It’s been a little while since we posted any pictures of the Hellcat Models. Well, let’s fix that. Here’s a downloadable wallpaper of all of the girls. Enjoy! (and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+)
-Mav
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Science Ninja Action Team: Cosmic Hellcats IX
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Are you one of those new fangled elite people who hate Facebook and are now on Google+? Or maybe you’re on both? Well, we now have a Google+ fan page, so if you’re on there, you should follow us (or friend us or circle us or whatever it is the kids say these days). You can find our G+ fan page here. We’re also now set so that you can use your G+ account to log in here. Just create a Hellcats account by clicking Register on the left and link it to your G+ account when you’re asked. You can also link to your Twitter or Facebook accounts and use them to log in instead or you can just log in and comment with a Cosmic Hellcats account. In any case, you should definitely register and comment here as much as you can so we know what you like and don’t.
Speaking of Facebook and Twitter, our Facebook fan page can be found here. It had been broken up til recently, but now, if you follow it, it will tell you whenever there’s a new post here, and sometimes we post about other stuff, and you can follow us on twitter @cosmichellcats. (and you can follow Mav’s personal account at @chrismaverick or Max at @hellcatmax. Max also has an account for his band at @ShuttRdown, where he posts way more often than the basically never that he uses his personal twitter account). So follow all of those. And if you’re already following us on all of those places, well, tell all your friends to. How else are we ever going to be the most popular comic in the universe? And you do want that, right? RIGHT?!?!
Oh, and finally, we’ll be debuting a new banner at comic book conventions this year, along with our new books. The image on this post is a sneak peak of that. Feel free to download it and use it as your desktop wallpaper. You know, because you love us that much.
-Mav∑8x)
Wayne Wise (Photo by Christopher Maverick)
My friend, and fellow author and comic book maker, Wayne Wise has started a series of interviews with small press comics creators on his site. Wayne works at my local comic book shop, the Eisner Award nominated, Phantom of the Attic (the premier comic shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and he was the first winner of Peter Laird‘s Xeric Grant for independently published comic books for his original comic “Grey Legacy“. He asked me to be the subject of his most recent one, which just went live. So please go over there and check it out.
While you’re at it, you should also pick up some of Wayne’s novels, available both in print or as ebooks over at Amazon:
And if you’re in Pittsburgh, stop by Phantom of the Attic on Craig Street and say hi to him (and also pick up a copy of Cosmic Hellcat Adventures which is available there, as well as on our Bookstore page on this site).
-Mav
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And now for a little Hellcat brush with greatness.
If you’re a fan of the TV show, the Big Bang Theory, then you’re probably aware of the game that they’ve played in a classic episode, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock. What you might not know however is that the show didn’t come up with the game. They actually found it on the internet. It was invented by my college roommates, Sam Kass and Karen Bryla. Sam and Karen lived with Professor alKhafiz (yes, he’s a real person, err felinoid, too) and I for a year and then they moved out and Max moved in.
When the episode initially aired, my friends and I got a nice laugh out of it, since the idea was clearly stolen from Sam’s webpage, but not attributed. Several of us encouraged him to sue the show and make millions as the rightful creator of RPSSL (Sam and Karen say Spock, Lizard instead of Lizard, Spock, though most of my friends say it the same way it’s said on the show).
Anyway, if you watched last night’s episode, you would have seen that the show has finally decided to make right. They actually mentioned the game again and this time told the story of it’s origins, directly making reference to Sam Kass as the internet pioneer who invented it. He appears to be something of a hero to the fictional geeks on the show. “All Hail Sam Kass!”
I’m now encouraging everyone to write CBS and demand that Sam be given a cameo on the show as the creator of their favorite hand waving game. And once he does, perhaps he can wear a Hellcats t-shirt and get us some free press. And you know, if the show wants to plug the comic a dozen times or so, I’m certainly not going to complain. Hell, if it comes down to it, and they can only do one or the other, they’re welcome to plug the comic and forget about Sam altogether. I love my friend and all, but you know, these are hard times. Every man for himself!
Oh, and if you’d like to support Sam and Karen (they’re married now) and help send their children to college some day, then by all means, order one of their official RPSSL or All Hail Sam Kass t-shirts, available from Cafepress.
All Hail Sam Kass!
-Mav
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Image via Wikipedia
I had this idea a while back to make a Cosmic Hellcats RPG, probably based on the d20 system. I worked on some basics for like one night and then never touched it again, but for some strange reason today I just feel the urge to do it again. I don’t even know if people would want such a thing. But it’s just totally stuck in my head. Maybe a lot of it is just me wanting to flesh out the mechanics of the Hellcats Universe a little farther. Or maybe I’m just feeling particularly geeky. I dunno. I’m in into it.
You know, because like the other 1 million things I’m working on aren’t sucking up enough of my life.
Anyway, the question is, would other people actually be interested in such a thing? And if I were to do it, how involved would it need to be. Does a roll-your-own RPG need to be complete and full featured (meaning would I have to have a big huge thing like d20 Modern or Dungeons and Dragons), or do people get the basic concept of d20 and having a small pamphlet like my favorite role playing game, the original Macho Women With Guns (which frankly might be good enough to be a Hellcats game in and of itself). How detailed would people want it to be? What types of characters and mechanics should be covered? Would anyone ever actually even play such a game?
Does it need to be a print book or would it be cool to be a digital book for Kindles and iPads? (maybe the whole iPad iBooks stuff that came out yesterday is what has me thinking about this in the first place).
And of course, are you willing to wait around for years til I actually get around to finishing such a thing? (Like Katt and Dawg, which I posted about earlier, and which I swear, I’ll have done soon… really… I totally will… honest engine!)
What do you think?
-Mav
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