Friday, March 16, 2012

Happy St Patricks Day

This coming week we have two books coming out. Batman Odyssey #11 Vol 2 # 6 and "Blood" through Dark Horse Presents. Since I spoke about the great inking done by Kevin Nowlan on top of Neal's pencils in Batman Odyssey. I am going to jump right into "Blood". This months episode, Lionel is revealed to be something more than just a guy who gets beat up in every installment we do. He is a very important part of Blood's history and future. We will be doing two more installments of "Blood" through Dark Horse Presents  and then this will be collected into a 80 page graphic novel. I know I Can't wait. I am a Lionel fan.
When I look at all the art I have posted this week I can't believe how beautiful and intense the work is.
It really does kick some butt.
Neal is busy working on his secret project with a secret comic book company and we will be sure to announce it when that company announces it ,which will be soon. (Wow ! That was really cryptic.)
We have also posted Neal's Comic Book convention schedule. So please take a look and see if he's coming to your town. I know you would not want to miss him. I know they are working on some hot exclusives for some of the shows. As soon as I can get my hands on them I will post them up on the site.
Comic convention season has opened this week with everyone being at Wonder Con. Wagh! I did not get to make that one. But maybe next year?????

Talk to you next week
Kris:)



Friday, March 9, 2012

Coming Down the Finish Line !

Hi Everybody,
I  don't want you to miss out on the climatic ending to the Batman Odyssey series. Issue # 11 or
Vol 2 Issue#5 is already out and on the stands so I figured I would show you whats coming up in Issue #12 or Vol #2 Issue #6 . How confusing is that but stay with me. Don't miss out. This is the final build up of the fight between Batman and the Sensei and revealing what Ra's Al Ghul's ultimate plan is. Something you are not going to expect.
The artwork is the best Iv'e seen. Kevin Nolan on top of Neal Adams sweeeeetttt pencils. What a combination!  If I can find Neals pencils on Monday, when I'm back in the studio I will post them up with the same page inked so you can see two of the best in the World (The Growing World) , my dad is moaning now.... working together to make the best pages I believe we've done to date. I love Kevin Nowlan. I must also point out the coloring by Moose and Cory is also fantastic to look at. This Odyssey is really coming together.   Did I say CYCLOPS ! Oh yes..... We have one of those too. I think this series has everything. I wonder what shows up in the last issue....Maybe it will explain who Bruce has been talking to through all the books?  Or maybe Neal Adams is crazy. We'll have to wait and see.
Monday we will also be posting up all the conventions that Neal will be doing this year.

Stay Tuned
Kris:)


Friday, December 23, 2011

Merry Kristmas and Happy Holidays

Merry Kristmas and Happy Holidays everyone.
I realized today, that Neal or Continuity really hasn't done a lot of art based on this Holiday season.
I did find some old favorites from the past so I loaded them up.
Everyone , please have a fantastic holiday and enjoy your family a lot this season.  I know I will.

Till next week
Merry Kristmas and Happy Hanukkah

Friday, December 9, 2011

Jerry Robinson Tribute

This week we had the passing of a great talent Jerry Robinson and many reporters were calling and asking for stories about Jerry. Neal ended up telling this one and I decided to put it up and do a little tribute to Mr. Robinson this week.
 The first time I remember meeting Mr. Robinson was the day the photo of the great handshake happened. I ended up coming into Continuity and Mr. Robinson, Mr. Siegel, Mr. Shuster and Mr. Adams, ha ha, my dad, all standing around being very happy. I knew who Jerry and Joe had created, but I wasn't sure about the older gentleman that was with them so, I went in the back of the studio and asked one of The Crusty Bunkers. He said, "Kris, I can't believe you don't know who that is?"in a really mean tone. I then went into another room and asked the same question to a nicer Crusty Bunker. He said that the older gentleman is the man that created Joker and Robin. I laughed and left and then thought about it. I went back into the reception area and thought how lucky am I to be in the same room with the creators of Superman, the guy who created the worst villain ever and the guy who drew the best Batman and Superman in the world. That is a day I will never forget.
Now for Neal's piece:


We have just seen the passing of not only one of the greatest comic books geniuses of our time, but also unique in that generation.

A true Mensch, an activist, a man, a stand up brother. Yes, even in that first generation of comic book artists there were true revolutionaries who stepped out into other areas of art and thinking.

While he was a comic book artist, he created great comic book characters, but in a day where the goal of comic artists was to create a syndicated comic strip, Jerry simply became another total human being. His comic strip and editorial work was not more of the same, it was editorial, it was humorous, it said things. It wasn't oh-here's-what-I-can-do, it was, "I have opinions and a sense of humor and, by the way, I'll express them with drawings as well."

Jerry represented the brotherhood of the medium, the reaching out to other artists of other countries who were doing political cartoons with humor that sought to bring about cultural change.

Jerry was elected the President of the Cartoonists Society and was there when I had to reach out to them to help me with re-establishing the reputation of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. I have no idea what another President of the Cartoonists Society would have said. I can tell you only that with Jerry Robinson, I didn't even get a chance to finish asking the question when he called out to me "of course I'll help with this, Neal, I've been following it."

You will never know the Jerry Robinson that I knew, and I promise you that had you, you would a better person for it. I believe I am a better person for knowing him. And I say this with tremendous pride: Jerry Robinson liked me.

