What's the latest issue of Angel: Old Friends that has been released? I haven't been to the comic shop since December, but I stopped by today and picked up #1, 2, and 3.

#3 is the most recent Angel: Old Friends.

Teppy, Emmett didn't want it, but I couldn't resist it, so I bought you this when we were at Ross today getting poker chips.

Teppy, Emmett didn't want it, but I couldn't resist it, so I bought you this when we were at Ross today getting poker chips.

Eeeeee! You are the BEST HEC EVAH!

Eeeeee! You are the BEST HEC EVAH!

You needed to own it. Very simple.

Hey Sean, cleaning house means I found my Mike Baron interview. Here's an excerpt where we talk about how to justify having a man put on tights to fight crime.

Smay: Let's talk about the realm of Badger then. What's his rationale for having a costume? He's crazy?

Baron: Yes, well that's the simplest rationale of all....[I said to Capital Publications] "I want to do a book about a Druid Wizard." And the result was, "Nobody wants to see a book about a Druid Wizard. Give us another costumed superhero." And again, my first reaction was, "I already did one costumed superhero!" They said they wanted a crime fighter and I thought to myself, "Why in the world would anybody want to put on a costume to fight crime? They'd have to be nuts." Boing! And the Badger was born, full blown out of my brow....So in writing The Badger writes itself. Nexus is hard work. The Badger is a joy to write. Sometimes it's nothing but an image. For an example of that I was watching TV one day and there was a story about how the Department of Resources was parachuting beavers into Northern Wisconsin in certain areas where the flowage was breaking down and they had too much run-off and erosion...And I thought, "Oh. Beavers parachuting from the sky." And it was such a marvelous image I've written a whole story on it called "Beaver Drop."

Your. Mike. Baron. Interview.

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Your. Mike. Baron. Interview.

It was cool!

I think the only reason Gary let me do it was because he knew Baron would go on for hours at the slightest prompting and any monkey could ask the questions. It's the only thing I did for The Comics Journal while I was at Fantagraphics.

I also rode back from San Diego Comic Con with Steve Rude. Also cool!

Hey Sean, cleaning house means I found my Mike Baron interview. Here's an excerpt where we talk about how to justify having a man put on tights to fight crime.

Sweet!

And it was such a marvelous image I've written a whole story on it called "Beaver Drop."

I remember that one. Vaguely. It's been too long since I've read any Nexus and Badger. I read them originally out of a friend's collection. Said friend has since moved to Sweden.

I also rode back from San Diego Comic Con with Steve Rude. Also cool!

This must surely have placed somewhere in the ranks of epic road trips.

This must surely have placed somewhere in the ranks of epic road trips.

Heh. Steve Rude is a very serious guy. But Heidi Macdonald was with us in the same car.

The party I went to at that San Diego con was suitably wild though. Mike Baron and Dave Sim were doing coke in one bedroom, Bob Burden was being just as drunk and goofy and ass-grabby as you'd expect the Flaming Carrot's creator to be, and Gilbert and Jaime were there too. (Los Bros. did no coke as that was a very un-punk thing to do.)

So, my DVR has been helping me catch up on all the Teen Titans I've missed. I didn't realize I'd missed the entire latter half of last season and the whole middle of this one. Last night, I watched 3 of the 4 episodes I'd missed from this season.

"Hide and Seek" was very blah for me. I think the kids annoyed me far more than they did Raven.

"Revved Up" was a silly story concept in my mind, but it had enough great little moments to make it enjoyable. Something about the way Starfire said "Galufnog" just cracked me up every single time. Though I'm annoyed that the series is over, meaning we'll never find out what the whole deal with Red X is.

"Lightspeed" was a lot of fun. It was also another confirmation, beyond Dick, that TT is in a separate Universe/timeline from the DCAU as Kid Flash was pretty obviously Wally considering the personality, red hair and Michael Rosenbaum voicing him.