JMS on Usenet
July 2000
J. Michael Straczynski posts regularly on Usenet. This page provides quick links to his posts from July 2000, with a brief description of each. Unless otherwise stated, all messages are from rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.
28 July 2000
NEW jms novel available FREE online
uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5
JMS reposts the Tribulations announcement to another UK newsgroup.NEW jms novel available FREE online
aus.sf.babylon5
JMS repeats the Tribulation announcement for Australian fans.NEW jms novel available FREE online
alt.babylon5.uk
JMS gives details about Tribulations, which will appear serialized at Bookface.com in August. It will also be available as a limited-run trade paperback. JMS also announces a raffle for the keyboard with which he wrote the majority of Babylon 5 and other works.
24 July 2000
Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars back orders or another option.
The first eight issues of Rising Stars will be released as a graphic novel.Re: ATTN JMS: Chicago WizardWorld
JMS doesn't know his final schedule yet for the Wizard World Chicago convention.Re: Attn JMS - Technomage Trilogy
JMS has high praise for the first novel of the techno-mage trilogy.Re: Attn JMS: San Diego
JMS doesn't have any appearances scheduled in the Sherman Oaks area.Fwd: Fiona Avery Info
JMS announces Fiona Avery's Crusade scripts at Bookface.com.
23 July 2000
Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Scripts & City of Dreams
JMS announces Fiona Avery's Crusade scripts at Bookface.com.Re: Midnight Nation Preview
JMS isn't ready to discuss the next Joe's Comics project after Midnight Nation.
22 July 2000
Re: Midnight Nation Preview
JMS talks about the comic books he likes to read.
21 July 2000
Re: Midnight Nation Preview
The pages currently available in an online Midnight Nation preview are not the pages that JMS referred to as having a unique format.
19 July 2000
Re: Attn JMS: Netter Digital in the news
JMS says that Netter Digital's bankruptcy won't affect Crusade's chances of revival.Re: July 17: Guess Who Has a Birthday?
JMS is the victim of a... Let's call it a verbal birthday spanking.Re: Midnight Nation Preview
JMS discusses his progress as a comic book writer.Re: Attn JMS: Nice Job On "Rolling Thunder"
JMS gives brief teasers about upcoming episodes of City of Dreams.Re: Attn JMS: Netter Digital in the news
JMS has no professional connection to Netter Digital, which is filing for bankruptcy.
18 July 2000
Re: Seeing Ear Theatre
JMS discusses technical issues with listening to City of Dreams episodes.Midnight Nation Preview
JMS announces a preview of Midnight Nation, the first comic book from Joe's Comics.Re: new jms audio drama 7/17
City of Dreams will be released by Dove Audio.Re: City of Dreams B5 nod
JMS announces a preview of Midnight Nation, the first comic book from Joe's Comics.Re: July 17: Guess Who Has a Birthday?
JMS ducks a birthday greeting.
16 July 2000
Re: Attn jms: Sciology Enquirer
JMS responds to a comment about the tabloid-like announcement of the Sci-Fi Channel's Babylon 5 episode of Sciography.Re: JMS: The Structure of *Rising Stars*
JMS responds to an analysis of the plot structure of Rising Stars.new jms audio drama 7/17
JMS announces "Rolling Thunder", his second episode of City of Dreams.
13 July 2000
Re: Attn JMS: Use of Actors Likenesses for Books
JMS answers a question about using actors' images in licensed materials.
12 July 2000
Re: ATTN JMS: Sci-Fi to show letterboxed B5?
JMS doesn't know any more than we do about the Sci-Fi Channel showing Babylon 5 in widescreen.Re: ATTN JMS: Jerry Doyle's comments on 11th hour?
JMS responds to Jerry Doyle's comments in a recent interview.jms' COD thanks to Aussie Worldcon
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JMS thanks those responsible for inspiring a line in the City of Dreams opening sequence.
11 July 2000
Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Scripts & City of Dreams
The glitches are fixed, and the first episode of City of Dreams is available.Re: Yahoo jms Conference July 10th
JMS reports on technical problems at the Sci-Fi Channel web site that are affecting his City of Dreams episode.Re: ATTN: JMS: The Nautilus Coil
"The Nautilus Coil" was entirely written by J. Gregory Keyes.Re: ATTN JMS: A Crusade premise question.
If Crusade had gone on longer, the Excalibur would have visited the planets of the First Ones.
10 July 2000
Re: Yahoo jms Conference July 10th
The first episode of City of Dreams hasn't been posted yet for some reason.
09 July 2000
Re: Vorlon Box
JMS agrees with a supposition about Gideon and his Apocalypse Box.Re: Space, Time, and the Incurable Romantic - WOW!
JMS talks about the bipolarity of his latest Babylon 5 short story. Is it romantic or morally dubious?
07 July 2000
Yahoo jms Conference July 10th
JMS announces his online chat at Yahoo! on July 10 at 7:00 p.m. ET.Re: ATTN: JMS - John Hudgens' newest B5 video and SciFi
JMS hasn't seen John Hudgens' latest Babylon 5 video yet.Re: Attn JMS: More B5 in comics?
JMS corrects an error in a Sci-Fi Wire article. He will not write any Babylon 5 comics under his Joe's Comics imprint.Re: ATTN JMS: Script writing question...
JMS discusses his scriptwriting.Re: The Path of Sorrows - Comment
JMS discusses TNT's dislike of "The Path of Sorrows".Re: No mention of the worker caste until 'All Alone in the Night"?
JMS jokes about why the Minbari worker caste was unheard of before the second season.Re: Attn JMS: San Diego?
JMS will be attending the San Diego Comic Con.
06 July 2000
Re: Fiona doing a new comic series?
JMS alerts readers to Fiona Avery's works at Bookface.com.
05 July 2000
Re: SFX has a dig. Again...
JMS discusses writer's block. He doesn't believe it exists.
04 July 2000
Re: JMS and SciFi Channel - a Promotion Commotion
Don't expect an "I am Sci-Fi" commercial from JMS.Re: ATTN JMS: Question on clothing
JMS explains how the costume designs were done on Babylon 5.Re: ATTN JMS: "V" Script
JMS jokes about the V television series.Re: Fiona doing a new comic series?
JMS praises Gary Frank's art for Midnight Nation.Huge B5 Pewter Station
JMS praises the new pewter model of the Babylon 5 station.
03 July 2000
Re: SFX has a dig. Again...
JMS jokes about SFX Magazine.Re: SFX has a dig. Again...
JMS apologizes for an incorrect assumption he made in his previous post.Re: SFX has a dig. Again...
JMS continues the discussion of a writer's drive to write.Re: SFX has a dig. Again...
JMS answers the question, "What drives a writer to write?"
01 July 2000
Re: ATTN JMS: "V" Script
JMS talks about the script he wrote for V.