Comics writer (TMNT, GI Joe, Clue, Hollow Heart, Tet, many more). Indiana Author Award recipient. Teacher at
@ComicExperience
. They // them. paul.allor @ gmail
The digest-sized version of Past the Last Mountain hits comic shops TODAY!
A heartwarming fantasy tale about coming-of-age under mounting oppression, from
@LouieJoyce
, Gannon Beck and I.
Buy it for the young adult or adult adult in your life!
Whenever I see this meme it's like, nah, audiences in 1977 just took it for granted as a textural detail and didn't expect every throwaway line to be explained through an entire television series or its own movie.
GOTHAM PRODUCERS: So, Mr. Chiklis, you'll be playing a straightforward, no-nonsense police captain who wrests control of an unruly precinct armed with nothing but strong ethics and a three-piece suit.
MICHAEL CHIKLIS: Sounds great!
ONE YEAR LATER...
I tell writing students that instead of dictating angles, layout, panel size, etc to artists, they should talk about what the reader experience should be, and trust that the artist best knows how to convey that.
This week I wrote my new go-to example for that.
The word is out! I am writing POWER RANGERS: THE PSYCHO PATH, an OGN coming your way from
@boomstudios
this October! A fun, twisted look at Astronema and the PSYCHO RANGERS.
Art by Giuseppe Cafaro (who's killing it), cover by Diego Galindo, edited by
@DafnaDOOM
and
@Gwenisms
!
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! This summer,
@KathLobo
and I bring you the tragic and ancient origin of THE DEATH RANGER!
So thrilled to be back in the MMPR world again, working with
@DafnaDOOM
,
@Gwenisms
and the whole
@boomstudios
crew!
Anyway, prepare to have your heart ripped out.
I saw a dude who said, "I have to stop reading Power Rangers, they/them pronouns are too distracting," and even setting aside everything else... if you're like, "whoa, a concept I'm not familiar with, this is too distracting to go on!" then maybe sci-fi isn't the genre for you?
Ever since someone on the GI Joe forums asked if there'd be queer characters in this book (and I said yes), they've been having the predictable debate in my Q&A thread. I've been ignoring it, but this morning it came up again and, well, I've been awake for 31 hours and I snapped.
Dear God, in the third graf the head of a conservative advocacy group openly admits that they workshopped a bunch of fundraising wedge issues, and an anti-Trans hate campaign was the winner.
They're destroying people's lives, and it's all just a fucking game to them.
Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors.
Now, the pace of the campaign against transgender rights has stunned political leaders across the spectrum.
I have not seen a single person decrying internet bullying go on to say, "when someone is credibly accused of sexual misconduct, here is what to do instead..."
Either intentionally or unintentionally, "no more mean tweets" seems to be a Trojan Horse for "no more accountability."
HI. DO NOT CAPITALIZE THE DIALOGUE IN YOUR SCRIPTS. I KNOW, MOST COMICS FONTS ARE ALL-CAPS, SO IT SEEMS INTUITIVE TO DO SO. BUT IT MESSES UP THE LETTERING TO COPY/PASTE ALL CAPS INTO AN ALL-CAPS FONT. ALSO, WOULD YOU WANT TO READ A SCRIPT WITH TWENTY PAGES OF THIS?
Yo, GI Joe fanbase, if you have any questions about the new ongoing series from
@IDWPublishing
, hit me up and I'll answer what I can!
And if you retweeted this, I wouldn't complain.
#GIJoe
Just signed up for a 2020 health care plan with a $500 monthly premium and $8,000 deductible, so yes, I'll be voting for a presidential candidate who's offering me the "hand-out" of having basic medical care in the richest country in the world without going broke.
This account has repeatedly misgendered the Death Ranger, even days after tons of people correcting them.
Did they change the Death Ranger's gender/backstory for the game to avoid right-wing ire?
I hope it's an innocent mistake. This character means a lot to a lot of people.
Get ready to welcome Death Ranger a day ahead of schedule! ๐ฅ Brace yourselves for his electrifying skills before he hits the grid tomorrow. Are you prepared for the power he's about to unleash? โก๏ธ๐
Galactus is reportedly the main villain in โFANTASTIC FOURโ, with Javier Bardem named as top choice for the role.
Marvel are currently searching for an actor to play Silver Surfer.
(Source: )
Hey, comics community! I'm offering two things to help out during these weird times:
1. Free comics:
2. Free comics script critiques. If you're a newer creator using this time of isolation to polish up your skills, check out the image for details.
