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Subject: {AnnD}"The Adventures Of Ultra Woman And Mega Girl "(FF )[3/7]
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The Adventures Of Ultra Woman And Mega Girl
Part Three
by Ann Douglas
Today, Ultra Woman and Mega Girl
topped the lists of favorite books. It was another
source of self-satisfaction that four other Creative
Comic series held places in the top ten. Of these,
two were also Simon and Kirby productions.
With success came additional revenue in
the form of Ultra Woman games, dolls and even
lunch boxes. The final nail in the coffin in all
those naysayers would come next month with the
release of the live action film “The Adventures Of
Ultra Woman and Mega Girl” in theaters across
the country.
“Jackie, you have a minute?" said the
voice from behind the tall brunette as she reached
out to open her office door.
“Of course Jo," Jackie smiled as she turned
and saw the bright face of her protege and partner
"Just give me a few minutes to get organized and
come right on in.”
The confident young woman who stepped
into Jackie’s office five minutes later bore little
resemblance to the nervous girl of a few years
before. Jo Simon had lost the last of that baby fat
as well as the braces. At 21 she still looked 17 but
had lost all of her youthful awkwardness.
The nature of their relationship had
changed over the years as well. The energy that Jo
brought to Creative transformed the company.
She proved a quick learner and took on more and
more responsibility. Many of the old guard,
irritated at having to work for Jackie in the first
place, became positively livid at now having some
kid give them orders. Many quit, to be replaced
by much needed new blood.
The personal relationship between the two
women changed as well. The sisterlike bond that
formed almost immediately grew and grew as the
5 year difference in their ages lessened with each
passing year. At times, it now even seemed like
Jo was the more mature of the two.
“What’s up?” Jackie asked as she poured
a cup of coffee for both of them.
“I was wondering if you had any plans for
the weekend?” Jo replied.
“Just a good book and a bottle of wine,”
Jackie laughed. “Why?”
“Comic-Con is this weekend, down in
D.C.” Jo said. “I was thinking it would be fun if
we went.”
“I wasn’t aware that we’d been invited to
be on any of the panels this year.” Jackie said.
“We weren’t,” Jo said. “I don’t mean
going as guests. I meant going as fans and really
having some fun.”
“Oh.” Jackie simply said.
She knew what Jo was getting at. When
she first started at Creative, they went to all the
Conventions. It was a lot of fun, mixing with the
fans and basically being a little crazy for a day or
two. Unfortunately the price of success had put
an end to those days.
It wasn’t like the two of them were known
to people they passed on the street. The fans,
however were a different story. They’d appeared
in many of the trade magazines and had appeared
in countless discussion panels. When they’d tried
to simply walk around after a panel last year they
had to be rescued by security from adoring fans.
This year, with the movie coming out, it would
only be worse.
“You know what happened last year.”
Jackie reminded her friend.
“I know,” she replied. “And I’ve got that
all figured out.”
“Do tell.” Jackie smiled.
“We don’t go as ourselves,” Jo suggested.
“We go as someone else.”
“Such as....?” an intrigued Jackie asked.
“Well a lot of people go to the Cons in
costumes,” Jo said. “As characters, so to speak.”
“Costumes, characters....” Jackie
repeated, guessing where this was going. “Any
particular characters you have in mind?”
“Well you do have those costumes the
studio sent over in your closet?” Jo said in a
suggestive tone.
Sitting in the office closet were two
costumes for Ultra Woman and Mega Girl. They
had been sent over from the movie studio to be
used in a publicity campaign. When the film
opened, Creative would hire two actresses to play
the parts and appear at various theaters. It was an
old gimmick but the fans loved it.
At first thought, Jackie considered the idea
of dressing up in a costume and going to the Con
pretty ridiculous. After all, she was the head of a
rising company and that wasn’t the type of thing
CEO’s of companies did. Then she thought about
how that was exactly the type of thing a younger
Jackie Kirby would have done and how much fun
she would’ve had doing it.
