Good news.  Looking forward to this series.  Having not been exposed to it, and knowing nothing, I'm excited to discover the new!  I do have the phone books, but haven't read them yet.  I feel like a kid again. 

Excellent!

I hope the Muses are sufficiently inspiring this September morning.

I look forward to Next Men hitting the stands once again.

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It's often kinda nerve racking, the way my "muses" work.

Gearing up to restart JBNM, I knew there were two things that had to be in the first issue: a easy "on ramp" for potential new readers, and something that would shake up the "old timers" so that they would not get that "same old same old" vibe. I had some general ideas of how this would play, but the actual starting point kept eluding me. As many of you know, I like to start as deep into a scene or story as I can, and fill in the background as we go. Finding just how DEEP to start in this issue was proving difficult. I'd sketched out a first page that seemed like a good starting place, but. . .   if that was the first page, what was page two? And three? And four. . .

Then I woke up this morning and THERE THEY WERE. It was like there had been a log jam at the back of my brain, and suddenly it all came spilling out. This is very often how it works -- but I never get used to it! I'm always afraid that THIS will be the time it DOESN'T happen. . . !!!

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I have to turn the lights in my Studio on and off 17 times every morning, or my friends will all die, but other than that. . . .

No more human sacrifices?

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Hmmm...  Has anyone seen Matt Reed this morning??