Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue.

Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

- Jules Feiffer

Is red ink on sale? I'm not complaining but both Filler and Sea of Red, two books I'm really looking forward to, are using red as a spot color. It's quite striking, which is why I'm not complaining. You can find previews of both books if you follow the links above. Larry "The Idea Guy" Young fills us in on what Filler is all about;

“I had just watched The Usual Suspects, and was struck by how iconic the movie poster was. Just the main cast, in a police line-up. I thought, "What if there was the "other" guy there? Like the red shirt crew member on the old Star Trek, who you just know is going to die? Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and The Other Guy beam down… who’s going to get it before the first commercial, right? So I thought, "What’s the story of the career line-up professional? The guy who is always in the line-up? The control member? The guy the cops put in so they know if he’s fingered by the victim, it’s a bad ident, because he’s the one guy they know didn’t do it? And what if he was picked, and what if everyone thought he really did do it?" Of course, my next thought was, "What if Rick Spears and Rob G., the Teenagers From Mars guys, worked this up as a graphic novel?" So I made the call."

Oh, and Sea of Red is about Vampire Pirates. I'm still waiting for my craving for stories about Ninja Pirate Undead Cyborg Monkeys to be fixated. The only book that has come close is Scurvy Dogs, which, as Larry tells us here, has a tpb coming out this month.