Issue 26: Block parties, new pitches, and Voyager Homecoming updates!
November’s almost over.
How can that be?
Surely November was over six months ago, because this year has been a decade.
NEW STUFF
Thanks to everyone who came to see us at Revenge of Comics and Pinball’s Comic Creator Block Party! We actually sold a lot of stuff, but the best part is always the people. Folks excited to find out there was a Star Trek Voyager comic, folks who came just to see us, and all our friends and colleagues we don’t get to connect with often enough. So many friends!
And a very special thanks to Jasmine, who stopped by with her well-read copy of Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix to have Tilly sign it… and told her it was the most seen she’d ever felt in her life.
That’s the kinda stuff we live for.
There are still a few very kind reviews of Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming issue 2 rolling in!
Locutors of Trek seemed to really get what we were doing and are totally aboard for the ride!
And Positively Trek said it made them want to go back and rewatch Voyager, which is amazing!
Positively Trek
One of the best things is when reviewers slip up a little and call our issues “episodes,” because they feel so much like they fit right in with the show. The highest compliment!
Our Traversing the Stars interview about Voyager dropped, so check that out if you love us.
The Locutors of Trek fellas also did a live interview with us, which you can watch here!
We’ve recorded several other podcast interviews recently, but we’re not sure when they release. Trust we’ll keep you informed, because we know it’s scientifically impossible for you to get too much of us. 😊
Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming issue 3 is out on November 26! There are still more surprises in store for you, and we can’t wait!
Speaking of surprises, there are even more of them in Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming issue 4! That’s right, it’s all overstuffed with surprises. Because we love you! Final orders for issue 4 are also due November 26, so be sure you tell your comic shop you want a copy or twelve!
Don’t you wanna know what’s going on in that cover?! We know you do. It’s probably not what you think! We like to keep ya guessin’.
The Kickstarter for the Witching Season comic anthology officially funded! Hooray, we get paid! But also hooray, you get a great anthology (if you backed it)!
And Tilly recently wrote an essay for a zine, about her lifelong love of Superman, what the character means to her, and the quiet trans affirmation of James Gunn’s Superman film!
The essay will be incorporated into Trans Tuesdays next year, but you can read it early if you get a copy of the zine! Russ Burlingame, who put the zine together, is donating all proceeds from it in November to a local food bank in his area. So it’s seven bucks well spent!
WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON
The one-shot comic we turned in the first draft of a couple weeks ago came back to us in need of heavy revisions. Not a huge deal, it happens sometimes. And we’re happy with the new version, which is all that matters! It’s now off for final notes and approval.
We’ve been doing a lettering pass on one of our upcoming graphic novels, because the inks are almost done and coloring is speeding along. It will be going off to print before too long, though its release date is probably still a ways off (should be in 2026 though!). In fact, it’s already got a listing, with a missing cover image, on the website of the large book publisher that’s distributing it.
We’re not gonna link you to it yet, but all signs point to an announcement sooner rather than later. We think/hope.
A few weeks back we had a general meeting with an animation studio executive, and we seemed to hit it off fairly well. She vibed with a few of our ideas and asked for more info on a few, so we sent her mini-pitches. Three of our originals, with just a title, logline, and brief info on target audience and genre, and one book we’re enamored with that we wouldn’t mind adapting.
She got back to us and wanted even more on two of our three originals, and the book we mentioned (which she’d already been looking at). Which is fabulous! So now we’re compiling all the goodies to send her, and then we’ll see if she’s still into them and if we get a few pitch meetings.
Do not get too excited on our behalf. Like, this is exciting and cool, but it’s also standard procedure in Hollywood. Sending written pitches or outlines might get you a pitch meeting, and that pitch meeting might get your show picked up (sometimes even when that does happen, it can take literal years). And even then there’s a thousand steps along the way where everything can, and often does, fall apart.
When people say it’s a miracle any movie or tv show ever gets made, that’s incredibly true. In any case, yay please be happy for us! Just also know this does not in any way mean we have sold a show that you’ll be able to watch in a few years. It’s a marathon of baby steps. But this is the first! Hooray.
Also! Also also also, we made the tweaks to our new pilot outline that we needed to make, and scripting has finally (finally) begun! We’ve got a first draft of Act I that needs a whooooooole lot of work, but that’s what first drafts are. In any case, we usually write in five act structure, so we’re but a fifth of the way to a complete first draft. More baby steps!
TRANS TUESDAY UPDATE
We continue right along with our discussion of the trans allegory of Lisa Frankenstein, with parts 2 and 3 (of 8). We get into colors as metaphor and talk about the difficulty of mirrors, the horror of being perceived when your entire life is a costume, and even try to decipher some Latin!
Tilly Bridges
Tilly Bridges
RECOMMENDATIONS
The new Frankenstein movie is out, and we pounced upon it, because why wouldn’t you? It’s very fun to watch, although not terribly faithful to the original book. But that’s okay, things can be different! It’s an enjoyable film.
THE DIRTBAG DISPATCH
It’s finally cooled off (a bit) in Los Angeles… it remains to be seen if this will increase Izzy’s already high levels of cuddle. She loves to just be touching whatever human is near her while she sleeps. She’s the sweetest.
Meanwhile, here’s a shot of Henry in his favorite box. We use it to bring up the groceries from Costco every week and then we store it in our car, so he loves every second that it’s in our apartment (but only if it’s up high on our dining room table, if it’s on the floor it is worthless).
You can see how agreeable he was about being photographed in his happy place.
WHAT’S IN THE BIG TIME?
Big Time issue 26 explores the purpose (and success/failure of) general meetings in the entertainment industry, and how they’re as much about you as they are about the person you’re meeting with. And! We have the second part of our audio commentary on Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming issue 2! Are you not enticed?!
Sign up for it at birdguestbroadcast.com and help us pay rent and eat food and stuff!
THE END
As the months get colder…
Find someone you love to snuggle up with.
It’s the best thing about the cold, honestly.
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