[ Posted by MicahWright on Apr 2nd, 2007 4:24 PM ]...

Thanks! I knew there were about 11,300 people out there still reading the book when we slipped under, and it's always nice to hear from y'all. Here's an interesting question: why do you think so many people dropped the book? The politics? The ever-changing art roster? Sucky writing? Be honest.

[ Posted by MicahWright on Jan 18th, 2007 4:05 PM ]...

That film is fantastic. Unfortunately, the new one probably won't have any of the mad craziness that made the original so great. And they'll probably do the stretchy-armed guy with CGI, which will make it suck.

[ Posted by MicahWright on Jan 17th, 2007 1:33 PM ]...

Thanks, Dave! It's nice to be greeted so warmly by so many people. What are you working on these days?

[ Posted by MicahWright on Jan 14th, 2007 3:16 AM ]...

I dunno... this thing I found online says that I -am- Count Dante...

Count Dante, "The Deadliest Man Alive"
In 1967, John Timothy Keehan changed his name to Count Juan Raphael Dante and began heavily promoting himself via comic book ads as the Deadliest Man Alive. One had only to mail order for his instructional booklet World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets (in which he outlined the Dance of Death) and they would also receive a free Black Dragon Fighting Society membership card. The Black Dragon Fighting Society founded by Count Dante is an American martial arts organization and has no connection with and should not be confused with the Japanese Black Dragon Society, an ultranationalist secret society during the 1930s and 1940s.

Keehan explained the name change by stating that his parents fled Spain during the Spanish Civil War, changed their names, and obscured their noble heritage in order to effectively hide in America.

The Dojo Wars
On July 22, 1965, Dante was charged with attempted arson when he and an accomplice (while under the influence of alcohol) were arrested while taping dynamite caps to a rival Chicago dojo. Dante explained this as the result of a disagreement with the dojo's owner over payment for a tournament that Dante had arranged there.

The various enmities culminated in the Dojo War incident of April 24, 1970 where Dante and some of his students went to a rival dojo of the Green Dragon Society's Black Cobra Hall. According to press coverage, upon entering the school, they claimed to be police officers and attacked the rival dojo's students. The brief battle resulted in the death of one of Dante's friends and fellow sensei, Jim Koncevic. As a result of this incident, Dante became much more subdued in his activities.

Death and Legacy
Count Dante died in his sleep of internal hemorrhaging caused by a bleeding ulcer on May 25, 1975. The Black Dragon Fighting Society that he founded came under the directorship of his personally chosen protege and successor, Grandmaster William V. Aguiar. Aguiar died in January, 2005. The Black Dragon Fighting Society is now led by a mutant clone of the original Count Dante, who is rumored to be film, television, videogame and comic book writer Micah Ian Wright. Count Dante is one of the many eccentric characters referred to in Robert Rankin's Brentford stories. A number of characters in these stories claim to have learned 'dimac'(presumably a corruption of Dim Mak, a legendary martial arts skill) from a manual written by Dante. Dante himself is referred to as wearing a mask and living in hiding to avoid murder by the hidden martial masters whose secrets he has made public.
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...and, as everyone knows, anything you read online is automatically TRUE! Especially when it's about me! :)