Ariel had her bowling league this morning, and–after some initial problems in her first two games, solved the lanes and shot a new high game of 212. Whenever we go bowling now, people always tell me what a great approach and release she has. Come November she’ll be trying out for the high school team.
Kath has taken her and her friend, Alyssa, out to see “Fever Pitch,” leaving me here to work. Caroline is napping, but I’ve got the monitor on so when she wakes up, I’ll know it.
Been contacted by Matt Brady at Newsarama who wants to do an interview about “Hulk.” Actually I’ve been getting a number of interview requests lately. It’s nice to know folks are still interested.
PAD
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I’m impressed! I don’t think any of the seniors on my school’s bowling team have gotten anywhere near a score like that.
“Folks still interested?” Actually, Peter, you are among a handful of comic book writers who have drawn an actual fanbase, people who will follow you from project to project with no information other than your attachment to it.
“Folks still interested?” The Hulk’s been my favourite character since I was a kid, I’ve got EVERY SINGLE ISSUE from issue #102 on (and reprints of every issue before his ’68 relaunch) and you are STILL my favourite writer for the character – bar NONE (and I’ms ECSTATIC to
On top of that, you had a clear and distinct style as far back as your first issues on Spectacular Spider-Man, you made me love second-tier characters like Captain Marvel and the off-shoot X-Factor crew, and I am desparate to hear of ANY extension of Fallen Angel (too many “Angel”s getting cancelled in the last year!).
(I know I don’t have enough praise about your DC work like Supergirl or Atlantis Chronicles — I’m working on it! But if I didn’t enjoy your work, I wouldn’t bother seeking it out in the first place).
“Folks still interested?” Your fans LOVE you, man. Not as a flavour-of-the-month, but one of the relatively few enduring artists of this medium, and one who will be remembered for all you’ve done, and the career-defining work we still expect to see.
nice to know people are still interested?
I probably wouldn’t read a phone book writen by you, Peter, but pretty much anything else is a guaranteed sale.
nice to know people are still interested?
I probably wouldn’t read a phone book writen by you, Peter, but pretty much anything else is a guaranteed sale.
Do the one for Newasarama.com first! They rule!
Plus there is a really cool poster there that makes pills for people 😉
Sorry if my interview request came at a bad time!
Hey there, PAD,
Looks like my interview request (for ComicMonsters.com, natch) got lost in the shuffle. Hmm, maybe soon… 🙂
Anyway, yeah, I’m a Hulk fan from way back (not that long ago–first issue was #272), and a PAD fan for longer than I originally realized (even though, if truth be told, I didn’t like 2/3 of your previous run…sorry PAD! But you’re batting 1.000 on this one!). With HULK, I have James beaten (back to HULK #6 from ’63 and forward from ASTONISH #59-up, all annuals, all magazines, the Rampaging Hulk spinoff, and 99% of all the guest appearances the Hulk’s made outside his own mag, spinoffs like SHE-HULK and DOC SAMSON, even the rare Universal game-inspired series that have print runs of less than 2,000 copies apiece), and I think the only series PAD wrote that I don’t have substantial portions of are AQUAMAN (though ATLANTIS CHRONICLES is fantastic) and YOUNG JUSTICE (sorry PAD–I just have the Supergirl x-overs).
I guess my personal favorite of your old stuff is JUSTICE, which only betters with age, like fine wine.
Hmm, and on that note, it’s strange to think that as per the current arrangement, you’ve only got 2 more issues of HULK to write after the House of M crossover! Here’s hoping for more…
~Gary
Hello Peter.
This is my first post here, and I just found your web site a few days ago. Much fun!
Anyhow, I just wanted to let you know that I love what you are doing on Hulk, and I hope that you still have enough passion for the character to continue writing the book for awhile longer. I am now getting the early back issues that you wrote in what I believe was your first run on the back in the late eighties or so…they have been a blast to read as well. It’s nice to know that a writer out there can give the Hulk so much life!
Thanks for your time.
BTW, if you don’t mind a total stranger asking, how’s the foot?
