Free Comic Book Day isn’t for another week, but this promo we shot with Daddy Needs a Drink columnist Rob Wilder’s son London is too adorable to postpone.

I’ll just have to repost this as the big day approaches.

Easter Greetings in my e-mail box from local master of the illustrative arts, Danny Green. click the image to enlarge.

This week Jett Boynton, creator of Animal Hat April, joins Chris Diestler to discuss their final verdicts on Watchman the movie.

No, it’s not your imagination. These Web casts are getting longer. And weirder. And hopefully better.

To give you an idea of how this works behind the scenes: I usually contact Diestler once a month that it’s time again to round up someone for the show. Then after three or four canceled appointments, I finally make it down to True Believers, where we spend about an hour filming the show on my Flip cam, a video camera that cost $100 a year ago. You can prolly get it used on eBay for a few bucks now. Then I go home and edit it as quickly as possible on Windows Movie Maker, while trying not to spill chai latte (from powdered mix) on my keyboard. When that’s done, and it looks all pretty, I uploaded it to YouTube, where it inevitably comes out pixelated and staticky.

Is it the lowest budget comics web cast in New Mexico? Absolutely. But it’s also the high budgeted one as well…it’s the only one as far as we know.

Anyhow, please post your thoughts, not only on our production value, but the style. Do you like seeing customers on the cast? Do you like hearing me behind the camera asking questions? Do you have particular issues (double-meaning there) you’d like addressed by the Panelists? Got a better host than YouTube to suggest? Post a comment or email me: davem @ sfreporter.com

Jolene Nenibah Yazzie, a graphic designer here at The Reporter, is featured this week in the Around the Mall blog for the Smithsonian Museums. Yazzie, who is a comic artist, has three prints in the National Museum of the American Indian’s Comic Art Indigène exhibition. Her work explores Native American superheroes (that’s a simplification) and it’s amazing.

I knew about Yazzie’s work, but I didn’t know, until I read the interview, that she’s also a skateboarder. Way to go on all fronts Jolene!

…And now for another installment of The Panel, the semi-regular comics Web cast from SFR and the good folks at True Believers Comics & Gallery here in Santa Fe. Last week, manager Chris Diestler went over the best books of 2008 (and sold me on Joss Whedon’s Firefly tv series in the process). This week, the Big D takes us through best and worst of his favorite writer Grant Morrison’s latest books: Batman R.I.P., Final Crisis and All Star Superman.

This is version is kinda lo-rez, so we’ll have a cleaner version up in the next day or two. My apologies: iMovie just ain’t that reliable. Word.