Peter David's Blog, page 113

I hope Sarah Palin's Bus Tour Takes Her Through Babylon, Long Island

Then she can be the media whore of Babylon. PAD

Glad I'm Not a Retailer

How do you order DC titles for September? Fifty two #1 issues as the entire line reboots. Do you order it with inflated numbers as a #1 suggests? Do you just order off your previous numbers? Except how do you factor in the possible impact of the simultaneous release of electronic editions? How much business [...]

Open Request to the Producers of "Castle"

Dear sirs: Time to get serious. You've had a half dozen or so great in-joke winks to "Firefly" (including, most notably, the Halloween episode that had Nathan Fillion back in Mal's outfit) but now it's time to take it to the next level. You need to start casting other actors from "Firefly" in "Castle." You [...]

Morally Pure

Originally published May 12, 1995, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1121 I sympathize with Mr. Sweet's letter in CBG #1118, discussing how retailers will be the ones who are genuinely hurt by Marvel boycotts, whereas Marvel won't feel a thing. I say this not because Preston chose to use, as an example, The Incredible Hulk (although [...]

Stupid Instructions contest results, Part 3

Originally published May 5, 1995, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1120 Well, this is the wrap-up for the "Stupid Instructions" contest. I did a dramatic reading of the second installment at I-Con in Long Island a few weeks back and people were sliding out of their chairs in hysterics. Maybe I should make a flexi-disk. It [...]

Blink and it's Ten Years

I still remember the early evening on the day Kathleen and I got married, when we gathered with some friends in the hotel bar. One of the group looked at Kathleen, with her head on my shoulder while gazing at her wedding ring, and said, "You can tell she's a new bride," and Brandi Hauman [...]

Drama Desk Awards

Ariel (on the right) and her friend Meg are attending the Drama Desk awards tonight since Meg won a pair of tickets in a contest. They're attending the cocktail party, the red carpet arrival, the dinner, the awards themselves and the after parties. And they're meeting interesting people such as this guy. PAD

Movie review: Tank Girl

Originally published April 28, 1995, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1119 We're taking a break from the "Stupid Instructions" contest for one week in order to devote some column space to Tank Girl. Why? Because considering the pathetic box office performance thus far, it's a bit of a race as to whether it will still be [...]

If the World DOES End at 6 PM Today (UPDATED WITH POLL)

I hope it's 6 PM Pacific Time. Because the Mets/Yankees game starts at 7:10 Eastern, and if the Rapture is at 9 PM Eastern, they could probably get five innings in so it would be an official game. UPDATED at 7:32 PM: It appears a massive religious end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it has not transpired. This leaves us with [...]

It's 9 PM Pacific. Everybody Sing!

This is the world that doesn't end It just goes on and on my friend Somebody started living here not knowing what it was And they continue living here forever just because This is the world that doesn't end… PAD