Month: March 2005

In any court proceeding, there’s usually a winner and a loser. Not in this case, though. Here, everyone loses.

Her husband has been nationally villified by people who don’t even know him. His parents have lost their daughter, but not before presenting a national picture of themselves that wavered between pathos and pathetic, depending upon one’s point of view. Her life was cut short. And whereas anyone who remembers Karen Quinlan has forever etched in their minds the smiling picture taken as a school portrait, Terri Schiavo leaves behind a lasting image of a bedridden woman with glassy eyes who is either looking hopefully at her parents or–as her liquified brain would suggest–wasn’t looking at anything. Politicians attempted to make some quick hay and capital by going national over something that should have remained personal, with plenty of shame available to cover both GOP and Dem behavior.

Everyone loses.

This should never happen again.

But it will.

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If the man don’t breathe, you must bequeath.

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Tom DeFalco brought this site to my attention. Basically the guy who runs it reprints, unchanged, some of the more insane covers from the Mort Weisinger era of “Superman” with truly hilarious comments (my favorite so far is the one on page 2 about the time machine).

http://www.nationallampoon.com/supermanisadick/default.asp

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Robert Blake–who, for all we know, really did kill his wife–said he desperately needs money.

I think he and O.J. Simpson should team up and put together a song-and-dance act, like Roxy and Velma did in “Chicago.” I’m not sure what they would sing, but I bet it would be interesting.

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When someone is saying stuff about me that is deliberately false, I say they lied. “He lied.” “He’s fulla crap.” “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” “That’s bull.”

That’s how I put it.

So Todd McFarlane claims that Neil “gave away” all rights to Miracleman, and ha ha on Neil. And Neil, in the course of calmly dissecting Todd’s claims, says:

“Beyond that, he’s also distancing himself from the reality-based community in his description of the result of the legal case.”

Distancing himself from the reality-based community. You gotta love that.

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Turned in the completed script for the Spike one-shot today. Just did an out-loud reading of it for Kathleen and Ariel, to make sure all the dialogue and voices sounded okay. It’s not as if they’re the most unbiased audience in the world, but they liked it a lot. My goal–which, of course, I’ll probably never know if I achieved–is to have Whedon read it and think, “Okay, why the hëll didn’t we hire this guy to write for us?” Of course, he could just as easily think, “Thank God we never hired him to write for us.” But I think it’s got enough twists and turns to live up to his sense of the perverse.

If nothing else, it should please the Buffy fans since it definitively establishes that Cecily and Hallie were the same person and shows what happened at the party after William fled into the night to meet his vampiric fate.

The artist has already started work based on early pages I turned in. We’ll probably have sample artwork and the cover to put up here on Monday, although naturally it will still be pending approvals from Fox and shouldn’t be considered necessarily the final versions.

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Understand, I’m not saying “Fallen Angel” is continuing. I’m not saying that. And if it were, which I’m not saying it is, I’m not saying that there would be a different artist, because it’s a moot question since I’m not saying it’s continuing in the first place.

But if it were continuing, which I’m not saying it is, and I were in the market for a new artist, which I’m not saying I am, who would you want to see drawing it?

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