Day: October 20, 2004

“What if General Ross Became the Hulk?” will not feature art by Bart Sears. Instead the pencils will be by Pat Oliff with inks by Sal Buscema. I’ve seen the first five pages of pencils and they look pretty good.

PAD

On his website, John Byrne posted the following, which has gotten some notice throughout the internet:

“I have noticed that people have begun referring to
Christopher Reeve as a “hero”. I do not wish to take
away one iota of the courage he must have needed
not to wake up screaming every single day, but the
hard truth is there was nothing “heroic” in what
happened to him, or how he dealt with it. In fact, as
far as how he dealt with it, he didn’t even have a
choice. We could imagine he spent every hour of
every day (when not in front of the cameras) begging
family members to simply kill him and get it over with
— but none of them did, so he had no choice but to
deal with each day as it came.

Heroism, I believe, involves choice.”

John believes wrong.

“Heroism” is a word involving shadings. It has different meanings to different people under different circumstances, as do other words such as “love”…or “hate”…or…oh, I dunno…”prìçk.”

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Remember a couple months ago when I talked about attending a taping of “The People’s Court?” Well, my sister informs me that the episodes we attended are scheduled to air.

The first will be today, the 20th of October. Others are slated for October 26, 27, and 28. I have no idea if I’m at all visible. The case to watch for, for its sheer weirdness, is the bus driver who sued the elderly black gentleman, claiming that the latter had been abusive and beaten him up. And the attitude amongst the court was “Yeah, right,” until the defendant opened his mouth, wound up cursing out practically everyone there, accusing everyone of being racists, and threatened to beat up the bus driver again. I’ve no idea how much will make the final edit but, wow, talk about anger issues.

PAD