Hey! Happy belated new year to you all! Hopefully it was a great 2007, I know mine was. As Mike was kind enough to introduce my arrival a couple days ago I shall keep my entrance brief. I am John, the writer behind “Thistles”. I’ll be helping update this Blog with all the interesting things that parablers are doing. My aim is to update twice a month, in the second and fourth weeks. This will depend mostly on newsworthy items. Speaking of which, here’s the headlines for this post!

“The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything” is the second feature length film from Veggietale’s creator Big Idea Productions. You’ve probably heard about it if you have kids, venture into Christian bookstores or walked past a theater lately. What you may not know is that Parablers Tom Bancroft, Rob Corley and Monika Brozda played a huge role in the development of the film through Funnypages Productions. Check out their Blog entries here to see the extent of their amazing work. “The Pirates Who Don’t do Anything” hit theaters this weekend, definitely check it out.

Tor Harald Blom has launched a new webcomic featuring his most excellent painting skills. “A Cup of Tea: Diary in Memory of a Forest” can be found here. His comic “Illuminated” is in the upcoming Parable. Blom’s website is a good one regardless, check out his work at Jigglepaper Studios.

Bryan Ballinger has a new shirt up on threadless.com and the polls are open! This parabler deserves a few props for his design. Check out the details on his blog Breadwig. If nothing else then for the name, most excellent use of imagination.

Thats all for now.