Since I’ve posted these nearly everywhere else I may as well stick them here too..

Item the first… BOND

Now available at your local bookstore, and other purveyors of fine literature including Amazon.com (or .co.uk, or .ca, or .fr , or .jp, or .de– whatever works for you).
JAMES BOND 007: DEATH WING, which includes “To America With Love” the first of two feature articles by yours truly on Bond’s adventures in American Comic Books.

JAMES BOND 007: DEATH WING is from Titan Books (ISBN 1-84576-517-6),priced $19.95 (US)

Item the second…NEIL, DOUGLAS and SID JAMES

I turned in the three pieces I did for this back in December last year, and it’s all been quiet since then.

But now I see that it’s listed on the publisher’s website so hopefully it will be out by the end of the year.

What am I talking about?

An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett from Greenwood Press – estimated publication date 12/30/07

My contributions cover:
– Douglas Adams
– Neil Gaiman
– The Carry-On Movies.

I just got goose bumps watching this – and the use of that particular guitar riff?

– They just had to do it.

While writing this post for my Beatles blog, I had reason to check out novelist Jonatan Lethem’s website. It seems he’s a bit of a comics geek. (EDIT – of course he is – he’s the guy that wrote a novel called Fortress of Solitude)
Tucked away on his site is a piece entitled Top Five Depressed Superheroes

So who are these morbid men in tights?

1. Black Bolt
2. The Vision
3. Deadman
4. Ragman
5. Omega The Unknown

To find out why Lethem considers them to be living less than fulfilled lives check out the essay.