Current Ramblings
Thursday, January 15, 2004
This is the forecast this week for where I used to live:
So today Mark, one of the managers (and possibly soon the main manager) at my store, took me aside before I went out to start my day and broke it to me that I've been taken off comics. It's a good thing I was in high spirits already, because there have been days when something like that would have made me cry. He reassured me that it wasn't because I wasn't doing well, in fact I was one of the best comics people they've had, but I had been doing the section for over a year now and he wanted me to direct that energy toward some other part of the store. Matt has been given the section, and I can't argue that he's not every bit as qualified as I am, though apparently he made some comments to the effect of expecting some kind of horrible act of vengance from me. Honestly, ever since we hired a couple more big comic geeks, I've been wondering when I was going to lose the section to one of them. It was easy when I was the only one there besides Mark (who is busy managing) and Sarah (who is busy doing warehouse ordering stuff) who was really qualified, but the competition brought by Matt and Aaron and Josh filled me with a bit of dread. Oh, but I still have SELF-HELP, thanks. Mark assures me that as soon as more thorough section reassignments are made he'll do something about that. Nobody deserves to run self-help four months straight.
I would go on for a bit about the first issue of Energon, but I don't want to spoil those who haven't read it. Maybe I'll have my feelings sorted out in a week or so, when anybody who's going to read it has been given a reasonable amount of time to do so. I will try to explain my paradoxical feelings without spoiling, though, now that I've had a workday to let them simmer. I like Energon. This issue had a very good pace for an opener, and it seems like it may get a chance to touch on some concepts and background that I really wanted to see in Armada. But in the process it has given me a great deal to think about, and some of my rock-solid personal concepts are getting an upheaval. I think it's mostly that Over-Run seems to be playing the role I always imagined for Sparkplug, and that's the most I'll elaborate. That gets me feeling a little...not upset, but pensive. My mind needs to restructure. Yes, I have far, FAR too much emotional investment in the Mini-Cons and their origins and their purpose, and specifically Sparky. Wanna make something of it?
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