WAITING FOR TOMMY
By Richard Johnston

JIM MCLAUCHLIN: I, on the other hand, hate Nick, Joe, and, oh.let's pick on Geoff Johns. Yes. I hate Geoff.

Gents, l love you all like retarded brothers (Joe's line, I believe), but please "uninvolve" me from all future e-mails in this exchange. Just got a million of these messages, and other crap I gotta be doing. Thanks!

[But I was still going off on one.]

RICHARD JOHNSTON: I may be getting my black days of the week mixed up, but you remember Lamont pegging the value of the pound against the DM in an attempt to keep up with the ERM, by manipulating rates, available currency and interest rates? A Hungarian speculator made billions out of that. Brown clearly accepts the peaks and troughs. He's just taking off the edges of both.

Apparently Kevin Smith is a comics fan.

MARK MILLAR: All advised by the Bank of England and supported by both front benches at the time. But even that's besides the point: It all goes in waves, man.

Is he that guy who played Hercules on TV???

[Nick was also thinking about politics.]

NICK BARRUCCI: ok - I'll get the President of the US to go with National Comics Day, and we'll push reading across the US.

Rich/Mark - you guys handle Tony Blair.

I'm not kidding.

MARK MILLAR: That's genius. I know Blair a little, but am friendlier with his inner-circle. I had a ten minute chat with Blair about Val Kilmer as Batman (Blair excited because he loved The Doors). We definitely should do this. The reading thing is perfect and we get lotsa free publicity.

[Now it was time for a proper journalist to join in.]

MATT BRADY: Something that Mike and I talked about before he left was looking into getting a Congressional Resolution passed, something along the lines of making a "National Comic Book Day." Yeah, it would be up with luminaries like National Pickle Day, and Day Care Workers Appreciation Day, but it would be something...

I looked into the mechanics of proposing one to my local reps, but couldn't figure it out exactly. I'll check into it again. My senator is John ("I wanna be president!") Edwards, btw...

[I decided that not enough people were talking about me.] RICHARD JOHNSTON: This man reads comics. Hell, he writes about comics on the internet. Yet...

MARK MILLAR: COMICS: THEY JUST MIGHT GET YOU LAID.

MATT BRADY: Well obviously, he needs to move to the foreground, and stand in front of that guy who seems to be hogging the camera with women who could never possibly be interested in him...

NICK BARRUCCI: Marc Silvestri on a talk show with his wife - comics, look at the type of girl you can marry!

MATT BRADY: Can't wait until the west coasters get in and find this thread in their boxes...

NICK BARRUCCI: The funny thing is, they're all flying in to Philly Con, so probably won't chime in until tomorrow.

But hey, in the meanwhile - EVERYBODY (Mark already did) send out the link to as many people as you know!

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