Kragor Gets His OWN MAG!

I created Kragor in 1977. Now, at last, he's getting his own mag! Lucky publisher John Helmer finally convinced me that the time was right for Kragor to get his own savage mag--and it's on sale tomorrow! It'll be available in .pdf format tomorrow via Drivethru Comics, so make sure to check it out! (Print fans don't despair--print copies will be along in a couple months. Stay tuned!) KRAGOR THE SAVAGE #1! Cover illo by David Johnson Jr.! Cover colors by Michael Brewer! Interior art by Ian Groff! It's Kragor vs. monsters, more monsters, and witchcraft in..."The Ballad of Setoora!"

Blue Moon Has Risen and Brick Is Still Unbeatable!

I'm back with more comicbook-writing news, my fellow comicbook fiends!

First off, thanks to Will Lill Comics for publishing my short horror story "Doomshadow" in Fun Adventure Comics! #11. Ian Groff knocked it out of the park with his art on this Warren-magazine-inspired short shocker. And a very special thanks to Michael Housel for his most righteous review of that said mag on his bodacious blog Bizarre Chats! Order your copy of FAC #11 here!

Next, the first two issues of Unbeatable Brick are on sale now! Created by Mark F. Davis, Published by John Helmer/Lucky Comics (under the Surprising Comics imprint), written by me, and dynamically drawn by David Johnson Jr. (ish #1) and JW Erwin (ish #2), with the remarkable JW providing covers for both issues. Unbeatable Brick is your favorite new super-hero. You just don't know it yet! If ya don't believe me, just ask Michael Housel (who has the best taste in comics I've ever seen!)--or just read his review on the great Bizarre Chats blog! You can order your own copies of #1 here and #2 here!

The biggest news, though, is...BLUE MOON COMICS IS BACK! Blue Moon Spotlight #1 features a revised version of the ORIGIN of Midnight Stranger, baby! Brand new cover by MS artist supreme Joe Koziarski! It's on sale NOW, and you can get all the info (and a sneak preview) by heading for the Blue Moon Spotlight blog--or you can just take the plunge and order your copy via DriveThruComics right now!

Lest you think that mini-avalanche of comics is all that's going on, check out these sneak-peeks of upcoming Unbeatable Brick and Blue Moon Spotlight wonderment!

Unbeatable Brick #3 cover art by JW Erwin

Unbeatable Brick #4 cover by Donnie Page and Michael Brewer

Max Miracle cover rough by Joe Koziarski

Future Blue Moon Spotlight cover by Joe Koziarski

The Holidays are just gearing up and so are Lucky/Surprising/Blue Moon! Stay tuned! The best is yet to come!

Where Does the Time Go?

Oops! Didn't mean to let this much time pass between posts! Let's get right to the good stuff...

The finale of Ash-Aman's origin (brilliantly illustrated by Russ Martin)  was published in Fun Adventure Comics! #10...

And the just-released Fun Adventure Comics! #11 brings us my short shocker "Doomshadow" with awesome art by "Eerie" Ian Groff!

But that's not all...Blue Moon is coming back, and Lucky Comics is publishing it! More news about Blue Moon Spotlight coming very, very soon! Stay tuned!

A Look at What's Coming...

Oops! Let October slip by without updating, but that's okay 'cause the time was well spent on (you guessed it) writing more comics! Yep, more comics on the way (besides the cool stuff I've mentioned on earlier posts like The Voice from All-New Popular Comics, the new Kragor story in Fun Adventure Comics, and "King of the Hill" from Charlton-Neo)! Big announcement time...!

First off, I've had another story accepted by Rich Sala for an upcoming issue of The Creeps magazine! "High Moon" is a horror story set in the Old West (be ya couldn't tell that from the title)! As soon as I know who's drawing it and what issue it'll appear in, I'll post it here (and on my FB page--you are a member of the Lloyd Smith Writer of Comics FaceBook group, aren't you?)!

