The Best Part About All This Is...
Michael Wolff sent me comments and critiques on my STINGRAY outline today. STINGRAY, as many of you probably know, is another Gerry Anderson Supermarionation property, and one that we're very interested in adapting into comics form. As always, Michael's comments are insightful and helpful, and will certainly make the finished product a much stronger piece (for those that don't know, Michael is the author of SUPERCAR #0, among other things. You can find out more about this very talented gentleman at www.miscmayhemprods.com. Follow the links to "Tales from the Mojo Cave").
And this started me thinking about the incredibly talented group of people that are being asembled under the Misc!MAYHEM banner. Anthony Taylor, Chris Jones, Matt Webb, Keith Wilson, Marty van Dyke, Steve Erwin, Kerry Gammill...the list goes on and on. And the really cool thing is that it's a very cooperative effort. Everybody really seems to want everybody else to succeed. I haven't been involved in a group like this since college (I was a voice/music major, and the feeling I get from this is the feeling I used to get when we put on the winter opera. It's a great place to be), and I'm really enjoying it.
One thing that Michael mentioned in his email (and I think he won't mind that I share this), is the sense of synchronicity in bringing together so many people with a core set of common interests in one place at one time. Comics and Gerry Anderson were sort of a given, but it also seems that we all have a "thing" for Giant Robots battling Giant Monsters and the incredibly odd and disturbing literary achievements of Howard Philips Lovecraft. Think about it: these are the things we got beat up for liking when we were kids, and now we're actually going to build a business around them.
Isn't life great?
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