ALL NEW!! ALL DIFFERENT!! The Doc Nebula Bulletin Board!! Yes, I've gone coo-coo for bulletin boards this weekend, and here's a new one for the fan page. Love my novels? Hit the link and tell me! Adore my cartoons? Hit the link and spill! Think I'm an asshole? I'll delete your post so fast you'll think you're time traveling, bub! But whatever you do, head out to the
NEW STUFF:
The Fantasy Worlds of Jeff Webb, a new website featuring the art of that particular worthy, has just been set up. Go check it out; you'll like it.
And for those of you who never get tired of seeing me take a beating, go check out Bill Of Sale: The Words and Wisdom of a Heinlein Fan Much Like All The Others, But More Polite to see some Heinlein nutballs who insist they aren't like all the other Heinlein nutballs tell me at great length that I'm unequivocally wrong to criticize Heinlein in any way, and watch me make them look just as silly as they actually are, too.
Fair warning -- there's a LOT of completely original material on this site, much of it textual with few or no graphics to spice it up. If you hate that, bail NOW. Beyond that, there are a LOT of links on this front page, and a lot of descriptive text, so keep on scrolling down, True Believer.
One can also, if one really wants to, head straight to the Martian Vision page at MARTIAN VISION, by 'John Jones, the Manhunter from Marathon, IL'
Two city police detectives, trying to track down a serial killer... one young and naive, the other old and jaded... and only one of them with the slightest idea what they're really looking for... or even what the two of them really are, aside from... GOOD COP, BAD COP
It's lonely at the top, especially when you're trying to prevent a hellish future by creating a hopeflly less hellish present. Check out the drawbacks of... LEADERSHIP
Even superheroes get bored. If you don't believe it, join the Ultra-Americans for this month's... MEETING OF THE MINDLESS
Not many people lose their souls just because they invited the wrong woman home with them while their girlfriend was out of town... but then, not many people would be... TALKIN' 'BOUT MY GIRL
Not normally cursed with insomnia? Lucky you! But you may never sleep well... or at all... again, after you read... NO GOOD ANGEL
You only think you're bored and unhappy. Check out what reality might really be like, and then maybe you'll be grateful for your inalienable right to life, liberty, and the... PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
In celebration of a damn good movie adaptation of LORD OF THE RINGS, comes a parody pretty much like every other one! Check out Fondle, the Nose Ring Wearer, and his merry crew, as they all get... ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Utopia or Dystopia? Decide for yourself. Check out a perfect world, in... HALO
Return to the world of "Halo" a couple of decades later, in... PRIMOGENITOR
The future is here... and it sucks. Read about an alternate Earth you wouldn't want to live in, even if it were... THE LAST ONE
AMAZONIA by D.A. Madigan & Nancy Champion (7 pages final script)
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WHEN TROLLS ATTACK...! Those who enjoy seeing me get smacked around by witlings and imbeciles should not miss either this link or this one, in which various young Modern Age comics fans, nearly all of whom are exactly as smart, tolerant, and polite as you'd expect them to be, screech irately at me because I told the truth, and they don't like it, about their hero Kurt Busiek, on this very website.
About a year ago,a bunch of other emotional Mongoloids found some of my writing they didn't like, and took me to task for it with nearly as much style and aplomb as the slopebrowed slack jawed mouth-breathers slobbering into their modems at the links posted above. For the full text of the previous group's barmy ravings, as well as my frankly hilarious, cogent, witty, wise, and irrefutably correct responses to them en masse, check out: JOHN JONES: THREAT OR MENACE!
DOC NEBULA'S CARTOON FUN, PAGE 2!
DOC NEBULA'S CARTOON FUN, PAGE 3!
Sometimes being able to fly faster than you can think can be a drawback. See what I mean with this cartoon. ULTRASPEED!
And then there's THIS stuff, all set in the Silver Age of DC Comics... sort of. Prepare for DERANGED CONTINUITY, by resident whacko D.A. Madigan:
Ever wondered what happened to the World's Finest Super-team?
