12 Response to "FF True Story 2 and First Comic Shops"

• Tom Daylight Says: 3:39 PM

  You're going to be a bit lonely if you go there in October, Paul. It doesn't start til late November! :)

  


• Paul Cornell Says: 4:15 PM

  Thanks, I've now edited my foolishness.

  


• odessasteps Says: 8:22 PM

  FF#2 was another great piece of work.
  
  Just finished reading the Moore/Davis Captain Britain trade again and I'd love to see M-13 take on the fury.

  


• Furious D Says: 8:34 PM

  Loved your piece on your first comic shop. I'm from a pretty small town, and didn't see a full fledged "comics shop" until I went to university in Toronto in the 90s. But my childhood was the last gasp of being able to buy comics in regular stores.
  
  While being a major Batman fan, I also used to buy Gold Key comics where you'd get a bunch of comics for between 50 cents to a dollar. You never knew what you got until you opened it. Now that was great for a kid.
  
  And as for going to a November convention in October, tell them you're the big star and they should reschedule it for you. ;)
  
  You have to do the prima donna thing while the iron is hot, how else will you ever get demented by celebrity. ;)

  


• Ian Cullen Says: 8:36 PM

  Hey Paul,
  
  FF True story book two hey. I'm still waiting for book one lol. Not fair.
  
  Talking of which that Jane Austin thing I mentioned on you last post is called Lost In Austin and starts on ITV 1 this wed.
  
  I don't know what it is like but their selling it as Life On Mars Meets Jane Austin.
  
  It's about a women who is obsessed with Pride and Prejedice and she somehow winds up switching places with on of the characters from that novel.
  
  BTW any chance I can be cheeky and ask you to add www.scifipulse.net to your resources - I'd be more than happy to provide a link exchange back here if it helps.
  
  Thanks
  
  Ian
  
  PS. looking foreword to my issue four of MI13 which I'm also still waiting for :( these comics can't arrive on my doorstep fast enough.

  


• Gigi Says: 4:16 AM

  Hi Paul!
  
  Sorry for not getting this to you sooner, but I have a photo of your shoes at the Hugo pre-party. Well, yours, Jay's, and Chris's.
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/gigis/2764748544/
  
  If you want a full resolution copy, just send me a note at gigi (_) gridley at hotmail

  


• Dave Williams Says: 1:56 PM

  Not really relevant to this post but I wanted to say I just read issues 1-4 of Cap & MI13 and I am simply astounded by how fantastic it is.
  
  I don't think I've ever seen the nature of "britshness" so well captured in a comic.
  
  From the mention of the Pendragon force (yes I'm the Knights of Pendragon fan who accosted you @ Bristol this year) through to Brian's "speech"...absolutely amazing.
  
  I'm reaching the babbling stage of fanboyness so I'll call it a day here.
  
  Paul, Leonard, Jesse, Brian et al...keep it up!

  


• Paul Cornell Says: 10:36 AM

  Thanks, all. There was one newsagent in a seaside town when I was a kid that just stocked DC, which is how I got into Jim Aparo's Brave and the Bold. I've got so many people I know with websites, I can't start doing requests, sorry, I wouldn't be able to stop. Thanks for the feet photos, Gigi. And your kind words are all much appreciated.

  


• Alan Kistler Says: 9:32 PM

  I've been very much enjoying FANTASTIC FOUR: TRUE STORY.
  
  I work for ComicMix.com and would be interested in interviewing you concerning your unique body of work composed of American-made super-heroes and your work on Doctor Who novels, episodes and audio plays. I can be reached at KistlerAlan@gmail.com.
  
  Previous interviews I've done can be found here at my web-site (which has a very large Doctor Who Guide still under construction) at a link I'm posting at the bottom of this comment. Thanks for your time.
  
  http://alankistler.squarespace.com/journal/2007/11/20/alan-kistlers-interviews.html

  


• Paul Cornell Says: 9:23 AM

  Thanks. I may well get in touch, but lately I've been doing too many interviews and not enough work.

  


• Alan Kistler Says: 7:20 PM

  I completely understand. No rush. We'll be ready whenever you are. Cheers.

  


• Ian Cullen Says: 10:10 PM

  Paul,
  
  Hopefully you will get some more Doctor Who work soon. But for now am still loving CB.
  
  As an aside and completely off topic. I'm making my first real and proper attempt at writing a comic book. John Freeman has been helping me out with it and seems to like my idea which is well an idea lol. Not wanting to say to much. I will talk about it proper if it gets a publisher but for now am just picking at the script.
  
  I drafted four different versions of my origin story before getting to the script stage and John has pretty much looked over all of them and given me some really cool suggestions and been a godsend with his take on what works and what doesn't quite work.
  
  Anyway time permitting I hope to break the back of the script tomorrow and sunday because I already have ideas for more stories using the characters have come up with.
  
  One stumbling block for me is writing dilogue. Any advice you could offer. And is having full on conversations in your head normal?
  
  You see only writing I've done is a play which I got a distinction for when I did Theatre In Education as a module on the BTEC National and The Odd comedy sketch along with the sort of feature writing I do for my website and odd magazine article.
  
  I've only been published for feature writing - and never really attempted prose before. So I'm sort of outside my confort zone with this project.