Well, it’s finally available!  From Death Til Now book 1 is available for purchase through Indy Planet.  I got my final proof copy in and it looked great so I feel good about offering it up to you all.

Now you may be asking, “why buy a book I can read, or have read online?”  To you I say:  Great question!  Here’s why!  I’ve loaded the thing with special content.  Not only do you get all 152 pages of the first book, but you also get:

2 Brand New Exclusive Government Documents!
6 Pinup Drawings By Some Of My Favorite Artists
A 5 Page Process Diary
A Completely Redrawn and Rendered Opening 4 Pages
An Inside Look At My Very First FDTN Drawings
And  A Special Forward By Josh Ulrich

And all of this for only $10+Shipping And Handling!  Huzzah I say!  But the biggest reason I can think of is much like Grinch’s heart on Christmas, the warmth and love I’ll feel knowing you purchased this here book, will make my heart grow infinity sizes.  And friends you can’t put money on making people’s hearts grow bigger

I sincerely hope you’ll pick one up!  And thank you for reading.  I hope we get back to updates here really soon!

GO HERE TO BUY YOUR COPY!!!

From Death Til Now has long been a personal project of mine that I’ve had to fit in with a lot of other things and usually things are tame enough to do it, but this time I think I need to take a break until things even out.  I don’t know how long that will be.  I’m hoping just a month or two, but I have no idea.  I do plan to keep writing and penciling the book as much as possible.  Which will hopefully help me to get it out without many delays once things tide over.

The print version of the first book should be available online to buy really really soon, like next week soon.  I encourage all of you who have read the book over the last three years, if you enjoyed to please pick up a copy.  It would mean a lot to me and I’ve tried to keep it as reasonably priced as possible (at $10).

I want to make it known that this doesn’t mean the end of FDTN, just a break.  Kevin and the Light of Destiny is continuing on, largely because I have a lot of it written and plotted out, so I can more quickly move through it.  And because I have a few things in the publishing world I’m working on with it.  Please come by and visit there and I do hope I’ll be back soon.  I appreciate your understanding.  Trust me I don’t want to break where we’re at right now either!  This scene was gonna be the jam   Thank you again.  All of you are awesome.

-Michael Regina

Next week’s update may be a tad late.  The next few pages are quite involved and will require a bit of love and care to get right so I will do my best to get it all done.  Hope you like the new page!  Fun stuff is about to start happening.    At least I think so.

In case you guys didn’t read the blog post about the book, I did receive my first copies of the book in the mail and it printing looks GREAT!  What doesn’t is some of the sizes of the pages.  I thought I was going to be OK with some of the formatting on the pages and I was sorely wrong.  The book is readable, but I’m not happy with it and won’t be putting it up for sale until I get the chance to redo that.  So unfortunately that means I have to resend all of the files which means it’s going to be a month before I can get my artist editions copies out, at the earliest.  I’m sorry to make everyone wait.  But the book should be good to go real soon.

But on the positive you can still order an artist’s edition to go out with the first batch!  GET YOUR ORDER IN!!!

It looks great!   There’s a few things I caugh though that n eed to be corrected and the sizing of the images needs to be fixed for almost every page.  There were a few spots that are cut off and would be on all future volumes too, so I need to fix that.  But the quality of the printing done by the guys at Ka-Blam is great and I can’t wait to send the new files and get copies out to folks.  I’ll post a short video this weekend too to show you what the  book looks like.

Ta-Da!  It’s a ship!  But who or what is inside….  Well, that’s gonna take a few pages to answer yet.  Buckle in my friends.

I have a question for you guys, I am considering splitting my page updates into two separate updates so that you all get two a week instead of the one.  It’s the same amount of content, but the frequency is nice.  I’ve been using this approach on  Kevin and the Light of Destiny and the response has been strong.  So I thought I might try it here. It makes the updates a little easier for me to manage and it gives you all maybe a it more continuity since you’re able to get the story a little more consistently. Let me know your thoughts in the comments please!  Or send me an email.

Alright, alright, alright!  let’s get this show on the road!  In amazing technicolor!  I went back and forth for some time on whether or not to go with color for the book, but I think I can do it and still produce pages at the speed I have in the past, so I’ll give it a go!

Two items of note, other than the beginning of book 2:  1) I still haven’t received my proof copies of book 1 yet.  As soon as I do, I will be posting a few pictures and and even a video of the book.  And then I will be ordering everyone’s artist’s editions who have ordered them and getting those out to you.  I didn’t order the books with the first proof yet, because I want to make sure everything looks OK.  So, thank you for your patience, but they’re coming.  And you still have time to order one, so please do!

2)  Moving forward I think Updates will be going back to once a week for now and I’m leaning for a Thursday update schedule.  I wanted to go ahead and post the first page now, as I’m excited to show it to you guys.  Hopefully we’ll get back up to two pages again, but for now I think this is what I have to do to make sure the quality stays high and my updates consistent.

Other than that I hope you all like the new page and I look forward to showing you the exciting beginning of book 2!

One of the things I did with the completion of book 1 of FDTN was ask some friends to provide some pinup art for the book edition.  Everyone did some amazing work!  This piece was done by Stephen McCranie and it just knocked me out when I saw it.  He really took my concepts and made an intriguing image.  There are five more pinup pieces in the book as well by more of my homies!

Well, my first copy of book 1 should be in my hands this week and if it looks good you guys can start buying your own!  I’m waiting to  make sure I did everything right.  And next week we should have our first update to book 2!  So sit tight, here we go!

Something I thought I would show you guys is what the custom drawings are looking like for the artist’s editions of the book. These two are for Erin O’Kane and my buddy and assistant on book 1 of FDTN and fellow helper on the Amulet series, Ryan Hoffman (who also makes a pretty cool webcomic called, MegaWest).  Erin asked for me to do a drawing of George’s wife (or Virgil’s, but she hasn’t come into the book yet).  So I knocked this little piece out of George’s jilted lady.  I’ve been working on fine-tuning her design some as she plays a huge part of book 2.    And Ryan asked that I show a scene of the monster chase.

You too can get a drawing of your choice by purchasing the Artist’s Editions of the book.  It’s a great way to support the book and get a little something nice as well.  So if you feel so inclined and are able, please consider picking one up.  I would love to send you a custom drawing as well.

One more update of book 1 content, before we launch into book 2!  Sit tight guys, things are getting ready to get crazy.