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Silhouet98
Jazma President
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 Posted - 07/01/2010 : 2:14:24 PM
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Message from the President
Paul’s Incoherent Ramblings
Jazma Universe Online!
http://www.jazmaonline.com/
July 10, 2010 Vol 14 #124
Contributions by: Jeani Rector, Critter News, William Carlisle
Next Issue: August 15, 2010, Vol. 14 #125
THE PLAYGROUND MOTHER
So there I was, dressed in black from head to toe on a hot summer day, attempting unsuccessfully to concentrate both on the book I'd brought along to read and my small daughter across the playground from my own shady bench, when across the grassy stretch to my right I observed a young woman, spotlessly attired in white sweatshirt and white jeans, approaching our vicinity with her own small daughter in tow.
I say she was young because although the shading of her skin (and even of her cleaner-than-clean white clothing) had to it an ashy gray pallor, her face was that of a seventeen-year-old beauty queen ~ yet I marveled throughout her entire visit to us in that park at the expression it bore, which was that of the most ancient, sorrowful yet at the same time wise, exalted ~ benign ~ serene. It seemed to me that it would have taken a much longer life than she appeared to have had to earn the sweet sorrow upon her visage. .
Her little girl raced off toward the slides and swings, while her mother sat down on the bench to my right.
'She'll regret the effect of that bench on her white clothing when she gets up,' I thought automatically.
Every few moments I would glance up in order to view again the expression on that face ~ something like I imagined would be upon the face of Mother Mary were she to manifest on a playground bench in a sweatshirt and jeans.
I marveled that each time I glanced up I found her also glancing up at me! When our eyes met, it filled me with the sweetest of energy, flowing between us and building in my heart.
We never said one single word to one another, though we were separated only by the length of two park benches. But we must have repeated this empathic gazing four or five times as our children played together with ~ now that I think of it, considering my little tomboy was involved ~ unusual quietness and harmony.
What passed between the two of us in those long glances truly communicated more than words ever could have; more than enough to fill our souls with a mysterious sense of companionship and comfort.
At last she summoned her child and, rising from the bench (with, I noticed, not one spot or twig upon her attire) moved back along the pathway leading to the grassy stretch she had come in by.
Even as she walked upon this path, twice more, we gazed our fill at one another. Then she and her daughter disappeared around the corner of a building.
Just as they did so, church bells began to peal joyously nearby.
A grand wedding procession, beribboned and belled, swept toward me around the corner of that same building.
For a long time afterward I remained confused about one thing: If that wonderful young woman had been a ghost from times past as everything else about her made her appear indeed to be, then why had she been dressed in such modern clothing?
As so often occurs with we seekers the answer came to me when least expected, and from a source which, in order to connect with, one must have trodden far paths with true and earnest humility.
In this particular case I was sharing some tobacco with a ragged gentleman outside of the cross-country bus station in (I think) Seattle.
"You know, some of the ghosts I've seen," he offered in the flow of our general conversation, "They update their wardrobes, have you noticed that?"
Jeani Rector says to stop by:
www.facebook.com/people/Jeani-Rector/100000446637859
The Horror Zine website: www.thehorrorzine.com
Jazma League of Justice, Members Count: 20
Latest Count: Jazma Man aka Paul Dale Roberts, Jazma Girl aka Patricia Mary Roberts, Captain Golden Age aka Jon Gilbert, The Canadian aka Richard Vasseur, BC Jazma aka William Carlisle, Groovy Agent aka Lloyd Smith, Kendra the Jungle Girl aka Kendra Larry, The Mark aka Mark Cardoso; The Point Master aka Darrell Goza, The Jazma Controller aka TW Montgomery - The Webmaster, What's-Happening-Man aka Steve Skeates, Ridelia aka Debra Lynn Scott aka Dee Kee, Proton-Man aka Jeff Clifford, Ryan the Great aka Ryan Crouse, Dynamo Doyle aka Tommy Doyle, Blue Aero aka Bruce Cashman, Heavenly aka Harmony Kennedy; Red Moon/Red Thunder aka Luna Roja/Juan Manuel Perez; Scarlet Flare aka Elena McEntee; Thai Temptress aka Becky Inthavong! Note: Captain Golden Age, Blue Aero, Ridelia and The Mark have departed and are working on solo superhero careers! Proton Man is on a solo adventure against an adversary named Evil Lilly – last status known: Proton Man is now missing in action.
