Yeah, I plan to be at the Atlanta con and Heroes con in '05...
Glad you liked the new issue of Kabuki #1, I actually changed it quite a bit from the version that you saw. Dropped some pages, did new ones, and re-arranged a bunch of stuff and added to it.
I had finished it a while ago and moved on to the other issues, but when it came time to pull it out and send it to the printer, I saw a lot of things that I could improve. So, I'm much happier with it now.