This announcement is probably more exciting to me than to anyone else in the whole universe, but I think it’s cool: I wrote the foreword to the next Penny Arcade collection.
This one is insanely cool for me, because way back when they put together their first book, Gabe and Tycho asked me to write a foreword for it. I was way too busy at the time, so they got Bill Amend (creator of Foxtrot, which sits on a shelf with The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes in my Library of Awesome) instead. I think they traded up. Way, way up.
Years went by, and they kept putting out books that I kept reading. We crossed paths at Comic-Con, but I never really got to actually know them at all, until I gave the keynote at PAX last year. (You know, I almost chickened out of that, for reasons I’ve gone into excruciating detail about before, and I’m really glad that I didn’t, because I believe it will end up being one of the most significant moments in my life. I can’t quantify those reasons now, but I have a feeling that I’ll hopefully be able to explain one day, Charles Foster Kane style.)
After PAX was over, Robert Khoo asked me if I’d be willing to write the foreword. It went something like this:
Robert: Hey, would you like to write th–
Me: YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES, YES!
So I’m pretty excited about it, and I think that what I wrote totally doesn’t suck, which is always a bonus.
I hope I can do more things with Mike and Jerry in the future, because even though I’m the pinky toe on the Voltron we make when we come together, it’s still a pretty bad ass robot.
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Way cool, Wil.
See, there are lots of folks out there who believe in your awesomeness. This is just another shining example. 🙂
Sweet! Even the pinky toe helps to keep everything in balance. Don’t underestimate your contribution. You have introduced so many people to Penny Arcade who never would have come across it any other way. Go Voltron!
Writing the forward of someone else’s book? A true writer you are indeed…
You’re definitely more important than the pinky toe. More like the knee cap, or even the middle finger!
All your awesome announcements are starting to give me an inferiority complex.
You know the rest, Wheaton.
“You have introduced so many people to Penny Arcade”
Count me amongst the many.
Cool deal – congratulations.
Duuude. That is amazingly awesome. Now I’m going to have to scrounge the money to pony up and buy the next book. Which means I’ll have to finally get the earlier ones because I can’t have one rogue book hanging out by itself. I say it will be a fine addition to my own Bookcase of Awesome (sometimes known as Teh Bookcase of Geekitutde — it’s the same thing, really.).
I’m very excited for you! Your awesomeness is very well known.
Oooh… I wonder what announcement four will be. (Possibly a tour schedule for the book?)
Well done, Wil!
p.s. You didn’t introduce me to Penny Arcade but through a random “Re: Your Brains” reference on one of your Flickr photos you did introduce me to Jonathan Coulton — something I’m sooooooo grateful for! Plus I now check out John Scalzi’s blog because of you and bought Old Man’s War and you’ve linked me to a lot of cool stuff. Very awesome.
Cheers!
Most cool. And chycks (and dudes) dig every last bit of Voltron. Don’t sell yourself short.
Very cool indeed. Congrats.
I just ordered “Just a Geek.”
I know, what took me so long?
So… do the announcements just keep getting better? I’m totally looking forward to number 4!!
God, I love Penny Arcade. That is an accomplishment indeed. Congrats!
That’s excellent!
But what I really want to know is whether you jumped up and down when you answered. 😉
It looks like the preface is online.
http://www.pennyarcademerch.com/pap070041.html
Don’t click on the link. It’s a rickroll.
Sorry Wil, Calvin and Hobbes is in a different league than The Far Side or Foxtrot (no offense Mr. Amend or Mr. Larson!) Calvin and Hobbes deserves a shelf all by itself.
You just lost a reader with that silly statement. You should stay out of politics and comic ratings.
Ok, that was a joke, the part about losing a reader and blog topics that is, but I do hope you post a retraction soon.
Maybe you’re the pinky toe (though I think you might be closer to the left elbow) – but if you are, you’re a pinky toe that launches heat-seaking missiles, so don’t count yourself so short.
Hi Wil,
Long time reader, first time commenter. Hey, love your blog, liked you on ST/NG. I went to school with Shane Nickerson (dont know if you guys keep in touch any more or not). Anyways, I know you are a gamer and pretty much THE blogger- thought I would pass this on to you to check out- its a great read. I’m a member of an Lord of the Rings Kin- the Dark Hunters (www.thedarkhunters.org)- anyways, we’ve got a kin member who has fallen on hard times. The guy had a rough growing up, made alot of bad choices, and is now homeless and blogging! Hes been without a roof over his head for over 2 months now and is working up the cash to go to Canada. Check out his blog and give it a read- http://peruvian-dreamer.blogspot.com/
Start from the beginning and move forward in time. Its interesting stuff for someone (like myself) unfamiliar with homeless life.
Anyways, cheers!
-Dan
Congrats, no wonder you have sounded so stressed out before Christmas. With the other 2 announcements, this sounds like you have be bussier than what we thought. I’m almost afraid of what the last one is – I’m hoping it is something even bigger.
Good thing you’re not affected by the strike!
Heh.
“Rosebud….”
Thanks for being the first guy in living memory to correctly spell “foreword”. I understand, that the foreword goes forward of the rest of the book, but…. 🙂