The Portland Sea Dogs meet Scooby-Doo

 I will be in Portland, ME this coming Sunday representing both DC Comics and the International Cryptozoology Museum, along with ICM founder and cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman. 

I will also be doing something I'd never anticipated would be part of my life experience, which is throwing out the first pitch. 

The fun starts at 1:00 at Delta Dental Park (Hadlock Field). There will a number of Scooby-Doo themed events and merchandise including, I'm told, an appearance by the Mystery Inc. gang. Jinkies!

Tickets and information can be found here. 

Out Next Week

The Milestone Compendium Four, a nearly 1300 page collection of material published by Milestone Media in the 1990s, and roughly a third of that was written by me, including the second half of my original run of Xombi (the first half is contained in Milestone Compendium One) as well as the remaining issues of Kobalt, and the arc of Hardware that I did with Eric Battle. With the exception of a couple more issues of material, this Compendium concludes the work I did for Milestone back during its original incarnation. This volume hits stores on June 17, 2025. 

Here's some additional information pulled from Amazon: 

Static, Hardware, Blood Syndicate, and more. Read the original stories of the characters that became Milestone icons in this massive compendium.

The iconic Milestone line that helped define the 90’s are now collected in a beautiful compendium. These brilliant and daring writers and artists brought their own experiences into comics that changed the game forever. Milestone ushered in a culturally diverse mix of superheroes, set in the fictional setting of Dakota, and ushered in the comics that inspired the hit TV series Static Shock. Read the original stories from the Milestone Universe today.

Collects: Blood Syndicate #28-32; Hardware #29-38; Icon #28-37; Static #26-31; Xombi #12-21; Shadow Cabinet #14-17; My Name is Holocaust #1-5; The Long, Hot Summer #1-3.

The Grim Gallery Embarking On Year Fifteen

 

Fifteen years ago I began The Grim Gallery, a companion blog where I'd share the thousands of digital images of monsters of the screen, page, museum and art gallery, as well as other sources. As of today I've posted 5097 of them at the rate of one per day. If you like monsters then head on over and dig deep into monsters both popular and obscure. 

Big Bang Adventures #30

 

Entirely illustrated by Cesar Madarro, Big Bang Adventures #30 contains a story that the two of us collaborated on a couple of years ago just for fun. As a life long night owl, I recalled the time I lived in Ann Arbor and would often see a couple of the neighbors also leading nocturnal lifestyles through glimpses of them seen through their windows. I always wondered what they did for a living that afforded them that kind of schedule. This story addresses that. 

I'm also happy this would up in a Big Bang comic. I supported their intentions and their initial comics back in 1994 and still have my Big Bang membership kit, including the mask. 

Milestone Compendium Volume Four

 

The Milestone Compendium Volume Four will be released on June 17, 2025, rather than in February as the previous volumes had been. This issue contains the remaining ten issues of Xombi that I wrote,  with art by J.J. Birch and color by Noelle Giddings and lettering by Agnes Pinaha. It also includes my short run of Hardware with art by Eric Battle and Angel Gabriele, color by Julia Laquement, and lettering by Steve Dutro. 

You can preorder it through your local comic book retailer or independent bookstore.

There's also a link below*: 

https://www.amazon.com/Milestone-Compendium-Four-Dwayne-McDuffie/dp/1799500268

*A portion of sales via this link will go back to me. 

Midnight, Mass. Trade Paperback Collection Now Available

 

Collecting the entire 8-issue series, Midnight, Mass., written by me with pencils by Jesus Saiz, inks by Jimmy Palmiotti, colors by Noelle Giddings and Kevin Somers, lettering by Ken Bruzenak and John Costanza, and edited by Heidi MacDonald is now available at your local comic book store and book store. 

The series follows the exploits of paranormal investigators Adam and Julia Kadmon as they take on a variety of monsters, strange cults, ghosts, and a new personal assistant. 

Scooby-Doo's Greatest Adventures

 

Scooby-Doo's Greatest Adventures, a 424 page trade paperback collection of a variety of Scooby-Doo comic book stories will be available on October 29, 2024. You can preorder a copy through your local comic book store, or bookseller. 

I assume, but could be wrong, that this is the same collection that was originally published in 2019. If so, the stories included which I wrote are "A Wolf in Creep's Clothing" and "Yankee Doodle Danger."