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I know I haven’t been around lately, leaving you guys to (tragically) have to think for yourselves (I know, I know…the cruelty). I’ve been buried in finishing my latest “Star Trek” novel, “Before Dishonor,” my first STTNG tale in quite some time. It’s due out in November.

I barely finished before I was off to Wizard Con. Had a great time, both on site and off. Off site I had dinner with Harlan and Susan Ellison, along with a couple of intriguing new acquaintances. On Friday I got together with Bill Mumy and family, whom I haven’t seen in a dog’s age (son Seth has shot up to six feet tall and daughter Liliana, whom some of you may recall from the “Santa Clause” films, continues to look uncannily like her dad.) Saturday night was a Marvel Comics-sponsored dnner gathering where I was seated with Tom Brevoort, Andy Schmidt, Paul Jenkins, Jeph Loeb, Humberto Ramos and Mark Guggenheim (who is, among other things, a writer for “Brothers and Sisters” and convinced me to give that series another shot after the less-than-impressive pilot.)

The convention itself seemed busy but still underattended somehow. Then again, aside from the New York Con, San Diego, and Dragon*Con, “underattended” sums up most of the conventions I’ve attended these days.

PAD

VP Cheney is scolding the Democrats for failure to “support the troops” simply because they’re disinclined to give President Bush an indefinite amount of money for an indefinite amount of time…in other words, because they won’t let Bush do whatever he wants. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned about this president, he HATES it when someone stops him from doing whatever he wants.

The thing is, when I think of supporting the troops, I’m thinking of supporting their right not to be mired in an ill-defined mission that treats their lives as easily disposable commodities. I support their right to keep sucking oxygen. I support their right to an honest government that should admit they were sent over there on a political pretext, to search for weaponry that wasn’t there, and is now operating on fumes in the middle of an ongoing civil war that’s going to be waged whether we’re there or not.

As opposed to Cheney, for whom “suporting the troops” is code for “giving Bush carte blanche.”

I think I’ll take my definition over Cheney’s, thanks.

PAD

The latest issues of two titles I write, both of which had the previous issues sell out.

Whad’ja think?

PAD

This one is kind of difficult to talk about and will probably be difficult to read. In fact, I wasn’t even sure if Kath and I were going to be discussing it, but she said she wanted to, so I’m following her lead. I’m putting it below the cut line though so you can know in advance that this isn’t a typical blog entry.

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Steve Rogers. Shot dead.

People have been asking me to comment.

Understand that, if I were a fan, my reaction would be, “Yeah. Sh’right.”

As someone working for Marvel, you have to realize that I knew this was coming months ago. And I know what’s going to be happening over the next months.

So I can’t say anything.

What I will say is, “Dang. It HAD to be the same week as the latest issue of Friendly Neighborood Spider-Man…?”

PAD

You know the big $370 million New York lottery? Well, Kath bought a ticket, and guess what? WE WON!

Not the whole thing. We didn’t have all the numbers. Only some. But we still won!

We got three numbers correct.

But we won!

We won…

Seven bucks.

But we won!

Seven bucks…on the ticket which cost us five bucks.

So we actually won two.

BUT WE WON! SEVEN BUCKS!

Any suggestions on how we should spend our newly found wealth?

PAD