"I've kissed mermaids, rode the el Nino, walked the sand with the crustaceans...."
Man, there's been a lot of famous people I love dying lately, but I'm just gonna pop onto Wikipedia real quick to reassure myself that one of my favorite authors, Umberto Eco, is still kicking it strong, at the ripe old age of--
"Died February 19th, 2016"
....
I'm gonna need a minute here. :pinkiesad:
Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
There was a star....maaaan, waiting in the sky
And he really liked to meet us
Cuz he knew he'd blow our minds
Let all the children lose it
Let all the children use it
Let all the children boogie
As an addendum to my post about "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", I think it's fair to say there's been some mixed responses to Diamond Tiara's moment of redemption. One of Bad Horse's blogpost directed me to a writeup by bookplayer, Agency and Character Development, and I think it's fair
In the life of a writer there are moments, as any of my fellow authors will well know, where inspiration seizes hold of you. Grips you tightly and reins you under control. Takes you by the hand and makes you do a high handstand. Consumes your very soul, and leaves you feeling like you hold the artery of creation beating and pulsating in your very hands, lets you feel the primordial flow of
Take a guess who's the newest featured author in the Royal Canterlot Library?
Wander on into the library and lend them your eyes. They do good work in recognizing how awesome I am spotlighting good stories. I know I've read a few based on their recommendations!
And a big thanks to AugieDog for pitching the story to them.
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Good on you, you deserve it!
Roll up the rim? :P
I've actually been waiting for this to happen for a while now. It's just too perfect a match! Congrats!
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Picture Flim & Flam standing in front of their patented "Tent o'Wonder 9000", barking to the passing ponies, "Roll up, roll up, roll up, don't be afraid! Just step inside and see the show!"
Well deserved.
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Best use yet:
Of your traditional salutatory formatting.
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So I'm reading through and you said you never had a favorite X-Man. Really? I mean, really? You never, at any point, thought to yourself "man, Gambit is just the coolest dude ever?"
Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway, totally deserved and congratulations.
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I only got into the book a decade ago, so I was reading twenty years' worth of back issues pretty much right after one another. Gambit came into the mix quite a ways down the line (Uncanny X-Men #267, if memory serves), during that very weird period where they died and were resurrected by Merlin's daughter and hid in Australia until they had to flee through the Siege Perilous except for Storm, who was already assumed dead but had actually been de-aged by a grown woman named "Nanny" in a robotic egg costume....
Yeah.
I don't think it ever really recovered from that tailspin. (The fact that someone thought Rob Liefeld was fit to hold a pencil is proof enough of that.) There was a refreshing straightforwardness to tales like the Proteus event or Days of Future Past or Arcade's Murderworld (when's that going to be in an X-Film?) that is now just bogged down in convoluted continuity across six different books at once. Gambit might have been cool, but at the time the convoluted and inane plotting really overshadowed him. Especially because Marvel editorial kept changing what his plot was supposed to be. First he was the traitor Bishop warned them about, then he was the third Summers brothers, then he was a clone created from Summers DNA but not actually the third Summers brother, and then....
Geez.
I made it to the Joseph thing before I bailed, and I never looked back. Well, I look back at the seminal '70s and early '80s stuff. But I have better things to do with my time than unravel the tangled web of the Summers-Grey bloodline and the sprawl of X-Books it dominates.
I will admit to having a soft spot for "Age of Apocalypse," though.
Mostly because it began and ended in four issues.