Babbling Point

She was, he said, an aristocratic eighty year old French lady and he loved her with a passion that bordered on the physical. The young receptionist reached for her pen. The called went on to explain that he would be coming to Singapore during the first week in March. And his traveling companion would be arriving a few days earlier. Could arrangements be made to look after the old lady in his absence? Despite her impeccable French pedigree, he said, she was liable on account of her great age to be a touch cantankerous. The receptionist explained that the hotel was always delighted to look after elderly ladies, cantankerous or otherwise. Let’s hope so, the called added. She was the one true love of his life and had survived all three of his marriages. Somewhat taken aback by this demonstration of gallic candour, the girl inquired if the gentleman had any particular suite in mind? Just put her in the garage he said. When she finally arrived, the gleaming 1908 Peugeot quietly excelled all ...

:-) To whoever finally approved the reprinting of this story arc, thank you very much! DOOM PATROL VOL. 2: THE PAINTING THAT ATE PARIS TP Written by Grant Morrison, Art by Richard Case & John Nyberg, Cover by Brian Bolland The long-awaited second collection of superstar writer Grant Morrison's groundbreaking run on DOOM PATROL, this new trade paperback reprints issues #26-34. This collection includes the rise of the legendary Brotherhood of Dada - the only team of super-foes ever strange enough to rival the Doom Patrol itself - as well as the menace of the Decreator and the return of Monsieur Mallah and the Brain from the original Brotherhood of Evil. In addition, THE PAINTING THAT ATE PARIS features never-before-seen character conceptual sketches drawn by Morrison and a new cover by Brian Bolland. On sale Sept 22 / 232pg / FC / $19.95 Way back in 1995 or 96, I was in a comic book convention and got to ask someone in the DC Comics panel if they’d ever re...

. ALMOST THERE Tired. Bad trip. Just want this week to end. Tired. So hard to bring myself to work these days. The past weeks have been a blur. Seems like we've been doing the same thing over and over again. Bad batting average this week. Two got shot down today. Two new projects waiting in the wings. Revise. Re-present. Bad trip. Tired. At least I get to home early and maybe watch AMAZING RACE, if I don't fall asleep.

Welcome to Monday! Feels like the Monday before this. For the past four weeks—or is it three weeks?—I’ve been working on the same project. Just when we think we’ve got it, something changes and we start all over again. So, here we go again. This should be it. This has got to be it. Last round. Here we go. I really don’t want to look at how many hours we’ve logged on for this project. The weekend was just too short a break. I really need to take a longer break. (And most probably, when I do take that break, that’s when I work on the other comic book projects so it’s not really a break—but I’m not really complaining—well, at least, not yet.) So, welcome to Monday the 13th! May this be our lucky day!