I’ve been going nuts trying to wrap up the new Kirby Collector, and it’s almost done. Pages 2-75 are complete, and will be guest-proofread tomorrow by Eric Nolen-Weathington, pinch-hitting while Chris Irving gets back up to speed from his travels.

All that’s left is the letter column (one of the most fun parts of putting an issue together), and the table of contents and house ads (probably the least fun/most boring parts). Then, I’ll spend a solid day cleaning up scans, and it’ll be off to press, for release either last week of April, or first week of May (just about on schedule, give or take a week).

Check it out:

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=106926

Newsarama is featuring an interview with our own Christoper Irving, about his just-released book The Blue Beetle Companion. We literally got our copies from the printer today, so as soon as Chris gets back in the office tomorrow (following his trip to the Emerald City Con in Seattle to handle our booth, and to interview Peter Bagge for the first volume of his new Comics Introspective book series), he’ll be getting copies mailed out.

I remember meeting Chris for the first time back at a 1990s San Diego Comicon, and wondering why a guy so young would be so interested in the same Golden and Silver Age creators that I am. He’s a bit older now, but he hasn’t lost one ounce of the enthusiasm he had back then, as anyone who reads the Blue Beetle Companion will easily be able to tell.