So I started a nice long column and the Internet Gods ate it up, leaving me tired and unwilling to rewrite the awesome column now a memory out in the cyber ether. Life’s like that sometimes I guess.

So, instead of what I had, let’s do the CRAZY FANBOY THINGS SHAWN WANTS TO SEE IN 2009!

DC

- I want to see FLASH: REBIRTH focus on all the awesome Flashes a la Green Lantern Rebirth except in the end, instead of restoring Barry Allen to the lead, I want Barry to sacrifice himself to bring Bart back.

- KON-EL Returns. Yes, I said it and will do so again.

- Weekly comic series are buried for a good long while. Amen.

MARVEL

- Kitty Pryde and Peter Parker to get back together in ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN.

- THE ULTIMATES to be good again.

- For me to be allowed to write an ongoing DR. STRANGE book.

THE REST

- For Matt Fraction’s CASANOVA to return.

- For more issues of TOUPYDOOPS to come out.

- And that AVATAR continues to be a place for well-known writers to do creator-owned books with impressive new art talent. I really want Andy Diggle doing something there.

Sorry for the short column. I’ll get another one up soon. Just the fate of the Interwubs tonight.

Peace.

-SJD