You can all relax now. My long wait is over: the first copies of Wild Ride arrived at my door yesterday and . . . they look fantastic.

It’s great to see Mike Deas’ beautiful art in its final glossy-paged form and so nice to be able to flip through the pages (as opposed to looking at a pdf file on my dying monitor.)

Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait until October before you can hold a copy of Wild Ride in your hands.

Fortunately, you won’t have to wait to get a sneak peak at the opening pages of Wild Ride. They’re available, including some of Mike’s rough pencil sketches, at the new website for the book series: graphicguideadventures.com.

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In the meantime, here’s a couple of thumbnails to get you started: