Day: December 8, 2003

I have been informed by the fine folks at Dreamwave that they are suspending publishing on the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, with issue #7 (the second half of a two-parter) being the last one to ship. Issue #8 was to have kicked off the four part “T4: The Turtlenator,” which Dreamwave has been advertising. Instead that storyline, currently being written and drawn, is being halted halfway completed with an eye towards possibly relaunching in the summer.

As fun as the series has been to produce, writing the first four issues under the constraint that they had to be based on the first four animated episodes resulted in issues that were, I think, not representative of what the series could have been. Plus, of course, one runs the risk of seeming superfluous since you’re just rehashing stories people can see animated and for free. Issue #5, starting the run of wholly original stories, was the first issue I was completely happy with, and it was very well received…but not by enough readers. Particularly when one considers that Dreamwave has to pay licensing fees and thus has to sell a lot more copies than a creator-owned title in order to turn a profit.

I suppose sales on issues 6 and 7 will help determine whether we’ll be seeing another run at the Dreamwave TMNT during the summer.

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White House reps are upset since future Democratic presidential non-winner John Kerry stated in “Rolling Stone”–

”When I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, ‘I’m against everything?’ Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f— it up as badly as he did? I don’t think anybody did.”

They feel that–particularly because of the language–John Kerry should apologize.

And I’m flashing back to the B5 episode where John Sheridan was told he had to apologize to an alien race and he rehearsed an entire very unapologetic apology. I swear, if Kerry issues an apology along those lines–something like, “All right, I apologize: I’m sorry that George Bush f—ed it up” or “I’ll apologize for saying it as soon as George Bush apologizes for doing it”–I’ll vote for him. Not that it’ll do any good. The Democrats still won’t win the presidency in 2004. But it’d be amusing to read that comeback and watch the fallout.

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Some people wonder why a benevolent God would allow good people to suffer. There are only three possible answers: 1) There is no God. 2) There are no good people. 3) God has a plan, but the plan really sucks. All right, actually there’s a fourth, but if you know it, you won’t sleep anymore. Like me.

For anyone interested, Kathleen has put together a photo page from Caroline’s snowbound birthday party (see previous entry).

http://homepage.mac.com/kathodavid/PhotoAlbum7.html