NYCC: Ruminations
JOY: Shaking Gail Simone's hand - implying that I touched Gail Simone - made my weekend. That the same hand also touched Brian K. Vaughan is unthinkable. Maybe I'll be bestowed with some measure of their mad, mad genius now.
SURREALISM: Traveling to a comic book convention in the company of a film critic and a comic book journalist, and being a video game journalist myself, my friends and I were like a bizarre three wise men. Which makes me myrrh, I think, so let's abandon that conceit entirely. If I had the spare batteries and the foresight required to fish the thing out of my suitcase, I'd have probably left my voice recorder on for the whole weekend, just for conversations like:
"Picture this: Thomas Kincade, Painter of Light, becomes a Green Lantern."
"No. Bob Ross."
"Oh, I like that. 'Why so sad, Sinestro? I'm just gonna ring you a happy little river, and ring in some happy trees!'"
GUILT: EDIT - David Mack has clarified for me that he is not married, and correctly pointed out that Mike passed my sketchbook to him. I have nothing against David Mack - I'm just not very familiar with his work outside of Daredevil - and I hope my comments didn't convey that I wasn't grateful to him, because I was. Hence the 'guilt' heading. So, my faux pas basically has made me now feel double guilty. I'm going to start reading Kabuki today, I think. So, sorry, David Mack. I like your Daredevil comics, and have not once complained about Echo being an Avenger.
STUPEFICATION: Ethan Van Sciver - and I'm a big fan of his DC work - doing PLASTIC MAN? AS A CRIME BOOK? I don't know if I like it or hate it. If I like it, though, I like it a lot. The real 'Boomer is a Cylon' moment for me, though, had to be this nuggest of conversation:
Jeff: Who's writing it?
Ethan Van Sciver: I don't know. Probably me. Or Mark Waid. But maybe me.
J: Really?
E: Really.
COMEDY GOLD: Overheard at the DC booth:
Fan: I'd like you to draw an angry Batman.
Karl Kerschl: Well, Batman's always angry.
Further back in the line: His parents are dead!
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But that makes Rich gold!
And yes, you can be Al Franken. He'll be less grating once you take over.