I never saw the article, only heard the editor's gibbering. I'm still slightly miffed that the project was abandoned after I'd put quite a bit of time into generating roughly 25% of the content.

That said, it's not the most annoying thing I've suffered in terms of wasted writing work. I have one novel that's been sitting with a publisher for coming up to five years now with no progress, and not a penny in royalties from the first novel of mine that publisher put out before that, which usally means sales so low as not to surpass production costs.

And then there was the guy who wanted to launch a series of books in a superhero universe made up of updated out-of-copyright characters from the 1940s. I agreed to write a 15,000 word story introducing the superteam he had planned out. When he sent me the cast list and the general plot he wanted I had to go back and agree a 40,000 word story instead to have any chance. Four full drafts later he was still not happy that I wanted to make any changes to his proposed plot (to address certain issues I felt it had) and it became pretty clear that he hadn;t thought through this whole "letting the characters in my head out of my control" thing. He abruptly dropped the project and I had wasted about two weeks of writing time and probably about 70,000 words of writing. Very annoying and a lesson for me in negotiating work-for-hire.







The publishing model of modern comics really precludes long-term loyalty building. There are still some interesting coherent series out there though. Astro City has just hit its hundredth issue (numbered vol 3 #47 I think) - intriguing because its characters have aged in real time.




I seem to be the only person appreciating what they're doing with Agents of SHIELD right now. Although if you're not watching it you should be, since they're covering your area of obsession, artificial intelligence sentience and rights, with a whole arc about LMDs and a strong perfomance from the actress who played the villain in Galavant as looking-for-answers-and-read-the-Darkhold-for-them robot Aida.




They'd better have Old Lace.







I'm certainly recovering, with performance varying from about 60% - 140% of what I've been experiencing these last couple of years. Sustained performance is still a problem though, and it has really affected my work capacity.

Still, I hope to get a triple-sized Vizh-centric Untold Tales up today, so there's that. With special guest star Jarvis.







The PVB is very good practice.







Surely. Nothing can stop him now.







It's not like you didn't get another one.







About two hours of proofreading and reference linkig from now, I hope. What was the name of that girl who bullied Troia as a child back on Amazon Isle?