Author: Ethan Nicolle

some of Axe Cop's DNA shows up in today's episode…

In other news…  I was a little suprised yesterday to see that the Axe Cop collection  that is due out in December is already up for pre-order on Amazon.  The cover isn't showing yet, but trust me, it has a cover and personally I really like it.

Also, if you are ever looking for a horrible, VHS only movie to watch with friends and get a huge laugh out of… Never Too Young to Die with John Stamos is pure gold.  I watched this at my friend Eric's house last night with a bunch of friends and it was more fun than summer camp. 

Ethan

So, you probably know it already, but Axe Cop will be spending the week with his new friend Dr. McNinja over at his website this week.  There will be 5 updates, one per day until friday.  I know we said this was going to be a 6 page story, but we lied, it's 10.

Of course if you are trained to click on the thumbnail and not read anything I'll put it here just for you…

Another interview about the Dark Horse Comics news is up at Newsarama today.

In other news, check this out… we have new merch in the Axe Cop store at Topatoco.  Axe Cop zip-up hoodies and the logo tee shirt that I was selling at comic con.

I'm sure I have more news then that, but I need to go have breakfast, considering it is past noon.  Enjoy your second half of the McNinja crossover, I sure had fun drawing it.

Ethan

Today's 5th page of the Axe Cop/McNInja cross over marks the halfway point in our journey.  Turns out I'll bedoing 5 pages too, and they will all be going up next week at Dr. McNinja's site.  So, happy friday and enjoy page 5:

Ethan

Axe Cop and Dr. McNinja's team up continues…

I penciled out my portion of the story today and it looks like I'll be doing 5 pages too… so next week the story will come out daily on Dr.McNinja's site every day.

I also penciled out the rest of the Ultimate Battle and figured out we have 14 more pages left in that sucker.  It's quite epic, and I guarantee you can not even begin to predict where it goes.

If you aren't hip to CHOP you need to be!  It's the Axe Cop podcast featuring James and John of Nobody's Listening Podcast and me, all talking about Axe Cop.  We announced the winner of the limerick contest last night and so far they have not responded.  Perion, are you out there? 

See you tomorrow with Chris's last page for the week and the end of the first half of “Stolen Pizza, Stolen Lives.”

Ethan

We talk to Ethan Nicole about the upcoming Axe Cop comic from Dark Horse, Comicon, the Dr. McNinja crossover and Episodes 23, 24, 25 plus Ask Axe Cop 14.

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Page 3 of the the Axe Cop/McNinja team up is now up:

I think this episode featured one of Chris' and my favorite ideras from Malachai, and that is that there is a secret monster door, and to go in you have to wear two monster costumes on top of each other, because when you go inside they will x-ray you and they need to see you are still a monster inside.

Other than that I don't have much to say today.  I have to go do a bunch of chores.  See you tomorrow!

Ethan

I would really like to thank Chris Hastings for giving me this week to get caught up while he takes the reins on this Axe Cop/McNinja cross over.  I think my host got the slowness issue fixed too, because even though we've hit record traffic today the site seems to be running smoothly.  Page two is here:

I'll get Chris back next week when my pages go up on his site.  For now I have been working on the cover for the big Axe Cop collection to come out in December… which happens to be the anniversary of the creation of Axe Cop. 

I have had a few people let me know that these episodes are titled “Ask Axe Cop”.  I put these into the Ask Axe Cop category because I didn't want to break up the current storyline.  Our site isn't really set up for all these different story lines and eventually we will need to go to a chapter by chapter orginizatoon rather than tons of episodes.  It's all part of the growth process.  So for now it is a temporary fix.  I put anything that is not the current running Axe Cop story in the Ask Axe Cop section including featured Guest Episodes and Axe Cop presents.

I found the clip of Axe Cop on G4, when Blair Butler visits the Dark Horse booth.  Jeremy, a cool guy, admittedly gets his facts all wrong when he confuses Wexter with Dinosaur Soldier… but I still think they did great justice to Axe Cop and it was a great little feature:

On another note… Falicia Day from that video came up to my booth at Comic Con and I had no clue who she was because I don't watch much TV.  I found out later who she was. 

That's all for today.  If you still haven't ordered my new sketch book  or a sketch from the Axe Cop art shop, you probably should because I am probably going to stop selling those things once I get going on the miniseries.  I'll just be too dang busy.  See you tomorrow!

Ethan

Wow what an insane 5 days!!  I have all sorts of stuff to blog here, but I know what everyone is here for, so without further adieu, here is your first page of AXE COP and Dr. McNINJA.

AXE COP & Dr.McNINJA PAGE ONE

I had been asked for a quote from Malachai about San Diego Comic Con, and I tried to get it from him after we were talking about the McNinja cross over, so he just incorporated Comic Con into the story.  I see Christ credited Malachai for the story on this, which is fitting.  Malachai really took over on the story on this one. 

Sorry, the site is so bogged down right now that I can'y even get into my editor and post images, so this blog, which I had some pretty pictures for, will just have to be all text for now.

For instance, I was going to post this pic (which appears to be a snapshot of G4's live coverage of Comic Con) of Baby Man and Fire Slicer at comic con.

Chinashop came by my booth and interviewed me and took a bunch of pictures.

A great interview is now up at Vevant.

You can see Axe Cop featured on MSN's Daily Bubble.

And, I admit this is a pretty boring and rough video, but nevertheless it is proof that I was on the Dark Horse panel, my first panel.  What an honor to share the stage with Mike Richardson, Dark Horses's founder, Eric Powell (the Goon) and Gerard Way (lead singer of My Chemical Romance and author of the Umbrella Academy).  Here is the video.  I come in at about 2:19.

That's enough for now!  If the site is running slow, it's because we are having record traffic due to the McNinja crossover and all the Comic Con coverage.  I hear we were on G4.  If anyone has a video for that, please send it to me.

Oh yeah, more good news… all 5 axe cop pages this week will be McNinja cross over pages.  See you tomorrow!

Ethan

I had an extra guest strip, so I decided to make it two-for-one friday.  First, this one is by a guy named Colin:

For more of Colin's work check him out here:

Your second Guest Episode comes courtesy of Taryn Gee:

I have to admit… I don't really get that one, but  Taryn has come cool art, check it out (click for more):

Alright… and that's a week!  See you on McNinja Monday!

Ethan

It's the first official day of Comic Con and as you read this, hopefully, I am surrounded by a mob of headchoppers at booth 1714. Today's guest episode I am going to have to admit is probably my favorite one so far.  This one was done by my friend Ryan Agadoni who really loves Monkeys.  Observe:

Wasn' t that awesome?!  Makes me want it to be an iPod game or something.  Axe Cop fights monkeys. 

Ryan is one of these guys who makes something aweome every time he draws, yet has still NEVER put out an actual comic book.  WHAT THE FIDDLE?  Ryan, you need to get on that.  Anyone who enjoyed today's episode should let Ryan know you loved it.  Also, go check out his website:

That's it for today.  Tomorrow you get two for one… then monday… McNINJA.

Ethan