tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905403238888901521.post3466940354477268194..comments2023-11-03T05:38:26.371-04:00Comments on The Long Shot: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08315672802627735955noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905403238888901521.post-43317378818912975722012-12-10T15:09:28.089-05:002012-12-10T15:09:28.089-05:00Thanks for the comment, Tom, and as always you hav...Thanks for the comment, Tom, and as always you have details that I forgot ... like lunch at Carrows. Carrows! Nothing but the best!<br /><br />My New York trips are all a muddle, too, that whole crazy collectable card game project I did for you guys (that ended with a kill fee from Fleer -- they bought my silence!). Remember being in New York with Dan on that trip but don't remember teaching you the game. I must have been in demo mode overtime. Damn, so much hustling comes to naught.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16366973046396822651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905403238888901521.post-2009875531263734432012-12-06T23:58:39.623-05:002012-12-06T23:58:39.623-05:00I remember my first meeting with Paul O'Connor...I remember my first meeting with Paul O'Connor. Dave Olbrich and I had just started gathering the projects for the launch of Malibu Comics. We had some projects that were coming to us as complete packages but were opening up the process to take pitches from writers. I knew Dave Olbrich, Dave had worked with Chris Ulm at Sunrise Distribution and Chris and Paul were best friends, so Dave and I went out to lunch (at a Carrows near the Sunrise offices just south of Los Angeles) with Chris and Paul and we bought two pitches from him right away.<br /><br />I'm not a hardcore gamer, but during the Ultraverse years, Paul developed a card game engine for an expandable superhero game that I loved. Using a test deck of homemade cards, he taught me the game in less than 5 minutes ("easy to learn, hard to master") in the lobby of the Hilton in New York. It remains one of the best games I ever played.Tom Masonhttp://comics.gearlive.comnoreply@blogger.com