The Jim Shooter Project

[Ladakh]

I want all of you to PM me the dollar amount I owe you to the nearest $10 and include your full address. I assume everything is in transit to me so let's go to Phase II! PLEASE! Everyone who contributed PM me!!!

[iggy101us]

PM sent

[Ladakh]

Got it.

GUYS- keep it to a PM... the award and prize is from "all of us" so no need to brag here.

[jaden_sai]

PM Sent

[Ladakh]

The Interview and meeting are TBD... we all have busy schedules. This gives you all more time for:

If anyone has anything they want signed by Shooter, send it to me:

Joe Petrilak
525 Delaware Street
Forest City PA 18421

I will do my best to get it done!

[Ladakh]

Jim lives 100 miles away from me and I don't go in that direction much anymore. This is your chance to get Jim Freakin Shooter to sign your Squee! I only got one response from the original offer from London... are the rest of you all filled up with JS auto then??? MAKES NO SENSE.

If someone offered me this, I would send every pre-unity I had.

Next message:

[Ladakh]

I designed a set of three bookmarks: heavyweight 2" X 6" bookmarks. I ordered 100 of three styles: Rai #0, Solar #5, Harbinger #1. The image is on the top one inch, the other lower 5 inches is where Shooter signs them vertically.

I intend to make 100 (actually less) matched sets of this @ $10.00 each. Think of it this way- include them with your books you sell on eBay.

Set #1 goes to JMatt
Set #2 goes to Sonic
Set #3 goes to Greg
Set #7 goes to Magnus

They will arrive in a simple envelope... you take it and bag and board it. I intend to number half or less on the envelope, the rest are random #ed matched sets.

All sets will go to the people who supported this project... those that didn't kick in have to buy one from one of you. But I will point out: there is only one Jim Shooter and his auto has value.

This is the $10 item. It will be shipped to you free of charge thanks to Greg kicking in some money to fulfill this project, plus Greg will get a few extra sets (and I plan to keep a coupe for myself).

If you donated $50, expect five of them. Etc.

Do I need to point out JS has never signed a bookmark in his life!!!

PEOPLE!!! PM me if you did this project!

[Ladakh]

Spoke to Jim and JMatt. Thursday, June 9th is a go.

Spoke to Jim for half an hour and quasi-interviewed him.

"If you had to write Massarsky's Epitaph" the answer "I really don't know him"

"If you could write your own epitaph?" He kinda said history will decide the answer.

[Ladakh]

We also spoke a lot about BWS...

[Phantom]

Was any of this recorded? or just a private chat?
Would like to here his comments on BWS.

[Ladakh]

Thanks. Now I will NEVER get a BWS auto.

BWS and Layton had basically burned their bridges with Marvel and in essence, JS took them in and made VALIANT.

[jmatt]

Spoke to Jim and JMatt. Thursday, June 9th is a go.

[magnusr]

Set #7 goes to Magnus

and will buy some more if there are left-overs.

/Magnus

[Ladakh]

I sent Greg the answer to the question "Why do you do cons?" and hopefully he will clean it up and post it on this site.

I also ordered a "Rai #0 cake" for Shooter, just as I got Harry Lampert a Flash #1 cake and Sheldon Moldoff a Green Lantern cake for their 50th... Jim's getting old if he has cakes of his work in his honor.

[Ladakh]

Once again, making sure EVERYONE who kicked into this project PM's me their $ and address... I don't keep records (for your privacy) and rely on you folks to tell me who I owe what.

I got one shot at this and want everyone who helped to be in on it.

[Ladakh]

Cake confirmed... I guess they were looking for Disney stuff... their rule is that can't print a copyrighted image etc...

[Ladakh]

Rags Morales may 60% also be there. RAGS!!! He is my #1 Valiant artist! He is coming for a piece of Valiant cake.

[Ladakh]

Also sent invites to Jeff Gomez and Barry Windsor-Smith.

It has become a semi-exclusive Commemoration for the life of Jim Shooter.

If anyone knows an email to Paul Levitz from DC he also has an invite coming.

And if I had the $$$, I'd also invite Stan Lee! SO THERE!

[Ladakh]

Once again guys... if you had a hand in this then speak up and PM me.... once I get the bookmarks, I will split them up among you donaters and supporters and send the 100 out. So if you miss this shout out, you're cut from the team.

Just making sure again.

[Ladakh]

I count 85 sets "sold" through donations of sorts, 90 including me I guess. And there will be signing errors... 90 is a good number from 100.

I really hope you all spoke up to this thread...

So 90 sets is $900 and that buys the books, bookmarks and shipping, the award and cake.

This would be impossible without you excellent people!!!

[doodlebird]

Thanks you for doing this honor for Jim, and on behalf of many us that is so great ! Thanks much

[jmatt]

Thanks you for doing this honor for Jim, and on behalf of many us that is so great ! Thanks much

Yeah, this thread should be titled "Joe Petrilak Unchained".

In our many phone calls and emails, Joe shared with me that he appears in two VH2 Bloodshot issues (by name, no less), #8 and #16. Pretty cool!

[Phantom]

Need to get those signed by Joe aswell then n

[magnusr]

Need to get those signed by Joe aswell then n

Such comics do exist

/Magnus

[Ladakh]

I never signed a VH2 BS #9 or #16.

Not saying I wouldn't though.

But that's not me, it''s just an homage to me and many others for VH2's best attempt... where's Jim?

Oh yeah- with me 45 hours from now.