Two heroes meet their editor...
At the movies with some legendary Silver Age sidekicks...
Ever wondered how certain characters managed to get into the Legion of Superheroes?
No, wait. That's about six other guys. I'm starting again.
Snatched from limbo and brought wailing into Earthly existence in late 1961, DOC NEBULA quickly became a living legend among his peer group, even though he would not think to call himself by the name "Doc Nebula" until decades later when he got his first online account and needed a screenname and all possible variations of "GiantMan" were already taken. (Sad but true.)
In the early years of his current incarnation, DOC was regarded with an awestruck admiration by his peer group that frankly bordered on religious worship, said awestruck admiration most commonly being manifested in the form of ridicule, public humiliation, and frequent beatings whenever an adult authority was not in the immediate vicinity to intervene.
Undaunted by this, DOC NEBULA escaped the horrors of childhood and entered the hallowed halls of Academe at prestigious SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, back in the late 70s when the English Department had not yet been taken over by a pack of gumchewing idiots who threw out all the classes on Shakespeare and replaced them with seminars on People Magazine. At SU, DOC excelled in his fields of study, quickly mastering such arcane arts as pizza consumption, sleep deprivation, keeping every square inch of floorspace covered at all times with pornography, empty pizza boxes, and old issues of Steve Engelhart's AVENGERS, and most importantly of all, how to schedule all his classes so he never had to get out of bed before 1 PM. (Not that he attended many of them anyway.) He also (believe it or not) actually had carnal knowledge of some astonishingly beautiful women, none of whom remember him to this very day. (Hi, Laurie, Carolyn, Lynn, Laura, Shawn, and anybody else I'm forgetting in my encroaching senility, except Alli, who grew up very mean. Bad Alli.)
Dropping out of college without a degree, DOC embarked on a nomadic existence, wandering from job to job, apartment to apartment, always seeking that effervescent and intangible something we all call Happiness, but which DOC likes to think of as an old Army duffle bag stuffed to the top with bulky bundles of 20s, 50s, and hundred dollar bills.
In the meantime, DOC NEBULA continues to fight the good fight against entropy, struggling with every ounce of strength in his body to do as little work as possible at all times while always, always, ALWAYS making sure that EVERCLEAR's "Songs From An American Movie Vol. One Learning How To Smile" is set on Random Repeat in the 24 disk CD player so he can maximize his chances of hearing "Wonderful" or "AM Radio" or "Unemployed Boyfriend" several hundred times a day.
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The above text is fairly old. The 24 disc CD changer is broken, but I still like that Everclear CD a lot. My new scanner doubtless means a lot of graphic stuff is going to get put on this website as soon as I can figure out how. Alas, I've promised my nicest and prettiest ex girlfriend that I won't publish those pics of her she was sweet enough to let me take back in days of yore, but then, Angelfire would have a collective aneurysm if I did, anyhow.
The alternate origin paragraph below is really old, but then, so am I, so deal with it. I don't know what you're doing reading this, anyhow, and if you're not going to type me an email and tell me what you think, you should just stop right now, darn it.
DOC NEBULA just loves to see his name all in capital letters like that, but he finds it irritating to write about himself in the third person (although he hopes to get used to doing it for the backflaps of dustjackets and celebrity introductions at award ceremonies). He currently lives in an overpriced dump in a yuppie neighborhood in an ugly city with an obsolete PC clone, seven thousand paperbacks, twenty three thousand comic books, and roughly 4.3 trillion dust mites and mold spores specifically tailored by some secretive conspiracy to antagonize his allergies at every opportunity. He has completed a novel, which he is currently trying to interest a publisher in, and has had his ramblings, structured and otherwise, published in about a zillion obscure fanzines which you’ve never heard of and don’t want to. (But his stuff was always the best thing in that particular issue.) He’s written more or less professionally for CAVALIER, ROLEPLAYER, and LOC. His proposals for FALLEN ANGEL and BROTHERS OF THE ATOM were accepted for publication by New Media-Irjax, which promptly declared bankruptcy, otherwise he’d doubtless be as famous as Charlie Boatner or maybe Alan Zelenetz by now. He attended Syracuse University with two famous comic book professionals, both of whom independently dubbed him ‘the weirdest person they’d ever met’, and whose names will not be mentioned here, since that sort of thing demonstrates a small mind.
