Your Friday Afternoon Late-Breaking News Round-Up

Well, later than 5 AM this morning, anyway, which is when I shut it down for the day.

* there was a shooting incident near the Jim Hanley's Universe location across from the Empire State Building today. No one employed by the store was hurt.

* the NCS Foundation has donated $20K to the nice folks at the Billy Ireland library.

* Dave Sim sent out an update to the people that contributed to digital High Society crowd-funder that indicates all of the negatives may have been lost. The content of that message:

"Dave Sim, here: Just thought everyone should know: Fisher came over today and asked if I had heard from Sandeep. No, I hadn't. Hands me today's Record. Front page: Sandeep's place -- and the buildings on either side of him -- were gutted by fire yesterday afternoon. He got out in one piece but with nothing but the clothes on his back and his wallet (he had been in the shower and a cop showed up at the door: "You have the leave. Now") The whole place went up in about five minutes.

All of the negatives for High Society were destroyed as well as the 11x17 scanner and the new negative scanner. No insurance. So, I thought I'd better let everyone know that we're definitely not on track for the September 12 launch at this point.

I don't expect that I'll hear from Sandeep for at least a few days -- he's staying with friends and obviously has a lot more important things to think about than High Society Digital.

Okay -- gotta run to make my 3:00 prayer. Please feel free to relay this to anyone you think should know. Particularly people who are waiting on High Society Digital.

That's horrible news. I'm glad to hear the scanning person is all right, though. I assume there will be updates about this next week. If someone would forward those to me, I'd appreciate it -- my brother and I did buy that project but I also pretty much ended the updates with a butter knife and I'm not sure I can get them back.

* Marvel announced today at a Toronto convention that Ed Brubaker will be leaving his Winter Soldier gig. It looks he was going to leave and the book would end, but now it's going to continue because sales stabilized and the character will be featured in the next Captain America movie. That ends the writer's current work with Marvel. He's already that a second comics project to join his current Image series Fatale will be announced near the end of the year/beginning of next one. I thought Brubaker did a really nice job at Marvel with those books. I'm not exactly the audience for $2.99 day-of-release serial superhero comic books, but I've enjoyed all those Captain America and Winter Soldier comics I've purchased in big chunks in the back-issue bins and picked up through trading with friends.


 
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