"CLONE OF ME"
by Matt B.
Forward:
Hello Matt here, I'd like to take a quick moment and thank some very special people here: Anyone whose a Blog reader & likes to share their ideas & words freely, my whole family as well, especially Bo Bartlett & my granddaddy Ben Powers.... But most of all I want to thank God for giving us all the ability to be creative in ourselves....
Prologue:
It was very strange weather for the time of year, it was hailing but it had been hailing for several weeks at a time. The hail was it's normal golf ball size yet it's weight was as heavy as a gold bar. The news stations were sure that this weather was sure to pass on last night, they were wrong. People were stuck for weeks at home, work, or in places where they enjoyed themselves as well. No one knew if this was nature's doing or man made but still everyone was scared.
The hail had destroyed buildings & streets alike holes in the streets stopped traffic cold & buildings came apart like tissue paper, there surfaces of brick or stone crumbled because of the possible metal element that was with the ice itself. Most of the street lights had fallen into houses & it was apparent Armageddon was happening again. Dream or no dream he knew he was the cause of what was happening or at least in part he was.
A piece of hail that had broken into his & Evermore's apartment had landed on the floor. He had been watching a show of Evermore's favorite TV series, the show had main characters that started each episode with focus on a eye. He saw in his burled mind's eye he was looking down at his own bloody covered hands...
"NO, NO, NO"
He'd been having this dream for weeks now he had wanted Sasha to sleep out on the couch, but she was insistent on sharing the bed with him. For if he had the dream again she wanted to be there for him.
"Jon, Jon wake up hon your dreaming again your scaring me please wake up honey." Last night he'd knocked her off the bed of course it was an accident. Jon was still trying to sleep because he wanted to know why he had bloody hands on him in his REM sleep.
" Sash stop please I'm ... "
In Jon's REM sleep he sees himself looking from his bloody soaked hands to the floor, what he sees is still burled as always. "I'm, I can almost see..."
Sasha is trying to get Jon up by punching him, like always Jon finally wakes up & is perspiring like a white ghost just out of the fridge.
"Oh God not again!"
Sasha was holding Jon to reassure him it was again okay that the dream wasn't important at least for now. "No I do know it's important" Jon said "How or why?" Sasha asked as she tried to kiss him Mr. Ryder for the answer. She knew he'd never share about this nightmare, & really she didn't care about Jon's dreaming habits she just cared about his well being & his friendship with her. Jon himself kinda had a feeling as to what the nightmare was but knew it would upset Sasha no matter how he would tell it. He always woke like he did tonight, but tonight for the first time he saw an eye.
*****
Jon & Sasha had finally made their way to Raven Enterprises via their own bikes & the city's light rail system. They come to talk to Mr Raven himself to tell him Jon had had enough of the DLX-12 project no matter what.
"And your sure without a doubt your leaving no matter what my father has to offer you Mr & Mrs Ryder, nothing could change your mind at all?"
The young lady that had asked the question was about a month or two younger than Sasha herself. She was wearing a tan blouse with a leather white cowboy looking vest & a denim jean skirt.
"No!, No matter what you cold hearted little Bitch" Sasha pounded her fist on the young lady desk to make her point known. Then turned to put her tearful face into Jon's strong shoulder as she looked away from Krystal. Mr Raven's only child.
"We're not married, Krystal" Jon had told the brown haired lady that just stood up from her desk.
"Tell her Jon please just tell her what her father is or I will" Sasha said as she wiped her face again of tears as she reached into her shirt's pocket to hand him the zip lock baggie.
"what the Hell is your sassy friend Ms. come again what's her name saying Mr Ryder?"
Krystal asked.
Jon was very tempted to show Ms Raven what he & Sasha had found on the bedroom floor, from last night but then thought better of it, As he stood up for his friend as he knows she would for him if their roles were in reverse.
"Ms Evermore" Jon says & then continues on "your father's project of DLX-12 has finally worked as he projected and..."
"And do you have any proof of this Jon?"
Sasha felt Jon's hand relax a little on her back as he thought he & Mr. Raven's daughter were done completely.
