Day: August 12, 2004

Tonight’s epsiode is all about free speech. If you missed the 10 PM showing tonight, they’re rerunning it at various times the next few days.

Enjoy.

So just out of curiosity, I bought the HULK handbook currently on the stands. I figured, if I’m back to writing him, even for six issues, I should get current, and I’ve been spotty in keeping up with him over the last few years.

So I read the entry on “Absorbing Man” and, much to my amusement, they actually stated that his bizarrely out-of-continuity appearance in “Hulk” was due to a temporal anomaly. Yes, that’s right, the slightly tongue-in-cheek notion that Captain Marvel’s re-creation of the universe in issue #6 was responsible for waves of discontinuity throughout the Marvel Universe has now been officially embraced by a separate Marvel reference volume.

Ya gotta love it. With fans complaining that Absorbing Man’s appearance in Hulk didn’t match up with his previous appearances, I tossed both Marvel and the fans a safety line, and they grabbed it with relish.

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The fine folks at Paperbackreader.com have offered to sponsor a “Fallen Angel” book club, so to speak. In addition to having a contest to win a copy, participants will be invited beginning September 1 to talk about the trade paperback collection in specific and the series in general. I have, naturally, said that I will show up to participate.

Yet another step to boosting sales and awareness of the series.

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