Immortalized in Comic Form
Posted on April 28, 2005 Posted by John Scalzi 11 Comments
This is moderately cool: Old Man’s War featured in a comic strip. Here’s the whole thing. You can tell where my brain is because my first thought after “hey, that’s my name in a cartoon strip” was “I certainly hope that man was able to complete his sale before he was dragged off.” Yeah, what can I say. I’m a sales whore.
(Update: “Unshelved” co-creator Bill Barnes tells me that the strip takes place in a library, so there’s no purchase to conclude. Yes, but if the library has six copies, that’s still six copies sold, because, you know, they don’t give copies of the book to libraries for free. I still win! (Actually, I gave my local library a free copy. I’m a softy when it comes to libraries. And some of my favorite people are librarians. You know who you are, dahlinks.))
And as long as we’re on the subject: A nice write-up of the book over on Electric Minds.
Hooray! That’s very cool, John.
> Helped make my hospital stay more bearable
Man, I just don’t know how to react to that. I mean, regular bedpan changes also make it more bearable. Still, as you said, nice write-up.
Libraries love you too, John. There are copies of OMW in 366 libraries in the U.S. and one in the British Library. Not too bad.
Gee, and here I was, popping over to your site to *tell* you about the cartoon. . . ah, well — glad you found out. :-)
Indeed, Laura, my mad ego-surfing skillz are the envy of writers everywhere. But of course, I do appreciate that you made the effort.
I don’t get it. Why would someone want to take six copies of the same book out of the library?
Well! Thanks for the pointer. EMinds may not be what it once was, but we still have interesting people talking about interesting stuff…and I did want to share the book with the community.
(I’ve been home from the hospital for nearly a week now. It looks like I’ll be OK.)
That would be literary hyperbole, Sir Brian. Of course no one would take 6 copies out of a library. That’s why you use hyperbole – for humorous overemphasis. Hyperbole – it’s a damn fine literary device, and damn fun to say…hyperbole…hyperbole…hyperbole…see, it just makes you wanna giggle…hyperbole…hyperbole…
I started repeating hyperbole as fast as I could, but I ended up hyperventilating…
Is the hyperbole bigger than the superbole?
I like megabole, myself.