My apologies for missing last week’s post.  I was in Sacramento manning the Megamoth Studio table to Sac-Con.  Sac-Con was a small but fun convention. If you are local, I can recommend it as a fine way to spend your day.  If you are not local, you might consider the guest list before deciding to go.  If there is a guest you want to meet, it is a great convention because lines are so much shorter than at any of the bigger shows.

In other news, I just finished reading I think is the last book of The Black Company by Glen Cook.  I found these books to be very entertaining and a very nice change from the usual fantasy lines.  There is something nice about taking a careful look at the trudging, miserable life of a soldier and punctuating it with some of the most ridiculously splashy magic battles I have ever read.  The long build up between battles and the sort of awed helplessness of the soldiers and captains as their plans, long in the preparation, go into effect or are completely destroyed by the caprices of reality is the most satisfying treatment of this sort of thing I have read in a long time.  It’s also interesting to see someone really examine the sort of havoc that would be produced by sorcerers who really applied themselves to the art of war.

If you like the fantasy genre, go check out the Black Company.  They are not all great, but the first 3 make a very solid arc and the last 4, Glittering Stone,
make another to close it all out.

Of course, you may be here for a drawing.  I know that’s what I come here for.  Here you go: