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YES!
And in today's America Jr: The gay Secretary of Defense is asked for his hand in marriage. Awww ... although, that wedding dress thing ... Um ... well. Yes. (I'm pretty sure that neither of them is serious. Though I do think Andy would look better in one.) I have to admit, although I like America Jr., it is sometimes wildly hit or miss. It can sometimes be savagely on point satire, as when they send up Congress' and the media's ability to be impressively distracted by trivialities or the presidential election results or military recruiting methods and scandals. On the other hand, they have strips such as this one where Beth jokes about having bulimia, followed immediately by one in which she appears to be completely serious about it, and it's hard to know how to take it.
...First up is Marc Bernardin who, as you may recall, had a checklist of things he wanted to accomplish at the con. He told us in mid-July: If I were to get everything I want out of this year’s con, we’d have another book lined up by the time I get on the plane coming home, I’d have met more people than I knew going in, I’d have drank my fill, I’d have spread the word far and wide about The Highwaymen and Monster Attack Network, and I’ll have a kiss from Katee Sackhoff resting on my unwashed cheek. Now, some of those have better chances of happening than others, but that’s the wish list.
So, let’s see how he did.
[JK Parkin]: ” … we’d have another book lined up by the time I get on the plane coming home.” Did you get a chance to pitch anything?
[Marc Bernardin]: We didn’t do much pitching, to be honest, because San Diego is no place for that sort of thing. The absolutely wrong environment. Too much stimuli, not enough sleep, and crazy anonymous anime characters everywhere. No editor is in the right frame of mind to give anything real thought, and if they did greenlight something on the basis of a San Diego pitch, they’d only get back to the Real World and realize the grave mistake they’d made. That said, we managed to stoke some fires under people who we’d already been talking with about new stuff and showed some new-to-us publishers that we’re housebroken, well-mannered, and hungry to keep proving ourselves.
Oh, and there’s definitely gonna be some more Monster Attack Network goodness coming...
YES!
And in today's America Jr: The gay Secretary of Defense is asked for his hand in marriage. Awww ... although, that wedding dress thing ... Um ... well. Yes. (I'm pretty sure that neither of them is serious. Though I do think Andy would look better in one.) I have to admit, although I like America Jr., it is sometimes wildly hit or miss. It can sometimes be savagely on point satire, as when they send up Congress' and the media's ability to be impressively distracted by trivialities or the presidential election results or military recruiting methods and scandals. On the other hand, they have strips such as this one where Beth jokes about having bulimia, followed immediately by one in which she appears to be completely serious about it, and it's hard to know how to take it.