Oh, hell, they're Kurt Busiek and Scott McCloud. So I have a small mind, and Kurt hates me these days, and Scott doesn't seem real thrilled with me either. Who cares? We're poor but we're honest.
His favorite novels are Roger Zelazney’s Lord of Light and Samuel L. Clemens’ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, with Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy pulling a very close third. His favorite comic book writer is probably Alan Moore again, what with Promethea and Top Ten being so much fun, and he really wishes Tom Peyer would write more than the generally excellent Hourman, too. He’s also wildly partial to Jack Kirby’s Kamandi, although he’d hesitate to list Kirby as a favorite writer. And Mike Baron’s Nexus and Bill Loeb’s Flash and Peter O’Donnell’s Modesty Blaise and the classic Steve Englehart Avengers and Captain America and Captain Marvel stories back in the 70s are all stuff he frequently rereads, after just looking at the covers of most modern comic books has made him want to simultaneously cry, scream, vomit, and beat up anyone who has ever thought Rob Liefeld had any talent at all.
He is too darned old, not at all good looking, and grateful that his hair has finally grown out long enough to put into a ponytail. All of his friends think he’s much too picky about movies and none of them like to sit way up front in the very first row, either, the bunch of wussies. He admires intelligence, eccentricity, truthfulness, and money, and he still can’t believe that those idiots actually wrote Claire Kincaid out of Law & Order. He spouts non sequiturs and goes off on tangents a lot, too.
Okay. That WAS old. Jill Hennessy, who played Claire Kincaid on LAW & ORDER, has a new show on NBC this season, but the commercials don't give me high hopes for it. I still have the ponytail. I'm still aged, and still not at all good looking. My favorite comics list remains accurate. HOURMAN is regrettably cancelled and I should have mentioned Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN but if I do I'll have to mention how disappointing Neil's latest novel AMERICAN GODS is. Daniel Keyes Moran is starting to seriously piss me off with his dicking around on getting me a new Continuing Time novel.
And, as a somber afternote to the silliness, I want to take a moment...
The Fantasy Worlds of Jeff Webb
Calliope Comics presents Martian Vision
James Gifford's Robert A. Heinlein Fan Page
NOVELS: [* = not yet written]
Universal Agent*
Universal Law*
Earthgame*
Return to Erberos*
Memoir:
Short Stories:
Alleged Humor:
THE ADVENTURES OF FATHER O'BRANNIGAN
Fan Fic:
A Day Unlike Any Other (Iron Mike & Guardian)
DOOM Unto Others! (Iron Mike & Guardian)
Starry, Starry Night(Iron Mike & Guardian)
A Friend In Need (Blackstar & Guardian)
All The Time In The World(Blackstar)
The End of the Innocence(Iron Mike & Guardian)
And Be One Traveler(Iron Mike & Guardian)
COMICS SCRIPTS & PROPOSALS THAT WENT NOWHERE:
AMAZONIA by D.A. Madigan & Nancy Champion (7 pages final script)
TEAM VENTURE by Darren Madigan and Mike Norton
FANTASTIC FOUR 2099, by D.A. Madigan!
ARTICLES OF NOTE:
Why I Disliked Carol Kalish And Don't Care If Peter David Disagrees With Me
Heinlein: The Man, The Myth, The Whack Job
MARTIAN VISION, by John Jones, the Manhunter from Marathon, IL
CARTOONS:
DOC NEBULA'S CARTOON FUN PAGE!
DOC NEBULA'S CARTOON FUN, PAGE 2!
DOC NEBULA'S CARTOON FUN, PAGE 3!
Ever wondered what happened to the World's Finest Super-team?
Two heroes meet their editor...
