From Marvel’s February Solicitations:
MARVILLE #6: Written by Bill Jemas, art by M.D. Bright and Paul Neary, covers by Greg Horn and Bright.
Bill Jemas reveals his plan to give out $100,000 of Marvel’s money to Marville readers. 32 pages, $2.25.
Wow. By my calculations, the average Marville reader stands to make about five grand on this.
Boy, I really wish that “The Daily Show” or “SNL Weekend Update” took outside submissions. ‘Cause I’d love to send them this notion that occurred to me:
German officials stated they would not be filing child endangerment charges against singer Michael Jackson for his dangling his infant son over a five story balcony. However, German legal experts admitted that arrest and prosecution would have been far more likely if Jackson had been a black man.
PAD
Does anyone out there read “Get Fuzzy,” the hilarious comic strip that has–until now–told of Satchel and Rob, a dog and his owner respectively, who are routinely terrorized by Bucky, the resident cat?
If so, regular readers must be wetting themselves over the current sequence that has Bucky pushing the usually submissive Satchel too far. After insulting Satchel’s friends, calling them “Eurotrash,” Satchel terrorizes the utterly stunned Bucky.
Great stuff.
PAD
SUPERGIRL #75 is sold out from the publisher.
I very much doubt they’ll go back to press with it. And since retailers showed impressive faith in the “Return of Kara” storyline by actually *cutting* their initial orders by 2000 copies for #76 (leading me to further doubt it will ever be collected as a TPB), I suggest you get your copy early if you’re so inclined.
Glenn also has the black and white copy of the cover of #79, which he should be posting up here soon (if he hasn’t already). [All right, all right– it was left in the car, which was left at the mechanic’s after I fixed your computer. Don’t ask. It’s up now. –GH] Based on the cover art, it should sell the best of all of them…while, if the ordering pattern continues, will have the lowest numbers. Anyone interested in actually being able to read this series might be advised to let their retailer know now.
PAD
Well, this is gratifying. The paperback edition of SIR APROPOS OF NOTHING is on the Locus Bestseller list for a second month in a row. And the sequel, THE WOAD TO WUIN made the runner-up on the hardcover list.
Not bad for a book (and its sequel) that was dismissed by most every publisher in the SF world.
PAD
Rumors around the internet are true: Harlan Ellison was in a serious auto accident. However, he called me today to assure me that he and Susan are just fine. Achy from whiplash, but fine. The accident occurred at an intersection while he was on his way to a speaking engagement attended by, he estimates, ten thousand would-be writers. He and Susan made it to the talk, somewhat the worse for wear, but his car was totaled.
Anyone have a nice car in good shape they don’t want anymore that they want to give to Harlan Ellison?
PAD
This off the AOL news ticker as it discusses the “increased chatter” that has the FBI at high alert, worried about an imminent terrorist attack…
‘Sources suggest al-Qaida may favor spectacular attacks that meet several criteria: high symbolic value, mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy and maximum psychological trauma,” says the alert, which was posted on the FBI’s Web site early Friday.’
I keep thinking about this, and keep coming back to the same unpleasant notion:
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is in less than two weeks.
Thanksgiving. Celebration related to this country’s founding. Sponsored by the largest department store in the world. Televised. Thousands and thousands of people. Big balloons. Big floats with celebrities. Big targets. Hundreds upon hundreds of overlooking windows from which gunmen can be positioned, turning the concrete canyons into a shooting gallery. Hëll, the moment the packed-in crowds panic, the stampede alone will kill and injure hundreds.
They’d never hold another Macy’s parade. For that matter, every major parade in America would likely be canceled because security is impossible to provide. Would YOU march in one?
No one start yelling at me that I’m giving them ideas. If they could think of flying airplanes into the WTC, they can think of this all by themselves. If they’re going to do it, it’s already in the works.
I hope I’m wrong. I was wrong about the shooter in Maryland. I might be wrong about this as well.
But if you’re going…watch your back.
PAD
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