Speaking of the Old West, my darlin' Guns & Rosa has the green light from Charlton-Neo with my Midnight Stranger partner Joe Koziarski on the art! Check out this splash page...

Joe's also completed the fourth Midnight Stranger installment (for Will Lill's Fun Adventure Comics, natch)--here's the splash for it!

Speaking of awesome artists named "Joe", Joseph Graves is penciling the second Unbeatable Brick installment for Surprising Universe! Can you dig this action-packed splash?

Another creative partner of mine (and former Unbeatable Brick illustrator), David Johnson Jr. is drawing a brand new Golden Age Green Mask story I wrote for Golden Era Comics...

Ian Groff, who drew the new Kragor mini-epic has also completed the art for a scary short I've written called "Doomshadow"...

Aaaaand, for this post's grand finale, I've just got to show off the INCREDIBLE art coming from the hands of artist Russ Martin! Not only has he drawn (and colored!) this fantastic Ash-Aman cover...

--but he's also finished penciling the third Ash-Aman installment (and it's a heartbreaker)! Just plant your peepers on this splash!

And that's not all, but it's enough for now. Things aren't slowing down writing-wise, and I am so, so glad! I love writing comics, and I hope you'll support all the publishers who are letting me follow my dream! See ya next time!

Get Your BAM's Right Here!

A lot of ground to cover, so let's get right at it!

BAM! Today is my main blog, Diversions of the Groovy Kind's ninth anniversary. I never dreamed it would last this long--and it's still going strong. Wow!

BAM! Issues 3 (featuring Midnight Stranger part 3) and 4 (featuring Kragor and Black Rose) of Fun Adventure Comics are soon to be in print at Indy Planet and are currently available in .pdf through Drive-Thru Comics. Issue 3 is also available digitally through comXology. Way to go publisher Warren Montgomery!

And that's not even hinting at the ka-razy new concept Midnight Stranger artist Joe Koziarski and I are cooking up!

BAM! The first issue of InDELLible Comics' All New Popular Comics has hit Amazon, and it looks great! I'll have a feature in the third or fourth ish of PopCom featuring a brand new "Golden Age version" of The Voice!

BAM! We're closing in on a publication date for Surprising Universe #1 featuring my Unbeatable Brick origin story. Here's artist "CoInk Adink's" awesome cover:

BAM! Incredible Ian Groff has completed the art for our brand new Kragor adventure, and it looks amazing! Here's the inked splash:

"The Ballad of Setoora" will be featured next year in an issue of Will Lill's Fun Adventure Comics! Not only that, but Ian and I are working on a short horror story in the Creepy/Eerie mode that we hope will see print soon!

BAM! Remarkable Russ Martin has completed the pencils and inks on the first chapter of Ash-Aman and is creating even more phenomenal pages for chapter two! Check out the splashes for parts one and two...

BAM! Dynamic Donnie Page is working with me on a short sci-fi/horror shocker which we hope will be the first of many collaborations. Donnie is the Buscema Brothers and John Romita, Sr. rolled into one! Check out this page...

BAM! Daring David Johnson Jr. and I are working on a brand new split book featuring two brand new characters that have us very excited: the cosmic hero Captain Beyond and the cybernetic spy Agent 31! Here's a promo piece that's a work in progress, but too spectacular for me to keep under wraps:

BAM! And, oh, yeah...Publisher John Helmer has given me permission to destroy the Lucky Comics Universe (featuring Beetle Girl, Black Bat, and U.S. Jones) in...The Unlucky! Stay tuned!

BAM! That's not ALL that's going on in my comicbook world, but that should hold you for now! Hopefully next time I'll have updates on Fantastic Giants and G.R.U.N.T.--and probably even more cool stuff! Meantime, I still need an artist for my western Guns & Rosa!

Kragor, Ash-Aman, and G.R.U.N.T.! Oh, My!

