Moving Back to Vancouver

Vancouver Skyline - Stolen from my friend Allie @ Vancityallie.com
Vancouver Skyline - Stolen from my friend Allie @ Vancityallie.com

Well, after two years on the east coast, the Neville family is going to be moving back to Vancouver in a couple of months.

I will dearly miss beautiful Prince Edward Island – two of the best summers of my life have been spent on the empty and endless beaches of the island and my work with Longtail has incredibly rewarding.

But the bulk of our family lives on the west coast and, as a result, that is where we are going.

For me, I’m going to focus on family and NRD as well as doing some consulting and teaching. There is a book idea in there too.

It’s been over seven years since I have worked at home and with Cassandra running around being awesome all day, I look forward to being a bigger part of her life and not being the first person out of the house every morning.

The next year with NRD is going to be about experimenting with story and games in Flash. There will be more comics, comic/game experiments, game hybrid pieces – lots of stuff. Most of it will be short form and a good chunk of it will be weird.

So that’s the news. We are both going to be busy moving, house hunting (If you know of a 3-4 bedroom in Vancouver (Main, Cambie, Kits, Dunbar) available in Dec or Jan – hit me back), etc over the next couple of months, but I’ve got a month and a half of Petra’s Call in the can, so things should keep ticking along like normal here.

Teh Hotness – The Comics Journal goes online

In this long awaited and deeply welcomed announcement – The Comics Journal will be going online in the future.

I read TCJ whenever I can find a copy (easier said than done on PEI). The articles are hearty, opinionated, unapologetic and a far cry from the lighter fair of most comics journalism (thx Wizard). 20 page interviews are not uncommon.

Of course, reading articles of this depth online might be tiresome, but regardless of format/scope adjustments, at least it will still be done with the same TCJ integrity.

Thanks TCJ!

Teh Hotness – Yuen Wo-Ping’s True Legend

If you cut this movie with a knife, it would bleed awesome.

Drunken style, a crazy dude who flexes his dragon armor and his clothes explode off, Michelle Yeoh rock climbing (no, seriously) and the best ‘sweep the leg’ ever.

What’s not to love?

Courtesy (yet again) of my dear friends at Quiet Earth. One day I will meet these guys and we will drink beer and geek out hardcore.