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RE: Michael's Long Box: How An Intra-Company Crossover Event Brought Down An Industry
Thanks for this post. I didn't know any of the backstory on this. I just knew it was a disappointing series and it took me forever to find Red. In going through my comics, I just found my copy of Blue, which I took to a Con and got signed by Peter Grau and John Ostrander. John O seemed like a good guy. So I have some good memories about this series even though it was kind of terrible for the industry.
You're quite welcome, @methus. Deathmate is one of those things that I'd forgotten about for a good decade or more, and while at the time it was a tragedy, enough years have gone by that I now view it more as absurdist comedy than anything else. Like, it should have worked. It should have shamed every crossover before and since. And yet everything that could have gone wrong (short of it not coming out at all) did.
I've never heard or read anything negative about John Ostrander or his con appearances from anybody in the comic collecting world. I've never met him (large crowds stress me the eff out, so it would take an act of god to get me into a convention for more than an hour or so), but I know people who did and they said he was quite personable. I'm glad you got his signature, I'd consider that a worthy one for the collection. :)