Polite Dissent

I will be attending Wizard World Texas, November 7th through 9th. In fact, I will be there in a semi-official capacity as one of the speakers at “Wizard World University” — a joint program sponsored by Wizard and the Institute For Comics Studies that looks at comics from an academic perspective. There will be four one-hour sessions, and I will be one of the speakers at the the second session: “Wizard World University: Comics Analysis”, Saturday from 1-2 PM.

If you’ll be attending the convention, stop by the session and say hello.

Congratulations to the Invincible Chris Sims, who, along with an assortment of other talented people, has started Action Age Comics. Given the previews he’s posted and images available on the Action Age site, it’s clear they will be producing comics I can fully endorse (there’s a pull quote you can use: “physician endorsed”).

(And, when you’re ready, we can talk about my magnum opus: Dr. Silverback, Gorilla M.D.
Slogan: “The 800-pound gorilla is back, and this time, he’s your doctor!”)

I am almost done with the annotations to Volume 1 of Black Jack and hope to have them posted by mid-morning tomorrow. That gives everyone enough time to finish reading the book, or to go out and buy and then finish reading it (you have picked it up, haven’t you?).

I am particularly interested to see what people thought of the sixth story, “Confluence” (the one about Black Jack’s true love).