Losin​g "​frien​ds"​ over polit​ics?​

I notic​ed peopl​e delet​ing me a a frien​d becau​se of my polit​ical views​.​ That is truly​ a shame​ that peopl​e can'​t separ​ate the elect​ions from what I do.

I have many frien​ds (in the real world​)​ who are votin​g for McCai​n and I suppo​rt their​ decis​ion,​ but we all agree​ that this is too impor​tant of an elect​ion to stay quiet​.​

And HUGE props​ to the fans and frien​ds who have writt​en me and share​d their​ oppos​ing views​ in a civil​ way.

I thoug​ht that'​s what Ameri​ca was about​.​

Delet​e away.​ I will not stop.​

-​Steve​

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31 Days of Halloween!

I just wanted to let all all my MYSPACE friends know we celebrate Halloween all month long on my website www.steveniles.com.

Just go to the FORUM and sign up.

I have daily contests giving away signed comics and whatnot.

There's one big contest you can enter and take a crack at winning ORIGINAL BERNIE WRIGHTSON ART!

There's also a Pumpkin Carving Contest and a Costume Contest where I will be giving away prototype 30 DAYS OF NIGHT VAMPIRE TOYS and all sorts of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT swag.

If you like, come on over and sign up. It's a nice board. I don't allow insults or girl-of-the-day posts. I rule with an iron banning finger so that nice folks like you can post and have fun without being attacked by jack-holes.

Happy Halloween!

-Steve

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City Of Dust 1 - Out Today!

It's out!

Seriously, this time.

Currently watching : Horror of Dracula Release date: 2002-10-01

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Orphan Works passes in the Senate!!! ACTION NOW!

Orphan Works passes in the Senate!!!

TAKE ACTION: EMAIL CONGRESS TONIGHT!!!
Tell the House Judiciary Committee not to adopt the Senate version.

We've supplied a special letter for this purpose: Artists: TAKE ACTION NOW!

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City of Dust Live Broadcast Interview!

Just go to: http://www.radicalcomics.com/ for details!

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New Niles Crap OUT THIS WEEK 9-24!
Current mood: angsty

Batman: Gotham After Midnight 5 of 12



writer: Steve Niles
penciler: Kelly Jones

Bruce Wayne's charity ball has been crashed by two fearsome foes! The monstrous Man-Bat returns to face off against the menacing Midnight as the lives of all of Gotham's elite, including billionaire Bruce Wayne and Detective April Clarkson, hang in the balance.

City of Dust 1 of 5



From the dark mind of Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) comes a story set in the aftermath of our world's collapse. This chilling vision of the future unveils a world where the police patrol for crimes of the imagination. Religious beliefs, along with any tales of false heroes, idols, or gods, are illegal.

Detective Philip Khrome doesn't enforce Imagination, he works Homicide. That's where the action is, and he's seen it all before. But criminals evolve, and the world is forever changing. When a killing spree hits his city sector, Khrome finds himself face-to-face with killers born of grim reality with Old World superstition - and everything is not as it seems!
1st of at least 5 covers. Who wants to add all the other covers in?

Spawn Volume 6



Classic TODD MCFARLANE and GREG CAPULLO at the top of their game in both art and story! And featuring the never reprinted, double-sized SPAWN 100.See Spawn, the archetypal anti-hero, featured in pivotal confrontations with many classic villains. Complete your Spawn library! Twenty issues of pulse pounding sequentials!

Collects SPAWN 96-114.
FC

Currently listening : Me and You By Egg Hunt Release date: 1997-06-16

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Vote for 30 DAYS OF NIGHT for the 2008 Scream Awards

Currently listening : Other By Lustmord Release date: 2008-07-22

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Cbr Preview: City Of Dust: A Philip Khrome Story!

Check out the preview on CBR!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...065&disp=table

...and first review.

Wow.

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/review...4331573619.htm

And this one...

Hardick: 'City of Dust' anything but grey

Saturday, September 20, 2008
Whether it's the cold, dark, claustrophobic feel of "30 Days of Night" or the eerie, otherworldly feel of "Simon Dark," writer Steve Niles knows how to set the atmosphere for a comic.

And it's no different for his new futuristic, sci-fi comic "City of Dust" from Radical Comics ("Caliber," "Hercules," "Freedom Formula").

The first issue of the series introduces Philip Khrome. He's a police officer whose job it is to enforce crimes of the imagination.

Niles brings us a dark and bleak world where imagination, creativity and religion are all outlawed.

A parent telling a child a bedtime story could be sentenced to life in prison for attempting to poison a child's mind with impossible ideas which could lead to tendencies toward violence, death or worse.

With art and imagination banned, the city, and everything in, it takes on a bland, generic look.

Store signs are simply lettered to tell people what's inside, apartments have no art and the walls are painted as off-white.

While the Niles' future is bleak and bland, the art for the comic is not.

The art is by a guy named Zid and it's just as good as I would expect from a comic by Radical. Every book published by Radical has had great art and "City of Dust" is no exception.

Zid masterfully captures the dark, gray future, all the while presenting the reader gorgeously, digitally painted pages.

"City of Dust" is a fantastic sci-fi, crime book that everyone should be reading.

on the web

Radical Comics will be hosting a live webcast with "City of Dust" creator Steve Niles on Sept. 30. For more information visit radicalcomics.com.

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/john...170.xml&coll=3

Currently playing : Halo 3 Release date: 2007-09-25

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Washington Post: Gray Matter, Taking It Back to the ’80s

Check it out: The Washington freakin' Post wrote up the show...

Gray Matter, Taking It Back to the '80s

Monday, September 15, 2008;

When singer-guitarist Geoff Turner was 16, his band Gray Matter recorded "Retrospect," a song that states, "I'm seeing things that never could last."

That was in 1985.

After 15 years apart, the members of Gray Matter reunited Friday for a one-off show to celebrate the Black Cat's 15th anniversary -- drummer Dante Ferrando owns the joint -- and Turner proved his 16-year-old self wrong. The band played a tight, spirited concert to a wound-up crowd that included D.C. scenesters who were there back in the day, aging punks who wished they were there and young Turks who weren't even born yet.

Gray Matter's fast, passionate and melodic songs helped define the D.C. punk period in 1985 known as "Revolution Summer," whose influence extends internationally today -- albeit in a mall-friendly version called emo. While Gray Matter is overshadowed by its amazing peer group Rites of Spring, the band's "Take It Back" EP has the same resonance and power as Rites' lone, legendary album. Gray Matter played "Take It Back" in full on Friday, along with older songs from the "Food for Thought" LP, as well as the later and still-great Turner songs "Thog" and "Swann Street."

It's hard to believe teenagers wrote tunes as well constructed and potent as "Chutes and Ladders" and "Burn No Bridges," and Gray Matter's reunion performance delivered those flamethrowers with the same intense sparks of emotion that ignited them.

When Gray Matter finished the show with "Retrospect," it may have seemed an appropriate choice. But when Turner sang, "Images grow dark with age," he proved his teenage self wrong again. Gray Matter's image still burns bright.

-- Christopher Porter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...091401884.html
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Gray Matter Reunion Pictures!

All photos by Sarah Wilkinson.

We pretty much spent the entire week hanging at the club. We even practiced upstairs where we would preform.



Smoke break outside the club.



Me annoying Geoff.



Not sure what the Hell I'm doing.

Here's a bunch more Sarah took the night off the show. I love the kids up front. They weren't even born when we were around and they knew every, single lyric. I was pretty blown away.

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