AHOY.
I’m outta here.
FOR GOOD.
Okay not really. I’m just traveling for the next mumble-mumble several days, so you won’t see me back with posts until sometime next week. In the meantime I will be cavorting around the Pacific Northwest, causing trouble and delivering shenanigans and doing a jig on your social norms and mores. Or something. Shut up.
In my stead, I have given you a flower.
That flower is a gayfeather. That is really its name.
At the bottom of the post is also a lovely, cuddly photo, in that it is a photo of a grass-carrying wasp cuddling a stung, paralyzed tree cricket as it levers the bug into a hole under a patio chair in order to feed the cricket to her WASP BABBIES.
Ain’t nature sweet?
Also, do not forget, this week is:
DARTH VADER, ANNUAL #2, by me and Leonard Kirk and with a Mike Deodato cover. It features Vader getting up to some REAL SHIT with Tarkin and Krennic and the nascent Death Star, y’all. You might get a little stardust in your eye if you’re not careful.
Have a great week, frandos.
Geekfest says:
It is … stupid hot in the PNW right now, or at least, in PDX.
July 15, 2018 — 5:14 PM
Deborah Makarios says:
Ah, the names of flowers. My respectable widowed grandfather used to grow a certain pink flower just so he could tell people he had naked ladies in his front garden. (Amaryllis belladonna just doesn’t sound the same.)
July 15, 2018 — 10:14 PM
kirizar says:
Is it me…or doesn’t that stunned bug look more like a grasshopper than a cricket? Maybe there are green crickets, but the ones I’ve see are all black.
July 17, 2018 — 6:46 AM
Tricia C says:
Hey Chuck, I’ve loved your blog for a long time, seriously some of the freshest and funniest advice on writing. Love your books too, very cinematic and crisp. I just read your book on flesh eating ants and it was awesomely done~
I’m gonna pick through your blog archives and finally get to work on writing with a prompt.
Oh and happy travels!
-Tricia
July 21, 2018 — 9:28 PM