It’s been quite a day, again. The kind of day in which time seems to acquire a viscosity of its own, sucking you in, gulping you down. A day-long meeting, with multiple sub-meetings scattered in between.<\/p>\n
The day shouldn’t over yet. Because tonight’s the night Brian K Vaughan arrives at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood for a Q&A, followed by a signing. The event is the midnight release party of Vaughan’s new comic book Saga<\/em>, the previews of which show a lot of promise. Oh, and the Q&A is being conducted by Damon Lindelof, you know, the co-creator of this little-known TV series about a bunch of people on an island. I had been excited about this event for quite some time now – actually, excitement is too mild a word for what I am feeling right now. I was all set to buy issue 1 of Saga, <\/em>and I was planning to get my Y The Last Man <\/em>and Pride of Baghdad\u00a0<\/em>hardcovers signed.<\/p>\n But what happened was this – I came home, had my dinner, showered, got ready, and put the hardcovers in my backpack. Walked out of the apartment. And then I realized that I was too tired to consider going across town for a signing. Brian K Vaughan could wait. Saga <\/em>can wait. My body needs to rest.<\/p>\n I feel all grown-up. I feel old. One of these is not that bad, and the other sucks. I hate being grown-up.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Despite the meetings, I did find time for some liberal credit-card abuse. Scott Dunbier, Keeper of the Artists’ Editions that I had mentioned a few days ago wrote to the comic-art mailing list about a special Wondercon edition of both the Romita Artists’ Edition, which came signed by Stan Lee and John Romita. And <\/em>sketched in by John Romita as well. The Wally Wood book also has a special edition, and the ebaywhore in me howled at a metaphorical moon as I hastily pre-ordered both. The rational side (if there is any) probably whimpered for mercy somewhere in the corner of my brain. And I learnt of another pre-order today – Titan Books is coming out with an Artist Edition of its own. Back when the first Ridley Scott Alien <\/em>was released, writer Archie Goodwin and artist Walt Simonson teamed up to adapt the book into its comic. It was a fairly good adaptation, considering that this was the pre-Watchmen era, Simonson’s art in particular nailing the kinetic moments of the film. I learnt that Amazon UK had it for sale<\/a> at less than half of cover price, sighed to myself and ordered. Come on, it was just 22 GBP.<\/p>\n IDW is on a roll. Up next, after the Eisner and the Born Again editions, there’s the Groo The Wanderer Artist Edition coming out in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Speaking of Watchmen<\/em>, you should read this transcript of a 90-minute long interview with Alan Moore<\/a>. This is basically Moore’s side of the story of the Watchmen <\/em>prequels that DC announced a few weeks ago. Go on, read it, it’s 8 pages long.<\/p>\n Are you back? You don’t have to be. I am too tired to right anything about the interview at the moment. I should probably go get some sleep.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I am not disappointed about missing the Meltdown Comics event, not at all. Because Wondercon is this weekend, and I am primed for it. Oh yeah, old age and grown-upness, you don’t scare me. Not at all.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n The saddest news this week has been the news of Moebius’s passing. Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud was one of the finest artists who ever drew a comic-book, and it guts me to think that we lost him this early. His shadow looms large over a lot of memorable films of the eighties – Blade-runner, Dune, Akira, The Fifth Element, <\/em>mostly for the visual design that they liberally borrowed from his works. Among the tributes and articles about him all week, here’s an archive of photographs<\/a>\u00a0of the master with other legendary creators. Pay close attention to the ones with Hayao Miyazaki, Osamu Tezuka, Uderzo and Hugo Pratt.<\/p>\n I should really sleep now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been quite a day, again. The kind of day in which time seems to acquire a viscosity of its own, sucking you in, gulping you down. A day-long meeting, with multiple sub-meetings scattered in between. The day shouldn’t over yet. 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