"So what you want & are saying Mr Ryder is that you want out of the program part of the DLX-12 as well?," Ms Raven says to Jon Ryder.
"Yeah it's the only reason we're here Ms Raven & you know that yourself or I'd at least hope you would know your father more better than just as your boss?"
" I'd hope for your sake Jon you, you all of people wouldn't be the one to be a fool with what you truly know of our work here at Raven Enterprises..."
Sasha is almost in even bigger shock on hearing this as she looks more fearful than she did last night Jon notices.
Krystal reached out for a silver frame photo that was on the corner of the desk that just
moments ago she'd ran her pointer finger over, whoever was in the picture Jon and Sasha couldn't see. Krystal sat back down in her chair as she continued to listen to what Jon had to say.
"The weather part of DLX-12 is only part of your father's pet peeve project & you know it Krystal !"
"Why of course I know that as anyone who works with daddy sure, but are you admit it scared to deal with what that said project part of DLX-12 pertains too besides the weather part since you took part in the whole of the project yourself Mr Ryder don't be coy with me or Ms Evermore here."
Sasha now looked at Jon skeptically now realizing she doesn't know everything about his work here or did at Raven Enterprises entirely. "What's she talking about Jon?"
Krystal rose from her desk with a smile on her face that surprised even Jon himself.
"What I'm saying is Jon here has got to know that he has to stop himself as well as my dear old insane daddy isn't that right Jon Boy?"
Krystal Raven walked out of the room leaving Sasha more confused about Jon's whole involvement in all this Project DLX-12?.....
October 31, 2008
October 28, 2008
More than just one form of a creative mind or idea at work
Hello all,
I got to thinking just today about my creative juices in a BIG WAY. While at work today I got to thinking I want to write a novel or at least a story that I have total control over, now if you'll look on the side of my information about me I say I like to read & that I like to draw as well. In this blog I'll share some of my art work from over the years. See I've always had an inkling to create I'm sure that it's within all of us we just have to reach down & find it within us. I've been drawing since I was a kid in the early 80's I'd do things like super heroes or cartoons & a little of my own stuff as well, I even remember writing my own short story in the 3rd or 4th grade titled " Where'd the stolen lunch go?" I wish I still had a copy of that too ah well on to better things I guess.
Like I said I had gotten to thinking today at work about a story I will write here at "Day life of the Matt" called "Clone of Me", This is how serious I am about this today at work at my lunch time I bought a writing pad & two retractable pens, & wrote characters names down. One other thing to point out when I was collecting comics I came across how to write for comics in every way I'm just recalling basics of what it was saying, altogether even though my Idea's my own. Here's some of that promised drawn art:
I got to thinking just today about my creative juices in a BIG WAY. While at work today I got to thinking I want to write a novel or at least a story that I have total control over, now if you'll look on the side of my information about me I say I like to read & that I like to draw as well. In this blog I'll share some of my art work from over the years. See I've always had an inkling to create I'm sure that it's within all of us we just have to reach down & find it within us. I've been drawing since I was a kid in the early 80's I'd do things like super heroes or cartoons & a little of my own stuff as well, I even remember writing my own short story in the 3rd or 4th grade titled " Where'd the stolen lunch go?" I wish I still had a copy of that too ah well on to better things I guess.
Like I said I had gotten to thinking today at work about a story I will write here at "Day life of the Matt" called "Clone of Me", This is how serious I am about this today at work at my lunch time I bought a writing pad & two retractable pens, & wrote characters names down. One other thing to point out when I was collecting comics I came across how to write for comics in every way I'm just recalling basics of what it was saying, altogether even though my Idea's my own. Here's some of that promised drawn art:
October 24, 2008
It's only been one week
Hey there everyone,
I want to share with you what I got last week on Friday night from my brother, when he came home from work. I of course really paid for it so it's not like it is a gift from him or anything at all like that, but it sure as heck is very nice indeed. Here's a small hint as to what it is?, It will help me come the second month of next year in 2,009, I can also use this thing as a monitor as my computer screen if I want/wish to as well. OK enough with the guessing games it's a 42 inch plasma screen High Definition TV with a 16:9 screen.
