Current Ramblings
Sunday, November 30, 2003
I would like some Energon now, prease.
Thanksgiving was fun enough. I watched football, which I almost never do, and the Detroit Lions won, which they almost never do. I like visiting Graham's family, though I always end up skulking around a bit because I can't keep everyone from the extended family straight and don't want to embarass myself. The cookies came out really well, nice and soft and chewy. Friday morning was a normal insane shopping day, what with having to be at Wal-Mart around 6-ish to pick up a Landfill set for Graham. It snowed heavily on the drive home, but we made it through okay. I got new glasses on Saturday morning just before heading with Graham and Steve to Mid-Ohio-Con. (Maybe if I get a chance I'll have Walky or Ron take a picture so everybody can see my new glasses.) There was some shopping, some poking around the exhibitor booth, and some giggling and whispering "Oh my god it's Walter Koenig!" I stood over his shoulder while Steve got Brian Michael Bendis to sign something and talked to him for a bit, and Bendis seems like a really cool guy. He seems to still be at this point where, no matter how much Wizard and the rest of the comic press might talk about how he's the best thing since sliced bread, he's still really happy that people are actually reading and liking his stuff. We went to a panel later where Bendis, Roger Stern, Mark Waid, and Paul Jenkins talked about the business and art of writing comics. I'm really glad I went to that panel. It reminded me that I don't need to have some amazingly fresh Vertigo-eqsue universe concocted if I want to get into comics. I would love to write comics. I've always been good with dialogue, maybe not Bendis-good, but it's always come very naturally. That and plotting I'm fine with, it's the prose in between that bogs me down. So it was pretty fun, though I kinda wish we had been able to go earlier. And that I had picked up that old Captain Britain from work with the story about how Psylocke was too lame to be Captain Britain for Alan Davis to sign.
This is the worst thing to ever exist. And don't click on it at the office.
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