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April 3, 2021
Book of the Week: Justice Wing: Plan, Prototype, Produce, Perfect (re-upped).
Eric Burns-White had a rather alarming afternoon involving a collapsing ceiling (he avoided major injury), so I’m putting up his Justice Wing: Plan, Prototype, Produce, Perfect again. Every little bit helps, hey?
The new BLACK WIDOW trailer.
July 9th.
It probably won’t end properly, but that’s life for ya.
Moe Lane
PS: Absolutely I am seeing this in theaters. We’re putting everything back the way it was, as much as we can. That means movies in theaters.
04/03/21 Snippet, PROCESSING DUTY.
I think that the 1950s and 1960s would not be entirely impressed with the monsters of the 1970s and 1980s.
Patreon!Could’ve been worse: at least nobody died. People usually don’t from Runners, if you can get ‘em to the doc in time and get ‘em the antidote for the eggs. What? Oh, yeah, Runners stick eggs in you. If they hatch… kablooey. That’s why the Site usually gets sent the eggs already pickled in brine, when we get ‘em alive at all. Me, I’d just have people take a flamethrower to the filthy things, but everybody just loves to send us all their worst stuff. Makes it our problem, not theirs — and they got the paperwork to prove it. You get used to it.
Anyway, including Jack we had four people in the infirmary, which was a real busy night for our section. Oh, and one of them was Morton. He was looking even more like a mole than usual. Not like a Russian spy, like a real mole: short, fat, big schnoz. He was so out of it from the painkillers, he didn’t even wake up when me and the doc had to deal with a Runner that hadn’t quite died when we yanked it off another victim. Those little bugs can move.
“What the hell, Slugger?” the doctor asked me, when the last Runner was off and spiked. He had prescribed me, him, and the nurse a nerve relaxant; he had just enough ice for the three of us. “You guys decided to celebrate Easter early?”
04/03/21 Revisions, MORGAN BAROD.
Two chapters down! And I may get another one in today, depending on how the rest of the day goes. Various deadlines and whatnot. I also need to establish the throughline for the book that I acquired for it, somewhat after I started writing it. Outlines are your friend…
April 2, 2021
Movie of the Week: ARMY OF DARKNESS.
We ran the eldest kid through ARMY OF DARKNESS tonight. It’s very important that you teach your children the classics. It can only help them in later life.
04/02/21 Snippet, PROCESSING DUTY.
Shamelessness!
Patreon!I hadn’t gotten more than five steps from the door when two damned Runners tried to jump me. Nasty things; like a scorpion about the size of a cat, all slime and black scales, and they jump. There were actually three of ‘em, but the third had its hooks in somebody else’s face, so I only had the two to deal with. Lucky me.
First one, I zipped right away, but the second one leaped, the way that they do. I ducked down — okay, okay, I half-fell to the floor. Lost the zip-club, but I needed that hand to grab at my pockets. Found my mouthguard, put it in. Should’ve done that from the start, but I wasn’t thinking.
As I got back up from having one knee on the floor and my side against the wall, I saw the Runner I zipped starting to uncurl. I took a second to smush it good, with one foot, and then the second Runner jumped out at me from a shadow again. This time it got me right in the kisser.
Now, normally when that happens the Runner digs in tight, shoves its tail down your throat, and does some things I’d rather not talk about, right? Use your imaginations, Agents. But I had the mouthguard, so it wasn’t gonna do any that, you know, indelicate stuff.
04/2/21 Revisions, MORGAN BAROD.
First chapter’s done with the alpha edits. That sounds great, right? Wrong. I should be getting at least three done a day if I want to keep this project on-track. That’s why I’m nagging myself about it now, in fact. I figure it’s okay to start slow, if I accelerate. As long as I actually accelerate.
Finally figured out what’s been bothering me about the latest Batman designs.
And it’s always the same thing:
From The Suicide Squad to The Batman to Black Adam, here's what WB has in store for DC movies and shows in 2021 (and beyond): https://t.co/pwYhQpah8b pic.twitter.com/twADgIjPz3
— IGN (@IGN) April 2, 2021
You can’t see the dang symbol in the dark. As Frank Miller’s Batman once famously pointed out, he wears a big target on his chest because he can’t armor his head. (I even think they referenced that here.)
Moe Lane
PS: As I have noted before, I am tentatively down for Violent Goth Batman. It’s a legitimate take on the character. Annnnnd… dammit, they’re still not doing a animated version of THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM. What, DC doesn’t like money?
