Here are a couple of Wing Commander-adjacent publishing updates that we promised we'd make. First up: last year we enjoyed the fact that a Simon Hanselmann Megg, Mogg, and Owl comic included a panel featuring our favorite game and we said we'd report when the physical 'zine was available for sale. It's titled "Being Alive" and it's available now for $12.00. Adults only!
The newest Megg, Mogg and Owl comic that has been produced. Drawn July 8th through August 23rd last year and serialized on instagram. This is the one with the clowns in it. Uncensored and out of instagram prison! Classic MMO comedy and wistful sadness.
72 pages, color covers with black and white guts. First printing, April 2026, edition of 1000. 7 x 5 1/2 inches. Printed in Canada.And then we've got Rae Cline, who we recently learned was the stock art model who appeared on Blair's "Saranya Carr" poster in the Wing Commander movie. At the time we noted she was getting ready to publish her debut novel, Precious Ugly… and now it is available! You can learn more at Ms. Cline's website or order the book directly from Amazon.
Clementine is a girl in trouble. She's homeless, living in a conversion van at a campground tucked into a little stretch of riverfront on the Potomac. She's hungry, craving Pop-Tarts while forced to eat fried snake for supper. And she's pregnant. Daddy says he'll fix it. But unlike Mama and the folks who believe he can walk on water, Clem knows better than to trust Daddy.
In Precious Ugly, Rae Cline draws us into the story of a thirteen-year-old girl seeking to escape her abusive, alcoholic, charismatic father and desperate to protect her mother. Set in 1985 in Harpers Ferry and Jolo, West Virginia, it's a story anchored in the promise of Reagan, the fear of AIDS, the songs of Patti Smith, Cyndi Lauper, and Tina Turner heard through a Walkman, and other signs of its time and place. It's also a universal and ongoing story about poverty, addiction, religious charlatans, sexual predators, and how children are made to suffer for the sins of their parents. As told through the eyes of its remarkable young heroine, Precious Ugly is ultimately a story about the everyday marvels of tenacity and resourcefulness, the kindness of strangers, and the possibility of breaking the cycle of domestic violence and generational trauma.