More importantly, she could see in Jo’s
eyes how important it seemed to be for her. It
had been a rough year for her friend. The loss of
her mother after a long illness had been followed
two months later by Jo’s sudden break-up with
her boyfriend. That had taken Jackie by surprise
as much as everyone else. She would’ve bet
anything that Jo and Bill Thomas were going to
announce their engagement at the office Christmas
party. Instead, Jo had showed up alone and said
that it was all over and that she didn’t want to
discuss it. To this day she hadn’t mentioned it
again.
“What the hell,” Jackie laughed. “It’s
crazy enough to be fun. Okay, we’ll go.”
“Great!” Jo exclaimed. “I already got us
two tickets on the Washington Shuttle flight
tonight and a room at the hotel.”
“Pretty sure of yourself, aren’t you.”
Jackie said.
“Well we know who you have to blame for
that.” Jo smiled. “The flight leaves at 09:00 so
you should plan to be at LaGuardia by 08:00.”
“Aren’t we leaving together?” Jackie
asked.
“I promised Doctor Giordano that I’d stop
by the children’s ward and do some sketches for
the kids.” Jo explained. “So I’ll meet you at the
terminal.”
The excitement on her friends face told
Jackie she’d made the right decision. It would be
an interesting weekend and probably a lot of fun
as well.
“But if we’re going to fly out of here
tonight,” Jackie thought to herself as the assistant
Editor In Chief left. “I’d better get cracking on
this paperwork.
The day passed quickly but the pile of
papers on Jackie’s desk didn’t seem to shrink any.
She considered asking Jo to stay a while and help
but then discarded the idea. A few personal
drawings for the kids at City Hospital was more
important than anything she was doing right now.
Whatever she didn’t finish tonight could wait until
Monday. She’d work until the last minute and
then just leave it all.
The clock read 06:40 when Jackie finally
pushed the last pile of folders into her side drawer.
Enough was enough. She had sent the last of the
office staff home an hour ago, not wanting to
keep them for trivial stuff. There was enough of
that during crunch time.
Jackie rubbed the ridge of her nose. Right
behind it was a slowly growing headache. Too
much paperwork. She’d have to have Tim make
another appointment with the optometrist and get
her eyes checked again. She’d been told to take it
a little easier on her last visit, but of course she
hadn’t.
“I need some aspirin.” Jackie thought.
The last thing she wanted to do was get on an
airplane with a headache.
A quick search of her desk produced only
an empty bottle. A further search of Tim’s desk in
the outer office likewise came up empty. She
recalled Tim mentioning that she’d wiped out the
bottle of Tylenol he usually kept in his desk and
he’d pick up more when he went shopping over
the weekend.
“Well I know Jo keeps all kinds of
emergency supplies in her desk.” Jackie thought.
“She even came up with a needle and thread the
other day when one of the guys split his pants. Of
course she just handed it to him and told him to
fix it himself.”
“Let’s see,” Jackie said as she opened the
large top drawer of Jo’s combination desk and
drawing table. “Batteries, pencils, oh here we are,
extra strength Tylenol.”
Downing the two gelcaps with a glass of
water from the cooler, Jackie noticed that Jo’s
bottom drawer was slightly open. That was
unusual in that she was somewhat fanatical about
locking up her storage drawers. Not that she
thought anyone was going to steal anything, it was
just that she hated anyone seeing works in
progress.
“I guess she was in such a hurry to get to
the hospital she forgot.” Jackie said as she reached
down to close the drawer.
After two tries it was obvious that
something inside was jamming the drawer open.
Jackie pulled the drawer all the way out and began
to empty it to find the obstruction.
At the bottom of the drawer, Jackie came
across a thick manila folder filled with so many
drawings that it had to be held together with a
couple of thick rubber bands. Curiosity got the
better of her and she pulled off the bands and
opened the folder on the large drawing table.
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