Wow. So. Wow.
This isn’t scheduled to happen until next January, but this is something I gave up on ever happening. I wrote this thing more than a decade ago, a lifetime ago in a lot of respects.
It’s the third comic book script I wrote for this publisher (I don’t get paid at all, and clearly, after those first two, even getting exposure certainly never happened, either). The first two garnered a smattering of reviews, some of them about what you’d expect from these things.
Since this thing was written so long ago, it’s not up to date. It doesn’t cover the recent censorship of Dr. Seuss’s career that we somehow let happen. I know there are different ways to phrase that, and if the publisher itself plays along, does it really count? To me, it does. Not because I have an abiding love for the “lost” material. In fact, I read far more Seuss after I wrote this script, and it’s not all the Seuss, not even that “new” Seuss that happened after all this.
But there’s a rhyming scheme to the thing. I tried. I tried to cover the spirit. It’s been entirely out of my hands for many years.
But it apparently will be a real thing!
"Wow is right!" Said Tony's friend, Herb
ReplyDeleteIt's a break that you truly deserved
And to think that you used
Our dear Dr. Seuss
Is an idea that's opposite absurd
Er, no, I've not had any poetry published, lol. I'm just happy to hear about this. As to the supposed controversy about the man, there is a lot of good that he did and he was far from being a racist.
Thanks, Herb,
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if you don’t mind off-rhyme,
this comment I absorb.