About a year or two ago, popular author/nerd Jonathon Lethem and well-liked illustrator/comicker Farel Dalrymple teamed up to do a comic for Marvel called Omega the Unknown. Based on a series that reached ten issues before cancellation from 1977, Lethem and Dalrymple’s Omega is now on it’s seventh issue which features an amazing cover and some interior art by Gary Panter.

That is awesome to me. Three cheers for Marvel Comics for letting this happen. I probably don’t have to rattle off Gary’s resume but here goes anyway. He designed the sets and puppets for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, did three Zappa album covers, was part of Art Spiegelman’s Raw Magazine, created many amazing comics and makes psychedelic music and light shows. A big expensive two volume book of his work was just published and he is fucking awesome.