"Join me... and we will rule the galaxy as father and son."

"So, really," I said to writer/artist Rob Osborne. "I got my own ideas, of course, but what do you think the absolute first step to world domination should be?" I feared that I would have to take him out, Highlander-style, if his answer displeased me.

"Seriously?" Rob said. "The first thing ya gotta do is get Tom McLean at Variety to review your work."

"You have chosen wisely," I replied.

"1,000 Steps to World Domination [is] the comicbook equivalent of a Spalding Gray monologue." writes Tom McLean, of Variety.

Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders' Five Fists of Science, this July:

PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT

28.1 SAME.
TWAIN hunches conspiratorially with TIM, but peers back to TESLA, looking him in the eye.

TWAIN: BUT I COULDN’T DO IT ON MY OWN. I NEED YOU. I NEEDED SCIENCE.

28.2 SAME.
TWAIN gets down to the brass tacks—how much money he’s talking about.

TWAIN (1): IT’S NOT A MATTER OF SELLING ONE OF THESE GEEGAWS TO QUEEN VICTORIA OR ONE TO TSAR NICHOLAS OR ONE TO McKINLEY.

TWAIN (2): IT WAS A MATTER OF SELLING ONE TO EACH OF THEM.

28.3 SAME.
ON TESLA, reacting dumbstruck. In all honesty this is probably the only time we’re going to see him not being the smartest guy in the room. TWAIN is behind him now, speaking almost directly into his ear.

TESLA: …what?

TWAIN (1): IF I CAN END THE WORLD, AND YOU CAN END THE WORLD, AND TIM HERE CAN END THE WORLD—

TWAIN (2): --WHO WOULD ACTUALLY DO IT? STALEMATE.


28.4 SAME.
TWAIN is on the OTHER side of TESLA’S HEAD now, reaching around in front of him and doing the hand thing again — just imagine it…

TWAIN (1): AT MODEST PROFIT, WE SELL ONE TO MCKINLEY AND VICTORIA AND THE REST--

TWAIN (2): all personal friends of mine and the Baroness, by the by--

TWAIN (3): AND BEAT THE NOTION OF PEACE BY COMPULSION INTO THEIR HEADS.


28.5 SAME.
TWAIN pounds his fist into his palm while TESLA very clearly thinks this through-- TIM, offended by the omission, clears his throat. Obviously, it should be clear he’s only got one arm in this shot.

TWAIN: YOUR INVENTIONS. MY SALESMANSHIP. THE END OF THE WORLD AND THE LAST, BEST APPEAL TO ALL SANE MEN. BY GOD, THE FOUR FISTS OF SCIENCE—

TIM: --ahem.


28.6 SAME.
On TWAIN here, on fire with righteous conviction.

TWAIN: THE FIVE FISTS OF SCIENCE WILL BRING ABOUT WORLD PEACE.

"I may be crazy.... but I know what I'm doing."

Dan Coyle reviews Stuart Moore and Ryan Kelly's Giant Robot Warriors.

Bad Mojo is given the treatment by Laura Gjovaag, who is going to be really happy with Adam Beechen and Manny Bello's next project after Hench.

Johnny Bacardi says, "Bad Mojo succeeds in generating some discomfort and horror, almost in spite of itself, and is worth a look if you're in the mood for something to read around Halloween. If nothing else, I'm more aware that if I'm even driving late at night and get really sleepy, I'll pull over rather than risk sideswiping a witch! B+ "

Britt Schramm gives us a shout out at the end of the latest "Preaching from the Longbox."

....and Abel's Mark Bloodworth is doing a signing October 9 @1:30pm at Squirreled Away Books, 22985 West Main Street, Armada, MI. 586-784-8873