Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

For today I will focus on something that a few might say has been neglected in this blog: the writer moniker.

Others (okay, it is just two people in my brain really) would say that it is the most paid attention to, since there was been writing on this blog for seven years and thirty seven days now.

Back when I was still collecting comics (this would make it the mid nineties up to around the turn of the millennium) I credit my return to this one guy: Mark Waid. He was writing Flash at the time, and it was his cover to something like the worst day in the life of Wally West (I cannot find the cover online for some reason) that got me not only to read it in the bookstore, but to actually buy it and follow it, and even the issues he had written before that.

The Return of Barry Allen story was great, and so was everything he introduced after that.

I also found out that he was responsible for the Legion of Superheroes introduction of the clones and the reboot.

Somehow I lost track of him on the internet though, having come across more vocal people I admire like Neil Gaiman and Kevin Smith until today, when a re-tweet about how the Chile earthquake sped up the rotation of the Earth by a former student who still reads comics made me discover the online micro-blogging presence of Mr. Waid.

Which led to his blog, which has great storytelling tips that I have read so far, such as http://markwaid.boom-studios.net/2009/04/dont-waste-my-time/#more-286 and http://markwaid.boom-studios.net/2009/04/wait-what/#more-273. All read just today, apologetically.

Keep the audience guessing, he says, and he even mentions one of the films I like in connection with this non-formulaic approach: a pre-Lord of The Rings Peter Jackson in The Frighteners.

I will continue reading his backlog, but for now, and knowing I have to finish an entry here for today, I just give these two links and my refraining-from-gushing appraisal.

I also find out from here (yeah, it has been years since I last entered a comic store) that he is also the writer of the comics follow up to the Disney-Pixar movie The Incredibles.

So I am fan-boyish all over again. The more of my real life creative heroes I find online, the more goodly I feel.

Too bad Michael Crichton cannot be among them, and Douglas Adams, and Alfred Hitchcock, and Jim Henson.

And as usually happens with these stream-of-the-keyboard write-ups, this has taken a turn to the sad.

Session 2991 should be glad about being able to pick the brains somewhat of those who are left that are greatly admired through their prolific writings online, and believe that this is all for the best. Class dismissed.