Time to Wear Tights (month 3)

Been a month since I updated about the progress on my comic book project, set for 2009. Well it’s got a tentative title now – The Masters – and in a major development, I’ve pretty much nailed down an artist: Mshindo Kuumba I.! His artwork graces this post at right; all rights reserved by Mshindo and all that.

Mshindo is holding it down in North Carolina right now, but he used to rest his head in Brooklyn once upon a time. I got turned onto his art through the cover artwork of local independent artists like Supa Nova Slom and my close homeboy Mrk Drkfthr, and I tracked Mshindo down through MySpace. Where else? His only reservation in being the George Pérez to my Marv Wolfman (Teen Titans reference for the geeks out there) on The Masters is that he be paid; hardly a reservation, but he’s been jerked before working pro bono. No problems there. If I get paid, he gets paid, and I’m gettin paid or I ain’t doin it.

No more progress made on the plot of this thing, but I’ll put in more work once my book proposal is done this month, and it looks to be winding up. So far, The Masters is about a group of superpowered, twentysomething spiritual Masters raising consciousness. The bad guys are the Landmark Forum. (Just kiddin.)