Storycomic Weekly Newsletter: October 17
Podcast Updates
This past week was a very productive week for me. (Side note: don’t say ‘busy’ say ‘productive’). Not only did we finally pull off a very successful Virtual Cerebral Palsy Conference, but I also had 2 very fun and exciting podcast interviews!
The first interview I did on Tuesday was with the bestselling fantasy author, Matthew Wolf. We talked about his new book in his Ronin Saga series called “Tides of Fate”. He has the book launched on Kickstarter and as of the podcast recording; it was well into reaching its goal.
On Thursday, I had a fun interview with the award-winning Speculative Fiction author Premee Mohamed.
A couple of technical challenges I faced during this interview. The first one (which I realized after the recording) was that my audio setting defaulted to my webcam microphone instead of my Yeti microphone. This will entail me re-recording my questions on a separate track for publication.
The other interesting thing that happened was that my internet died on me near the end of the interview. Needless to say, Patreon members who get to see the unedited interviews will have some fun things to watch.
Project Updates
This was a slow project week since (as I mentioned earlier) this was the week of my day job’s Virtual Cerebral Palsy Conference. Needless to say, it was a good success. Now in the next few weeks, I’ll be taking time off for paternity leave, and I’m hoping to do a lot of project work too.
What I’m reading
I reread the 18 issue series “The Comet” from the short-lived 90’s DC spinoff publication series, Impact Comics. They had 6 titles, and my favorite, by far with The Comet.
I still think he had the best superhero origin story. Once Rob Conners (The Comet) discovered the origin of his powers, he basically spiraled down mentally and he eventually died.
The Comet, Impact Comics 1992
Here’s his origin story (from the pages of Mighty Crusaders):
Rob Connors’ parents were working in a laboratory in a remote part of Alaska. Rob went to visit them, only to find the lab destroyed. Seeking to summon assistance, he tried to repair the lab’s damaged radio antenna, but it collapsed on him. There was an explosion of light and energy, which somehow granted him superhuman powers. Returning to civilization, Rob became the Comet, a costumed hero.
It was later revealed that Rob’s body was being held in stasis by some aliens and that somehow he switched brains with one of the aliens, so he believed himself to be the actual Rob Connors, and didn’t realize he was the alien until next to the last issue of the series…
Personal Updates
The Cerebral Palsy Conference is over! It was a hectic week of last-minute planning, hosting, and facilitating a major online event, but I think it went really well. We got a lot of positive feedback.
Now I can relax a bit.