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We’re back from Shore Leave, which was my first lengthy outing since the surgery. My stamina isn’t up to par yet; when Kath tried to wake me from a nap Saturday afternoon to tell me I had a panel in ten minutes, I just growled at her and went back to sleep. So apologies to those who missed my presence at the “Magic, Myth and Merlin” panel.

Fans were particularly solicitous and overall we had a good time, as we always do at Shore Leave. Both the Mike Friedman roast and Mystery Trekkie Theater went reasonably well, I thought. It was great seeing any number of you folks there, and now it’s just a matter of resting up from the Shore Leave sprint for the San Diego marathon. Watch Kathleen’s website as, in the next day or so, she’ll be putting up pictures of Caroline and Ariel in their prize-winning costumes from the masquerade.

The one downside of the weekend was on the drive home as we learned that Harvey Pekar had passed away. We had the opportunity to spend a little time with Harvey and Joyce some years back, and it remains a highlight of my convention memories. There is a little less splendor in America tonight.

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digresssml Originally published June 18, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1022

From the first BID collection:

As of this writing, the first issue of Defiant’s new line, Warriors of Plasm, has hit the stands. I haven’t quite been able to slog through it yet; then again, with dialogue like “He must have sensed my nodes tweaking! Stand ready, Zom! I wish to be dripping with splatter gore for my lust-mate!” being delivered by a female with breasts alternating between cantaloupe and watermelon size, it could take a while.

Nevertheless, I did not enjoy writing the following column. Some of that should be self-evident. I’ll explain the rest at the end.

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