The Pantheon Grows
Note to New York residents. I'm making a super-secret special appearance on Tuesday night, as part of Catie Lazarus' "Fresh Meat" show. It's at Comix, 353 W. 14th St., at 8 PM. Please come by and fete me during my incredibly brief visit to your town.
Now then.
Elijah has recently informed me of two new characters in the Elijahverse. He's making them up all the time, but usually he's just dishing shit, like when we drive past a lamp post, and he informs me that he's "Lamp Post Man." Sometimes, though, they stick, and develop actual personalities.
Our new good guy is Doorman. He has, Elijah says, the power to close doors on people. Interestingly, Doorman has no skin. He only has fur, and underneath the fur, there is blood and bones. This causes him to cut an intimidating swath through the realm of villainy.
Doorman's mortal enemy is called Cloth. This guy has the power to turn people into cloth.
That's about as far as we've gone. But we're having crazy battles every night. I always have to be Cloth.
Comments
Hey, Comix is about a 10 minute walk from my office. Guess I have no excuse. Look for this ex-Reader cohort Tuesday.
Posted by: Krishna | October 20, 2006 8:31 AM
Hey, Comix is about a 10 minute walk from my office. Guess I have no excuse. Look for this ex-Reader cohort Tuesday.
Posted by: Krishna | October 20, 2006 8:31 AM
You should be pitching to nickelodeon. A cartoon with heros like cloth and bhotman (catchphrase: "The B is silent!") written by a cycnical 30-some year old? That's money in the bank.
Posted by: Tim | October 20, 2006 10:30 AM
Please stop making Elijah poopie jokes and be interesting again, like you used to be, before becoming Alternadad.
Posted by: wistful | October 22, 2006 8:13 PM
Cloth or schmatta?
Posted by: P. Shears | October 23, 2006 6:06 AM
Yes, Neal, I'm with wistful. Just because you had a son, which has totally changed your life, doesn't mean you should change at all. You should go on doing the same thing forever. Oh, and don't go insulting people on their own Web sites by telling them their lives aren't interesting enough for you. That gig's already been taken.
Posted by: troy | October 23, 2006 7:41 AM
Cloth is much more interesting than most of the evil mutants in X-Men 3 combined. I imagine that if Cloth is particularly evil, he turns into something itchy like wool or even burlap.
Posted by: steve steward | October 23, 2006 10:43 AM
Pshears - didn't mean to suggest kids aren't adorable. Nor that they don't say the darndest things. It's just that inflicting story after story about your kids on other people is like making them sit through blow-by-blow recitations of your dreams. It's fine in small doses. But after a while, it is interesting only to the person who had them. The rest of us are left understanding why tigers eat their young.
Posted by: wistful | October 23, 2006 4:33 PM
I think someone has a bad case of "I don't know how to change the channel, so I better get programs I like cancelled."
Posted by: Johnny Jam Jar | October 23, 2006 5:27 PM
Uh, make that "programs I don't like cancelled."
Posted by: Johnny Jam Jar | October 23, 2006 6:30 PM
I have a 3 year old at home, so Neal's stories are the funny versions of the one's I try to tell but always sound lame in my attempts. I enjoy your political rantings, sports rantings, and child rantings, so blog what you like Neal, and I for one will keep on reading.
Posted by: Eric | October 24, 2006 6:26 AM
I don't have kids and I don't live in the States so I know nothing about the neighbourhoods or the sports teams and all my information about your political parties comes from TV. Little of the content is relevant to me. But I enjoy it for the same reasons I got into Neal's work in the first place- it's good writing. I enjoy reading about Elijah, and the Suns, and the various trials and tribulations of Neal's life. I say, carry on, sir. Carry on. As long as you keep writing, I'll keep reading.
Posted by: Simon Smithson | October 24, 2006 6:52 PM