Hallo all. Met Gail Simone and Scott Kurtz at a signing here in SA Saturday. Scott was suprised and pleased that some of us brought his old PVP trade. He was also less upset when I alluded to Penny Arcade than I expected. Gail was very funny and smart, and not at all like a comic-book character.

...except for the part where she was a hot bespectacled redhead sitting in a chair. Hm.

The cover for NextWave #11 almost made me choke on my coffee.

The cover for NextWave #11 almost made me choke on my coffee.

Yeah, I shot precious coffee through my nostrils when I saw that this morning.

"Mark Millar Licks Goats!"

I am very glad I hadn't gone to get coffee, because it would be everywhere except in my belly where it belongs right about now.

That's a thing of beauty.

Was anyone following Lucifer? I'm sad to see it ending, but pleased that it had such a good run. There's a nice article about it over at Popmatters.

Didn't it end months ago? I've been reading it in the TPBs, so for me it won't be over for a little while yet. But yeah, I thought Carey did an amazing job. It made me happy that Lucifer remained such a complete asshole throughout. I mean, that's a tricky character to base a series around.

Well, it was released at the end of June, so I guess it has been two months. I've been reading it in spurts, though, so I hadn't been buying it off the shelf.

Heh, I wasn't sure myself. I think I deliberately stopped noticing the floppies at some point when I knew they would tempt me with their shiny newness.

I read it up through the end (using the Alan Moore/Neil Gaiman loophole I gave myself for my No More DC policy). Wasn't terribly impressed by the final issue though.

Oh, it's over? I guess that means I can start reading it all eventually.