MID-OHIO CON FLOORBUZZ ’06 – NEWSARAMA

Interesting stuff in here.  The one thing I was totally shocked about was the info on William Messener-Loebs, its sad how some creators in the industry are just tossed out when the comics industry are done with them.

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William Messner-Loebs has another issue of Green Arrow in the works for DC Comics — this one concentrating on the enticement of eternal life.

“Green Arrow is approached by a guy who turned into dust, and he finds
out that a bunch of rich guys hired a scientist to make them immortal,”
he said. “And immortality, it turns out, if you do it badly, ends up
with you crumbling into small bits. So he has to find the scientist and
try to save everybody against his better judgment. And he also works
against his own needs because, as he finds out that the scientist has
finally perfected the thing, he confronts the question, ‘Do you want to
live forever?’”

The writer is also doing a book for Actionopolis called Toltec
about a boy who accidentally breaks a Toltec urn and is possessed.
“It’s this alien force that the Toltecs have been trying to bury
forever,” he said. “Now he’s dealing with all the stuff he already had
to deal with — living with his formerly alcoholic father on a dude
ranch, having to deal with bullies — now he has these powers.”

In early 2005, Messner-Loebs got the attention of fans and creators when he was the subject of a newspaper article in

The Detroit Newsthanks.

“With that money, we were able to buy a small trailer in Michigan,” he
said. “When you’ve been living in a hotel room for five years, a
trailer is really big! And my wife is on the mend. Right now, what I’m
trying to do is get regular income coming in. When you have to go from
project to project, there’s these long, awkward gaps, and it’s so much
better to be able to have a series. But then, that’s what everybody
wants.”

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Read the rest of the article in the link below

MID-OHIO CON FLOORBUZZ ’06 – NEWSARAMA

MID-OHIO CON FLOORBUZZ ’06

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by Vaneta Rogers

As much of America spent the weekend winding down from the Thanksgiving
holiday, some dedicated comics fans left the turkey casseroles behind
to catch up with their favorite creators at the Mid-Ohio Con in
Columbus.

Newsarama talked to a few of the show’s guests to get the buzz from the con floor.

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