My thoughts on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #43, now online, gave me a chance to reflect on my own interest in space — and so it was ironic that the news of Walter Cronkite passed just as I was writing them. For you see, he’s the man in the moon. And I’m not speaking figuratively. Here’s how: I was far too young to pay much attention to …
It looks like the free downloads for Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith Chapter 2: Skyborn will begin on July 21, just in time to provide you San Diego Comicon-bound folk with reading for the plane. (Unless, of course, you look around and see your plane full of Sith — in which case reading about the aftermath of a bunch of Sith slamming into a mountain may not make …
Nothing vanilla about Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #43 — the latest issue in our saga, on sale Wednesday. Chaos continues when a caper on a comet crashes! (Pardon the alliteration — and very sorry for the dreaded rap flashback.) Everyone’s getting ready for San Diego and all the big announcements there and beforehand, so enjoy some pre-convention comics goodness. Notes to follow in a while. And as …
A benefit auction has been organized and planned for Wizard World Chicago on behalf of fellow Star Wars comics writer John Ostrander, following his glaucoma surgeries. A website has been set up, Comix4Sight.com, with details on how you can support this worthy cause. Mike Gold and Adriane Nash of ComicMix have set up the auction with the help of the convention. John was guest of honor at Midsouthcon this year …
Congratulations to former CBG and Scrye cohort James Mishler, on his wedding this past weekend! All the best!
With conventions and some news coming up, I’ve taken a Twitter account at http://www.twitter.com/jjmfaraway. I haven’t got a notion as to how often I’ll post to it — I’m not much of a text-messager in day to day life — but as I’ve been too busy to blog as much as I’d like, maybe bursts of 140 characters from the web won’t be as hard!
A dreadful stretch of days for fans of classic television continues: After My Little Margie‘s Gale Storm and Streets of San Francisco‘s Karl Malden, now we’ve lost Mollie Sugden, star of one of my favorite Britcoms, Are You Being Served? (Her cohort at the ladies’ counter, Wendy Richard, passed away earlier in the year.) A TV critic once said that the reason Cheers worked so well is that it was …
Very busy of late, but a few additions to the site: pages for September’s issue of Knights of the Old Republic (#45), and for the seventh of the Knights trade paperbacks, named Dueling Ambitions and including issues #36-41. Preorder from your retailer or from Amazon. I’ve been asked about San Diego, and no, the convention isn’t in my plans this year. It’s strictly a local convention summer for me — …
Very sorry to see the passing of Farrah Fawcett. She was everywhere in the 1970s — Charlie’s Angels, of course, and innumerable T-shirts and posters — and even if you were too young to pay much attention to girls, you knew she was (then) married to the Six Million Dollar Man, so she had to be cool. But she’s also got a pivotal role in the film version of Logan’s …
Welcome to Fanboy Anonymous. We’ve got someone new with us today. Introduce yourself, please… “My name is John, and I saw Tim Burton’s Batman movie theatrically 12 times. I know that sounds excessive, but it just sort of happened.” Happened how? “It was summer session in a college town — everyone had left. The trendiest nightspot was the campus commissary where each hour Hair-Net Harriet would loudly announce the alley …