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

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

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:)

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:)

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:)

Don't miss out on Continuity's first platform game

On Novemeber 1st (TUESDAY), from Activision , Cabela's Adventure Camp comes out and I can't wait.
Why am I so excited ? First of all it is a great game . Second, I got to work on it.  Besides doing a lot of comic work at Continuity and advertising we are stepping into the world of gaming with our 2 motion capture stages and our staff of very talented CGI guys. It was a nail biting first experience and I can't wait to do more. Hey, maybe some day we could do the motion capture and models for a superhero game. H?How cool would that be? Neal Adams designed CGI models of your favorite comic character. I know I would love to see that.
In the Cabela's Adventure camp game, which is a Kinex game, you get to do Thrill Hill biking, Wild river kayaking , Wave riding, Skeet shooting, Castaway fishing, Archery Arcade, and Bear hunter Ninja.
I'll be waiting outside of Gamestop first thing on Tuesday morning. I will tell you how the gameplay is
next week. Oh, I almost forgot. I really had a great Producer to work with me on this from Activision. Thank you for the big chance.
Now on to Batman Odyssey. Last week Bats Volume 2 #1 came out and it answers a lot of what has been going on in the first 6 issues. You have to get this book. You get to see the Underworld for the first time and it is the beginning of Batman's true Odyssey. It is a can't miss book.  It has Neal Adams, Bill Sienkiewicz, Paul Neary, and Michael Golden inking. This almost sounds like a Crusty Bunker job. Hmmmm? Try and pick what pages where done by who. The book is Really great. It is a must have. Dinosaurs, the Sensei from Deadman, Ra's Al Ghul, and 2 new characters, one of which was on the cover of Issue#5 which I know everyone questioned, "Who is that guy in blue and purple?"
I know everyone is busy with the 52 but I would definitely get this and make it 53.

Also still out on the stands is "New Avengers 16.1" from Marvel, another must have book. Neal Adams and Tom Palmer from the original Xmen series team up once again and they both still click. Paul Mounts does some beautiful coloring and it is scribed by Brian Michael Bendis, another master.

Blood- Dark Horse presents #5. Another 8 page sequence. Tons of blood and violence. Lionel is still alive yet still getting a beating. I don't know how he's doing it. He certainly doesn't have a glass jaw, that's for sure.  The story is also starting to go into where the Blood character comes from.  Again, a series that should be followed closely.

Prints and sketch books. You really have to check out our store and see our super sale on sketchbooks for Xmas which you can have Neal Adams customize with your favorite characters. A fantastic Xmas present for yourself or that special someone - which is yourself. Ha ha.

See you next week. (Maybe not if I play to much Camp Cabela.)
Kris:)

I had a Fantastic time at NY Comic Con

New York Comic Con was bigger than ever so I went with Pete and shot some photos and put together a small clip of things that I saw from the Neal Adams Continuity Booth. Make sure to check it out. This show was very exciting for us because we got to do art on one of the GM Sonic cars.  My flip on the first page is the back end of the car. Our car was the best in the show. The Video Games where right behind us so I got to see all the exciting games that are coming out for Christmas like the new 007 Goldeneye. Arkhum City from Warners looks fantastic. I'm running out tonight to buy my copy so I can tell you next week if it's great which I am sure it is..
Back to Neal Adams. We had two comics ship this week. One from DC "Batman Odyssey Vol 2 #1" has hit the shelves as well as Dark Horse Presents with Neal's new feature "BLOOD". You have to check out both. Next Tuesday I will be putting up art from the next Issue of Odyssey as well as the next Issue of Blood.
Prints. Prints was my big seller during the con so I begged Neal to let me sell prints on my site and sell it through our store. Each week I will feature a new print and if you can think of a piece you'd like to have please write me a comment and I will see if we can dig it up and make it one of our official prints we are now selling.
We will also be doing a lot more shows this year into next since Neal has "Batman Odyssey, Blood,
a Special Marvel project and Rise of Magic all going on this year into next so I hope that I can meet
many of you this coming year.

Kris:)