In possibly the fastest-ever reversal on a comic book I’ve ever experienced, X-MEN FOREVER #2 put me off reading the series entirely. I’ll probably pick it up in (softcover) trade, but wow, I’ve never gone from really quite eager to read a series to dropping it that fast. There’s no continuity between 1 & 2. They skipped a huge chunk of action, which we will presumably learn As The Story Plays Out...

--is in Word magazine! So check it out!

MI-13 has been canceled! Woohoo! I don't think I ever said much on the subject, but Captain Britain and MI-13 is a book I have an unnatural hatred towards. It's not an obsessive hatred, but whenever I see the book mentioned, I mutter a silent curse. Why would I have such strong hatred? Spitfire. Paul Cornell was given a blond, Golden Age, immortal, speedster heroine...four of my favorite traits...

hey - i think... yes, literally nobody else will care about this, but paulcornell2 (writer of such episodes as father's day and human nature) mentioned on his blog today that he's reading a book by adam roberts :D who used to... well, teach me creative writing is perhaps a bit strong - be in the room whilst i was supposedly learning how to write better. terribly funny and engaging, but pants...

I've been waiting to announce this until I had some more specific news to report (and it is coming, and it is good, but there are still x's to be crossed and j's to be dotted), but as grrm has just let the cat partway out of the bag, I figure I ought to blog about it now. I'm now a member of the Wild Cards consortium. The other members of the Wild Cards Class of 2009 are cmpriest...

Paul Cornell 's con report. (And the LJ import of it ).

Both david_devereux   and I are getting a lot of potential sign-ups and some really good feedback on this - plus I have to thank paulcornell2   for a cheeky post about it on his main blog - and thank the awesome guys at Harmonix Music for actually giving us the Rock Band 2 kit to auction at the Con!! More details on the top prize here - and there are bagloads of other goodies...

paulcornell2 has been running a competition for new comic creator nicknames along the lines of Stan "The Man" Lee and Jack "King" Kirby. I just discovered that my own suggestion - Neil "the Shaman" Gaiman - has been adjudged the winner. Golly.

Apparently comics writer Paul Cornell is a fan! http://paulcornell2.livejournal.com/37729.html "And the anime show Genshiken is my new passion. It's about a university anime/manga society, but is really about geek types and politics, and is very wise on that subject. I know these characters from my fan life. It's also very mature about sexual relationships, a meaningful romcom, with a maturity...

After what I would later learn was a very generous 5 hours sleep, spacefall and I made it to breakfast where we had vegan cooked breakfast with different ingredients to the day before (fried potatoes FTW!) and cereal with hotel-supplied chilled soya milk. I then looked through the items in the charity auction, decided I already spent enough in the auction at AXXIdental and instead went to...