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The big news at present is that Amelia Watson is back! Amelia - the second wife of Dr. John H. Watson of Sherlock Holmes fame - has been on hiatus for the past few years, following the demise of Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, where she had been appearing in each issue. But a brand new adventure titled The Singularity Society of London is now available for downloading through Amazon Shorts, the short story program at amazon.com. This tale now joins my non-Amelia (but faintly Sherlockian) story The Curious Case of the Peacock Street Peculiars on Amazon Shorts. Check the "Where to Buy Mike's Books" section for a direct link.

For the last year or so I have also been working on a truly unique project called The Marvel Universe Wall Chart, which is indeed a wall chart (and a huge one) that shows how some 320 Marvel Comics characters are all interconnected to each other within the Marvel Universe. But it is also a fold-out history of Marvel Comics as well as a character encyclopedia. There is nothing else like it out there! The original plan was to have The Marvel Universe Wall Chart out even as we speak (late summer 2007), but it is now on the books (so to speak) for next fall. Who knows…by then, Captain America might have returned from the dead?

There are also talks about publishing a new edition of X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe.

X-Men: The Character and Their Universe offers the history of the X-Men throughout all their various incarnations, in comic books, television, animation, film, and toys and merchandizing, and features tons of great artwork from the many brilliantly talented artists who have made Marvel Comics what it is today. It features original interviews with such key players in the X-Men saga as Stan Lee, artist John Romita, writer Chris Claremont, animator Rick Hoberg, and the team that has created the successful feature films: directors Bryan Singer (who also contributed the books foreword!) and Brett Ratner, and actors Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Romijn and Famke Janssen. Here's what "The Man" himself had to say about it...

"A beautiful, totally impressive book! I can't imagine any X-Men fan wanting to go through life without it!" -- Stan Lee

Thanks, Stan!

I have been creeping back on camera more and more lately as well, chiefly as a talking head in the extras of Hanna-Barbera DVD sets, such as Wait Till Your Father Gets Home and Tom and Jerry, Volume Three. I was happy to be included in a delightful Hanna-Barbera tribute panel at this year's San Diego ComicCon, which also featured legendary voice man Gary Owens, veteran animator and director Tom Sito, the animation team of Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone, and longtime Warner Bros. Animation voice director Andrea Romano. The only problem was there just wasn't enough time to relate all the good stories!

The line drawing up at the top of the page, incidentally, was created by the great Jack Lane, the man who created the caricatures of Hollywood stars for decades on the walls of the fabled Brown Derby restaurant, and the photo below shows a memorable evening with "The Two Rays" - Harryhausen and Bradbury - lifelong friends who got together for a chat at Glendale's Mystery & Imagination Bookshop in July. The tall young gentleman standing between me and Ray Harryhausen is my son Brendan, who is a burgeoning comic strip artist and writer.

Again, thanks for dropping by! Come again for more news and updates.

All the best,