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[David Bird]

I wish I could find the piece he did as a police story riff from years ago. It's what inspired me to write.

Do you remember what it was in?

Two for today:

bad signal
WARREN ELLIS

And while I'm pausing to do email: I just got a note from
Image saying that the third printing of FELL #1 is sold
out, as is the current printing of FELL #3.

And there are only 500 copies of FELL #4 left in stock.
If you need more copies in a timely fashion, then order
them NOW.

We are now looking at an absurd FOURTH printing of
a USD $1.99 comic featuring a nun wearing a Richard
Nixon mask.

If you retailer types keep selling 'em, we'll keep printing
'em for as long as we can.

And to think some retailers accused us of leaving
money on the table. We seem to be hoovering it up
pretty damn good, no?

-- W

And on his Eisner nomination:

bad signal
ME

About a dozen people have just emailed me to tell me I
got nominated half a dozen times in this year's Eisner
Awards thing. I get nominated for the Eisner thing
regularly. I've never won one and never will. Please stop
emailing me about this now. It's not important.

-- W

[David Bird]

Just a link to his Ministry article. Its on Public Intellectuals and their role in comics. Worth a look.

bad signal

I wrote it four hours ago and I can't remember
what it's about

http://www.comicon.com/pulse/

The link is to the homepage, but you can follow it from there.

[David Bird]

Pssst!

Do check out this article (the one above). He makes some very interesting points about comic writers as public intellectuals -- and why they aren't doning as much in that role as they once did.

[David Bird]

Practically no readers yesterday at all.

Today's (April 7):

bad signal
WARREN

The work, it is kicking my arse.

Proofed FELL 5 last night and got
the notes back to Gadget Chris
Eliopoulous within about an hour
of getting the PDFs from him, which
is a new record. I finally took a
look at the Eisner noms, and noticed
that both Chris and Mr Benjamin
Witchity Templesmith of the
Australian colonies were nominated.
As were JH Williams, Todd Klein and
Jose Villarubia on DESOLATION
JONES. As was, I believe, OCEAN as
illustrated by Chris Sprouse and
Karl Story. I'm working from
memory, so I don't know if I'm
missing anyone. I think maybe
DOWN as by Cully Hamner and Tony
Harris? Cully deserves a bloody
medal for coming in on that book
and making it work.

I don't have time for awards, but
it's nice that people took notice of
the creators who make me look good.

Turned out JONES 6 got bumped to
next week, by the way. Not sure
why.

Elodie? Your Snowtown tattoo will
go into the backmatter for FELL 6.

Initial orders on FELL issues seem
to finally be creeping back up, by
the way, which should make it easier
for people to find copies in the week
of release. This should also loosen
up the market for the FELL-format
books to follow from Fraction etc.
And then we'll have ourselves a new
working format. Which isn't a bad
year's work.

I believe the next printing of FELL #1
will carry an ad for Gillen & McKelvie's
PHONOGRAM.

Something more coherent later.
I'm now alone at home for the next
three days, so I've got time to
think/bullshit.

-- W

[David Bird]

April 8:

bad signal
WARREN ELLIS

Tests on Box (see Signals passim)
continue: I've just watched an
episode of The Daily Show on it in
the pub. Box came with a bit of
software that converts video into
the avi flavour Box likes -- takes a
few minutes -- and then I plug Box
into the computer and drag-and-
drop the avi into Box's SD card.
Sat down in the pub, propped Box
on my Treo's foldout keyboard,
put the earphones in and off I went.
Battery charge still looks good.
I have three 1GB SD cards, so I'm
going to take a few films to Denmark
with me.

And I discovered that Box's camera
has four different photo modes,
which presumably means I can
take something other than "natural
light" or "bleached beyond recognition
by the military-grade flash" photos.

Finishing one script this afternoon,
finishing another tonight, and
hopefully a third one tomorrow if
I don't get bogged down in research.
I've been going blind reading through
webpages on old Marvel comics for
something Joe Q asked me for. My
head is now full of things I didn't need
to know, such as that Marvel co-
published a Christian superhero comic
called ILLUMINATOR in the 80s.
(And that his costume, weirdly, was
blue leather trousers and jacket
and a motorcycle helmet.)

I'll probably be hanging around on
The Engine tonight if anyone wants
me.

-- W

[DrTzinTzin]

[quote="David Bird"][/quote]

David...it was in a Bad Signal Message I was sent through a board.

I think, if I remember correctly, it was called New York Undercover.

Or some such.

[David Bird]

David...it was in a Bad Signal Message I was sent through a board.

I think, if I remember correctly, it was called New York Undercover.

Or some such.

Explain.

[David Bird]

Bad Comic Ideas 101:

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WARREN


I am alone and slightly pissed off and having a few drinks and
looking through the Marvel research stuff I mentioned earlier,
and I found this.. thing. That apparently supported its own
title at some point.

It is called DARKHAWK.

According to this character bio I found, Darkhawk is some
American kid who, through use of a special amulet...

...turns into a robot.

And, even better, somewhere down the storyline, he discovered
that his mind was simply transferred into the robot, which
swapped places with him teleportationally from its storage
unit in subspace, MIRACLEMAN-stylee (kinda).

But seriously. Magic amulet turns kid into robot.

I swear to you, I'm not so drunk that I'm making this up.

(Bad Signal pal Danny Fingeroth was the writer, apparently,
working from a concept developed by Tom DeFalco.)

Stop me from pitching this as some appalling blood-and-guts
Marvel MAX adult project.

PLEASE.

[nietoperz]

Actually, a blood and guts Max Darkhawk book written by Ellis doesn't sound too bad! I'd buy it...

[daitong]

Actually, a blood and guts Max Darkhawk book written by Ellis doesn't sound too bad! I'd buy it...

That would DEFINITELY improve on that piece of tin shit Rom wannabe character. Darkhawk reminds me of what was wrong with 90's comics.

[nietoperz]

That would DEFINITELY improve on that piece of tin shit Rom wannabe character. Darkhawk reminds me of what was wrong with 90's comics.

I never read it. It just looked so bad...

[daitong]

I never read it. It just looked so bad...

I'll never forgive Marvel for that one.

[nietoperz]

I'll never forgive Marvel for that one.

I still haven't forgiven them for Scott Lobdell on X-Men...

[daitong]

I still haven't forgiven them for Scott Lobdell on X-Men...

That and Cable.

[Technofear's Revenge]

Bad Comic Ideas 101:

bad signal
WARREN


I am alone and slightly pissed off and having a few drinks and
looking through the Marvel research stuff I mentioned earlier,
and I found this.. thing. That apparently supported its own
title at some point.

It is called DARKHAWK.

According to this character bio I found, Darkhawk is some
American kid who, through use of a special amulet...

...turns into a robot.

And, even better, somewhere down the storyline, he discovered
that his mind was simply transferred into the robot, which
swapped places with him teleportationally from its storage
unit in subspace, MIRACLEMAN-stylee (kinda).

But seriously. Magic amulet turns kid into robot.

I swear to you, I'm not so drunk that I'm making this up.

(Bad Signal pal Danny Fingeroth was the writer, apparently,
working from a concept developed by Tom DeFalco.)

Stop me from pitching this as some appalling blood-and-guts
Marvel MAX adult project.

PLEASE.

There a petition thread over at Jinxworld to try and get Warren Ellis to actually do this.

Warren showed up and called us all bastards.