How was the con? Did you buy any $5 trades? Did you scour the quarter bins? Quarter bins are terrific. Did you meet Shatner? Will he remember you forever? “You know, Spock, generally these nerd things are terrible, but there was this one guy who I can only describe as ‘more Kirk than Kirk’, and I want to hang out with him.” Nice. Or maybe you’re a Picard guy. I don’t know.

Doubtless, you’ve arrived here because I handed you a business card. Or perhaps you found one lying on the floor, dirty, wedged between a half-eaten $24 hot dog and an old issue of ElfQuest. Either way: WELCOME.

If you’re a publisher/editor, I want you to look at these:

• NanoTech 1-Page Synopsis
• NanoTech 4-Page Synopsis
• NanoTech Comic PDF

I’m looking for someone to publish the thing. You, preferably. The scripts for all seven issues are written, too, but it seemed inappropriate to post those in their entirety online. But, you know, if you want to see, all you have to do is ask.

If you’re an artist, that pitch is taken, so you can’t draw it, but I’m looking for people to draw other, less taken pitches, and if you’re here, I probably want you to draw one. Desperately. So if you’re interested (and I haven’t already emailed you with an offer), you should email me too.

I think that’s all. If you need advice on where to eat Saturday night, I can help with that, too. I grew up two L stops from Rosemont. Uhm…don’t go to TGI Fridays, the service is terrible and the portions are tiny. There’s a Lou Malnati’s like a mile from the con. That’s deep dish pizza. Chicago-style. You’ll like it.

If you find one of these, pay me to write something, will you?

My day job is paying me enough that I can afford to do grown-up things, so I bought an X-Box 360 with my first paycheck. I just wanted a toy to make the money feel real, before I start saving for mortgages and my kids’ braces and crap, you know?

“Michael J Funk” on X-Box Live. Look me up, we can play halo and cowboys together.

Oh, and don’t worry, my “1 or 2 arguably coherent blog posts a month” streak should proceed uninterrupted. Probably not much more than that, though. Every blog post is a comic page I didn’t write, which sort of defeats the whole purpose of the blog. I suppose I’ll have more to put on here once I’ve written more comics, and I get published, and interviewed, and reviewed, and acclaimed, and Stan Lee takes me aside at the Eisner awards and tells me I’m his greatest creation, relating my triumphs as a writer to something he did in WWII.

Anyway, I have Red Dead Redemption, Ghostbusters, Fable II, a terrible Hellboy game and next month, Halo Reach, because it has jetpacks. What else do I need?