Look at this, and let me tell you what it is. As I do, you should realize that it’s pretty awesome. LiveJournal user “manintheboat” has taken a smart-aleck line from Delilah Dirk and the Treasure of Constantinople and made a real-life thing out of it. It is “Blood of My Enemies Tea”, and it is pictured above (along with the wishbones of My Enemies’ Turkeys). For the full (long) list of ingredients (which, sadly, includes no actual blood of My Enemies), take a look at manintheboat’s LiveJournal post. You can also see a photo of her crazy alchemical tea-making laboratory.

If you haven’t read the comic, at one point Delilah Dirk is imprisoned. Selim brings her some tea, as a gesture of kindness, but she responds:

Thinking about this warms the cockles of my cold, mechanical robot heart.

I’m heading down to San Diego in about a week’s time because there’s a restaurant in the Gaslamp district that serves one-pound burritos. While there, I may check out the comic-con.

Conveniently, Flight 5 will be coming out, and I may have a story in it. I’m going to hang out with the Flight dudes around the Flight table (it’s booth number 1228). Come by and say hi! Signings are free, kisses are one dollar each. Unless it’s Phil, who charges two.

I’ll also have a couple copies of Treasure of Constantinople there. It’s been nominated for an Eisner award! I think the ceremony’s on Friday night, so come by before then if you’d like to meet Excited Tony, and afterwards if you’d like to meet either Blissfully Happy Tony or Slightly Morose Tony (feel free to wager with your friends).

To liven things up, I think it would be fun to have a Live Reading. I don’t think authors do this very often with comic books, and I can understand why. For those same reasons, I think it would be fun. I haven’t discussed this with the rest of the Flight Crew, but I’ll update here if this becomes a more concrete idea.

I hope to see you there!

Much to my great surprise and delight, Delilah Dirk and the Treasure of Constantinople has been nominated for a Will Eisner award, in the “Best Single Issue” category! The full list and other interesting details are located over on the Comic-con website. I owe many thanks to the Eisner Awards judges for including Delilah among some very hot company.

If you haven’t read Constantinople yet, check out the preview here, and the full book is available through Lulu.com.