Since I'd been hearing about everybody needing to upgrade their analog broadcast signal to HI DEF by getting a government receiver tuner or get a HI DEF TV I decided to go with the latter for you can more choices with a TV than you can with a converter box, at least from how my folks & my brother & a few friends that I know kept telling me. My folks also thought that it would be better to get a HI DEF TV before the February deadline in the new year. So my brother had offered to look for it for me when I was ready. He knew I wanted it to compatible ports for my DVD player & Playstation2 as seen in the picture above.
Here are a few pictures my mom took of me with my new High Definition TV try guess what the ice scene is from here.
It's a scene from the derictor's cut of SUPERMAN the movie from 1978, when he's going thru the street to the hide out of Lex Luthor but this scene was cut to make movie fit a two hour time frame. I myself happen upon a copy of the film at our old Suncoast in our mall, a few years back. The next one is when he saves Lois lane from her helicopter crashing when he makes his appearace known to the whole world for the first time. the scene's name is "You got me, but who got you?"
Finally here a pure great pic of the late Bill Bixby in the new Incredible Hulk movie that stars Edward Norton as the part that Bix played in the live action TV show of the same name in the late '70's into the early '80's. Norton's Banner is flipping channels to learn "Portuguese" and come across an episode of "The courtships of Eddie's father" which Bix starred in the late '60's.
I have yet to try my Playstation2 out on this nice TV but so far on it I've watched Star Trek, First Contact, some New & old He-man cartoons, the classic Flash Gordon from the "80's" The "new" Incredbile Hulk movie & the classic TV show as well which I do after posting this as well, & Finally Heroes which I tried to watch when it first aired in 2,004 but I was to tried to watch but I found agreat deal at Hasting not long ago of buy one DVD gift set get another for free so I went with Heroes season one after teasing myself again with season three which is running now it's called Villains for you Heroes fans out there. I enjoy season one alot of the few episodes I've seen thus far.
October 07, 2008
Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character pt.5 of 5 Spidey at a party & lot more
Hey all,
Spider-man sure looks like a PARTYING ANIMAL in these pics here in this last blog of "Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character?", Well and he should he's with me Matt B. his BIGGEST FAN EVER. How did this happen you may ask?, well I'll tell you his BIGGEST FAN happen to be having a birthday at the said time in fact it was my 320th birthday at the time. (Damn don't I look great for an old man) just joking or am I?, Really that birthday was my favoritee one of all my years on this beautiful planet we call earth. Also he looks very religious looking as well doesn't he? (More that later in this blog). I recall wanting a very special cake that year, not just because I loved Spider-Man or because his movies see "Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character (pt. 4 of 5: Spider-man movies)" but I also was happy because of a girl that I was getting to know at that time. I went digging into my old photos of Spidey & me from when I was a kid before this though I wanted an "ALIAS" cake from the TV show only to find out my work place had no cake patterns to do such a thing, so I went with my comic book hero instead: Spider-Man.
So why am I 360 right now right if I'm really only 36 years old, I thought as I got closer to being 30 I had want to play with my age each concerning year because I love being a kidder with myself most of all. So I decided I'd add another zero to my actual age so when I was 30 I always said "NAH, I'm really 300 years old, People that I know just get a kick out of it like I do. Hey that reminds me on my next birthday I'm going to be a whopping 370 years old, lucky me huh. Well like I said I went looking through old photos that I had of me & Spidey that was in that when he was in Columbus Georgia when they were opening that new mall called Columbus Square which I also have posted in the first blog in this series. I took the picture to work & they photo scanned it onto the cake, they also asked me would I like it to say something besides "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" I said sure how about "Happy Birthday to Spidey biggest fan!"
Then I had also had invited some coworkers from Albertson's to my party as well as family & friends. We had it at ROY'S a all you can eat buffet type of eatery, little did I or anyone in my family knew what I was in store for from my coworkers. They knew Spidey more than I did apparently for he showed up at MY party out of the New York blue. My niece Heidi was very scared of Spider- Man when he was picking up uncle Matt.
