Originally published May 17, 2002, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1487
Every so often, for no discernible reason, I get song parody notions in my head. And when that happens, my only choice is to write them down. Here are two recent ones cause, y’know… why not?
Continue Reading “Song Parodies: “The Scorpion King” & “Oy, It’s the Borg””
Originally published May 10, 2002, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1486
Let us now consider the strange case of Akiva Goldsman.
I have never met Akiva Goldsman. I doubt he knows me from a hole in the ground. Well, actually, okay, that’s not entirely true. I mean, if you had me standing next to a hole in the ground and asked Akiva Goldsman, “Okay, which one is Peter David and which one is a hole in the ground,” I’d say the odds are pretty good that he could probably differentiate between the two, if for no other reason than holes in the ground very rarely have names. My point—and there is one buried in the foregoing somewhere—is that I doubt I’m anywhere on his radar.
Originally published May 3, 2002, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1485
Well, my “open letter” from a few weeks back certainly started off a firestorm of publicity, wounded rage and back-and-forth. I’m sure you know the one to which I’m referring.
Originally published April 26, 2002, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1484
A couple of things…
Originally published April 19, 2002, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1483
My e-mail box is constantly being cluttered with useless material designed either to try and sell you something or else separate gullible people from their money. And it occurs to me that in the universes of comic books, probably the same thing happens. And it might well look something like this:
Continue Reading “Spam emails of the Marvel and DC Universes”
Originally published April 12, 2002, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1482
James B. of San Diego wrote in to “Oh So” to comment on my opinion that all creators owe their fans is their very best work, to which he said that I was “…absolutely right. Technically speaking, of course. Technically, all a creator does owe his fans is his very best work. Just as, technically speaking, all a publisher, say—oh, I dunno—Archie Comics, owes to any creator would be the agreed-upon amounts due under the contract or agreement said creator was working under, right?”
Now James raises an interesting point. However, he took my sentiment totally out of context to accomplish it.
Continue Reading “What Creators owe Fans/What Publishers Owe Creators”
Originally published April 5, 2002, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1481
Maggie Thompson. A thousand issues of Comics Buyer’s Guide. Whoa. What can be said, I wonder, about Maggie Thompson, that hasn’t already been scribbled on bathroom walls?
Where to begin? The beginning, of course.
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