TYG was off work this week, which was cool. She’s way more relaxed so I’m more relaxed. Plus, to make up for how much I deal with the dogs when she’s at work, she took them all of Thursday, leaving me to do what I liked (we tried that during her last week-long vacation but then dog vet visits sucked up half the day). Much as I’d have enjoyed wandering through Barnes & Noble or one of our local comic book stores, I decided to make it a writing day. Rather than stick at home, however, I headed out to the Bean Trader, a nearby coffee shop. I sat and worked on rewriting Jekyll and Hyde, ran a couple of errands (we have a dog appointment Saturday morning which is my normal errand time) came home.
It was really fun. Hot chocolate to keep me going (it’s been freezing cold which is perfect chocolate weather), no pets to distract me. It was much more fun than back in Florida when I’d occasionally write at a Starbucks. The difference, I think, is that I had no real reason to be there and this time I did.
In the afternoon I worked up in my room on more Jekyll/Hyde, and then some on The Savage Year. The opening chapters are in better shape than I thought; next week we’ll see how the book-by-book breakdown looks.
And as I mentioned Tuesday, I finished editing Southern Discomfort. I’ll feel better once it’s published but I’m way pleased to have it done. And glad it’s not on my to-do list for this month.
The Local Reporter took a week off so I didn’t have any articles published. I did have two posts up on the Atomic Junk Shop blog. One was about yet another noteworthy issue of Captain Marvel — as I say in the piece, the Silver Age Mar-Vell’s adventures aren’t terribly good but they keep being worth writing about. #18, for example, plants the seed that would eventually turn Carol Danvers into the next Captain Marvel.
I also posted about Marvel’s ongoing efforts to find the next big thing in comics. Spoiler: knocking off Casper the Friendly Ghost was not the answer.
With Wednesday a day off and Tuesday devoted to planning 2025, there wasn’t much time to do anything else. It was a good week though.
Captain Marvel art by Gil Kane; Homer cover by Dan DeCarlo (presumably the same DeCarlo who created Josie and the Pussycats at Archie Comics). Doc Savage cover by Emery Clarke. All rights to images remain with current holders.
