Images from a New Jersey Comicon (NJ Comic Expo, Teaneck NJ)

"Some days you can't get rid of a bomb!"

The Dynamic Duo and the Jaunty Jew

Ready to take off aboard the Batcopter!

With artist and DC VP/Art Director, Mark Chiarello

Mark Chiarello, Captain Action Enterprises' Ed Catto, and cartoonist/letterer Rick Parker

And speaking of Captain Action

Writer and one-time DC Comics' production manager, Bob Rozakis

Lee Meriwether, Catwoman in the 1966 BATMAN movie, autographs the Batcopter from the same film

My pal (and collaborator) Jim Beard, editor of Sequential Arts' GOTHAM CITY 14 MILES, to which I contributed an essay

Golden Age great and DONDI creator, the inimitable Irwin Hasen

Artist and one-time DC production artist, Steve Manion, with Papercutz editor/publisher Jim Salicrup, and Una McGurk

"Rest easy, citizens!"

Shootin' Off My Mouth Some More

Opinions are like butts...everybody's got one and most of 'em stink, but that didn't stop them from posting the second installment of my column on writing, Things I've Learned Along the Way on Kirk Chritton's fine website, ComicsCareer.com. This week, I talk about being true to your character because, never forget, like Soylent Green, "Story is People." I also rag on Frank Miller for using dirty words in All-Star Batman and Robin #10...actually, I rag on DC Comics for letting him use dirty words in All-Star Batman and Robin #10, but I figure if it sounded like I was knocking Miller, maybe people would pay attention.