Hey, ghouls! We’ve been updating the store here at SteveNiles.com with some recent comics and TPBs by Steve. If you’re looking for soem Chrsitmas gifts for your favorite Steve Niles fan, then purchasing signed copies from the SteveNiles.com Stor is the place to go.

We just added copies of “Batman: Gotham County Line” TPB, “Big Book of Horror” TPB, “The Creeper” #2 & #3, “30 Days of Night: Three Tales” and “The Cryptics” #1. Oh the sweet, sweet Steve Niles goodness!

Look what Steve has for you today! This December sees the return of “The Cryptics” with issue #2. We’ve got four interior pages for your perusal.

THE CRYPTICS’ SECOND ISSUE

story STEVE NILES

art BENJAMIN ROMAN

32 PAGES - FC - DECEMBER 13 - $3.50

“TO HECK AND BACK”

The Cryptics are back with their biggest adventure yet! Follow the boys; Drac, Wolfy, Sea-Boy and Hyde as they combat unearthly forces which threaten to put a crimp in their summer vacation!

Written by STEVE “30 Days of Night” NILES with art by BEN “I luv Halloween” ROMAN, THE CRIPTICS’ SECOND ISSUE is creepy, all ages fun for the entire family!

This January, Steve has a rather unusual one-shot coming from Image Comics called “Pieces For Mom: A Tale of the Undead” with artist Andrew Ritchie. Last Friday, Steve talked about “Pieces for Mom” with Comic Book Resources:

“Not to knock anyone who’s doing this - and I’ve done it myself with ‘Remains’ - but everyone’s read the survival story at this point,” Niles told CBR News. “So, for me I wanted to play with some other themes within a zombie world and add an extra layer. With ‘Remains,’ the subtext was about relationships and how difficult they can be and what causes jealousy and how two people who absolutely hate each other can still be jealous. Things like that. With ‘Pieces for Mom,’ I really wanted to play with the family dynamic because I felt if a situation like this did ever happen, I think it would be something like this. Just because the world has ended, it doesn’t mean you’d stop fighting with your brother.”

Much more, as well as preview art, at the link.

As we like to do here at SteveNiles.com, we like to tell you what Steve’s got coming in the months ahead. In February, 2007, Steve has two items of interest coming from Dark Horse that we think you’ll all enjoy.

CITY OF OTHERS #1 (of 4)
STEVE NILES (W), BERNIE WRIGHTSON (A), and JOSE VILLARRUBIA (C)

On sale February 28
FC, 32 pages
$2.99
Miniseries

When it comes to horror comics, few artists can measure up to the legendary Bernie Wrightson. Now, after a long hiatus from making comics, Wrightson is back at the drawing table working side-by-side with acclaimed writer Steve Niles on the most exciting new horror comic of the year-City of Others.

Stosh Bludowski is a killer, born with the capacity for no apparent human emotion other than rage. Killing comes easy for Blud, and he makes a good living doing what’s easy-until the day he meets two jobs in an alley who just won’t die, and a grotesque mystery unfolds right in front of him. Soon, the remorseless killer is confronted by a reality he could never imagine, and he will be invited to make a decision once and for all . . . is he human, or is he Other?

“Bernie is one of my greatest heroes and influences in art. When it comes to horror, few creators have contributed more to the comics medium than Bernie has.” -Alex Ross

CRIMINAL MACABRE: TWO RED EYES #3

STEVE NILES (W), KYLE HOTZ (A), and MICHELLE MADSEN (C)
On sale Feb 21
FC, 32 pages
$2.99
Miniseries

This has to be the worst week in Cal McDonald’s life. First his only human friend dies (thanks, in part, to Cal).Then he gets beaten nearly to death by a gang of cops. And then he goes into withdrawal while he’s in a coma from the beating. And the cherry on top of this sad-sack sundae-Cal’s ex, Sabrina, has been kidnapped by the oldest evil in the books, Nosferatu, and now he’s using her to bait Cal into a trap.

Getting an early discharge from the hospital was easy enough, thanks to Mo’Lock and his posse of ghouls, but now he’s gotta make it past the army of cops, find Sabrina, and figure out a way to kill a vampire nobody else in history has been able to touch. And did we mention he’s doing all of this SOBER?

The sixth and final issue of “The Creeper” has been solicited for a January released and we’ve got the cover and official description for ya.

THE CREEPER #6
Written by Steve Niles
Art by Justiniano & Walden Wong
Cover by Justiniano
Batman offers a cure for the Creeper in this grand finale! Can the Creeper go back to being just Jack Ryder?
On sale January 31 o 6 of 6 o 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

Over on his MySpace blog, Steve’s added six pages from the December 20th shipping “Criminal Macabre: Two Red Eyes” from Dark Horse. With beautiful art by Kyle Hotz, this latest Cal McDonald mystery is one not to be missed. Click the image below to be taken to the MySpace exclusive preview.

OK, we all know it’s not easy making movies, but when you add in lots of snow and cold and snow and more cold, well, it makes it that much more challenging. In the 10th video journal from the set, Director David Slade talks about how well production is going despite the environmental challenges. Plus, he looks bad ass in his full head hoodie! And why is he begging for change?

In the latest production journal on the Ghost House Pictures Web site, “30 Days of Night” producer Rob Tapert checks in from the set to give an update on filming and shares the story of one scene that should make fans of the graphic novel quite happy.