This Saturday, I'm signing at Black Cat Comics in Salt Lake City, Utah-- come out and say hi, Utahians, from 11 to 3.

Black Cat Comics
2265 Highland Dr
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
(801) 461-4228

Tomorrow sees the release of THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1, the brand new Iron Man ongoing series by Salvador Larocca and myself.

To celebrate, I'll be at Elite Comics out in the OP, signing all day.

Elite Comics
11842 Quivira Rd
Overland Park, KS 66210
(913) 345-9910

I'll be out there around 11 AM.

(Also out? PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL #19, the first issue co-written with Rick Remender, and the opening salvo in Jigsaw's war on Frank...)

Anyway. Big day. Come out and say hi.

This week you, dear reader, can single-handedly put Henry through college by buying these three larger-than-normal Marvel Comics that are all coming out tomorrow.

They are:

THOR: AGES OF THUNDER
with Khari Evans & Patrick Zircher

As the Mighty Thor reclaims his rightful spot in the Marvel Pantheon, we join Matt Fraction and Patrick Zircher for a special examining the triumphs and tragedies that have befallen the God of Thunder across the eons. As the things he holds dearest are threatened by unimaginable forces of evil, Thor must rise up, again and again, to hold the line against terror and chaos as only the God of Thunder can!

THE ORDER #10 (Last issue!)
with Javier Saltares and Barry Kitson

Shell-shocked, shattered, and--worst of all—depowered, the men and women that were once the Order stand face to face with the big-bad that's toyed with them for 9 whole issues in various forms and guises and shapes and sizes. They might be broken--but can The Order be beaten? The end of a strange and vicious trip arrives, and God only knows if the Order will survive. As this is our last issue, y'know, you might think you know the answer. But you might be wrong! You don't know. You DON'T! Hooray! Goodbye!

and finally, finally:

THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST #14
With Tonci Zonjic & Kano

This is it, kids--the skull-busting, chest-punching, punch-kicking conclusion to THE SEVEN CAPITAL CITIES OF HEAVEN. Seven practitioners of super kung fu, champing at the bit to bloody each other to a pulp. A rogue Hydra cell, intent on destroying K'un-Lun from Earth, loads its terror train full of explosives and prepares to fire it through a warp in space-time. A schism in the leadership of K'un-Lun threatens to tear the city in two. The original Heroes for Hire, outgunned, outmanned, and out of time somewhere in Tibet. And Davos, the arch-rival of Iron Fist, intent on exploiting all this chaos, wants to assassinate Danny Rand once and for all. When was the last time a comic melted your face off? When was the last time you read THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST?

I really couldn't be happier with these three, as widly different as they are. Sorry for the deluge, gang. Hope you like 'em too.

Oh! CASANOVA #14 is at the printer. Is May 14th too soon to hope for?

• Two books I worked on have been nominated for Eisner Awards--

Best Single Issue:
Sensational Spider-Man Annual: “To Have and to Hold,” with Salvador Larroca (Eisners have this listed as "To Have OR to Hold," for some reason) and

Best New Series
The Immortal Iron Fist, with Ed Brubaker, David Aja, and a whole bunch more. Both books were edited by the inimitable Warren Simons.

My long streak of avoiding the Eisners has finally come to a close...! How crazy, how flattering.

• I'm writing the THOR: SECRET INVASION tie-ins. Hammers! Aliens! YAY!

• Wanna see a lettered, full color preview of The Invincible Iron Man #1?. Sure you do. Sure you do.

• I'm doing a week-long residency in a thread on Whitechapel, doing extended Q&A stuff and generally chit-chatting. Come say hi.

• Tom Brevoort unironically said "argle-bargle" and I almost kissed him.

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Jen enjoys the sparkling, laid-back, easy-going conversation-stylings
of bendis and loeb

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the end of the line

I drew the analogy between Tony Stark and Microsoft and Ezekiel Stane and Linux/the Open Source movement, to explain why Stane is winning, how he's beating Tony, and what Tony has to do/how Tony has to evolve if we wants to survive.

I think the whole of the interview explains that pretty clearly, and the excerpted clipping that's gone around does NOT, so I'm clarifying it here.

What I said was: Tony's losing. Here's why.

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No coneheads tonight

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Going into the 7th