Year: 2008

Evil doings in Mutant Town. Whad’ja think?
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1) Kathleen was in one piece: As anyone who’s read her blog knows, Kath was in an auto accident. Fortunately she’s fine, albeit a bit achy and bruised. Upon learning of the accident Friday, I immediately headed home, rendering me unavailable for the Marvel autograph session and also the Mondo Marvel panel. I left word at the Marvel booth, but somehow they didn’t get the message to panel moderator Jim McCann. On stage he noticed my absence and wondered aloud where I was. When one of the panels whispered in his ear what had happened, a startled Jim said “Oh my God!”…right into the open microphone, causing some degree of confusion and alarm for the audience which he quickly had to undo.
2) The Gordon Lee trial being dismissed: As reported elsewhere, the CBLDF announced on Friday that Gordon’s lengthy trial nightmare has been tossed.
3) “Tigerheart” presence: Between the 3-day passes with the book cover, the galleys giveaway, and the posters, Del Rey’s push for my Peter Pan pastiche was a thing of beauty.
4) Our seder: We had a nicely sized hotel room that enabled us to have some friends over to celebrate the first night of Passover.
5) Saturday evening: After the seder, Kath and I went party hopping. The Marvel party was incredibly well attended, although insanely cramped. We wound up at a bar hanging out with the Robot Chicken gang, with me playing ping pong against Seth Green. He won 21 to 14, but considering I haven’t picked up a ping pong paddle since my early 20s, that’s not bad.
6) Constant stream of fans: At my artists alley table, I had a constant stream of fans. In the words of Eeyore, thanks for noticing me.
7) Got some neat stuff.
8) Caroline sat at my table making countless drawings of the water horse from the film of the same name. She would announce that they were priced anywhere from “six bucks” to “twenty seven bucks.” Not that she knows denominations; people could give her a dollar and she’d be thrilled. She made over thirty dollars which she then spent at the Mattel booth on toys from the film “Cars.”
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Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Shaaana
Happy Birthday to you.
Love, Dad

Peter’s table in Artist Alley is L7-8. He will be there on Saturday and Sunday when he is not at panels or signing at other booths.
Friday April 18th (events canceled due to family emergency. See Kath’s blog for details)
Saturday April 19th
11:00-12:00 Signing at the Del Rey Booth (1921)
Del Rey is giving out a limited number of copies of Tigerheart at that time
1:00-2:00 Fantasy Panel (More info as we know the details)
Sunday April 20th
11:00-12:00 Signing at Midtown Comics Booth (1541)
4:00-5:00 Signing at the Marvel Booth (1141)

Stan’s da Man!

The “Dark Tower” received multiple nominations in the Eisner balloting for the limited series as well as the work of Jae Lee and Richard Isanove. And the novelization of “Iron Man” landed on the New York Times expanded Bestseller list on #29.
Personally, I’m a little bummed that the Eisners ignored the magnificent premiere edition of “Fallen Angel” that IDW put out. Chris Ryall and the guys did an outstanding job of putting that package together; would have been nice to see that acknowledged in the reprint category.
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On the otherwise harmless, and even charming Disney series “Bunny Town,” there’s one bunny who thinks it’s hilarious to run into the middle of situations and shout, “Underwear!” Because to the target audience of “Bunny Town,” “underwear” is one of the most hilarious words ever.
Caroline, being the target audience, shares this opinion, and for the past month–whenever things around here get slow–starts shouting “Underwear!” This can go on for, literally, an hour or more at a stretch. And I was making it clear that I was getting sick of it.
So one day I come home and, as soon as I walk in the door, Caroline shouts, “Knickers!” I look at Kathleen questioningly. “I got her saying that instead of underwear,” she said proudly, certain that I would be pleased that the underwear scourge was at an end. “At least it’s different, and it’s basically the same thing.”
And Caroline started saying “knickers” over and over again, very quickly.
I turned to Kathleen and said, “Are you insane? If she says that in the wrong place at the wrong time, we’re all going to die. Listen to how it sounds.”
Confused, she did as I said, and as Caroline continued to say “knickers” even faster, Kathleen realized that Caroline’s rapid enunciation was causing the middle “ck” to come out as a hard “g.”
Kathleen immediately said, “Caroline. Say underwear instead.”
“Underwear!” crowd Caroline happily.
Thus was a potential race riot averted. Currently we’re trying to teach her to say “kungaloosh” instead so she’ll be all set next time she goes to the Adventurers Club.
Frakkin’ Bunny Town.
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