At the movies with some legendary Silver Age sidekicks...
What really happened to Kandor...
Ever wondered how certain characters managed to get into the Legion of Superheroes?
A never before seen panel from the Golden Age of Comics...
Doc Nebula's Phantasmagorical Fan Page is a Capering Dwarf Production. No similarities between the contents of this webpage and actual reality are intended or should be inferred.
BULLETIN BOARD!!
and give me a shout! Not later! Do it NOW, Frantic One! IMPERIUS DOC!!
but, honestly, the other material on the site is excellent, and you should check it out. And you should also drop by Steve's comics shop in Bellefonte, PA, and buy a lot of stuff from him, even if you have to drive hundreds or thousands of miles to do it, because he's really cool. 'Nuff said, True Believer!
Quite a long time ago, Kurt Busiek and Scott McCloud both assured me that it was pointless and stupid to write a short story or novel about superheroes, because superheroes needed graphics in order to work well. Well, 'pointless and stupid' seems to be my middle name, so come with me now to Sparta City, circa 1995, and witness a world that is full of superhumans, all of them keeping their existences secret from mankind at large, while all of them scheme and strive to conquer the world. All of them, that is, except for our young heroes... Zap Force! (Yet another novel by D.A. Madigan)
When 39 year old comic book fan Webster Madison wakes up one day on an alternate Earth in the body of his favorite fantasy hero, he just knows there has to be a catch... but he never expected to discover he was nothing but a pawn on a deadly alien playing field! Check out the beginning of the... ENDGAME, by D.A. Madigan!
Stranded by treacherous aliens a thousand light years from home, Webster Madison must battle his way across a hostile galaxy, in a hopeless mission to get back to his native planet before his former best friend can successfully set himself up as Ruler of the World! Join the Hired Gun on... EARTHQUEST, by D.A. Madigan!
Ever wondered what would happen if a true blue, dyed in the wool geek got hold of a time machine? Well, you can bet he'd have a kick ass Silver Age comics collection pretty quick! But what if the sinister secret society of alien time travellers that LOST the darned thing decided they wanted it back? Check out... TIME WATCH, by D.A. Madigan!
It's 1983, and in Sparta City, life is perfect... especially for Warren Dawson and his friends. Everybody loves everyone else, every day is a brand new adventure, and if Dave occasionally goes crazy and starts raving about how it's ALWAYS 1983 and Warren is a sadistic, mind controlling rapist and the world isn't real, well, that's what happens when Dave forgets to take his pills. But when Jimmy starts to wonder if maybe Dave has a point, will it spell the downfall of Paradise, and the end of... WARREN'S WORLD ...by D.A. Madigan
It's not a rip off, it's a tribute! Or at least, it's a lot of fun to write! And finally, the damned thing is finished! Follow the epic adventures of Richard Burroughs...
WARLORD OF ERBEROS! by D.A. Madigan
Not a novel, not a dream, not an imaginary story, but instead, the sad sad tale of what happens when the Least Militarily Inclined Geek In The Universe goes briefly insane and signs up for Army Basic Training! See how I, and everyone else in my training company, had to suffer...
...IN THE EARLY MORNING RAIN by D.A. Madigan
Think you get too much spam? Check out what happens when a pretty young housewife and mother of two gets something really weird in her email from an ex-boyfriend, and has to Return To Sender
We all have regrets, but no one can change the past... or can they? Suppose someone could? Would it still be true that there's... NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
Not a science fiction story, and written specifically to win the local snotty fiction contest, which it didn't, but should have. If you read this story and have a soul at all, it will make you at least want to cry, and I don't think that, I'm... POSITIVE
Then you can take everything I said to the initial batch of ding-dongs and apply it vigorously to the newest lot. Repeating myself seems pointless, especially when dealing with people who freely admit they haven't even read the entire article of mine they're bitching about, and somehow, their short attention span is MY fault.
War is hell! Sometimes it's also a little strange. WEIRD WAR COMICS COVER ART.
A never before seen panel from the Golden Age of Comics...
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