The update: UCLA wants me to have another right-left cardiac catheterization — an angiogram, basically — before they put me on the transplant list. Since having all those stents inserted, I’ve been on Plavix, a blood thinner, and I have to be off that medication for the transplant operation. A new cath procedure should […]

I’ll be in Los Angeles Monday through Wednesday of this coming week, so I won’t be posting for a while longer.

Yes, this is a trip to UCLA, and hopefully it’ll result in my being put on the transplant waiting list. Wish me luck.

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Much of this material will be familiar to you from the Newsarama interview and our discussions here, but it touches on a couple of other interesting subjects as well.

Starocotes reports that Newsarama has already posted a six-page preview of the first Doctor Fate chapter.

I’ve done interviews on Doctor Fate for Newsarama and Wizard’s website.

I’ll let you know when they’re posted.

The overall title of the eight-part Doctor Fate story arc in COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY is “More Pain Comics”, a mildly perverse tip of the helmet to the title in which Fate made his 1940s debut:

For those who haven’t yet seen it on Newsarama, here’s the Justiniano cover of COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY #1, the new dual-feature title that will star Doctor Fate and Eclipso.

Although it symbolically portrays Doctor Fate’s tower and amulet, we won’t be seeing either of those two things in the actual story for quite awhile. As I’ve […]

I’m told DC will be making its announcement about Doctor Fate today at the convention in Philadelphia. At least a couple of the news sites will be covering it, and we can discuss it here after it’s all official.

Okay, here’s what I know:

Doctor Fate will become the lead feature in a new, ongoing dual-feature title, along the lines of the current TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED. This new book will have the word “Countdown” in its name, but crossover-phobes need not panic. These are the same full-length stories, without alteration, that were slated for […]

I’ve been immersed in trying to solve a DOCTOR FATE storytelling problem for — uhm — a very long time.

The solution arrived yesterday, at a Starbucks near the intersection of Lake Mead and Buffalo in Las Vegas. I now consider this establishment holy ground. The pigeons and sparrows are oracles reading cake crumbs. The palm […]