DC has officially announced the new Doctor Fate series on Newsarama, so I’m free to discuss it now — and I will, after the weekend. Have to deal with a deadline first. IMAGE DELETED

A week or two ago, Mark Evanier called his readers’ attention to this utterly fascinating essay. If you’re at all interested in the history of DC Comics, it’s time you found out who Ira Schnapp is and what part he played in forming the aesthetic of every DC reader.

Yes, I know about it. It irks me to precisely this extent: I wish I’d been given the chance to do the character right, with the right artistic team, and with some real promotion behind the book. (The first issue of the Foolkiller limited series came out the same month as Todd McFarlane’s *Spider-Man* #1. […]

Where I’ve been. What I’ve been up to. What I haven’t been up to. Plus — several highly creative excuses for same! Plus-plus — some news on the new DC project. Check in again soon.

In a word: Democrats. They can’t be this stupid, can they? *CAN THEY–?!?*

Still recovering from the pneumonia, but I need to make note of this one event before any more time goes by: Last Friday, September 15th, was among the most important days of my life. I saw my daughter Samantha that day for the first time in eighteen years. What separated us for so long isn’t […]

I’ve just been through a week that has , by turns, been aggravating, infuriating, frustrating, terminally stress-inducing, terrifying, touching, exhilarating, illuminating and, now, diseased. I’ve got pneumonia again. (Sing that to the tune of the last line in each verse of “Lodi”: *Oh, lawd, I got NU-moan-YA ah-gin…*) I’ll write more about this when my […]

A few spammers have gotten past WordPress’ defenses the last few days, and we’ve been seeing porn type messages, er, penetrate to the comments sections. I’ve instituted another anti-spam measure that should help considerably. If you notice any strange behavior from the blog as you’re posting comments, please let me know.

From Gail Simone, via Mark Evanier’s blog: Early this morning, the Texas home of award-winning writer/artist Lea Hernandez, my friend and co-creator of the graphic novel Killer Princesses, caught fire and burned. Half her house is now gone, and the rest is smoke-damaged. In addition, she lost at least six of her family’s beloved pets, […]

From Daily Kos. So much for the myth of the “liberal media”.