Woo-hoo, congrats Ariel!
If you want to interviews call OnA on XM sat. radio they luv the hulk stuff. A person on the show is a big comic fan (Big Kev). plus it get 3 million listeners. And you would get a ton of air time…
Peter, the team Ariel will be trying out for, is it Patchogue-Medford? I used to cover them once in a while back in 1990 when I worked for the weekly Record newspapers. Who is the coach now? I remember Bellport also being a decent team.
-Neil
Thanks to James Blight, who pretty much said everything I was going to. I am in the process of selling some of my collection. Whenever I come across comics that I want to keep and read again–99.9% of them are ones that you wrote. I have been a collector for over thirty years, and I have told my comic shop owner to let me know about any titles you are writing. I Know I Will Enjoy Them!!!
Geez, Ariel’s almost in high school? I remember reading her birth announcement in the old Bullpen Bulletins. God, I feel old.
“It’s nice to know that people are still interested.”
Peter, I’m a big fan of your self-deprecating style and all, but there are times when sarcasm isn’t exactly a virtue.
Yes, Peter, it’s a good thing that people are “still interested” in HULK. It’s a VERY good thing that people are “still interested” in HULK.
I know you meant it in good spirits, but sheesh…
Peter,
Your return to The Incredible Hulk has brought me back as a reader of the title after too long a time.
Hope to be seeing an interview of you at THE PULSE, too.
Thanks for bringing back the “Incredible” to the character of the Hulk once more.
Steve Chung
I solved the lane a long time ago. The lane is really…a place of danger and humiliation! Dropped bowling balls on feet and complete lack of respect when you can’t knock down a single pin.
And it would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those kids and their stupid dog.
back up a second…. High schools have bowling teams?
back up a second…. High schools have bowling teams?
Some do; mine did and quite possibly still does.
I’m betting it’s a regional thing (given that Peter’s in NY and I went to high school in NJ); certainly I haven’t heard of any schools out here in Kah-Lee-Fohr-Nya that have one.
And I’ll second the “feeling old” part when reading about Ariel heading for high school. Yikes.
TWL
Before everyone pulls out their canes and shawls, let me clarify something.
Gwen and Shana went to the middle school through 8th grade. Due to the number of kids coming into the school, they have moved the 8th grade to the high school and expanded the high school. So Ariel is going into the high school facility a year earlier than Shana or Gwen did.
Of course she is turning 14 this September…..
…of course people are still interested. I’ve been a fan since reading Imzadi something close to ten years ago.
FYI, J. Michael Straczynski is having an ebay yard sale, and currently has the Londo and G’Kar dolls from Peter’s episode “There All the Honor Lies” up for auction (among other things).
The ebay auction id is 4719402723 (by babylon5auctions)
Joe’s original message about the whole auction can be found here at http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17317
What Joe didn’t mention is that the Londo doll started out as an Elvis doll (or that is what Bear Burge told me when he showed it to me in the prop cabinet when I visited the set early in season three).
He just had to do this after I’ve sent Uncle Sam most of my available cash…
Lee Whiteside
SFTV.org Webmaster
Yeah, I know about the auction. I think it would’ve been nice if my name had actually appeared somewhere in the description of the piece since both the gift shop storyline and the Londo doll were my idea, not to mention I also wrote the dialogue lines quoted. But I guess people know I wrote the episode, so…
PAD
Wait a minute. There are high school BOWLING teams?! I thought tennis teams (which recently came to my alma mater) were bad, but bowling? In the words of Frank Barone, “Holy crap!”
“Wait a minute. There are high school BOWLING teams?! I thought tennis teams (which recently came to my alma mater) were bad, but bowling? In the words of Frank Barone, “Holy crap!””
What’s wrong with it? When I was in high school…where I couldn’t catch a pop fly or a foot ball thrown my way to save my life, and I wasn’t fleet of foot, but was pretty good as a bowler…I would have killed for a varsity bowling team.
PAD
I didn’t mean there was anything wrong with it. It just struck me as kind of funny. I’d never heard of a high school bowling team before.