Crider and the Meercats

Mystery and occasional SF writer Bill Crider is stalking the con with his state of the art portable production studio, cornering writers and other guests for his patented video blogging interviews. Check out Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine for all the carnage (which should be appearing any time now).

In other news, my writers’ workshop group managed to produce a race of super-intelligent, brain parasite-infested meercats during Julie Czerneda’s alien building exercise. Which was silly enough on its own, but really got weird when we combined with Scott Johnson’s group, which had invented a scaled, aquatic, marsupial ape with a membranous butt flap that was weather sensitive. The only thing missing from this first contact situation was Pinky and the Brain. Truly strange.

As for the rest of the night, a lot of it has been taken up with extensive debates with Chris Roberson and Jess Nevins on the how and why DC Comics has utterly screwed up the Legion of Super-Heroes. The concensus is that the Giffen run after the fast-forward following the Magic Wars storyline is the end-all, be-all, pinnacle of that long and storied series. Seriously. If DC had half a brain, they’d go back and follow through on Giffen’s plan to make Batch SW6 the true Legion and the "adult" Legionnaires head off to become the new Omega Men.

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