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Post by Van Plexico on Aug 6, 2007 11:39:24 GMT -5
I'm making this a new thread just so folks who were wondering when they could order from Amazon will see it easily. It just went up over the weekend. www.amazon.com/ASSEMBLED-Van-Plexico/dp/0615154441/(I really don't understand Amazon's search engine. I can search for "Van Plexico" five times, and get different results each time. It's really strange. Plus they're bringing up a "Redwall" book now, every time I search it. Weird!!) |
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Post by Shiryu on Aug 6, 2007 16:53:26 GMT -5
So I suppose you are not the author of this book under a fake name ;D Quite impressively, the book is already on Amazon UK too, and already available at half price ^^ Oh well, I've ordered from Lulu already, so it's just waiting for the moment. |
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Post by Van Plexico on Aug 7, 2007 10:30:02 GMT -5
No-- but I most assuredly did have a "rural boyhood," which is why I read all those comics!  |
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Post by Tana Nile on Aug 7, 2007 10:35:13 GMT -5
Just placed my order, thanks for the Amazon link Van.
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Post by balok on Aug 7, 2007 13:02:45 GMT -5
I see you published more books about the Sentinels. I'll have to catch up - I have the original edition from back in the day.
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Post by Van Plexico on Aug 8, 2007 14:33:50 GMT -5
Hey, cool, Balok. If you mean you have "When Strikes the Warlord," then I hope you'll enjoy the subsequent volumes. If you mean you have the old "Renaissance Comics" anthology that started it all, then all I can say is, " ?!!!!!!"Because there are very, very few of those in existence! Talk about a limited edition item... If that's the one, how did you come to have it? You really have me curious now...  |
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Post by balok on Aug 10, 2007 9:45:50 GMT -5
If you mean you have the old "Renaissance Comics" anthology that started it all, then all I can say is, "?!!!!!!"Because there are very, very few of those in existence! Talk about a limited edition item... If that's the one, how did you come to have it? You really have me curious now... That's the one. It's about trade paperback sized, lists you and Robert J. Politte (sp?) as authors. The front cover has a picture of a large golden figure blasting a smaller figure with a green eye beam drawn in a style like Cyclops' beam. It has been years since I read it, I don't remember the character names. As to how I got it, I don't remember the precise details, but back in the day I was a member of the Avengers Mailing List (before you turned it over to, I think, Dave Medinnus - forgive me, it has been years and the details fade...) That list generated enormous traffic and I eventually had to give it up because it was consuming too much of my free time. But at some point, you or someone made the book available for purchase and I bought a copy. |
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Post by Van Plexico on Aug 15, 2007 23:41:26 GMT -5
That's teriffic, Balok! Wow. Someone from back in the glory days of the old AML.
I appreciate your having ordered one of those books. As I said, they are extremely rare. They are sort of the basic, very early blueprint for where I started out with the Sentinels books.
(For example, the "Warlord" story in that book was greatly changed and vastly expanded to be the first novel. And the ideas behind the "Xorex" story figure into books 2 and 3 a little bit.)
We let those ideas sit and stew for nearly ten years before revisiting them. It's good to find someone who was there back at the start!
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?!!!!!!"