Half Over - New 99 Shot and New BlockHeadZ - June 30, 2025
NEW! 99 Shot: Ding! Dong! / NEW! BlockHeadZ Comic / Movie Review of F1
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Here we are, officially half-way through 2025. In some ways, the year has flown by; in other ways, it’s crawled as slow as possible. However, looking back on things, I always marvel at the unpredictability of things as how much b.s. the world can throw at everyone… but we still manage to stand on our own two feet.
There are no major updates from any of the projects in the pipeline. We are just chugging along with the development of A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BLOCKHEADZ. This project, in particular is a lot of fun. It has some entertainment background to the comic strip, and it will be the first one available in mass market paperback.
Since it’s about the comics, we are bringing back the small pocket-sized book for publication. Rather than a larger trade paperback size, we are developing in it the smaller size for nostalgia purposes. Remember the old paperback compilations of everything from PEANUTS and DENNIS THE MENACE to HEATHCLIFF and MARMADUKE.
And be sure to keep your eye out for the BlockHeadZ going on summer vacation… coming soon to a Substack near you.
The book MOVIE TRUTH: REAL ANSWERS TO REEL QUESTIONS is almost completely converted into paperback format. This will be regular trade paperback size and available by the end of the summer. Just a few nips and tucks are left to be done, including a full cover design and internal formatting.
THEY HISS! is moving along slowly, but steadily. The plan is to have this available in time for Halloween.
And finally, the development of ECHOES IN THE JEKYLL HOUSE is also moving through editorial and proofreading.
To quote Johnny Carson’s title cards as he went to commercial in the 80s: More to come!…
*99 Shots are complete stories, new each week, totaling 99 words or less.
Ding! Dong! by Kevin Carr
“Ding dong!”
Hector heard the doorbell in the middle of the night. However, by the time he made it downstairs, there was no one on the stoop.
He looked at the video from the automatic camera, but the image was impossibly blurred.
It happened again the next night.
And the next.
And the next.
Soon, Hector decided to stay up and wait for the visitors.
In time: “Ding dong!”
Hector ran to the peep hole and peered outside. Then gasped.
On the porch was another him. And another of his wife and two children.
They had come home.
THE END
*A weekly comic block by Kevin Carr and Benjamin Géza.
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F1 (2025)
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