I return to the Comics Shenanigans podcast where host Adam Chapman and I take a deep dive into my new novel, Dark Future. We also have an in depth discussion about the just-concluded Spider-Man '94. You can listen right here. Enjoy!
I return to the Comics Shenanigans podcast where host Adam Chapman and I take a deep dive into my new novel, Dark Future. We also have an in depth discussion about the just-concluded Spider-Man '94. You can listen right here. Enjoy!
Hi JM!! i love your work and i’m an astrologer - do you know what time you were born? would love to look at your birth chart !
ReplyDeleteGood question, but I don't have the answer!
DeleteIt is interesting thatnon on eever brings up that time you mt Harvey Pekar, and then had an existential crisis.
ReplyDeleteYou recall...
You met Pekar and told him how much you enjoyed his work, and appreciated how much detail he put into this fiction city of "Cleveland," and asked him if he would ever explore more of this fantastic realm of his called "O-Hi-O."
He then told you bothe Ohio and Cleveland were real, and when it was confirmed by several people, you started wonder if Oz was real. Could you buy a plain ticket to Shangri-La? Did Atlantis have a tourism board? Is the planet mono looking for incoming immigrants? What of Kansas? Surely Kansas could not be real, right?
You spent about a week and a half catatonic in a mental hospital, until you just decided to assume Harvey Pekar was just a prodict of an over-stresed imagination, that seemed more realsitic that this "Cleveland" beign real.
A Classic New Yorker meets an out-of-towner story.
Jack
Accurate, as always!
DeleteI assume you based this on the fact that I met Harvey at a con years ago and we had a short correspondence discussing the virtues of (so-called) realistic vs. fantastic fiction. He was an interesting guy, to say the least, and I loved his work.
Truth be told, I am not sure even Pekar knew what he was.
DeletePekar, at least to me, was a stand-up comedian who did not want to speak in front fo crowds, but had friends who could draw.
That is what his work always seemed like to me. Illustrated observatiinal stand-up comedy.
JAck
Interesting take, Jack. I think his work went beyond that, but I understand the interpretation.
DeleteQuick question about "Peter parker: spider-man Annual 1 1999" can the fight between peter and scrier still count as physical? It says the fight started to become beyond physical but i don't know if it means they were out their physical form, since when peter returns to his consciousness after the dreams (like him being with gwen still) he is in his physical form and Outrider is shown holding peter, I'm asking since there is proof to back up it is physical and proof that it isn't physical.
ReplyDeleteI don't have clear memories of that story, but I'm not a big believer in a definitive line between the physical and non-physical worlds, between reality and dreams, so really, both things can be true!
DeleteI am just saying, you never see Bob DYlan and the Dali Lama in the same place at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThank about it.
JAck
To quote Jack Benny: I'm thinking it over!
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