On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

...and had an encounter with a grasshopper - has to have been at least a month since the last time I saw one in the neighbourhood! - and three bunnies. "Bunnies" as in "actual very young rabbits". If those three almost had heart attacks running away from me and my lawn mower, I can confirm that they were not alone in that. Seeing them running away...?

Yike.

Am I really the first Dreamwidth user to list Treknology as an interest?

...radiantfracture ! Good to see you here, and hopefully we can have some productive backchat over the months and years ahead!

I just found out from David Brin over on Facebook that this is an unofficial thing, coinciding with Isaac Asimov's birthday.

Nice.

Attempted murder?

Really?

You may imagine my surprise upon reading this item by Peter Simpson for the Ottawa Citizen. I didn't know things had gotten that troubled. There were certainly warning signs such as the Orléans store closure and the reduction in on-shelf stock that I should have taken as being Important.

Disclosure: I have been a customer on an irregular basis ever since moving to Ottawa-Gatineau in 1985, and am nowhere near using up the supplies I've bought from Wallacks yet. When they're on top of their game (which has been normally the case) they have a solid product selection for artists working in non-digital media formats.

No, that was not a mistaken choice of words for a subject header. By way of explanation:

http://shieldtv.net/casting-spoiler-edward-james-olmos-joins-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d

I'd have figured that guy for a movie gig first.

Looking back at what I know of the character of Peggy Carter, it's a bit of a surprise to see her achieve such commercial stature with Marvel's film and TV operations. And yet, such commercial success for a property deemed "obscure" by modern lights is hardly unknown to comics, is it?

(I use that phrasing for a reason. When Peggy was introduced in 1966, she was as high-profile as Pepper Potts, Sue Richards, or Betty Brant. No longer, at least in the comics, though...)

Take a look at DC's Animal Man. When Grant Morrison and Chas Truog turned their attention to Buddy Baker back in the late 1980's, "A-Man" was about as obscure as it got. Sure, there was that gathering of "Forgotten Heroes" in DC Comics Presents a year or two before the first Crisis maxi-series. But did anyone expect the book that Morrison and Truog started to last a decade and become a cornerstone of one of DC's most acclaimed lines of product?

Hope, yes. Expect? Probably not.

And yet it did.

Not quite sure how it happened, but there were enough happy coincidences to make it work.

And now it looks to be happening again, to Marvel's benefit.

Curious to see where and how this goes...

Not sure how much of a surprise this was to me this morning as I read my e-mail and stuff before going off to work:

http://comicsbeat.com/jh-williams-iii-and-w-haden-blackman-quit-batwoman-over-editorial-interference/

Considering that Marvel actually showed Northstar's marriage on-camera in Astonishing X-Men last year, I am surprised that this version of Batwoman wasn't to be accorded the same treatment.