Sorry guys, due to a computer fritz up and a weekend away, The Gloom will be slightly late this week, not going up tomorrow, but more likely Monday / Tuesday.

But this just means less time to wait until the next issue!

And so we have the introductions to the Eleventh Hour - as The Gloom finally gets the assistance he needs! And now we start to build up to the ‘wonderful Act Three obligatory explodo fight scene and plot twist’ that I promised!

And what is going on with the Professor and Ungawa in page 5…

In other news, if you’re in the US don’t forget to go buy Doctor Who: The Forgotten, out from IDW next week - as I wrote it. And in the UK remember to buy next week’s 2000ad as my 15 part tale Stalag #666 starts in it with a ten page introduction!

And most importantly, if you subscribe to the wonderful children’s comic The DFC, next Friday Dan and I start our 16-week adventure serial ‘The Prince Of Baghdad’ over there - it’s well worth getting hold of!

Anyway, here’s your two pages of Gloom goodness…

Well, it’s finally here - and there have been some changes… Let me explain the wait and the revised styles…

Basically it’s like this. When The Gloom #3 was cancelled, we’d pretty much finished the story, and inked / coloured the pages - but Rich Emms, who was the APC publisher (and the letterer) decided that due to APC closing and the book effectively dying, it wasn’t worth lettering the rest of the book (he’d lettered issues #1 to #3 already), and issues #3, #4 and #5 were never seen to the public.

Until now, of course. Which meant that when we reached the point of getting to #4, the first of the unlettered issues we had to letter it up ourselves , and this would involve lettering in a similar style to the first issues to keep in line with Rich’s earlier stuff.

But here’s there the delays and the style changes come in. Because yesterday (Thursday 7th August) we received an email from Rich telling us that as The Gloom was one of many comics still owned by APC (hence the fact it was never put back in print) it had taken until right then for APC to finally roll over and die. And, as part of the contract, when APC died? We got all rights to The Gloom back.

Which means that we now have the option to re-solicit it as a collected trade GN. And of course THIS means that we’ll be re-lettering the entire comic in a different style, closer to the letters in Hope Falls, as there were some early parts that we were never wholly happy with - which means that starting this week? We have new lettering and a new ‘Chapter’ guide for the last two issues.

I hope you enjoy. :-) Remember, NOBODY has ever seen these pages before today. Tell your friends. Tell publishers. Let’s gain some interest in this book, let’s have it printed!

Oh, and finally we can lay to rest the rumours that we may have stolen the idea of a group called ‘The Eleventh Hour’ from Orang-outang comics, considering that this comic was written in 2005… :-)

So enjoy the ‘Season Premiere’ of #4, a special, three page starter…

What, you thought we’d forgotten you? Well shame on you, children!

What we didn’t expect was the amount of madness and confusion that would hit our lives with The Prince Of Baghdad, the series we’re doing for The DFC / Random House, and the Doctor Who: The Forgotten series that I’m writing for IDW with Pia Guerra…

But normal service will be resumed. And here’s your teaser… See you next Friday.

And so it comes to an end, the extra sized, issue #3 finale of The Gloom, before our short break before all hell breaks loose in the never seen before #4 and #5! Mousey’s been kidnapped, and Carson doesn’t have the power to rescue her any more - but does he have friends that can help? And finally we see what Doc Adventure has been doing in the background…

Make the most of this and we’ll see you in a month or so at the mid/end of July with the start of ‘Season 4′ of The Gloom! And, if you find yourself Jonesin’ for a slice of weekly Tony goodness, remember that I still keep up the weekly column at www.comicsbulletin.com/hoaw every Monday…

And now - the ‘Season finale’ of The Gloom…

Well, it’s the penultimate episode of Issue #3, and things are starting to hot up between Carson Kane and Mousey Blonde - of course a fly’s going to turn up in the ointment!

Don’t forget to check in next week for the ‘Season three finale’ before we take another break and return late July…

In other news, remember to go down your local store and buy a copy of Spider Man Family #9, out this week, which has a ten page Spider Man story written by yours truly inside it…

Now - here’s your Gloom goodness…

And we’re nearing the end of issue #3 of The Gloom, with two more weeks to go after this - Mousey and Carson finally go on their date and Turbine finally announces himself to the world!

As ever there’ll be a little break between ’seasons’ and issue #4 will be starting around mid July, so why not take that time to go back to the beginning and reacquaint yourself with The Gloom, or even tell a friend or two? With the lack of comments, it sometimes feels that we’re read by about three people…

Anyway. Here’s this week’s instalment - enjoy!

And so it’s Friday, which means another groovy The Gloom episode!

This is the ‘interlude’ section where we see what else is happening around in the world of Carson Kane, but fear not, young readers, soon Carson will return as strong as ever!

Or will he….?

In other news, if you’re around London this weekend come to the London MCM Expo, where Dan and I will be signing copies of Hope Falls for the masses with celebrity chums to our left and right. Come, it’ll be fun!

Enjoy…

And so, a little later due to a Press launch I was at last night - The Gloom’s latest issues arrive for your viewing pleasure!

In other news, it looks like The Gloom will be getting a trade in ‘08, possibly even a hardback! Watch this space!

And remember to go vote for fellow Chem Setter Neil Kleid in his competition on www.zudacomics.com! Action, Ohio for the win!

And so we hit Friday, and another never-seen-before installment of The Gloom! Enjoy and let us know, by commenting!

Dan and I? We’ll be at the Bristol Comic Expo this weekend, so if you’re there come and say hi to us. And buy us a drink, or something.

Anyway, here’s your slice of Gloom goodness…