Manolis talks to Dave Crosland about his upcoming mini-series Puffed...and Firestorm's sleeves...don't ask me why...Welcome to the 11th not-weekly-anymore edition of � Leave Your Spandex @t the Door � ! This week I�m puffed with joy (he he) to chat with breakout talent extraordinaire Dave Crosland about his upcoming �Puffed� mini-series coming in July from Image Comics. The solicitation copy reads:

PUFFED #1 (of 3)(W) John Layman(A) Dave Crosland(Cover A) Dave Crosland(Cover B) Frank QuitelyB&W 32pp $2.95 Three-issue monthly finite seriesIn stores the week of July 16th.THE CONCEPT:Think you've had bad days? Aaron Owens has it worse. Much worse. He's got the lousiest job in the world, and is about to have the longest night of his life. In fact, take your worst job, your worst enemy, your most pathetic unrequited love�and add to it the most dangerous predicaments you've ever been in.THEN stuff it inside a sweltering, cramped, ridiculous-looking dragon costume. One that you can't get out of.That's right. A dragon costume.That's PUFFED..THIS ISSUE:Piss off the wrong psychopathic amusement park janitor and what do you get?You get:Trapped in an dragon costume��Beat up��Dumped in the 'hood��Hounded by weirdos��Hunted by killas�And that's just the beginning of Puffed, a tale of suspense, drama, desperation, murder, mistaken identity, sexual longing, loss, revenge, regret, impotence-even incontinence!Written by John Layman, ex-editor of The Authority and Planetary, with eye-popping art by comics newcomer Dave Crosland (whose illustrations have been seen in Spin magazine and Tastes Like Chicken,) and featuring variant covers by some of the biggest superstars in comics, Puffed is the hilariously off-kilter antidote to the typical guy-in-a-costume comic.Well, guy-in-a-SPANDEX-costume, anyway.RETAILER WARNING: Don't let the cuddly dragon suit fool you. Puffed is full of bad people, using bad language and doing bad things.COPYRIGHTPuffed is � and � John Layman and Dave Crosland, 2003. All rights reserved.

To whet your appetite, visit our Puffed gallery, featuring inside preview art and covers by Dave, Frank Quitely and John Cassaday. To get an even greater Crosland fix, head to his homepag