Originally published March 14, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1217
“Don’t do it, Luke!”
That was the sound of Ariel, my five-year-old, as she watched The Empire Strikes Back, safe and snug in the confines of her home—as opposed to, say, in a movie theater.
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Been a busy week.
Flew up to Montreal on Monday and then, in a rental car, drove up to Quebec City to do work on a video game. The weather appears to have declared war. The entire drive up to QC it rained, except when it sleeted. Once in QC, whenever I was indoors, the weather was fine; when I set foot outside it started to rain.
Then I drove back down to Montreal on Wednesday afternoon, this time with only intermittent spitting from the skies. Thursday morning the weather I remained indoors so that the weather was clear and flew to Calgary, my current location, attending the Calgary Expo, which seems very well run and organized.
Friday went very well. Met a lot of enthusiastic fans, sold a ton of stuff (guess Canadians have spending money because they don’t have to worry about paying for health care; lucky devils). Had a lengthy chat with Ty Templeton about the fabled golden age hero, Hoverboy. Been trying to take it easy, but this morning I woke up at 4:30 and haven’t been able to fall back to sleep. So here we all are.
PAD
Originally published March 7, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1216
While Harlan Ellison was busy putting fans in their place, I was busy being put in mine.
Harlan started quite a stir during his opinion piece on the Sci-Fi Channels Sci-Fi Buzz. Ellison stated that writers “owe” fans nothing beyond their best endeavors at plying their craft. Writers who receive wide fan support do not owe the fans any sense of gratitude for “putting” the writers where they are; the writers owe their relative success entirely to their own efforts.
Originally published February 28, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1215
Assorted fun stuff…
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I’ve just returned from a Marvel “writers’ retreat” in Long Island. At that august gathering, an assortment of editors including Bob Harras, Bobbie Chase, and Tom Breevort, and creators including such luminaries as Chris Claremont, Kurt Busiek, John Romita, Sr., Tom DeFalco, Klaus Janson, Larry Hama, Scott Lobdell, and others who are going to be hacked off with me because I didn’t mention them by name, gathered to try and sort out the “Lee-feld Universe.”
Originally published February 21, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1214
When one is faced with a pointless death, such as that of Ennis Cosby, one is often seized with the desire to try to do something about it. This is usually not possible. It’s probably not even possible in this case.
But then I read about a rep for the LAPD describing the killing as “a complete whodunit.” Trying to solve mysteries and sort out things that don’t make sense is a natural compulsion (just ask Oliver Stone).
And I also read reports of the actual events surrounding the death of Bill Cosby’s son.
And there’s stuff that’s just bugging the hëll out of me. I have no one else to talk to about it, so I figured I’d talk to you.
Isn’t that kind of like Hamas accusing the U.S. of launching a war on Israel?
PAD
Originally published February 14, 1997, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1213
From The Book of Gen-X-is:
In the beginning, the comic book market was void and without form.
And the Lord looked down upon the comic book market and stretched out His hand. And two forms spun out into the ether and were shaped into existence.
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