Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,…

It’s a dangerous business, funnybooks.

They do, very much.

...without finding the one I was looking for. A busy night, all told.

...one of the displays, looking for a spot in the southern hemisphere corresponding to a Scandinavian mountain in the northern. But the Simonsons were getting ready for a dinner party, so I was going to have to leave soon, and the atlas was huge and I kept flipping through more and more pages...

Third dream: I was researching a book I was intending to write, and I happened to be in Walter & Louise Simonson's house, which resembled a museum, with archaeological exhibits under glass all over. I was trying to look up a geographical location in a very large and ornate world atlas that was...

...discussing a very long sequence written by Roy Thomas for the first issue, involving lots of Marvel characters I'd never seen before, but were somehow connected to Roy's AVENGERS WEST COAST run, and figuring out how to handle the editing, because we knew Roy would be touchy.

So we were baffled even as we tried to escape the killers. Dream two was quieter. I was co-editing a new series for Marvel with Mark Waid, which involved working with multiple writers simultaneously, guiding the storytelling and making sure it all worked together. We were on an airplane...

...work with. This was ludicrous, because (a) there were thousands of copies of the book out there, (b) we had no intention of showing it to any movie producer, and (c) the stuff Rob didn't want the producer seeing had been edited out -- by me -- and apparently Rob had never read the finished intro.

...to Cosby. It had an introduction by Rob Liefeld, which for some reason I'd edited and removed numerous inaccuracies. But as we approached the con we were attacked by assassins hired by Liefeld who were trying to kill us in order to prevent our showing the book to a movie producer Rob wanted to...

I had three dreams last night, all of them comics-related, which is very unusual for me. All three dreams seemed unusual, for that matter. In the first dream, I was heading for a convention with novelist S.A. Cosby (who I've never met) and discussing an IRON MAN collection I'd given a copy of...

And yet, she’s not.

Now you’re trying to change the premise. Denied!

There are twelve of them, Brent, and only one baby. This will just give them more to be angry about.

It’s a baby. Angry as they are, they need to be understanding and supportive.

Part II

They’re all so angry.

Twelve Angry Men and A Baby