She was more afraid when he had actual started doing his Spider acrobatics around the room when he first got there, but when Spidey picked me up that set her into tears for a few minutes anyway, she was young so of course it very understandable from her point of view. As you can see I at least came to my party deck out in my own Spidey clothes with a Spidey tie that I had gotten a few years earlier. My younger sister was stationed in North Korea at this time, she had sent me a very nice Spider Man coat that she had made over there with my name on the coat as well as a huge John Romita SR piece of Spider Man art on it. All in all I wasn't just surprised at my 320th birthday party I was blown away by it, & still think till this day it was my best ever. I know that my family will agree with me on that note, so would Spidey since he was there too.
And now on to what I meant by "a lot more" in this blog. Another point of Spider Man history I would like to talk about is "Religion" in comics, Why did it take the event of 9/11 to have Marvel comics convince the concept it's needed in this format of telling stories that deal with the subject. Of course there had been many other "events that could of" lead to both main publishers of comics the other being Detective Comics to bringing "Religion", into their stories But like I've said before 9/11 brought all of America together as a whole, I also know that in their own way both comic companies have written about God for each of their main characters at one time or another.
Each comic book writer brings with them a set of stories that they want to tell while they have their turn at writing whoever that character is. Sometimes they even might bring a religious aspect to the stories to get their point across intentional or non intentional. There are times when some comics are written directly for sharing the gospel's most are put in tracts that people give to help us remember God's message itself. There are few comic book writers that have it be that withinn the story it self they includee God saving you in some way too.
Here is a fine example of what I mean with my favorite super hero spidey himself, this story was written by Paul Jenkins I can't recall this story's title but it doesn't matter this opening page just reminds the comic reader God's very important to fictional heroes just as he is to us in real life. Writer JMS who before writing Amazing Spider-Man had never written a comic book, but has claim as creator of Babylon Five TV show which reviled Star Trek's: DS-9 had this panel of how Peter feels towards his wife Mary Jane per "One More Day" storyline.
What's very interesting about JMS is that he himself is an atheist, but writes the Spider-man character as a protestant Christian. Spidey is Marvel's every man he represents us as flawed as we are so why can't he be their own outward looking view of the comic universe's "Prodigal Son" as well.
In order for Marvel Comics to WIN Matt one of Spidey many #1 fans back to their reading core is this PLEASE reestablish Parker's Marriage & let the characters evolve in whatever fashion they will after CIVIL WAR So Peter now has to deal with the whole world knowing he's the wall crawler & Aunt May could pass on he & Mary Jane have kids one day so what those aren't great stories I guess huh?. Well here's what would truly bring ME back but will NEVER EVER HAPPEN a Marvel/Image crossover of Spider-Man vs Spawn & if Todd McFarlane drew it would be a HUGE PLUS as well. If your a comic fan reading this blog and would like to know what your favorite comic character religious beliefs are go to www@.religiousaffiliationofcomicbookcharacters.com.
Spider-man sure looks like a PARTYING ANIMAL in these pics here in this last blog of "Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character?", Well and he should he's with me Matt B. his BIGGEST FAN EVER. How did this happen you may ask?, well I'll tell you his BIGGEST FAN happen to be having a birthday at the said time in fact it was my 320th birthday at the time. (Damn don't I look great for an old man) just joking or am I?, Really that birthday was my favoritee one of all my years on this beautiful planet we call earth. Also he looks very religious looking as well doesn't he? (More that later in this blog). I recall wanting a very special cake that year, not just because I loved Spider-Man or because his movies see "Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character (pt. 4 of 5: Spider-man movies)" but I also was happy because of a girl that I was getting to know at that time. I went digging into my old photos of Spidey & me from when I was a kid before this though I wanted an "ALIAS" cake from the TV show only to find out my work place had no cake patterns to do such a thing, so I went with my comic book hero instead: Spider-Man.