My father passed today. He was declared cancer free recently. Then it returned and the fight was over.
James Richard Allor. 20-year Air Force vet. Detroit native. Father of 4. Husband of...several. Flawed, like all of us, but extraordinarily kind-hearted and fundamentally decent
Hinted at this the other day, but I just got the okay to announce: I'm now the new Managing Editor for
@ComicExperience
publishing! Very psyched to be working with Comics Experience,
@SourcePtPress
and our awesome creators on all the fantastic books we have coming your way!
@TheRoboticLover
@TMNTNerds
For all the folks who are enjoying this tweet, I've written a ton of turtles comics that you can check out. With more coming soon.
My mom has been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and based on the texts I'm getting she seems extremely out of it. If you're the praying type I know she would appreciate it.
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!
@paul_tucker
and I are reuniting for HOLLOW HEART, a queer monster love story coming your way in 2021 from
@thevaultcomics
!
This book is weird and creepy and fun and you're going to absolutely love it.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: After I walk this dog I'm going to start retweeting a bunch of these AMAZING reactions we've been getting to the Death Ranger -- so if you don't want that flooding your timeline you should turn off my retweets or mute "Death Ranger," now.
Wearing a Protect Trans Kids t- shirt and at the bus stop this guy threatened to cut off my balls with a katana, shove them down my throat and bury me 18 feet deep in his backyard because "that's too deep for cameras," so if this is my last tweet tell the impd to start digging.
I haven't been pumping up MMPR: The Psycho Path nearly as much as GI Joe (it'll be okay without my help, ha).
But it's available for pre-order, and it's great: thrilling and emotional, filled with pathos and heart and a wicked sense of humor. Very proud of it. Out in October!
My family made an incredibly difficult decision today, and I will be radio silent on here for a while.
Thank you for all the support everyone has given me over the last week. It means more than I can say.
Early on in our design process I said our Destro should exude sex appeal and look like he can GET IT. Hasbro agreed that he should be good with the ladies, and I remember thinking, "I didn't say JUST the LADIES."
Dunno why I'm thinking about that, today, just a random memory...
The word is out! SAMURAI JACK: LOST WORLDS, coming this April from
@AdamBryceThomas
and I through
@IDWPublishing
. A mini-series made up of four exciting one-shots. Dig it.
(this cover by
@nelsondaniel
!)
Good morning. I donโt talk much publicly about my struggles with mental illness, both because Iโm a private person and, candidly, because I have a career where I rely on people to hire me on a regular basis. Butโฆ
Hereโs some things Iโve needed to hear at some points in my life.
The Bitch Planet script excerpt is establishing a main character and an important setting.
Putting this level of detail in every scene, including a one panel scene of a guy shouting in a bookstore would be quite unwelcome to most artists.
It's comparing apples and not-apples.
When I was a teen and into my 20s my mom would always ask me to read to her. I never wanted to, always balked. Eventually she stopped asking.
She's been unconscious for days, but I spent the last 2 hours of visiting time reading the Gospel of John to her while holding her hand.
My Power Rangers tweet got like three times as many likes as my project announcement tweet-things usually do. I'm beginning to suspect it's possible that a lot of people like Power Rangers.
And thanks, everyone. Fun day.
GUESS WHO'S HOME?!?!
Still not 100% out of the woods, but he was showing no signs of having ingested the neurological type of poison, and the anticoagulant issue was under control. So they sent him home with 4 weeks of vitamin K pills. He is exhausted, and so am I.
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! Team GI Joe is reuniting for SISTER CRASH, a creator-owned, Toku-infused superhero book!
Launching as a series of five-page shorts in the back of RADIANT RED. And then more to come? Watch this space!
From me,
@ChrisEvenhuis
,
@br_peer
and
@illusClaire
!
Youโve probably seen Sonya Crash around.
Or have you?
Was that one of her sisters?
You know. From the evil clone army. The ones who can turn into beasts?
Sheโs doing her best to make up forโeverything.
Sister Crash hits the back pages of Radiant Red in March!
2. Also seeing a lot of "a non-binary Ranger is just a corporate marketing gimmick!" No. The Death Ranger was created by Ryan Parrot, and when BOOM! brought me on to develop their origin story I, a queer, nb creator, went "they're non-binary," and everyone said, "cool!" The end.
Based on how she's doing, I almost certainly just said goodbye to my mom for the last time. Even with her not really there anymore, that was hardest thing I've ever done.
I am so thrilled to be the Managing Editor of
@CEXPublishing
, a new venture from the folks behind
@ComicExperience
.
