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This is a collection of recent posts by JMS to the newsgroup
rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
See also http://america.net/~judge for Dirk Loedding's archives
of JMS posts.
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 04:34:33 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: JMS: convention query...
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
I know you probably have to wait for the announcement from them (they
say it'll be made May 17th), but will you be the guy that has the extra
fee attached for the talk, usually they have one of those a year. Are
you going to be doing both Babylon 5 stuff @ SFX, and your comicbook
stuff @ ComicExpo? (it's all connected, they just like to market it
seperately).
No one's said anything to me about it.
While we're talking Toronto, how'd you like your visit last month when
working on Apocaplyse Al? Do you know when it will be airing?
Production got pushed back due to some scheduling conflicts in
Toronto...soon, though.
jms
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:40:05 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: JMS: convention query...
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
You said awhile back that you might be doing a convention in Canada.
Just wondering if there's any more details about it or not... I'd love
to go if I can.
The weekend of August 26th, in Toronto.
jms
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:20:34 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: ot:: HOW TO CLEAN LAPTOP SCREEN
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Got kid prints and milk on my screen.
Have you tried this?
http://www.clean-your-screen-for-free-now.com/
jms
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:15:15 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Attn: JMS!!! On Other Projects...The Dirty Dozen Starring J.
Michael Straczynski
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
"6. Which project do you feel didn't live up to what you envisioned?
Rising Stars"
*Jaw drops to floor*
OK... what did you envision, then??????
Me as a better writer. I think the series starts off really well, but
right around the middle act I made a hideous error: I was afraid that
the book was getting kind of slow, that there wasn't enough happening,
so I diverged from what I'd set out as my outline to do a prolonged
action thread with Critial Maas...and I totally lost control of the
story, in my opinion. It just got away from me and, where the first
part had been very unconventional, the action aspect of it suddenly
made it far more ordinary, and there was no way to get out of that
story once I'd started it for maybe another four issues...so the book
starts where it was meant to start, ends where it was meant to end, but
the middle section isn't what it could have been.
Nobody to blame here but myself. I'd never written more than a couple
of stand-alone comics before jumping into the Rising Stars arc -- 24
issues covering 60 years and 113 people -- and it just got away from
me.
And while the story in the beginning was what I wanted, the art was
not, and I think that hurt the book going in.
But the largest part of my dissatisfaction with the book rests with
myself. It actually spooked me away from doing more Really Big Stories
in comics until...well, until just recently, when I started a huge
action arc in Spidey (which won't be showing up for a bit yet). I
didn't want to do it again until I was sure I could do it right.
There's a lot of positive reaction to the Rising Stars mini, and
there's parts of it I like quite a bit, but I also know what it was
supposed to be in the middle, what it *should* have been if I'd had
more experience and a broader skill-set and more tools in my tool
box...but I didn't, and there we are.
jms
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:58:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dream Police from jms
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
I'd mentioned a while back that I would remind folks when the stores
would begin taking orders for Dream Police...so this is it.
Dream Police will appear as a one-shot on June 22nd, but Marvel has a
tendency to print to orders, so if you don't order it up front, it may
not be available. Apparently interest is high, so I have a sneaking
suspicion this one may disappear fast.
Basically, the premise of Dream Police -- which has been in the works
for a long time now, and finally seeing print -- is that we all enter
the dreamscape when we fall asleep, and the denizens of said dreamscape
all play their roles...but when someone doesn't do their job, or a
crime against dreamers is committed, the Dream Police come in.
The thing is...the Dream Police are plain clothes detectives and beat
cops who walk, talk and behave like characters out of the Maltese
Falcon, or Dragnet, or Adam 12, that very literal, staccato, clipped
back-and-forth style of dialogue.
So what you've got is a very funny, weird, surreal book that puts these
very noir characters up against the dreamscape...and I'm just pleased
as punch with the result.
Hence, this recommendation. There's no long arc to sign onto, just the
one issue, but it's just a hoot and a half to read. It's fromm Marvel
under the Icon imprint, and I commend it highly to all B5 folks.
jms
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("other message" was some sort of drivel spoofing his address. Twit...)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:02:33 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Dream Police from jms
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Any idea how many pages it is?
It's 48 pages, at $3.99, and the best part is that you don't need to be
a comics fan to enjoy it.
And what the hell this other messsage is under my handle, I have no
idea...but if the mods can get rid of it, that'd be great.
jms
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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:48:05 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: JMS - comic con appearance
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Hey Joe, how about stopping by my birthday party in July? :D
Because your mom told me she was already getting you a clown and a
pony, and that should be enough.
jms
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:41:46 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: JMS - comic con appearance
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Yu Kai-lin wrote:
> Joe, I just got my San Diego Comic con update, and you are listed in
the
> guest listings. So, anything in particular you will be promoting at
the
> show? Big panels, little panels, booth appearances, etc, what kind of
> schedule are you looking at?
>
>
> Peace, Love and Rock & Roll,
>
> Hurricane Kailin
Yes, I'm doing San Diego, also Bristol in May. I don't yet know what I
will be talking about (some might suggest I never know what I'm talking
about), so we'll see what we shall see. But as usual, there should be
the big pansls, small panels, the jms one-man road show and signings.
jms
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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 23:10:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: JMS - comic con appearance
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
<jmsa...@aol.com> wrote:
>>Hey Joe, how about stopping by my birthday party in July? :D
>Because your mom told me she was already getting you a clown and a
>pony, and that should be enough.
So Joe, which are you? The clown, or the...
I see Mister Dictionary has deserted us yet again....
jms
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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 08:25:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Comments on Ensemble Approach?
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
There's really no right (or write) or wrong way to do this, it's all a
matter of how you structure each show. The B5 story was so tight there
really wasn't much room for that kind of input. At the same time,
however, I'd have to be a fool not to listen to someone if they found a
logic hole, and I always did listen...I don't care if it came from a
star or the grip, if I'd missed something in the writing, and someone
pointed it out, I fixed it. But that sort of thing aside, there was no
change in the script allowed once it left my office. If something came
up on the set, they'd find me and determine if it was a problem or not.
As a result, it didn't happen very often...and when it did, it was
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