Like most readers, I had functionally consigned On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness to the furnace. I had let it float away on one of those little lantern boats in a way that brought me closure, if no one else. Insufficient.

Fucking insufficient.

You have to get back on the horse. Somehow, and I don’t know how this kind of thing starts, we have started to lionize horseback-not-getting-on: these casual, a priori assertions of inevitable failure, which is nothing more than a gauze draped over your own pulsing terror. Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can’t tell me that we are done making the world.

As I did at PAX Prime last year, I made a button to trade/hand out at East this year. I met some very nice and interesting folks as a result of the last time, so this time I got more made. Come get em!

When my brother got himself set up to embroider things, I supplied a couple things (including the Kovacich Overengineering logo, which was a big hit with my nephew) in a format he could use to work out the kinks in his system and make some test products. As soon as he nailed that down, he wanted a logo for the company he’d dreamed up around this new venture. The name and graphic is based around some in-jokes among our Vegas group. Also, Batman. 

Vegas code prevents me from commenting on some of the design particulars, but it’s a pretty firmly in-joke type thing that still works for small runs of other products he may want to offer. 

In some earlier posts I’d talked about some custom shirts for the crew I go to Vegas with, that I’d done the design work for, and my brother was creating on a crazy huge embroidery machine. 

Here are some shots of the final product, which was finished mid-February. Kovacich Overengineering at its finest.