We're 100 percent creator-owned and have a ton of great stuff coming your way!
MOM: So, are you going to that San Diego Comic Con?
ME: No.
MOM: Oh. I thought it was the gay comic con you're going to.
ME: That's Flame Con, not SDCC.
MOM: Oh, okay. I just assumed, because San Diego.
ME: ...
MOM: ...
ME: Are you thinking of San Francisco?
MOM: ... yes.
HOLLOW HEART, a queer monster love story from
@paul_tucker
and me, is coming your way in 2021 from
@thevaultcomics
! Pre-Order code DEC201747
If you're on the fence, you can check out some of my earlier work at the tweet below.
Just a reminder: three of my (complete) creator-owned minis are available for your self-quarantine needs: Tet, Past the Last Mountain and Strange Nation.
Totally free, but if you enjoy them and wanted to give me some affirmation I wouldn't complain.
Pitched a dream licensed project today and the editor dug it, still 37 more rounds of approvals to get through and hurdles to jump over, but good start, good start.
Last thing before I step away from my computer: I am legit nervous so many people are like "DEATH RANGER COMING, F YEAH!!!" and my issue is a deeply personal origin story about the destructive power of grief.
But I think people mainly just want a great story, and they'll get it.
Now that issue
#1
is out, check out this GORGEOUS retailer incentive cover of Samurai Jack: Lost Worlds
#2
by
@SaraLePew
. Absolutely stunned me when I first saw it.
A while back a creator was kind of a jerk to me, and when I told some people about it, they were ALL like, "oh, yeah, __________ is a huge a-hole, everyone knows that."
If I ever get a bad reputation like that, someone please tell me, sincerely.
Inbox crashes in 5... 4... 3...
My mom is dead. 17 days after a medical procedure caused brain damage, and 9 days after we took her off life support. She was gone but her body fought like hell.
I'll have so much to say about her in the days to come, but not right now.
Kathy Lamb
1950-2021
She was amazing.
ANNOUNCED: X-Men Annual # 1 - Captain Marvel Vs. Cyclops!
Brought to you by
@alessandromirac
(who's drawing the HELL out of this thing) and me as part of the Contest of Chaos event.
My triumphant return to the Marvel 616 for the first time in 6 years! You don't want to miss it.
I did start just liking the "this is awesome!" ones (which I loved) and responding to the "the representation we need"/"this is me" ones.
I just want everyone excited about this to know they're seen. And that they deserve... pop culture villain rep? Yeah, you get it, you get it.
Team GI Joe won a National Media Award from
@SAVEvoicesofedu
! Given for Excellence in Reporting on Suicide, and we won in the Digital Creative Media category for GI Joe
#7
.
Still trying to wrap my head around this, honestly. I'm incredibly honored.
My energy while muting transphobes and enbyphobes without responding to them.
#DeathRanger
I know some creators like to clap back, and I respect that, but to me these people are undeserving of our time and attention. You are beautiful, and they are insignificant.
My dog, Short Round, is facing life-threatening complications from his recent surgery.
If I can't continue to pay for emergency care they will have to send him home with me to die.
I am so scared that I might lose my best friend. Please help if you can.
I don't have a ton of photos of Shorty and me that aren't selfies, and I regret that. It was nearly always just the two of us, no one there to take them.
FOOD FIGHT!!!
TMNT Vs Street Fighter
#5
variant by
@SMyerComics
, the book's colorist and a lifelong Turtles fan (as detailed in their graphic memoir Monstrous, which you should also check out).
I love this so much!
#nachos
Shorty is back. I left my door open a crack for him and he came waltzing in like he was just getting back from a walk.
Thank you everyone for your retweets and words of support.
Just a reminder that the Hollow Heart TPB comes out shortly before Halloween and would make a great trick or treat handout, just buy several hundred and stick one in every kid's bag.
I announced it to the world a week later, but two years ago today is the day I made Shorty's first vet appointment and decided I would keep him -- after a week of watching him during the day, then a few overnight visits.
Happy adoptiversary, buddy. Thanks again for rescuing me.
So, hey... I'm adopting this cool dude. B's family found him half-frozen on New Year's Day and couldn't find his owners.
Right now he's splitting time between our homes while I'm traveling a lot, but after that he'll be moving in permanently. GULP.
I met my little brother yesterday! He is awesome, and our personalities and senses of humor seem to mesh well. He's into all the sports (ALL of them) and really digs manga. So I'm hoping to get some manga recommendations from him, haha.
I am so excited.
#BeBigForKids
#BBBSCI