

Speaking of Boxcar, one of my good friends Ali Graham just ended his comic Hous’d on Friday with the death of a major character. He’s spinning off the adventures of said character into a new comic called Afterstrife. I have to tell you right now that I’ve seen a handful of pages from Afterstrife and it’s above and beyond anything you’ve grown used to seeing from Ali. He’s knocking it out of the park with this one and you need to show your support. Afterstrife is going to be great and it’ll be an opportunity for you new readers to get in on the ground floor.

Ali’s a great guy and a hard worker. He did nearly 1,300 episodes of Hous’d before taking things in a new direction. I immediately respect anyone with that much dedication to their craft. You know right away that they’re serious about bringing you their best work. Check it out.

That’s all for now. Have a great weekend and I’ll talk to you all (in real time!) on Monday!