<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I would also like to thank Gary in general for all of the many</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">times he contributes to the list, answers questions raised on the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">list, etc.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The mailing list is very lucky to have someone at Gemstone</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">who is so open and kind to us fans.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I just want you to know Gary how</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">much I appreciate that.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I am sure *many* other members on the list</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">feel the same as I do.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Thanks again!</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Thank you for that kind acknowledgment, Dean. As I'm sure many folks on this list know by now, I'm not as closely associated with Gemstone as I used to be. Back in the spring of '04 my wife Susan and I decided to relinquish our salaried positions and return to the freelance life we'd come to enjoy during the Disney comics hiatus. While we're still "with the firm" on that basis, we're not longer right at the center of the action.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On the other hand, someone who did wind up pretty much at the center of the Gemstone action not long after Sue and I left is our colleague and long-time DCML member David Gerstein, whose credentials I scarcely need to recite. Can't think of anyone more capable of keeping everyone informed - and steered straight - on what's going on with current US Disney comics. (And I won't even pretend that I've ever had the in-depth knowledge of Disney comics that he's always had.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV></BODY></HTML>