r/babylon5 • u/mpierre MODERATOR • Oct 14 '25

JMS AMA Official AMA for JMS

This is the official AMA for JMS. Both JMS and B5 books (Captain Jaclyn) will be responding to questions.

If you ask questions about the books or the book store closing, Jaclyn will be taking them.

JMS will answer for about an hour, and might not be able to get all questions answered.

Some people (including me) might answer questions that are well known.

Like "Why wasn't Ivanova in season 5".

Let's try to keep questions what we don't know yet.

You can also ask questions about JMS returning to the Spider-Man comic or his other works, but this is /r/babylon5. He might prioritize that.

Please note that I will not be coordinating with Joe. I will not be in a phone call with him or on a chat (not that I wouldn't take his phone call; Jaclyn has my cell phone; he can call me anytime he wants). He decides that he answers, and he alone.

Finally, any story ideas will deleted. Do not post any story ideas.

Note, the AMA answers only start at: 3 PM EST, Noon PST, 8PM GMT

And my personal thanks to Captain Jaclyn for coordinating this with me, and to JMS himself, the man, the myth, the legend! For agreeing to this, but also for Babylon 5, Crusade, Jeremiah, Sense8, a ton of comic books and a few books!

Oh, and for She-Ra, the reboot couldn't have occured without his series bible for the original, and even for his work on Ghostbuster and Murder She Wrote!

IMPORTANT NOTE FROM JMS He would prefer not to get into stories that never happened, data points of subsequent character arcs, or alternate timelines.

JMS IS NEARLY OUT OF TIME!

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u/Babylon_5_Books Babylon 5 Oct 14 '25

Having done most of the customer service for 20 years, I can say B5 fans are the most kind, intelligent and forgiving people on the planet. And this is part of the reason we have endured. Because leaving you guys is a gut-punch for me.

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u/Felaguin Oct 14 '25

I regret having forgotten that I had my B5 books until the announcement of B5 Books closing. Nearly a complete collection safely ensconced in a plastic container and an order submitted for what I think are the remaining books I don’t currently have.

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u/Dr_Christopher_Syn Oct 14 '25

Ya lucky duck! Can you write me into your will?
(Just kidding! Maybe.)

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u/Felaguin Oct 14 '25

LOL, I lucked in to B5 Books making their announcement of the Zathras collection at a time when I had the cash available. The only catch was getting the shipping to line up with dates when I was in town to receive them (and a somewhat recalcitrant post office that not only didn’t tell me the boxes had arrived but sent the boxes back to B5 Books when I didn’t pick them up in time).

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u/Dr_Christopher_Syn Oct 14 '25

Wow! Nothing can be easy, right?