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Braun got a lot of attention, but he didn't want to talk about the Four Aces, or the script. He said he'd had enough of playing Golden Boy and wouldn't take the part.
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"A very troubled young man, don't you think? He is haunted by his past. He does not think himself a hero."
"He's not a hero."
"He could be. That is his great lie."

Jack finally got his dooming himself by way of the narrative diagnosis<3

"So I know what psychosis feels like, and I fear that almost as much as I do sleeping." He laughed. "Almost."

Very bittersweet final Sleeper story from his original creator but at least it gives the people what they want (Croyd in deeply unethical therapy with a short detour to rob the Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"If you live, son - and I'm afraid you will, as tough as you are - you're going to need an ace name."
"What's the matter with...Wolverine?"
"Your alma mater might sue. No, I have the name for you. I name thee /Carnifex./"

Art imitates life etc. put Billy Ray in the new Avengers

I thought it might just have been the fact that this is the first coherent narrative since ACE IN THE HOLE but my god...Dr. Finn's fascination with Tachyon unpacked...Cody Havero cameo...Gambione mention...Father Squid and Jube...Belew's top-secret doomed strike team including Popinjay, Carnifex AND Lady Black...Blythe haunting the narrative...Zelazny-written Croyd story coming up...they wrote this book for me<3

"Maybe I should talk to Rainey."
"You'll need someone who does seances. He was killed a month later, found with a couple dozen bullet holes in a Jokertown gutter."

The characters yearn for THE LONG, DARK NIGHT OF FORTUNATO