....Aaaaand today what should be sitting outside when I got home than a big box from
Rittenhouse.
They sent me the full set of
yearly cards (with my text--sort of; more on that in a second), along with three different sets of foil cards that seem to feature the original cover art from the current run, mostly. Also included were a 4x6 inch, hand-drawn and colored Iron Man card
, sealed in a little frame thing; a bigger framed thing containing an original page six from AVENGERS (vol. 1) #1 (with Tony suiting up in the Iron Man armor),
and the really spiffy binder to hold the cards, with its cover coming from Avengers (vol. 3) #1.
Not too shabby. (And I guess they figured out I'm an Iron Man fan.)
This is all
really nice stuff, no doubt about it. But I have a couple of observations.
They did change a good bit of my text, including switching it all from
present-tense (I wrote it that way, because it's a summary of fictional story events) to
past tense. IMO, this makes it read really strangely, but it wasn't my call. *shrug*
I also noticed a few typos that I didn't have in my original text, such as changing "Triune Understanding" to "
Tribune Understanding."
So, if you read those cards, please note that I didn't quite write 'em all this way!
Another observation I have: The Web site for this project lists lots of sorta C-list artists (I say it with love, guys), with bunches of samples of their Avengers characters art. But none of that is here. I'm not sure whether that means they didn't use it, or I simply didn't get a copy of it. Not that I'm complaining, mind you-- I'm grateful they sent me what they did-- I just don't know what the deal is with that.
And finally-- they did give me a credit "by-line," but only on the
first card of the "yearly" set. And, ironically enough, that's the only one of that set not to contain at least
some of my writing. Instead, that card features the old masthead text. Based on that, it now appears that I wrote those famous words that began,
"And there came a day..." I'm not complaining about that, either.
haha
Ah well. The set looks just spiffy, I have no complaints about the card fronts (if you're, y'know, into actual art on your cards, rather than the really cool text-- joking, joking), and in general it seems to be a worthy product.
And, of course, it'll all be printed the way I intended it, in the
ASSEMBLED! book, in a few months.
, sealed in a little frame thing; a bigger framed thing containing an original page six from AVENGERS (vol. 1) #1 (with Tony suiting up in the Iron Man armor), 
