Hey folks, we’ve obviously been following the status of Carla and Lance Hoffman with baited breath here at Blog@. For those that may not be in the know, Carla was a contributor here with the first team, sharing her love for all things Marvel Comics. She and her husband Lance were badly burned in the recent fires in California, but are thankfully on their way to recovery. On one of the previous posts about the couple, we got a comment from Carla’s brother, Jason.
I am Carla’s brother. I live in South San Francisco and commute to Orange, CA where the UCI Burn Center is. I just got back from visiting them yesterday, and I am happy to report that they are both out of danger and have begun the hard tasks of rehabilitation from both the smoke inhalation and burns. Burns require daily cleaning and the ‘hydrotherapy’ is taxing and painful. Carla is able to talk and is walking a little, and we hope that Lance is not far behind.
Fortunately, UCI is a top facility and even the nursing staff has decades of burn treatment experience. As far as bad situations go, its the best it can be right now.
So, at this time, anything that can be done to keep their morale up is vastly important. I have been out the comic world since high school (I am 42) so any help from the blogsphere would be most appreciated. Anyone know Stan Lee’s unlisted phone number?
Carla has asked for updates on the following:
Secret Invasion
Dark Reign (Rain?)
Final CrisisIron Man
The two new Thor books with Matt Fraction
Man of War
God Sized ThorIf anyone can email me at jasonmccomb at hotmail.com with news or links on these subjects I would really appreciate it. I fly down again on Saturday and will share any well wishes, news or information that come my way.
Thanks everyone for their prayers and support,
Jason McComb
jasonmccomb at hotmail.com
So, folks, what I’d ask is this- Let’s flood this comments section with well wishes and updates on Carla’s favorite books. We’ll then send Jason the link for a nice, easy single place to check (and his email won’t be flooded). Also, please don’t forget to check out Let’s Help Carla and Lance, where JK and Stephanie continue to auction some truly awesome items in support of our friends in need. So sound off below, and please, keep any negative thoughts on these books to yourselves in this case, k?
December 17th, 2008 at 11:45 am
My thoughts go out to Carla and Lance.
As a primarily DC guy, I’m trying to come up with the best way to summarize Final Crisis and all of its spinoffs. Might take a while, though.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Really happy to hear they are on the way to recovering. My best to them.
I’m really enjoying Final Crisis. I didn’t enjoy Secret Invasion’s conclusion.
December 17th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
That is so sweet of him. And spelling it Dark Rain is too cute.
I’m still waiting for the trades on those stories, but tell her that the entire comics blogosphere is a twitter with speculation about a price increase from Marvel to 3.99 per book and what it all means.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I’m thinking someone should be supplying Carla with copies of said comics (perhaps someone’s on that already?), and could read those comics to her? Makes more sense than having people here, with their mixed opinions offering up their descriptions. Unless, of course, Carla’s looking for that wild diversity of opinion (but then negative comments should be allowed too, shouldn’t they?)
And since we’re supposed to keep the negativity out, I won’t say anything about Maleev’s “art” in SI: Dark Reign.
@ Cisko Kid: Best of luck trying to summarize Final Crisis! That’s not a putdown, I’m being serious. Good luck on that one.
December 17th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Lucas:
Thanks for posting this update for folks and reminding people about the auction. I’ll be posting an auction update later tonight.
Anything & everything anyone can do for Lance and Carla is appreciated.
–Tim
December 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Best wishes to the both of them.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Nice post and great blog. Thanks!