Everyone - check out Star Verse Comics at: http://www.starverse.ca
This site belongs to Jazma Staff Member Ryan Crouse! A very cool…I mean cool site! Email Ryan at: star_verse@hotmail.com
If you are writing me or submitting your artwork, please send to:
Paul Dale Roberts, Publisher
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http://www.jazmaonline.com/
5606 Moonlight Way
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PaulDale55@yahoo.com
xenareel@yahoo.com
Thai Temptress says:
Places Where the Newsletter Has Gone:
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Staff Profiles - Jazmauraders!!:
Partyin' Paul Dale Roberts, President, Publisher, Jazma - Elk Grove, CA Office
Email Addresses: Xenareel@yahoo.com, PaulDale55@yahoo.com, pauld5606@comcast.net, proberts@dfg.ca.gov
Cellular Phone Number: (916) 203-7503, Work Phone: (916) 928-5848
Rowdy Richard Vasseur, Vice President, Illustrator, Reviewer/Critic, Mediator: Jazma Canadian Office
Email Address: richardv@sympatico.ca
Wonderful Warren Montgomery, Jazma General: Webmaster, Jazma - Oregon Office
Rockin' Ryan Crouse, Jazma Czar, Jazma Special Agent: Illustrator: Jazma Canadian Office
Email Address: star_verse@hotmail.com
Jolly Jeani Rector: Princess of Jazma – Jazma Storyteller: 10833 Folsom Blvd, Apt 139, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 /600-9229, jeani.rector@dot.ca.gov
Joltin' Juan Manuel Perez, Jazma Lieutenant Colonel: Poet & Illustrator/ Jazma Texas Office. Address: PO Box 70
La Pryor, TX 78872-0070 Email Address: Gotobulldog87@yahoo.com
Dashin’ David Owens, Jazma Magistrate/Artist: 1349 Glenora Drive, London, Ontario Canada N5X-1T6
Email: Nebstudio@netscape.net
Terrific Tom Doyle, Illustrator, Jazma Sergeant of Arms, Jazma Secret Agent: 23281 Blue Star Hwy., Jarratt, Va. 23867 Email Address: doylecreations@yahoo.com
Debonair Dashin' Darrell Goza, Duke of Jazma: Cover Artist1/"The New Jersey Comix Arts Experience!" Columnist, Cartoonist - Jazma - New Jersey Office.
Email Address: Nightray2002@Yahoo.com
Regular Mail: 1715 E Cambridge Street, Allentown, PA 18109
Ravishin’ Ron Fontes, Artist/Writer – Jazma Special Operative. Critter Publishing Inc; PO Box 585; Readfield, Maine 04355 Email: soniccomics@gwi.net
Astonishing Allen A. Klingelhoets; Jazma Field Marshall/Interviewer; 9 South 9th Street; Barron, WI 54812-1611; alklingelhoets@hotmail.com
The Legendary Dark Silhouette says:
What Comic Book Websites are Hot!
Star Verse http://www.starverse.ca
Robert Crain Investigations www.arcyinvestigations.com
Sharon Diane Roberts www.caipublishing.net
Jeani Rector www.thehorrorzine.com
The Canadian says: Libraries that are accepting the PCBN:
Attn: Randy Scott/Special Collections Attn: Rosemary Cullen
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The Ohio State University
Cartoon Research Library
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Gary F. Kurutz, Principal Librarian - Special Collections
California History Section
California State Library
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Sacramento, CA 94237-0001
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Bowling Green State University
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Terri J. Goldrich, Curator
Alternate Press Collection
Archives & Special Collections
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University of Connecticut Unit 1205
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Copyright Office - 407 Deposits
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Department of Special Collections
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Scarlet Flare says:
Prices of the Newsletter:
$10.00 Year Subscription (Total: 6 issues)
Fan Art $3.00 for 5 pieces of fan art published.
Scripts & Storylines: $3.00 for 5 pages
2nd Year Subscribers: $10.00 for unlimited fan art to be published within
on subscriber year (as many as possible that we can get in!)
Back issues are $8.00 an issue. Due to the cost of printing a single issue.
Sorry about that. Make checks payable to: Paul Dale Roberts. Mail checks to: Paul Dale Roberts, President, Peoples' Comic Book Newsletter, 5606 Moonlight Way, Elk Grove, CA 95758
What's Happenin' Man says: Artwork, Subscriptions and Scripts can be sent to:
Paul Dale Roberts, President
Peoples' Comic Book Newsletter
5606 Moonlight Way
Elk Grove, CA 95758
Important Disclaimer from Kendra the Jungle Girl:
All material submitted for the PCBN, belong to their respective owners and copyrighted by their respected owners. Some material may have an adult content, please review, before allowing your children to read the PCBN. All Jazma Universe characters are copyrighted © 1996 - 2008 Register of Copyrights - Library of Congress. Peoples’ Comic Book Newsletter, Jazma Comics, Jazma Universe Online!; Jazma Online!; The Legendary Dark Silhouette; Jet-X; Lilau; Jazma League of Justice and all created products of Jazma Comic Book Newsletter Productions are © copyrighted with the Register of Copyrights - Library of Congress 2009.
A Quote from Jazma Man (he thinks he is Tony Stark):
Some people may be rich from the money they have gained, I am rich by the company of women I keep.
Jazma Universe and Beyond!
Paul Dale Roberts, Jazma Bounty Hunter // Jazma Universe Online! / Peoples' Comic Book Newsletter
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MFTP July 10, 2010 Vol 14 #124
