Shaenon K. Garrity's Journal

Confidential to Pancha, Elena, Leia, and Jason: With this page, my part of the ancient compact has been fulfilled. May the legendary beast fly forever over rainbows and under waterfalls.

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Incidentally, Brian and I debated the CD cover for a while last night. In the end, my irrational fondness for "Weird Al" Yankovic won out.

Oh, and of course there's a new Chronicles of William Bazillion!

My second "All the Comics in the World" column is up at Comixology.com. Go read it! In my first column I talked about All-Star Batman and Robin, and in this one I talk about Pogo and Peanuts. I can do that, because I'm covering All the Comics in the World. I don't want to give away any spoilers for my next column, but let's just say a certain birthstone-themed defunct DC universe now widely accessible through quarter bins might be involved.

If you need even more to read, this 2006 profile of Jason Thompson, periodic Overlooked Manga Festival contributor and author of Manga: The Complete Guide, is awful and hilarious. Also, I'm sad to say, very true. After reading about 500 manga series, Jason was getting pretty weird there.

Last call: if you'd like a copy of this year's Marvel Holiday Special signed by Andrew and myself, Paypal $6.00 (the cover price is $3.99, so the extra two bucks ought to cover S&H) to narbonic (at) sbcglobal.net. We're ordering copies from Al's Comics, a good store in our neighborhood that needs a little extra business right now. Oh, and we just got a look at the lettered pages for our story today, and we're pretty darn excited.

What else? Oh, right! Overlooked Manga Festival!

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