As you might guess, Halloween is my favorite festival of the year.
It's been so, ever since I discovered that it was encouraged to don the fangs, furs, and feet of monster disquise. I was a vampire for 6 years in a row, because I thought that vampires were so damn cool.
I don't know if you've noticed or not, but Steam Crow, and this comic, are all fairly Halloween based. (Heck, a "Steam Crow" is nothing more than a steampunked out scarecrow... a Halloween staple in my book.)
I mean, SteamCrow.com is brown and orange, for scarecrow sake. (Why not black and orange? Because I don't think that it's "vintage" enough. Black turns to brown over time, anyway.)
It's good for me to remember that Monster Commute itself is an ode to Halloween, just like each of our books. We have monsters in a monster universe, living out their lives much like the rest of us.
This year, we're spending Halloween on the sky highway, into San Francisco for the Alternative Press Expo, or APE. Sadly, this will be the first time that I've missed taking our son trick-or-treating, but he's excited to go to a couple of parties with his grandparents.
Anyway, San Francisco will offer something the Phoenix won't on October 31st: chilly fall weather. It's supposed to be wet and rainy and cold, which is a welcome respite from Phoenix's gigantic sky-filling sun. Thank the gawds.
I leave you with Steam Crow wishes for you and your kin to have a spookilicious Halloween!
- Daniel
