A few more interviews about our KOTOR comics series are up. Check 'em out before the next KOTOR issue comes out and, like old cereal, they pass their expiration date -

The Way of the Editor interview

Diamond Scoop interview, part 1
Diamond Scoop interview, part 2

Broken Frontier interview

(Has anyone actually examined that years-old cereal in those boxes? It is to ponder...)

Anyway, those are some of the ones I've got the handy links to. Apologies, too, if I sound redundant in any of these interviews, but there are only so many different ways to answer the more general questions.

Now, since the release of KOTOR #1, I've had plenty more questions about specific aspects of the storyline, character identities, and historical references. In a way, those are harder to deal with - because (as readers have seen) our story is as much mystery as it is science fantasy.

That was always my plan: Just in the early going, we're setting up lots of interesting questions - some of which will be resolved fairly quickly, others which will be a part of the series for a long time.

Now, that's where the Writer puts the Fan in me in a bind. I've been asked lots of questions in the last few days where I've just been itching to say, "Oh, well that's answered in #4" or "you'll find that out in the 25-cent special," or, "yes, you'd think that now, but after the second arc..." But that, of course, takes all the fun out of it. So, apologies to those I've had to be evasive with - honestly, Writer Me has to park a Hutt on Fan Me just to keep him quiet!

But all my personalities do thank you folks for what has really been a wonderful response to our first issue. Brian, Michael, the rest of the team, and I really do appreciate it.

And if you haven't caught the first issue yet - it's scarce in a lot of places - there's still time. If your retailer is sold out, don't assume you have to wait for the trade: Ask your shop owner to reorder the issue, while there are still reorders to be had. Trade paperback collections are important - and we sure want you to buy them when they come out - but to a degree sales of a comic book determine how many copies of the trade are printed, when the time comes. In this way -- as I wrote in more detail in my column in the latest Comics Buyer's Guide (issue #1615, on sale now) -- the "wait-for-the-trade" decision often makes it harder to find the trade paperback, later on. Not saying it's this way with Star Wars - but with other comics, we've definitely seen the phenomenon. Comics retailers have a lot of choices to make, and our up-front support in this way translates to more ongoing support from them down the road.

Back to writing. As that old wine cooler commercial said, "thank you for your support."

(Hmmm. Mixing 20-year old coolers with 20-year old cereal? That's one for Homer J. Simpson...)