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By the way, the category "Logos" has nothing to do with corporate emblems, but more the Greek concept of the underlying order beneath the face of nature, beneath even chaos itself. That explains something, I hope.
1) I've finally booked my hotel space for SDCC 2007. I haven't done that since the convention was being held in the old Civic Center auditorium back in 1988, when we crammed 5-6 of us in a room and people slept wherever they could. I'm an adult now! I get my own room and my own bed and everything! Just that it's a touch further out than I wanted to be, but it's not costing me $350 a night, either. I have to say, this is all going to be very weird, coming back to the city that was home for the last seventeen years, just as a tourist.
2) TESTAMENT is the only regular Vertigo book I'm still reading. And that last bunch of launches looked so promising, too. But somehow Doug Rushkoff's alternate retelling of the Old Testament with a celestial cast wrapped around near-future conspiracy adventure in which we're left to doubt whether or not the Good Book is as rock-steady and fundamental as we've been led to believe. The Babel/Marduk storyline went down pretty well, probably because it wasn't as directly tied into the retelling of the bible stories as some of the first few issues were. Still some neat stuff being done with panel/page layouts too.
3) Congratulations to Larry, Mimi and young master Walker (who's too young to get Walker, Texas Ranger jokes, but that time will come.)
4) Listening to Savage Republic never gets old. Damn but that's some good stuff. I wonder if the CDs are still available through IPR?
5) Strangeways, under the title MURDER MOON, has gone out to Diamond for approval. I don't see them turning it down, but then some really strange things have happened along the way, so who knows?