Year: 2005

As long promised, the first few pages artwork (by Fernando Goni) for the upcoming Spike graphic novel from IDW is finally up, after the fold. As also promised, the story discusses the first meeting of Spike and Hallie, the Vengeance Demon. Enjoy.

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Ariel and I went on a shopping mission today, and quickly discovered that every Toys R Us in the area had sold out of “Darth Tater.” But as fortune would have it, we swung by a KayBee and they had two out on the shelf. We snagged both of them so that, like the good obsessive collectors we are, we can play with one and keep the other mint. But it’s coming evident that the toy was either underproduced or underordered.

If you haven’t gotten the most deliriously goofty “Star Wars” merchandise item ever, do so now if you’re intending to get one at all. I don’t even want to THINK what this’ll be going for on Ebay by next month.

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…then Terri Schiavo has someone new and really interesting to compare notes with.

My condolences to the Catholic community on the loss of its leader, a good and decent man.

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For those who literally have nothing better to do, I’ll be at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on Monday night, discussing my favorite topic–me–with Danny Fingeroth at a seminar called “Inside the Comics Creators’ Studio,” with apparently no apologies whatsoever to James Lipton. The press release is below.

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In any court proceeding, there’s usually a winner and a loser. Not in this case, though. Here, everyone loses.

Her husband has been nationally villified by people who don’t even know him. His parents have lost their daughter, but not before presenting a national picture of themselves that wavered between pathos and pathetic, depending upon one’s point of view. Her life was cut short. And whereas anyone who remembers Karen Quinlan has forever etched in their minds the smiling picture taken as a school portrait, Terri Schiavo leaves behind a lasting image of a bedridden woman with glassy eyes who is either looking hopefully at her parents or–as her liquified brain would suggest–wasn’t looking at anything. Politicians attempted to make some quick hay and capital by going national over something that should have remained personal, with plenty of shame available to cover both GOP and Dem behavior.

Everyone loses.

This should never happen again.

But it will.

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If the man don’t breathe, you must bequeath.

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Tom DeFalco brought this site to my attention. Basically the guy who runs it reprints, unchanged, some of the more insane covers from the Mort Weisinger era of “Superman” with truly hilarious comments (my favorite so far is the one on page 2 about the time machine).

http://www.nationallampoon.com/supermanisadick/default.asp

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