In a couple of weeks MYTHOI #2 will be hitting the digital shelves of Semantink.com — as well as a few other vendor sites.  I know there has been a bit of confusion as to the method of release for MYTHOI thus far, so I wanted to take this time to set some things straight.

When MYTHOI #1 came out last September (yes, I realize that was nearly 10 months ago) the plan was to release an issue every two months until we had put out all 60-issues.  Well, shit happens.  The biggest critique we got from the first issue was that it was to jolting — in other words, the audience was thrown into the middle of something they didn’t understand and therefore didn’t care about.  I can see where the critics were coming from and looking back I think there are a few things I as a writer could have done differently but hindsight’s 20/20 and I refuse to sit around sulking.

In response to this critique, Benjamin and I developed the Birth saga: a series of short comics, 12 pages in length, that gave the audience background so that they could be slightly more invested in the jumpoff point (MYTHOI #1).  Originally these origin tales were to come in each of the five arcs, revealing pasts with the present and while I still think that could’ve been awesome, it’s hard to get an audience to invest in a company, writer, artist and book who have absolutely no credibility to speak of.  So, Birth came to be.

Now the Birth series came out better than I could’ve hoped.  Jed knocked the art out of the park and I’m quite pleased with the stories themselves.  The trade paperback for the Birth series is available for pre-order now at Semantink.com.  However, as pleased as I am with it, it took a lot of time away from the series proper.  Issue #1 leaves us with a dead President, a handful of crazy slave-werewolves, a psychotic bishop, a child vampire, a purple-eyed body thief and a giant air dragon — for ten months now people have asked me, generally the same question, what happens next?

With the Birth series complete, I am very pleased to announce that we are back to the series proper and barreling forward full steam ahead!  MYTHOI #2 will continue the tale we began almost a year ago, adding a few more characters you may recognize from the Birth series while developing our first of five arcs.  Jed is, once again, doing a fantastic job with the art and we’ve got a few more people working on the book as well:  Gary Jonez has taken over as colorist and Semantink’s own Benjamin Glibert is now lettering our series!

So what does all this rambling mean?  It means that there will be no more breaks, pauses, inserts, deadlocks, breathers, letups or layoffs for MYTHOI.  Starting in July, you will be getting an issue every other month for the next 59 digital issues of this series, 12 more trade paperbacks, 5 story arcs and 1 epic adventure.

Thanks for the patience everyone.

James

PS: MYTHOI #1, as well as the entire (Free) Birth series can now be found at Drivethrucomics!