How do you grow up normal?

Here's some quick assorted awesomeness.


The Mach 5 from The Wachowskis upcoming live-action Speed Racer flick.


The USPS' upcoming Star Wars stamps.


Here's an Adam Hughes, art nouveau, Star Wars Celebration IV exclusive, Princess Leia print.
These are already going for over $100 on the ebay.


Zombie Daredevil and Giant-Man Minimates.
SDCC exclusives. I'll be there to get mine.

Huzzah!

I'll be honest with you, my only experience with Harry Potter is those movies. I've intended to read the books on several occasions, but I've just never gotten around to it. Maybe I will someday.
Though I've enjoyed the last couple of movies, I don't know that I could really call myself a big fan of Harry Potter in general.
Having said that, this sounds really awesome.
I can't wait to go check it out... in 2009.

Now that the local has taken effect.

April's got a great new entry on the upcoming changes DC has in store for Supergirl.

UPDATE
Speaking of all things "super", The Bargainist has the scoop on getting the Ultimate Superman DVD Collection (you know, the awesome 14 disc, $100 one) for $31.21.

State your case with black or white.

Newsarama has a pretty good little interview with one of my heroes, Ben Caldwell.

No matter the cost.

Would it really have been so hard for them to have the real trailers be this good?

I'm not telling you how to live your life, but I'm just going to go ahead and say you should check out Cracked's 15 (Painfully) Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs.

It seemed like a plan.

Here's the rough pencils of the first panel of the Streets of Rage comic Curt and I did for Life Meter Comics.
All of three of those are actual SOR characters. We did our research.

Last week really, really sucked, but starting with that Zombie Walk on Friday, life took a dramatic upswing.
Met new people, got to spend good time(s) with not new people, ate barbeque, saw a Jesus picture and a tiger costume, drank Gatorade, had awesome housing prospects present themselves, and had a great "comics making group" (we haven 't decided on a team name yet) meeting filled with fun and future prospects.
I want things to continue on in this fashion if the universe doesn't mind.

Memphis Zombie Walk.

I'm the zombie with a beard and a red shirt and April is right behind me at the 0:29 mark.


April and I shuffle by around the 0:23 mark on this one.
Joel shows up around 0:31.


(0:27)


We shamble by a number of times in this one, most notably around 2:39.


And, if you've got 9 minutes to kill here's a neat little documentary about the whole thing.

Plug in the drug machine.

April has written a funny blog entry about vegetarian disbelief, goth mothers, and the looming terror of scrapbooking.
Go read it.

UPDATE!
Chronicles of a Southern Vegetarian : Vol. 2

I've stepped away from it.

So if you look over to your right, you'll see (via the "Right now..") that I finally got to read the new All Star Batman & Robin.

You know, the one that took over a year to come out.

It's as though the longer this book takes to come out the worse it is.

If you haven't read it already, feel free to check out this 5 page preview of one of the worst comics ever.

It seems that however good All Star Superman is, ASB&R has to be the exact same amount in awful to keep the universe balanced.

Remember that this "All Star" line was supposed to be the comics that distilled the characters down to their most recognizable essences. This line is supposed to be the stories you can give to anyone, your mom, your dad, your grandparents, your nephews and nieces, your friends, your friend's little brother, your boy or girlfriend. The stories anyone can pick up and enjoy.

Now, call me crazy, but I don't think a comic that features Wonder Woman calling someone a "sperm bank" (no joke) is something I'd want to share with anyone, let alone people who I want to introduce to comics.

The ISB has a great review focusing on the absurd hilarity of it's awfulness, while Rachelle has a running commentary that softens some of the blow of reading the actual comic.

Is this whole thing some kind of sick joke that Frank Miller's playing on us, or has he honestly gone batshit (ha) insane? I could completely appreciate this if I knew it was intentionally being funny. I would be upset that Miller was hurting the All Star line for a joke, but I could at least feel like it was okay that I was laughing at this comic that Jim Lee and DC are wasting their time on.

If I don't get some answers here, Curt and I have every intention of getting answers in San Diego.

Flying high again!

Two year old chrishaley in standard attire.

This is all real-time.

This is my X-Men : Evolution Cyclops maquette. I've never seen an episode of that (no longer airing) cartoon, but I love Cyclops and I got an insane deal on this, so here it is.
Again, this picture has a few notes should you click upon it.

As I mentioned in the last post, I saw Sloan last night.
It was incredible.
Incredible.
I'll have pictures soon.
Until then, enjoy a new edition of my Top 25 Most Played Songs..

Some definite movement from the last time, but Dethklok and Sloan continue to dominate the charts.
There were a few new challengers this time though.
How much longer can the biggest band in the world and the boys from Halifax maintain their control?

Can we agree on that?

This is my animated Boba Fett maquette. It's basically one of the raddest things ever. This picture has a few notes should you decide to click on it.
I'm slightly obsessed with maquettes and statues as of late. I've got a problem.

Speaking of Sloan (I'm not now, but I was in the last post), I'm going to Nashville to see them tonight!
Whoo!

Things can happen if we stay...

Check out my pictures on Sloan's website.

I knew the answers to both right away.

Would you have sex with a robot?
That's the question Curt and his blog are discussing.
Go enjoy the conversation and see why I'm glad to be associated with Mr. Franklin.
Maybe we'll let you visit our Hobo-Batman butler having mansion someday.

He wants to look cool. I appreciate that.

I've gone lazer-crazy.

2007 Eisner Award Nominee Joel Priddy took me up on the bio writing challenge I issued.. as I hoped he might.
Even better, he wrote it as a haiku.

shooting lasers to
conquer the impossible:
it’s the chris haley.

Is there anything Joel can't do?

The millenial rhythms.

That's about as funny as anything gets. Ever.

So I got an e-mail earlier in the week that let me know that the Streets of Rage comic Curt and I did was enjoyed enough by the respective editors that it is going to be published.
This was very exciting news to the both of us.
Now we are faced with an even more daunting task.
We must write little bios for ourselves to appear along side the bios of the other creative type people in the back of the anthology.
If anyone wants to have a go at writing a humorous but mildly accurate 2 or 3 line bio of me I'd be more than willing to read it, and then use it without giving you any credit for your effort.
Doesn't that sound like a great deal and a lot of fun?
I thought so.

More details on the comic and it's publication as that information becomes available.

Listen, bud.

A great Spider-Man 3 essay/editorial(?) can be found by clicking here.
It's not very long and it's worth reading.

We're gonna get it started.

A quick sketch of some kind of alternate, possibly Legion-involved costume for Superboy I did on a post-it note.

Also, feel free to notice two things.
Item number the one is that April has updated her new blog.
Item the second is that my co-hort (hyphenated?) Curt Franklin has begun a blog as he needed something to link to in an upcoming biography. He's already feeling the pressure of The Curse of the Need for Content so why not drop by and give him a hard time about it.

What?

You didn't know I could do that?

Anyone else see this?