I’m just kind of curious. Rich Johnston (who has graduated from simply running assorted rumor…I’m sorry, rumour…bits strung together to actual whole investigative columns about things that matter) has done a very interesting commentary and overview of the upcoming sure-to-be-controversial “Lost Girls” which apparently the author, Alan Moore, himself describes as pornographic. It’s high-priced, but hey, it’s Moore. So I was curious as to whether anyone here was planning to order it.
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I have to say, coming back from the NSF has given me new appreciation for the military. So as we spend this quiet Memorial Day weekend (disinclined to brave the typical traffic), I keep thinking about all the officers I met and spent time with, and what will happen to them and what sort of challenges they’ll be facing. Until now, I’d only met Veterans whose war fighting days were past them. But now I think of the hazardous and uncertain future my new friends and acquaintances will be facing, and I will be keeping my fingers crossed for them in their upcoming duties and responsibilities.
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Siryn finally deals (or doesn’t) with the death of her father (which I found out about the same time as you guys did, so it took five months for us to be able to get to it) and Spike & Drac form an uneasy alliance for the first time in their association. Whad’ja think?
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So over on the Byrne board there’s a lengthy thread about the Hulk which consists, for the most part, of bashing my work on the title because, well, it’s the Byrne board, so it’s SOP. But what really fractured me was the following comment from John:
“Once upon a time, when a writer wanted to “do something different” s/he left the character/title being worked on, handing it over to someone who wanted to continue with the established motifs. Some time around 25 years ago this started to change. Writers like Claremont and David, as well as others, began changing the books/characters to suit their interests of the moment….It’s the same old song — the characters being made to serve the needs of the talent, instead of the talent serving the needs of the characters.”
You just have to love that from the guy who, before my run on the title, was handed a character who was unmarried and transformed into a monster when he got angry, and over the course of the run he split the character in two, separating them into two individual beings, thus eliminating a dynamic that had been in place for a quarter of a century, married off the hero, and basically wrote a series of stories that were indistinguishable from “Godzilla”–dedicated scientist and his group of equally dedicated followers pursues a furious green monster he’s accidentally unleashed upon the world. Stories that, in short, had nothing to do with the Hulk.
And that’s not even counting what the master of lip service to authorial intent did to the Vision, turning him white and unemotional when the original Vision was neither.
That John Byrne. What a crack up.
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Kathleen and I got married. Many long-time friends were there, the bride was lovely (Kath has a photo up on her website), the weather was perfect, and Harlan Ellison’s best-man speech was…memorable. The following morning the whole family was awake by 4:30 AM and a few hours later we were all on the Disney Cruise for a Brady Bunch-esque Let’s-bring-the-kids honeymoon.
Thanks for being insane enough to marry me, love.
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Kath and I saw it last night at an advance Marvel screening.
Guys, honest injun–I thought it kicked ášš.
I’m discussing it below, and others are free to join in once you’ve seen it, but I’d like to keep this one as spoiler-free as possible, mainly because of the caliber of certain jaw-dropping moments.
Over at the movie theater in Manhattan at 42nd and 8th, I was fascinated to see pickets with people marching around, protesting “The DaVinci Code,” declaring it to be an insult to the Catholic church.
I wonder what would have happened if I’d walked up to them and asked them if they were out protesting with great ire over the way that Jews were portrayed in “Passion of the Christ.” After all, people who demand sensitivity to their religion would certainly want to be supportive of others who feel their religion is being ill used in cinema, right? So were they marching to protest what many felt to be a profound anti-Semitic message in “Passion?” Or were they too busy filling theaters with their church groups?
I wonder if such an observation from myself would have resulted in my being with Christian charity?
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