What's up, y'all! I've almost let June slip by without a post on what's going on in my little corner of the comicbook world! Letting a month go by without mentioning what's going on would make it seem like...nothing's going on! (That made sense in my head...) Ahem. Stuff is going on! Here it is:

Midnight Stranger in Fun Adventure Comics #3, and that magnificent mag is available digitally right now via DriveThruComics! It'll soon be available through comiXology and in print through IndyPlanet, too! And very soon, FAC #4 will be out with a classic Kragor story, so thank's Warren Montgomery and Will Lill Comics for making summertime Fun Adventure Comics time!

Speaking of Kragor, Incredible Ian Groff has completed the pencils for a brand new Kragor tale, "The Ballad of Setoora!" Here's a little teaser of a page for you to drool over...

Remarkable Russ Martin has completed the pencils for the first chapter of Ash-Aman's origin and is now inking away! Prepare to have your mind blown by this gorgeous splash page...

Wondrous Wes Wedman has teamed up with yours truly to create a brand new hero called G.R.U.N.T.! What is G.R.U.N.T.? He's a soldier...he's a zombie...he's a man who's been "Genetically Re-engineered with Ultimate Nano Technology"...and he's gonna knock your socks off!

Oh, yeah, more big news: I'm going to be contributing a brand new/retro feature to a future issue of InDELLible's All-New Popular Comics! We're doing an old-school story featuring an old-school character called...The Voice!

And, as always, I'm still looking for an artist for my western Guns & Rosa. I also have a few 5-6 page one-off sci-fi and horror comics if any artistic type out there is interested in just a fun little diversion...and I have some cool new super-hero ideas as well! If you're an artist who loves to draw good, old-fashioned comics with a twist, send samples to: thegroovyagent@yahoo.com ! Pax!!

Even More Comics Are Comin'!

Yeah, there's been a bit of a lull in my stories being published, but things are moving along on several fronts, so get ready for some fun funnies!

First of all, my Unbeatable Brick story for Surprising Universe #1 is almost completed! Artist David Johnson, Jr. set a high bar in the art department, and "So You Think You've Had a Bad Day?" (how'zat for a superhero origin title?) is coming down the home stretch in the lettering department. We should be hearing about a release date for SU#1 from publisher Mark Davis very soon. I've also written the second episode of Unbeatable Brick and will start on the third one, soon. Meantime, check out some more of David's awesome Unbeatable Brick art...

David and I are also working on a brand-new cosmic character called Captain Beyond! We're thrilled with CB's three-part origin story and hope you will be too! It'll be a little while before it's ready for print, but meantime plant your peepers on this taste of wonderment to come...!

Next, I have brand new  Kragor story in the works, this one illustrated by Ian Groff! This might be my favorite Kragor story yet, and I'm' so excited Ian's drawing it!  Ian has a cool style that suits our favorite teen barbarian perfectly! Just check out some samples and see for yourself...

I'm also collaborating with artist Russell Martin (illustrator of Daemon Mask, which you can read in Pulp Adventures Magazine #24--order a copy here) on another brand-new character called Ash-Aman of Atlantis. This is a straight-up fantasy character that I think you're really gonna dig! Check out Russ' designs for the main characters of Ash-Aman's first story arc:

I also have a couple stories I plan to submit to The Creeps (now nationally distributed via comics shops AND newsstands across America! Way to go, Publisher Rich Sala!), so fingers crossed there.


The original Kragor story illustrated by Louis Sollune, the third Midnight Stranger story (illoed by the incredible Joe Koziarski), and the sci-fi/western/horror short-shocker "Snake Eyes" will be coming your way via Will Lill's Fun Adventure Comics very soon, so hang in there!


I have a bunch of stories featuring The Black Spider (for all you fans of pulp-inspired superheroes) and Guns & Rosa (for all you western fans) that I still need artists for, so, artists, don't be shy and send me samples @ thegroovyagent@yahoo.com or contact me via the comments section below.

There's lots more to come--2017 is gonna be a comicbook blast! Stay tuned!