The past couple of months have been a whirlwind here at High Tower Comics. We have seen a lot of changes as we continue to grow and find our way in this brutal business we call comics. Making lemonade out of lemons is as much a part of life as it is business, and with every glass of lemonade we learn something new.

You have already seen the demise of ‘Space Age’ as an online strip and can now watch it turn into a beautiful 24 page anthology book featuring ‘Space Boogie,’ a punk rock lucha libre b-movie of an epic and the premiere of our in house writer Justin Fox’s first creator owned project, ‘Jet Girl,’ which, let me tell you, if the stories and the art keep up with the quality I am seeing, Jet Girl may get its own book sooner than later.

Speaking of sooner then later, get ready and prepare for ‘The Grind,’ a new online strip (a new joke each day) coming September 15th featuring a cast of characters you may know or have met as you dredged the seedy coffee shops near your homes and workplaces.

Oh yeah, before I move on, what’s up Brazil!

Since this is the Space Age site, I gotta mouth off on a sci-fi related topic. Star Wars, yes that holiest of holy grails, I got some things to say. If you love all that is the Lucas, you should stop reading now cause I’m about to piss all over it, and I’ve been drinking water all day (no A/C in the studio). What is up with the f’n clone wars!!! For crying out loud, give me a break already. Hello George, are you listening? I hope you are cause you just successfully raped and destroyed what was a good concept and cool cartoon (with better visuals and more drama than this new piece o’ money you just made) that was released in time with the films and actually made sense within the films on the cartoon network.

Don’t get me wrong, money is a pretty good motivating factor. Nobody wants to starve, but dude you ain’t starving. Lucas has enough bread to come out with a new idea, new movie, have it totally flop, and Lucas will still have enough money forever. Why George? Why do you insist on grinding a beautiful inspiring piece of my youth and young adulthood into dog shit? Were the fans really clamoring for a new installment, especially a horribly bad one that’s squarely aimed at 4 to 4-year-olds. Please, you could’ve at least picked one of the many well written and more interesting books based on the mythos of the trilogy, and just so all you naysayers out there who may not agree with me try this on for size. Anakin gets a Padawan in this new Star Wars crap (am not gonna call it a movie). Anakin kills the younglings, ooh he’s evil. Anakin kills cute Padawan. Anakin is now more evil than Hitler. How does someone that evil get the opportunity for the audience sympathy that makes return of the Jedi so awesome? No more Star Wars please. George, you are dangerously close to sucking out all the cool from a very cool creation.

Well, that’s all I got. Feel free to reply. Feel free to agree or disagree; that’s all on you out there in fandom. This is only one man’s opinion, and George, if you’re out there, all rants and humor aside I would love to see a new George Lucas project.

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