Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

That's not just the release date for the new trade paperback release of SPIDER-MAN: HOBGOBLIN LIVES ... which collects your Uncle Rog's SPIDER-MAN: HOBGOBLIN LIVES miniseries and the Hobgoblin-versus-Norman-Osborn trilogy from PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #259-261 (which Uncle Rog co-plotted with Uncle Glenn Greenberg) ... all under a beautiful cover by John Romita Sr.



Oh, no, my friends!

That is also the date when Morty Monkey makes his online debut as part of Panels for Primates at ACT-I-VATE ... which you can access by clicking on http://act-i-vate.com. Here's a sample:



Morty Monkey's artist/designer/co-creator/take-your-pick is Canadian animator Caleb Hystad. Caleb's done everything from designing characters for Nintendo games to directing the award-winning Raven Tales series. Plus, he draws some wonderfully wacky primates.

Panels for Primates, for those of you not in the know, is a weekly charity anthology of primate comics that has been updating with new material at ACT-I-VATE since October of 2010, all to benefit the Primate Rescue Center in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Like other ACT-I-VATE content, the ever-growing PfP archive can be viewed absolutely free. The big difference is that Panels for Primates readers are encouraged to swing over to http://www.primaterescue.org/and make a donation. Panels for Primates will finish its online run on June 1st, with what PfP mastermind Uncle Troy Wilson claims will be "a bang that's too big to mention just yet."

[Even Uncle Rog doesn't know what he means by that. But seeing as how Uncle Troy conned convinced Uncle Rog to write this strip for free, we'd listen.]

So give Morty a try, won't you?

Vootie!
-- Uncle Rog

Good morning, Uncle rog.
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for all your DC work,
especially the Superman stuff after JB left.
You and Kerry kept it a smooth flow rather than a stark re-direct.
We old time DC-heads appreciated that.
We were still getting used to the new world order
and weren't ready for such any quick, abrupt change.

The Monkey is live!

Repeat: The Monkey is live!

Here is the direct link: http://act-i-vate.com/114-32-1.comic

Webcomics are awesome. Especially for a good cause!

Rog, I picked up your Hobgoblin Lives collection the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was good to read the story that brought the real Hobgoblin back and to see Hobby facing off against the reconstituted Norman Osborn.

Thanks, Doc. I just wish that we'd been allowed to have them both face off in costume.

-- Uncle Rog

The editors nixed that? Lame.

I wondered why that didn't happen. But I still enjoyed seeing Norman try to put a scare into Hobgoblin nevertheless.

Can you divulge why a costumed faceoff didn't happen, Roger...?