As always, had a great time at Shore Leave. Kathleen, Ariel and Caroline were in tow, and Caroline smiled at everyone and charmed them while Ariel enjoyed total freedom to go and do whateve she wanted in the family friendly security of the hotel. Still for my money *the* best Trek/Media con for families to attend.

Andrea Thompson was an incredibly good sport as she joined us for the opening sketch of Mystery Trekkie Theater 3000, and the world premiere (and, by coincidence, closing night performance) of “Bye Bye Buffy” went off, not without a hitch, but with only one or two minor hitches. And these were more than made up for by the talent and enthusiasm of the cast and director, who came up with some wonderful twists and augmentations on what I’d written (a gag involving a Klingon Weather Report used actual live Chroma Key to present the Klingon standing in front of a weather chart explaining why today was a good day to die, as was tomorrow, but over the next few days weather conditions would make dying less good.) Plenty of people in the audience and very enthusiastic.

Also spent time with the ever-delightful Carolyn Seymour, briefly spoke with Marina Sirtis, told Alan Ruck how much I liked his work, and discovered that Phil Morris is a big fan of Spyboy.

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…it appears that somebody who’s already dead in the Marvel Universe will remain dead.

Peter’s going to be on the road for a while, between Boston, Shore Leave going on now and lord knows where next week, plus somewhere along the line he has to write those books you love… so I’m going to putting various things up in the meantime.

First off, we point you to Mark Evanier’s blog, which points us to Herb Trimpe’s website, and a few other Trimpe tidbits that are elsewhere on the web This link goes to a recent interview, in connection with the Hulk movie. This link goes to the article Herb wrote for The New York Times about how his career in comics ended due to apparent ageism…

And this link tells how Herb pitched in after the 9/11 tragedies and worked at Ground Zero for the Red Cross.

More to come, including a whole passel of BIDs recently unearthed.

Well, it’s out. Thoughts?

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A reminder that I’ll be up in Boston at Comicopia tomorrow, 5-7 PM, where I’ll be doing a (rare these days) store appearance to help promote the launch of “Fallen Angel.” See you if you’re there, won’t if you’re not.

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This coming weekend is the Shore Leave convention down in Maryland. I’ll be there, along with Kathleen, Ariel and Caroline (not to mention my sister and one of Kath’s brothers and their families). Come see the world premiere of “Bye Bye Buffy,” which they’ve been working very hard on. Here’s the poster (presuming I do it right.)

I’m not sure about adding it, but on the other hand, would you risk not adding the weblog of Galactus?