Canister X – A.P. Fuchs: Zombie, Paranormal Romance and Superhero Novelist, Blogger, Artist, Publisher

Tonight, my folks are taking the kids for the weekend, leaving me and my wife a nice quiet house for a couple days. So, instead of doing the usual “couple stuff,” we’re going to do what all good nerds do and take the 24-hour Comic Challenge, starting around midnight tonight.

What am I writing/drawing? Canister X Comics #2. #1–of the new version–is almost half done, but since the challenge is to do a comic start to finish, I’m doing #2 tonight. #3 is already done. Weird system, but it’ll make sense in the end.

I know I’ve been talking about making comics for a long, long time on this blog. Right now it’s a side thing, but something I hope to make as a “main thing” soon. Canister X Comics #1-3 will all be out by Halloween as I plan to have them at C4 Comic Con this year.

Also, Canister X Comics won’t replace the Axiom-man comic. They’re just side things I’m doing but are a better fit for the time constraints of the 24-hour Comic Challenge.

Watch this space.

I’ll be the first to admit that I was really upset when I found out they were rebooting the Spider-Man franchise so soon after Spider-Man 3 came out in 2007. I mean, if you look at the Spider-Man cartoons (both past and forthcoming), the comics and now this movie, it seems Spider-Man is only good for one story: his high school years, getting bitten by a spider, becoming Spider-Man and all the complications thereof. Then, when the story is told, they go tell it again in a different medium.

However, the new teaser trailer for 2012′s The Amazing Spider-Man came out today and it is starting to win me over. I recognize elements from the comics, extra stuff not explored in the previous films. Whether this movie is part of the official Marvel movie universe or not, I don’t know yet, but regardless, it looks pretty good.

Last night I finished my revisions on the forthcoming reissue of my B-horror novel, A Red Dark Night. It was written in 2002 (I think) and published in 2004. Instead of doing a massive overhaul, I did a proofread instead, fixing some words, adding others, tweaked punctuation and adjusted some of the content to fit my sensibilities today. The voice of the book, that of a 22-year-old writer still learning his craft–and I’m still learning, btw, like every other writer out there–I left intact, so upon reading it, you’ll see a similarity in tone to my work of today, but also a voice of someone you might not be used to.

A Red Dark Night is a very special book to me for many reasons, some of which are it was written when all I had to worry about was writing and nothing else. No kids. No wife. Still lived at home with my folks. There’s also a sense of focus to the work that cries out with the passion of a new writer who only wants to tell stories and that’s it. It’s also a book without any paradoxes. I can’t elaborate without giving stuff away, but I’m very proud of it for that reason, too.

There was an intro I wrote for it back in the day and this new edition with have a new intro talking about the book, the original and the revision. I’m also getting done a killer cover, one that will blow the previous edition’s out of the water.

Today–more like tonight–I’ll be typing up the edits then sending the book over to my editor for another look for anything obvious. Then it’s back to me for one more read-through before press.

A Red Dark Night–now with the subtitle “Rise of the Bloodans”–should be out in the next 2-3 weeks. I hope you get a copy when the time comes.

I saw bootlegs last week and now the official The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer has hit the Web!

Perfect teaser. Now I want to know what’s going on, and that battle with Bane shown for a split second at the end has got this fanboy’s blood pumping.

Check it out:

Today I’m back to work publishing and writing and cartooning.

The plan: go hardcore until the Christmas break.

Tools: pencils, pens, paper, computer, Internet, coffee, cigarettes, telephone, iron skin, raw determination.

Allies: all the great folks at Coscom Entertainment and, of course, you, Dear Reader.

Mission: to complete all 1,000,001 tasks by noon, Dec. 24, 2011.

Likelihood of success: 100% — barring a zombie invasion. Then it drops to 99.9%

I mean business.

Welcome back to Canister X. Welcome back to superhero and monster ficiton that’ll rock your world.

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-926712-88-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-926712-89-5 Under intense aerial bombardment by the German Luftwaffe, the British government arranges for the most valuable exhibits in the British Museum to be shipped to the Smithsonian for safekeeping. Charged with shepherding the priceless artifacts across the ocean is archeologist Priscilla Stuyvesant. Leaving Great Britain on the Limpkin, an aging freight vessel, the ship is overrun by a gang of Nazi deserters loyal to a doctor exiled from Germany for conducting genetic experiments on his own people. But the desperate deserters aren’t the worst terror on board: three of the exhibits from ancient Egypt return to life. In life, they were the Pharaoh’s most skilled assassins. In death, they are something far more dangerous: undead warriors with mesmeric powers and a thirst for revenge that defies the centuries. Book Trailer: What People Are Saying: “Intense, sharp, and gut-wrenching, Eternal Unrest sucks you in and holds you tight. I don’t normally read war novels, but this one I couldn’t resist. Dixon knows how to blend horror (mummies!), history, and humanity together to create a powerful merging of the three. Highly recommended!” -Elizabeth Massie, author of Sineater “Buckle up, folks… On the heels of putting his stamp on werewolf (Snarl) and zombie (The Lifeless) lore, Dixon now gives us a memorable mummy tale that spans centuries and continents, provides Hollywood-sized action, and shows the author’s aptitude to draw well-developed characters. Eternal Unrest is Dixon’s most ambitious work yet.” -Harrison Howe, author of R.I.P. “No longer will the Mummy be an over-looked horror trope, I foresee many trying to emulate what Lorne Dixon has created here with Eternal Unrest.” - Keith Gouveia, author of Animal Behavior

Available as a paperback at: Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.co.uk Barnesandnoble.com Other On-line Retailers Available as an eBook at: Amazon Kindle Drivethruhorror.com Fictionwise.com Mobipocket.com Smashwords

Also by Lorne Dixon:

The Last Coscom Entertainment Release: Bigfoot War 2: Dead in the Woods by Eric S. Brown
For the Entire Coscom Entertainment Monster Fiction Catalog, please go to www.coscomentertainment.com

Taliesin Meets the Vampires has posted three new reviews for the three books in my Blood of my World Series: Discovery of Death, Memories of Death and Life of Death.

The reviews are available to be read right here.

The books are available for purchase on Kindle via the lower bookshelf on your left, or in paperback via the “Books in Print” carousel on your lower right.

Hope you pick up a copy or two. Reviews have been positive for this series.