So why am I 360 right now right if I'm really only 36 years old, I thought as I got closer to being 30 I had want to play with my age each concerning year because I love being a kidder with myself most of all. So I decided I'd add another zero to my actual age so when I was 30 I always said "NAH, I'm really 300 years old, People that I know just get a kick out of it like I do. Hey that reminds me on my next birthday I'm going to be a whopping 370 years old, lucky me huh. Well like I said I went looking through old photos that I had of me & Spidey that was in that when he was in Columbus Georgia when they were opening that new mall called Columbus Square which I also have posted in the first blog in this series. I took the picture to work & they photo scanned it onto the cake, they also asked me would I like it to say something besides "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" I said sure how about "Happy Birthday to Spidey biggest fan!"
Then I had also had invited some coworkers from Albertson's to my party as well as family & friends. We had it at ROY'S a all you can eat buffet type of eatery, little did I or anyone in my family knew what I was in store for from my coworkers. They knew Spidey more than I did apparently for he showed up at MY party out of the New York blue. My niece Heidi was very scared of Spider- Man when he was picking up uncle Matt.
She was more afraid when he had actual started doing his Spider acrobatics around the room when he first got there, but when Spidey picked me up that set her into tears for a few minutes anyway, she was young so of course it very understandable from her point of view. As you can see I at least came to my party deck out in my own Spidey clothes with a Spidey tie that I had gotten a few years earlier. My younger sister was stationed in North Korea at this time, she had sent me a very nice Spider Man coat that she had made over there with my name on the coat as well as a huge John Romita SR piece of Spider Man art on it. All in all I wasn't just surprised at my 320th birthday party I was blown away by it, & still think till this day it was my best ever. I know that my family will agree with me on that note, so would Spidey since he was there too.
And now on to what I meant by "a lot more" in this blog. Another point of Spider Man history I would like to talk about is "Religion" in comics, Why did it take the event of 9/11 to have Marvel comics convince the concept it's needed in this format of telling stories that deal with the subject. Of course there had been many other "events that could of" lead to both main publishers of comics the other being Detective Comics to bringing "Religion", into their stories But like I've said before 9/11 brought all of America together as a whole, I also know that in their own way both comic companies have written about God for each of their main characters at one time or another. Each comic book writer brings with them a set of stories that they want to tell while they have their turn at writing whoever that character is. Sometimes they even might bring a religious aspect to the stories to get their point across intentional or non intentional. There are times when some comics are written directly for sharing the gospel's most are put in tracts that people give to help us remember God's message itself. There are few comic book writers that have it be that withinn the story it self they includee God saving you in some way too.
Here is a fine example of what I mean with my favorite super hero spidey himself, this story was written by Paul Jenkins I can't recall this story's title but it doesn't matter this opening page just reminds the comic reader God's very important to fictional heroes just as he is to us in real life. Writer JMS who before writing Amazing Spider-Man had never written a comic book, but has claim as creator of Babylon Five TV show which reviled Star Trek's: DS-9 had this panel of how Peter feels towards his wife Mary Jane per "One More Day" storyline.
What's very interesting about JMS is that he himself is an atheist, but writes the Spider-man character as a protestant Christian. Spidey is Marvel's every man he represents us as flawed as we are so why can't he be their own outward looking view of the comic universe's "Prodigal Son" as well.
In order for Marvel Comics to WIN Matt one of Spidey many #1 fans back to their reading core is this PLEASE reestablish Parker's Marriage & let the characters evolve in whatever fashion they will after CIVIL WAR So Peter now has to deal with the whole world knowing he's the wall crawler & Aunt May could pass on he & Mary Jane have kids one day so what those aren't great stories I guess huh?. Well here's what would truly bring ME back but will NEVER EVER HAPPEN a Marvel/Image crossover of Spider-Man vs Spawn & if Todd McFarlane drew it would be a HUGE PLUS as well. If your a comic fan reading this blog and would like to know what your favorite comic character religious beliefs are go to www@.religiousaffiliationofcomicbookcharacters.com.
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