Ariel bowled quite respectably in the Pro-Am, shooting roughly twenty pins over her average in each game. She met a number of the women bowlers, all of whom were polite and supportive and helpful. Her favorite remains fellow New Yorker Michelle Feldman.
I was very proud of her.
And at one point, to my astonishment, a fellow says to me, “Are you Peter David? I blinked and said “Yeaaaah.” “I’m Joe Calamari,” he said. I was thunderstruck. To run into Marvel’s former top guy hanging in the pro shop of an alley hundreds of miles away. Turns out Joe’s wife is a bowler and bowling fan, so he accompanied her. Talk about an unexpected blast from the past.
PAD
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Yep… it’s always odd when something like that pops up. While in college, I endded up making a very good friend… who had an uncle that was my Father’s best friend in college! I didn’t find out till months after we were friends.
Congrates on the bowling… it’s always good to find someting a child loves AND is good at.
Wow, that is unexpected. Was he involved with the Hulk problems you had? I know he was responsible for the “Rampaging Hulk” title, that’s why I ask.
BTW, have you heard the latest news about Marvel’s Mutant Princess Di?
It sounds like the kind of thing I’d otherwise expect in your April Fool’s column.
I’ll second Malcolm — these unexpected meetings definitely happen from time to time.
I was (and still am) good friends with a fellow in college by the name of Jon Lane — even shared an apartment with him for a year. It turns out that his mother and my mother lived down the hall from one another in college, and we didn’t know about it for years.
(Of course, my dad lived down the hall from Ðìçk Cheney his freshman year, but that’s another story entirely.)
And congrats to Ariel on the bowling tourney!
TWL
So, this is interesting. I’m sure the last thing PAD is interested in doing is getting into another debate with John Byrne. I’m not at all trying to instigate one.
Still, I couldn’t resist this when I came across it, so I thought I’d share it with people here…
Basically, somebody made a post to the John Byrne Message Board waxing nostalgic for, of all things, Byrne’s “Chapter One”! Byrne replied with the following:
“Yes. . . And Peter David wrote a scene into Captain Marvel wherein Rick Jones reads the HULK Annual and laughs at its ‘innacuracies’.
‘Member all those other fun times when professionals have mocked the work of the people who took over the books they got booted from?
You don’t???”
(Note that it’s Byrne who spelled “inaccuracies” wrong in this post, not — as the quotation marks might imply — Peter David in Captain Marvel.)
That JB… he’s a funny dude… 🙂
Also off topic, PAD gets props in this weeks Midnight News Collumn by Chris Hyatte at 411mania.com.
Chris is likely the most read collumnest in the Internet Wrestling Community (IWC). Him being on a website can pretty much make or break it.
His collumn isn’t for kids..not really for adults, either:-)
Oh, and if the flick inspires you to buy Hulk comics… don’t waste your time with the bull Marvel is selling now… go collect the twelve years worth of Peter David’s run on the title… simply the finest evolution of a character ever.
http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/columns/article.php?columns_id=2033
Re: Blasts from the Past
Before we were married, my husband and I scouted out 20 or so reception sites on Long Island and in New York City. Upon choosing our favorite, we shared the news with his parents over dinner. My now father-in-law casually turned to my now mother-in-law and asked, “Isn’t that where we had our reception?” Thirty years later, our photo album looks like a colorized version of theirs.
**”Yes. . . And Peter David wrote a scene into Captain Marvel wherein Rick Jones reads the HULK Annual and laughs at its ‘innacuracies’.
‘Member all those other fun times when professionals have mocked the work of the people who took over the books they got booted from?
You don’t???”**
Technically Byrne didn’t take over the book from me; Joe Casey did. And second, if I’d never written a single issue of Hulk, I’d still have mocked that Hulk annual. Rewriting continuity so that the Hulk’s origin was part of a Skrull plan. Sheesh.
PAD
(Note that it’s Byrne who spelled “inaccuracies” wrong in this post, not — as the quotation marks might imply — Peter David in Captain Marvel.)
By the way, what was the name of the thread that appeared in. I’d be interested to read it in context, just for kicks.
PAD
“By the way, what was the name of the thread that appeared in. I’d be interested to read it in context, just for kicks.”
Sure. The title is…
JB and the Hulk c. 1986.
Cool to hear your replies, PAD. I’ve always enjoyed your debates with Byrne over the years.
And while I like Byrne’s artwork a lot, it always pleases me to see you set the guy straight when he makes his idiotic comments about your writing.
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