tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post200480077138545589..comments2024-03-28T21:17:45.398-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: Jaka's Story #1A Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-71196189603937030292016-08-08T15:17:02.623-05:002016-08-08T15:17:02.623-05:00Well, Brielle WAS 19 and living next door. I reme...Well, Brielle WAS 19 and living next door. I remember Chris Verhoeven and I standing at the door talking about a cover separation this time when she walked by and he went full-on Jackie Gleason: hummina-hummina-hummina-hummina. She was -- and IS -- a stunner. <br /><br />But, once a thing is seen, it can't be UNseen: NEVER cross your own timeline. I'm older than her mother. You just don't DO that. <br /><br />Even "back in the day", I would very, very, very rarely get involved with anyone here in town. Just too complicated and too messy too quickly. <br /><br />She and Tom went to Fan Expo in Toronto a year ago (two years ago?) as Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze the same week that the guy in California who used to send me old beat-up comic books sent me an old beat-up copy of the second appearance of Poison Ivy in BATMAN (which I had gotten as one of my subscription copies when I was 10). So I had to leave it in her mailbox along with that part of the letter where I was reminiscing about it. <br /><br />It was a very funny letter, I thought. What I "made of" Poison Ivy as a ten-year-old boy. Judge for yourself when we get to COLLECTED LETTERS 2014/2015!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-13992743238581462662016-08-06T22:28:00.907-05:002016-08-06T22:28:00.907-05:00One of the greatest draws of Cerebus during these ...<br />One of the greatest draws of Cerebus during these years were the stunning covers.<br /><br />Absolutely nothing like them anywhere on the shelves of the LCS.<br /><br />And given Dave's ... revelations during that Lola / Jaka origin video I guess Brielle is lucky she wasn't 19 at the time with Dave asking her upstairs to look at his etchings...<br /><br />How formative our formative years really are!<br /><br />Steve<br />Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324364972414451992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-90446686712298596122016-08-06T18:23:26.058-05:002016-08-06T18:23:26.058-05:00As Margaret can tell you, it's also the qualit...As Margaret can tell you, it's also the quality of the trees in the Kitchener park where "Magic" used to be -- between Mill Street and Highland Streets, almost at Mill Street. I did send Gerhard over there to see the playground and the environment when I started writing the story. I don't remember if "Magic" was still there when he went over. <br /><br />Brielle, who lived next door to the Off-White House (for as long as we were there) with her mother, Trudy (who still lives there) -- "the girl next door" -- definitely looks Jaka-like. She just had her first baby three weeks ago with husband Tom (Congratulations!) <br /><br />She was skipping rope (age 9?) one day when I was leaving the house and asked, "What -- EXACTLY -- is it that you DO?" (We basically ignored the neighbours at the time, like a lot of people). I assume her curiosity was piqued by the number of times Ger and I were picked up by limousines back in the day.<br /><br />I said, "I draw a comic book."<br /><br />She thought this over. "Oh." and then asked "Which ONE?"<br /><br />And I said, "It's called CEREBUS."<br /><br />And she said (rather gleefully I thought) "I NEVER HEARD of it." <br /><br />I said, "Well, it's a good thing some people have or I'd be out of a job". And then became self-conscious that I was talking to this nine-year-old girl with her mother nowhere around and said "Bye bye". <br /><br />She and Tom live on Mill Street a few blocks down from the park. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06502294606395720342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-10665136740756255582016-08-06T17:12:11.630-05:002016-08-06T17:12:11.630-05:00My first issue of Cerebus. My favorite Cerebus cov...My first issue of Cerebus. My favorite Cerebus cover. Can't wait to see these prints first hand.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04070671522440242311noreply@blogger.com