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Hello there superfans, I bring you just a few little updates on this rainy Monday in New York.

A new writing site called The Chosen Seed has written about the film, and it's quite a glowing review. It's also the first review to really explore the deeper context of the story and highlight the theme - plus it's really well written. Brought a tear to my eye.

I won't get into it now but I'm working closely with GoDigital on making this film perfect for their distribution plan. I only bring it up to state that the GoDigital team is an absolute pleasure to work with, and I can't say enough nice things about them.

And one more thing: I'm writing this to you on a PowerMac G5 with no Intel Processor and therefore an outdated operating system and loooooow RAM. This computer has been great to me over the years: she saw me through many many projects. And she actually still runs fine. But I've had a thirst for power that only an upgrade could quench. I guess this is a long winded way of me saying: I ordered a new computer.

Changes to PurgatoryComics.com

I uploaded a few changes to PurgatoryComics.com, included new images on a couple of the pages. So now on the home page we have the new logo, trailer, and a new image of Angela. There are also minor image and content changes in the "about" and "cast and crew" sections.

The biggest changes are in the online store section: the new poster is now available to purchase at cafepress (realize I made about a buck a sale, that's it), and for now I took down a few items that will hopefully soon be improved. Regarding the poster: it's cropped slightly different that the one I revealed in the last post, and that's only because cafepress set different size parameters. So you see a little more Angela on the left, and a little more Tim on the right.

I'll provide more info as I receive it, including when and where the actual film will be available to watch again. Enjoy the site changes and pick up a little swag to support the flick!

New Purgatory Comics Poster Art

Hey superfan, check out the new poster art for Purgatory Comics. You can click it to see it slightly larger. Like the new trailer, this is for the 2012 distribution efforts. A good handful of people made this one possible: Angela's image comes from Vanessa from this shoot, Jonathan and Tim come from Rob from this shoot, and Bree comes from her shooting day. Rob built the poster then passed it on to me for some final touch-ups. I'm really happy to have a poster that includes Tim and Jonathan. And it doesn't hurt to highlight Bree's special appearance either.

In other news, today I took another drive to Duplication Specialists in Baldwin New York to pick up my HD Cam copy of the flick. David turned it around for me in a day and at a great price, and he's definitely a guy that supports local indie talent.

In the coming weeks I'll put this new poster up in the online store, and as promised new art will trickle into the web site. For now what you should do if you haven't yet is Like us on Facebook, and tell your friends to like us too. That would be the bomb, yo.

Purgatory Comics Trailer 3

Happy New Years, folks!* Here is a new trailer for Purgatory Comics, made specifically for our distributors. It has much of the same template as the second trailer, but mostly new footage. I wanted to go more into the zanier elements of the film and reveal much more than the trailer I made in '09, which was purposely vague. Plus this trailer has one of my favorite lines in the whole film ("That can't hurt me 'cause I'm a zombie...but I get the message...").

Since my last post I've been preparing a laundry list of desirables for GoDigital, which has proven difficult this week with so many businesses I need closed for the holidays. But I've still had some amazing help: I met with Todd in New York City yesterday and he delivered my hard drive with all of the digital encoding I need. Rob and I have been working on the art over the past few days (he also created the new Purgatory Comics logo you'll see in the trailer), and Monday I have an appointment with my local duplication specialists to get an HD Cam version of the flick.

See, I've been busy. Just nothing you really want to read about.

*Please, for the love of God, call it "twenty-twelve" and not "two-thousand and twelve." You don't call the year 1912 "one-thousand nine-hundred and twelve" do you? Argh.