Hal Johnson's Blog, page 5
July 13, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
(TOMORROW! July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT)
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: It’s the morning of April 11. Nothing bad has happened yet. Colin (aka Agent Anderson) and Bernie are getting ready to change that, while Mickey (aka Sp!der) tries to use his cousin to ferret out the prospective shooter’s identity.)
3.Officer Oberman slept through his alarm, but hi...
July 10, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
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Carl Barks!
July 8, 2025
A garland of quotations CXXVIII
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published World, world, O world!But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,Life would not yield to age.•Shakespeare, Lear (1606).Happy people on many worlds—! They aren’t cursed by relentless fiends like I am.
•Jerry Siegel, Superma...
July 6, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: It’s the morning of April 11. Colin wakes up in Bernie’s house.)
Book V: One Short Morning1.Some time around dawn, wrapped in Colin’s comforter on his 600-count Egyptian cotton sheets, Carol drifted into a slumbe...
July 3, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!(get well soon)
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Miller & Rubinstein!
July 1, 2025
A garland of quotations CXXVII
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
READ THIS BOOK! (and no other)
Iron bars will bend and break.
•trad., “London Bridge Is Falling Down.”
And all my sloth and failure, all my passion
One with the sorrow of the Gaul and Goth,
And all our fireproof homes are burnt and ashen,
And in the moth-proof closets dwells the moth;
And every most unspeakable thing is spoken,
Rust in the rust-res...
June 29, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: Colin Lang left a stolen car running out on the street. Colin girlfriend Carol Wernick is at Colin’s house, wondering where Colin is and what he might be up to. She does not suspect, of course, the answer, which is that he’s nearby at Bernie Feldstein’s ho...
June 26, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
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Steve Muffatti!
June 24, 2025
A garland of quotations CXXVI
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Poor infant, to be born into such a world as this.
•Churchill, at his grandson’s christening, 12/1/1940.
Was it wrong just to be born,
O Lord?
Have mercy on me for being born
once before.
I give you my word,
lord of the meeting rivers,
never to be born again.
•Basavanna, vacana 21 (C 12).
Even in childhood, sorrow slept w...
June 22, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
(Upcoming appearances: July 15, 6–7:30, author talk, Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT) | July 19, 10–3, Book Walk, Main St., Old Wethersfield CT)
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: Colin Lang and his rifle have arrived at Bernie' Feldstein’s house. All they have to do is wait out the night, and the next day the killing begins.)
14.Many of the carefully enumerated contents of the duffel bag were now scattere...
