Once again, in the proof of the power of the blog, the cover to Fallen Angel #10.
Why so powerful? Well, if everybody visiting this site buys a copy, then we have pretty big sales figures. Whether this is a comment on the power of the web or the softness of comic sales in general is left to the reader…
…type in the words “Miserable Failure” (include the quotes) and then hit “I Feel Lucky.”
And don’t come bìŧçhìņg to me about it if you don’t like the result.
PAD
When I did the on-line chat with the Star Trek Book Club a week ago, I was sooooo careful. Remember what I’ve said here in the past? That I say something about Star Trek that’s perfectly innocent, it winds up getting twisted around, and šhìŧ falleth from above like the gentle rains upon my hapless head?
So one questioner asked about the likelihood of my writing for “Enterprise.” And I’m thinking, How can I respond to this in as neutral a manner as possible? Particularly since I’m waiting to see how the season progresses before firming up an opinion on the series itself? And I replied (this is a paraphrase, I don’t have the exact text in front of me) that it wasn’t tremendously likely, because most series TV is staff written. And I had no desire to move to the West Coast under any circumstance. I didn’t want to disrupt my life or, even more importantly, my family’s life. But in the unlikely event that “Enterprise” wanted to hire me freelance so I could stay here in New York, I’d be up for that. (I didn’t go into detail, but I can say from experience that moving to Montreal for weeks at a time in order to oversee “Space Cases” was so stressful on my family that I’ve no desire to repeat it.)
So what’s the headline in “Trek Today?”
“DAVID WON’T MOVE WEST FOR ENTERPRISE.”
Which, of course, makes it sound like they offered me a gig and I thought they were such a crap show that I refused. “Angel,” “Charmed,” I’m there, but “Enterprise?” Eeeewwww, cooties.
Now fortunately enough they quote from the interview and the full context is there. But the headline steers the perception, plus if someone is skimming, it’s the only thing they remember.
So if you happen to read someone on line saying, “Peter David thought Enterprise is so bad that he turned down a staff job,” now you’ll know where it comes from, and why life in the public eye can be fraught with excitement.
PAD
If Spider-Man, as the song says, “catches thieves just like flies,” does that mean he injects them with venom and then wraps them up so he can eat them later?
It’s been pointed out to me that the ICV2 numbers indicate that “Hulk: The End” actually sold, in units, about seven thousand less than that month’s regular issue of “Hulk.” In the words of Bogey in explaining that he came to Casablanca for his health, he came for the waters, only to discover the lack of waters due to Casablanca being in a desert: “I was misinformed.”
On the other hand, at a $5.95 price tag as compared to $2.25, it made a buttload more money, plus retailers could have sold even more had Marvel reprinted it. So that counts for something, I figure.
Still, I did say we had higher units and that was wrong, so I wanted to clear that up.
PAD
If you learned that, without question,you were going to die in your sleep tonight…would you try to stay awake, or would you just give in to the inevitable? And what would you do with your last waking hours?
If someone is full of piss and vinegar…how in God’s name did that happen? Were they born that way? Was it ingested or was it taken intravenously? Or was the vinegar an attempt to remove the piss so there’d be no stains? Did it fail, and if so, who pays the dry cleaning bill?
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