Month: October 2007

The major project at the moment is one that I’ve not announced before this: I’m writing the novelization for the upcoming “Iron Man” movie which will be hitting theater in May of 2008. The novelization will be published by Del Rey. The deadline on the book is tight, but I should have no trouble hitting it. Rock solid script (although naturally I can’t go into any details.)

When I’m not doing that, I’m working on proofreading the galleys for “Tigerheart.” I also just finished rewrites on two scripts for Marvel’s “Hulk Adventures” series. I love writing “Adventures” books: One-offs that get to the core of the characters and are all-age appropriate.

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And the winner is: David’s father.

Who’s David? David is a young reader of this website whose father drove him all the way from Clifton, New Jersey to Bellport, Long Island so he could see our final performance of “Man of La Mancha.”

We’re talking at least a two hour drive, folks. So kudos to David’s dad.

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I thought that this film, brought to my attention courtesy of Dan Slott, would be of amusement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=currTz4IID8

My debut issue for “She-Hulk,” designed to have two, if not three, WTF moments. Whad’ja think?

ADDED 10/31–Check out THIS review. Doesn’t get more glowing than this.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34631#2

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I’ll be appearing today at Jim Hanley’s Universe in Midtown Manhattan (near the Empire State Building) from 6 to 8 PM along with Dan Slott for a sort of “passing of the torch” appearance vis a vis “She-Hulk.”

Hope to see you there.

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Okay, so now I *am* going to United Fan Con. Apparently their money situation has sorted itself out (the fact that Aaron Douglas dropped out probably freed up some funds, I’d think) and I was reinvited.

Honestly, I toyed with the idea of saying forget it, but that didn’t seem fair to all the fans who’d written me expressing dismay over my not being there, especially since they’d purchased nonrefundable tickets.

So I’ll be there.

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Things actually went reasonably smoothly for opening night of “Man of La Mancha.” I’d say the venue was about 3/4 full, which isn’t bad at all. My castmates did a great job, with high energy and everyone on top of their cues. We had a few mishaps with microphones, but they were easily fixed on the fly.

The one heart-stopping moment came toward the very end. A stairway/bridge is supposed to lower as Cervantes and his servant (me) are summoned to the Inquisition. But the bridge only came 3/4 of the way down (the mechanism got hung up on one of the side curtains.) I was supposed to make my exit up the bridge, but it was dangling a foot above the stage. I could have just walked around it and exited off to the side, but that would have broken the illusion. On the other hand, if I stepped on the bridge and forced it down, I was worried I could shatter the entire mechanism. Opting to maintain the illusion, I walked forward carefully, placed my foot on the bottom step and pushed down as hard as I could. It slammed the bridge down to the floor and I was able to walk up it. I didn’t hear any accompanying breaking noise, so I’m hoping I didn’t break the stairs.

Ah, the excitement of live theater.

Howard Margolin was in attendance. Hopefully other web denizens will be able to make it.

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