From Facebook:

Eric’sFacebookFriend: thinks that somewhere, Michael’s having a laugh over this insane media coverage.

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 Eric M. Esquivel at 8:16am June 27

He’ll probably hoast The Grammys next year, decked out in his “Thriller” gear.

How mind-blowing would that be?

Scene:

The disembodied voice of Vincent Price cackles with glee over the sound system as Billy Crystal spills the blood of a first-born black goat onto a glow-in-the-dark Ouija board.

Cue the dry ice and strobe lights.

The back doors fly open.  Jackson’s silhouette materializes amidst the fog.

Michael starts shambling down the isle, towards center stage.

The audience goes berserk.

 Slowly, the motown monster creeps up onto the dais…

and then breaks out the moonwalk, graceful as ever, letting out his shrill battle cry: “Hee, Hee!”.

It abruptly ends.  He groans, freezes in place.

People start losing their shit.  Women faint.  Men cry.  The whole nine yards.

We wait for the audience’s uproarious cheering to die down.

Then, Billy crystal bows, and in a hushed, reverent tone, announces: “Ladies and Gentelmen: The Once and Future King of Pop!”

Cue some super sweet, super extravagant song and dance number.

Has to happen, right?

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World famous horror-punk band Calabrese has been working with us to make a COMIC BOOK!

So far everything has been a little hush hush, but expect that to change soon! There’s exclusive preview art up at Bobby Calabrese\’s blog. You guys should all check it out. and stay tuned to CalabreseRock.com for more updates on our comic. 

On a side note, Eric and i have finished our new straight to trade comic book “Horrible Little People” and we’ve gotten some really awesome feed back. Rick Remender ( Punisher, Fear Agent, The All New Atom) Gene Colan ( the Tomb of Dracula, Daredevil, Iron man) Jeffery Brown( Clumsy, Funny Misshapen Body) and David Lloyd ( V for Vendetta, Kickback) have all given us amazing dust jacket quote. Horrible Little People should be in a book store near you soon. Now to switch it up a bit, i’m gonna put the daily web mini comics on hold for a little while. i’ve been working on this Calabrese comic book non stop and im finding it really hard to do both at once. so i’m gonna put the minis to bed for a bit. don’t worry they’ll be back. but when i can spend a little more time on them then a currently have.

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Pictured above (below those familiar heartbreakers from the MMP & our friends Maggie, Ken & lil’ Will Wright from KWO Press) is the winner of Heroes and Villains’ Custom Mighty Mug Competition.

Can you believe someone made a SEAGUY figure?  Complete with Mickey Eye and “Chubby da Choona”?  Yeah, dude!

There were a lot of great entries, including some wholly new characters cooked up just for this event, but SEAGUY stood snorklers above the rest.

Big thanks go out to all the participants, and to Heroes and Villains for asking us to come down and judge!

www.HeroesAndVillainsOnline.com

www.KenWrightOnline.com

www.KenWrightSketch.Blogspot.com

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A lot of the comics I like–I guess I like the promise inherent in their core premise a lot more than the actual products themselves.

I’m a whore for “high concepts”.

Case in point: THE EXILES.

Why this isn’t the top-selling book at Marvel, I’ll never understand.

In a nutshell: the book is about a group of superheroes abducted from their respective realities and parachute dropped into a new one in which an event is going to take place that would end reality if allowed to occur.  Their mission is to find a way to stop said event.

Brilliant idea, right? 

Right, but the application of the idea is boring as hell:  Instead of cherrypicking from the hottest characters in the company’s 2,000+ inventory ( Symbiote Spider-Man, Ultimate Nick Fury, Steve Rogers Captain America, Nighthawk, Howard The Duck, ”Days of Future Past” Wolverine, ”Demon in a Bottle” Iron Man, et cetera) and featuring storylines tied into the most popular “events” in Marvel’s 50 year history ( “Secret War”, “Infinity Gauntlet”, “Civil War”, “Secret Invasion”), Marvel editorial chooses to fabricate crises on alternate realities we’ve never seen before, and generate new characters exclusive to the series to place in danger–thereby not only missing out on the marketing wet-dream of a lifetime, but eliminating any emotional response on the part of the reader.

The book’s first arc end with the death of one of the team. The rest of the characters act as though something monumental has happened, and the narration tries to spin the occurence as being indicative that “anything can happen, and nothing is sacred”, but the character had only been around for two issues at that point; MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CARE AT ALL.

I really want to like this book.  I really do.  I spent six dollars on it.

I just can’t.

It’s like being stuck in doomed relationship that you’re reluctant to leave because the person’s myspace profile makes them sound really fun and interesting.

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Greetings, Mod Squad!

Just thought I’d let you guys know that you can download an hour’s worth of my sultry vocal stylings at the following link (Javiland episode sixteen):

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=219668&cmd=apop

It was my honor to be part of a roundtable discussion on the topic of comics entrepreneurship, alongside such greats as Ted Seko (Billy Cole, Family Guy, Spongebob Squarepants) Ryan Dow (Introspective Comics), Krishna Sadasivam (PCweenies.com).

Word, baby girls.

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We are reviewed by Matt Burke! 

“Based in Tucson, writer Eric M. Esquivel and writer/artist Dave Baker are exhibiting their work at events like Tucson and Phoenix Comic-Con and even free comic book day. They’ve already published 4 full comic books and are hoping to finish a 50-page graphic novel within the year entitled “Horrible Little People.” The anchor title of the small publisher is called “Childish Delusions of Grandeur and Superiority,” which can only be described as a zombie tale with ridiculously entertaining imagination and a character that they endearingly refer to as Zombie Nazi Elvis, whom is found on the cover of issue number 2 & 3. Granted that’s not a lot of issues under that imprint, but at their website can find web comics written and illustrated by co-owner Dave Baker.”

Read the whole article here!

also, on a side note, i’m sorry there haven’t been mini comix for the last few weeks. they’ll start up on next monday. I PROMISE. i’ve been inking Horrible Little People and it’s killing me. i just finished page 63 only 10 or so pages left! i’m so close i can taste it. and by taste it i mean actually sleep at night. i’ve been working so hard on this goddamn thing. i really hope everybody likes it. i know eric  and i are just shitting ourselves with excitement.

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Yeah, that’s right: the “go to” site for those in the know drops a little love for the mmp:

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/14905.html

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