March 12, 2002
Folks!
The additions continue mostly in the comics reviews section as I catch up on my stack. In time I'll be getting to as broad a scope of comics as I read, but it's taking some time. Take a look and check back every so often. Trying to make the time for this continues to be a battle, but I'm catching up. My weekday schedule runs tight, though, and this past weekend was taken up with managing a 12 year old's birthday party that involved several sleepover guests. Kids stole my weekend! How can they expect me to take this workweek seriously when I haven't had a weekend? I tell you, sirs and madams, it smacks of... terrorism! What color should we go for, Mr. Ridge? I say let's make it an Orange Alert holiday! It's topical and retro at the same time, considering the Prisoner reference. We can release Rover to patrol the borders!
I look at the news and it answers the question of why I keep burying myself in fantasies. I'll try to reserve some energy for reality over the weekend, though.
Voting on the villains of Buffy poll has leveled out in the low 30's. I'm going to give it a few more days and then come up with a new topic. I'll make sure the results stick around. If you watch the show and haven't voted yet, take a moment and do so. Why? Oh, hell. You have me there. To make me a little happy?
Some people who are also to be found in my links section, but deserve a special look:
March 20th is fast-approaching, which means that Paradigm #1 will soon be in discerning comics shops everywhere. Creators Matt Cashel and Jeremy Haun are proud of their creation, and justifiably so. Check their site and look at the previews section to see the covers to issues 1 and 2 (#2's in the current Diamond catalog, and so is being ordered by the comics shops now for its may release) along with the first few pages of each. It's sharp work and deserves some attention. To get a little more of a behind the scenes feel, read through the interview recently posted by popimage.com.
The highly talented Anders Eriksen continues to update his site with panel-art storytelling, concept shots, CD covers he's done and more. Click on his name and give it a look! When you're done there, check his Links section and go to his other site, Nightmare Gloves, to see some unique made-to order items.
Darren Madigan has kept a hand in on his site, too, most recently adding a letters column to help work through the mail he's received. Praises and hate-mail, they all make it through. As ever, if you want to read some original novels, short stories, cartoons, and essays on comics and other pop culture, take a look at Doc Nebula's Phantasmagorical Fan Page. If you have and comments or questions, drop him a line, too.
While he hasn't gotten as much material up as quickly as he'd like, take a look around The Cat Dragged Inn -- unless you're a Republican. Even if you are, if you're also a DC comics fan you should go there and scroll down to "The Minor Deities of Doomed Men" for one of the best pieces of DC universe fan fiction I've read in recent years. All that and more, from Grant Schreiber.
Mike Norton
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