SUNN 0))) have a Bandcamp page.  That alone is something that should be disseminated.  But it’s worth noted that their page is so complete as to include their fascinating collaboration with Nurse With Wound, which you may not have heard.  So it’s tonight’s Night Music.  And if, like me, you’ve already heard it, then you know it’s worth listening to again.  G’night.

Been to Dublin and back, and now I have a ton of things to do. So, after today’s SCATTERLANDS fires, I’m all quiet here til Monday.

I was in Dublin, by the way, to participate in a debate at Trinity College, which was fascinating and entertaining in equal measure. I also signed a bit of stock at Forbidden Planet Dublin on my way out of town.

And now, much writing and thinking to do (and probably some thinking out loud on the newsletter later).

I like to think that Wilbur Mercer’s middle name was Godot.

Good night.

How did you come up with Spider Jerusalem? An old question, I know, but I recently started trying to dissect why he’s such a great character, and…once I cut into that bastard there was a lot more guts than I expected. A list of features as long as I am, interlocking like an organism. The phrase that I said in whispered reverence was "equation for STORY".

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I had been asked to write a science fiction comics series.  Since it was an American publisher who had asked, I first decided to set the series in America.  Given that sf was not a popular genre in American comics at the time, I elected to look at ways a reader might enter an episodic science fiction series — ways in which the reader could be invited into the world.  Which, in sf, often means explaining the world in some way.  I went back to the roots of American sf: to Hugo Gernsback, whose early RALPH 124C 41+ was pretty much narrated, quite archly, by the rockstar-scientist of the title.  Ralph: One To Foresee For One.

Someone who could explain the world of the future to us.

What sort of person explains the world to us?  A journalist.

And so off I went.

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