KrpyKrwly strikes again!

Well, the Krpy one is back again with another coloring contest submission and…well…it’s a bit out there, but hilarious!

Cheers Krpy, thanks for another great submission!

Coloring contest entries from the Homefront and/or Denver!

Two more entries just rolled in, and I was super pleased to see that they’re from my brother Dan Gibbons and Lake Forest, IL hometown hero Will Dugan, who goes to college in Denver with my broseph.

Here’s Will’s wonderful entry…

Sidenote: If you ever meet Will, make sure to ask him about any number of stories he has involving strippers. The one he’d told me from Vegas is particularly good…maybe not entirely true—who knows?—but a good story is a good story, dammit!

Here’s my broheim Dan’s hilarious entry (which I should mention, for the record, won’t be up for winning as it’s more of a photoshop job than a coloring)…

I recently got Dan and his fabulous girlfriend Zorana hooked on BSG via what we’re calling “Jim-Flix,” which is much like Netflix but features me doing the DVD sending. Dan sends me text messages and IMs here and there when stuff pops up on BSG that is crazy and/or mysterious, my favorite one so far referred to Starbuck and went something like, “Crazy and angry blonde pilot chick…are you hot or aren’t you?! I can’t tell?!” Good chuckles all around…but for the record, despite Dan’s questioning, Starbuck is officially extremely hot according to Loudest Monkey mandate.

Ok, asides aside, let’s keep those coloring contest entries rolling in!

Contest Entries Galore!

And the coloring train keeps on rolling down the tracks!

Two new entries came in, both from the good people over at the WUMB, this first one’s from WUMBer Tomer Soiker a.k.a. Spidey_82, the first (ever!) international entry in the Loudest Monkey Semi-Annual Coloring Contest (all the way from Israel!)…

I love that Scalped cover!

And, from Clay Stooshnoff, better known to WUMBers as (._Y_.), another rad entry…

Keep’em comin’, folks!

Also, the first entry for the War Heroes Cover Competition is in…and it’s pretty freakin’ awesome! Head here to check it out!

Three, OH! It’s the magic number!

The WUMB’s Thundermatts is the man behind the third entry in the SEMI-ANNUAL LOUDEST MONKEY COLORING CONTEST!
Another fantastic entry, thanks T-Matts!

Is it wrong that after seeing all these rad shirts on my monkey body that I realize my real life warddrobe is totally lame? Damn, I want some of these shirts!

Second entry in…and hilarious!

Courtesy of the WUMB’s Dr. Nightmare, this one gave me a literal LOL i.e. I chuckled..HARD! Well done, sir!

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First entry’s in, folks…

And it’s fantastic!

KrpyKrwly from the WUMB got his in first and it is…AWESOME!

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If I can continue to hope for and receive entries like this…well, I am in for a treat! Thanks for kicking things off, Krpy!

It’s time for…THE FIRST SEMI-ANNUAL LOUDEST MONKEY COLORING CONTEST!

Alright folks, get your crayons out!

Partially in honor of our awesome War Heroes cover contest and partially ’cause I just love coloring, I’m officially announcing the first ever—and semi-annual—Loudest Monkey coloring contest!

My good buddy Seaby Bess worked up my rad logo and the I love it in classic black and white, but I’d love to see some color on this baby!

Here’s the skinny…
• Take the above Loudest Monkey image (or click HERE or HERE (to DL the image if on Firefox or IE) for it) and color it in any way that strikes you as fun and original (I’m partial to crayon, but any form of coloring is not only more than fine, it’s encouraged! Go nuts on photoshop or MS Paint…whatever!). Clicking the picture to enlarge the image and then printing it should work pretty well. It’s a pretty decent file size, so it should work out alright in electronic formats too!

•Send your image to TheLoudestMonkey[AT]gmail[DOT]com. All entries must be electronic, preferred as a JPEG no more the 250KB (get your crayon versions and painted versions scanned folks, or just take photos!)

• I’ll run each and every entry on the blog (barring it’s covered in profanity), so check back to see the entires!

• All entries must be received by June 10, and make sure to give me your mailing address in the email with your entry, because….

After the entry cutoff date, I’ll pick out a few of my favorites and send out some prizes to the lucky winners!

So, keep checking back in to see some rad coloring, and I hope to be able to decorate my desk area with numerous awesome entries just as I did to cover up the ugly pink walls of my room back in college!

This…this is one of those walls!

Speaking of contests…

If you haven’t check out Wizard Universe today—first off, I’m shaking my fist at you—then you’ve missed the announcement of one of our coolest contests to date!

Mark Millar (Yep! Civil War writing, Fantastic Four penning, totally Scottish Mark Millar) approached us about doing a Cover Contest for his and Tony Harris’ (Yeah! Ex Machina Mayor Hundred drawing, Starman scribbling Tony Harris!) new Image superhero series War Heroes.

So, get your pencils out kiddies! This is your chance to land your work on a Mark Millar/Tony Harris book as a variant cover!

Need some visuals to work with? Check out our preview of War Heroes here, with more from Millar and Harris on the mini as well.

All this excitement is getting me pretty jazzed about this book…so…I think I’m going to grow a handlebar mustache! ‘Cause that’s what I do when I get pumped…I grow a mustache!

So…long time, no blog…

Ok folks, I know…I know…I haven’t been keepin’ up on the whole blog thing of late. Well, as the mass amounts of big books start hitting comic shop shelves this summer, the editor must become a writer as well. Here’s a little link-a-thon of what writing I’ve been doing that’s kept me from the ol’ Loudest Monkey…

Wizard Universe’s first original list feature of my tenure, Top 25 Cars from TV and Movies. This was a blast to put together with Assistant Editors Carolyn Fowlkes and Josh Wigler! Hopefully a good read too!

A few “Going Solo” columns….
Things got a little Ye’oldey with Thor: Ages of Thunder.
More Fraction goodness with the new Invincible Iron Man.

And, Rockin’ our Secret Invasion roundup with Kevin Mahadeo…for issue #2!

Anywho, there’ll be a lot more blogging to come, so fret not…all seven of you who were sitting at home thinking, “WTF is wrong with this Gibbons, bloke?!” (Yep, all seven of you live in Britain!). I’ve got some good stuff coming up—including the first ever semi-annual Loudest Monkey coloring contest!—so stay tuned!

A full meal…?

Ya know, an Adamaless episode of Battlestar is kinda like gettin’ my potatoes without my meat. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love potatoes…but it just doesn’t feel like I got my fill of BSG this week…

However, that “to be continued…” at the end…oh, good stuff. To keep the analogy going, looks like an extra helping of meat next week.

On a more general note, let me say this: If you aren’t watching Battlestar Galactica (the absolute best show on television), then you may just be crazy.