Rest In Piece Mr Robinson
Neal and Kris Adams


Friday, December 2, 2011

This week is Batman week

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving last week. I hoped you tried our famous stuffing as well as Neal's Rice Krispy Treats.
This week Batman Odyssey Vol. 2 #2 came out. I hope you picked up a copy. This is one of my favorite covers in the series. We are now in the Underworld and it's only going to get more exciting. I posted up pages that we just handed in on Vol. 2 #4 so you can see what will be going on with this series. I'm telling you , you just can't miss this series.
I also posted up some of our commercial work that we do at Continuity. This is one of our latest samples for CGI gaming using motion capture. I hope that the big gaming companies will give us a chance.
We did do some work on Camp Cabela's Adventure Camp that came out from Activision and now I have the bug to do more.
We still have exciting Christmas sales going on in the store. Books, Posters and Original art so please take a look through what we have and you can always ask for a custom made piece by calling Continuity directly and asking for Jason Adams. I know, you know, a special someone, that you can convince this is really what you want for Xmas.
Next week the tree goes up at Continuity and Christmas shopping begins.

Stay Warm till Next Week
Kris:)

Sunday, November 20, 2011

It's Thanksgiving Week

Happy Thanksgiving,
This is my favorite holiday. I love my family and I love the good cooking that comes with everyone of them. Everyone in my family loves to cook and of course we love to eat as well. My Parents cook, Marilyn cooks. My Brothers and Sister cooks. My husband and kids cook. Everyone has their own special dish and we are all very secretive about our recipes. We all beg each other for the special recipe but usually you can't convince anyone of them or myself to divulge it. If you did, you would lose their
need of you. It's kinda like a special power. Kinda like a superhero for an hour while everyone enjoys
your great cooking. This all seems to really come out during the holidays. My parental units seem to be the winners during Thanksgiving. Me and my siblings and my children seem to be the superheroes of Christmas. My parents were nice enough to share what I perceive to be their super powers at Thanksgiving below. You should give it a try. My mom's stuffing recipe is cooked in many comic book artists homes. When I was a kid, many of the comic artists would come to our house for Turkey  dinners just for my mom's stuffing. We all fight over it.  Mom's great beautiful browned Turkey. Stuffing oozing out of it and (now I am going to date myself) Boone's Farm Apple wine. Now can you guess what generation of comic artists I grew up with? All of them would get really close to my mom in hopes to get her special stuffing recipe and some of them did.
Onto my dad's Rice Krispy Treats recipe. My dad makes two things that I can never make as good as he can. One is my dad's omelet. My dad has the ability to take any left over in the fridge put it in an omelet and turn it into a cheesy, wonderful, tasty, egg dish. The problem is I would have to come up with an excuse to sleep over at my dad's in order to get one of these tasty omeletes. Hmmm, I'll have to work on this.
Back to Thanksgiving. If we are lucky my dad will take time off from inking a Batman head or pencilling a Wolverine action sequence or shooting a bunch of thugs in Blood in order to make my favorite...Rice Krispy treats, which my dad makes with the most amount of butter possible. They are yummy chewy treats. Who would think the guy that draws ultra violent, high end action so lovingly makes Rice Krispy Treats for his family for Thanksgiving? Obviously, I am using this blog in hopes that my dad will read it and secure my Rice Krispy Treats for this Thanksgiving dinner. I'll let you know if it works.
On to comic news.
Batman Odyssey Vol2 #2 comes out November 30th. This issue has one of my favorite covers in the series and I have seen them all. Batman explores the Underworld and tries to learn how to ride a Dinosaur and loses.  Flying Bats, Dinosaurs, gorgeous art. And all the clues that Neal laid in the first 6 issues start to make sense in the back end of this story. You have to pick up this Issue!
Blood ships this coming Wednesday in Dark Horse presents and on Tuesday we will have a sneak peak of the entire series on this site. Check it out on Tuesday and buy your copy on Wednesday.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving
Kris:)


Friday, November 4, 2011

It's MARVEL WEEK at CONTINUITY



By now, you all should have seen, bought, read and loved New Avengers #16.1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Neal Adams and Tom Palmer, but I bet most of you haven’t seen the awesome variant covers Neal has been doing for New Marvel #1s. There’s an iconic Captain America, which we did for Captain America #1 (Ed Brubaker and Steve McNiven), Punisher #1 cover (Greg Rucka and Marco Checchetto) and a Ghost Rider #1 (Rob Williams and Matthew Clark). Then there’s the Daredevil #1 cover, which we get asked about all the time. THIS ONE IS A WINNER. Jason my brother is busy having copies CGC'd and will have it in our store next week. The Daredevil fans are crazy-loyal to their hero. The Marvel “Man Without Fear” is written by Mark Waid and drawn by Paolo Manuel Rivera and Marcos Martin. And finally, one of my favorite covers is for Hulk #1, written by Jason Aaron and drawn by one of our favorites, Mark Silvestri. I love this book so far! I love the art and the story and my dad's variant cover.

But the real reason it’s Marvel week here at Continuity is that Neal has been doing all this fantastic work for Marvel while working on all his other projects. Plus another project that I can't talk about.
Hmmmmm!

I still love and push everyone to get copies of Blood from Dark Horse and Batman Odyssey from DC , both real butt kickers. 

Also if you don't know what to buy your nephew or niece who are maybe 12 or 13 or slightly
older Cabella's Adventure Camp is a blast. We bought our copy on Tuesday and we have played a couple of rounds when Neal isn't watching.......

I would also advice you to check out the deals that Jason is starting to put up in our store.
We are starting our Holiday Rush and Jason is making some great deals on the Sketchbooks
as well as you can buy a book from our site and ask to have it customized with a Batman head on a Batman book for that special someone in your life.

Things are Jumping at Continuity and we know the Holiday Season is right around the corner.

Kris:)