Jason Aaron's Blog, page 31

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Sounds in My Head

Would totally trade whatever's left of my soul if I could just live one day as a standup bass player in a rockabilly band. ♫ http://blip.fm/~rhj0j

thoughts too long for twitter

Every time the World Cup roles around, I sit and watch some games and try to foster an appreciation for soccer.  I have so far been unsuccessful.  I guess I might as well face the facts.  No soccer "tackle" will never give me anywhere near the violence-boner that seeing a middle linebacker level a running back does.  There it is.

Sometimes I wish I was Japanese

Early 20th century Japanese steamship travel poster. Via.

other titles for THE OTHER SIDE

Found this file while cleaning up some old folders.  Before THE OTHER SIDE became THE OTHER SIDE, it was going to be titled GRUNTS.  But then another book came out called GRUNTS, so we needed a new title.  It took a long time to come up with one.  Me and Cameron Stewart and our editors all threw out ideas.  Here are some of the ones that were suggested:
ORDNANCEOUR TIME OF DYING BROTHERS IN DARKNESS US DAMNEDUS WRETCHEDTHE DEEP GREENBEYOND ALL RECOGNITIONMOTHER CARBINEFIRE FOR EFFECTTAKING...

Shameless Plugs of the Day

My One On One interview thread with David Lapham, recently completed at the Standard Attrition forums


An all-new One On One thread featuring Darick Robertson and G. Willow Wilson


CBR's X-Position, featuring yours truly

The Red Chapel trailer

I will need to see this.  More info here.

remembering Gus

Also thinking of my late cousin Gustav Hasford today, author of THE SHORT-TIMERS which was the basis for Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET.  Here's a sampling of my favorite Gus quotes: 

"Shut your scuzzy mouth, fat body, and listen up.  I am going to give you the straight skinny, because you are the biggest shitbird on the planet…   In Viet Nam nice guys do not finish at all and monsters live forever.  You got to bring ass to get ass.  A few weeks ago you were the hot-rod king of some hillbilly...

my favorite comics: VIETNAM JOURNAL

"As the machine gun bucked against me, the horror of what I was doing receded. The 60 became a warm, friendly thing. That feeling will haunt me until the day I die."



Recommended in honor of Memorial Day: Don Lomax's amazing VIETNAM JOURNAL series which is now coming back into print.  Here's what I wrote about VIETNAM JOURNAL for CBR back in 2006:

VIETNAM JOURNAL #1 was unleashed upon an unsuspecting populace in November 1987, courtesy of little-known Apple Comics. Borrowing a phrase from Full M...

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