richmond comicon
For the first time in over 25 years, Richmond hosted it's 2-day comicon event down in a half a football field's amount of corner space, and I am here to say that it was pretty alright! As a student I got in for free, and managed to haggle paul pope's book, 100%, down from $40.00 to $15.00, which I was pretty proud of, considering it wasn't even sunday, and it was early on the first day. There were so many people, it was impossible to move around! oh my fucking god. Imagine being swallowed by a sea of sweaty no-necked comic fatties with bald spots and ponytails all in the same hairdo, wearing navy blue and black nerd shirts and stained khaki shorts. Then, add sexually charged band geeks that love anime, millions of underfoot little kids, and every dude you ever went to high school with that has extreme social anxiety, all eyeballing all the fire exits with panicked expressions and occasionally lapsing into aggravated fits of shoving. Good times.
I went with sparkly-eyed Palmer, who I always get fucking tongue-tied as a bitch around, and Tim, who I think could smell my fumbling for what it was, and spent most of the day stalking around like a monster in his too-big cowboy boots and sunglasses while we were still inside. The flipside of all these anxious nerds in one place was, there was all these nerds in one place! People watching is fun for me, there were so many trekkers! And anyway, I made out like a bandit on everything I bought, which was rad.
THOUGH NOT THE RADDEST THING
I SAW THEM
I SAW THE NEW PAGES FOR PIRATES OF CONEY ISLAND.
hahaha, this series that I idolized when I was younger. I loved it. I still do. It's like this bubble gum explosion of color and violence. But Rick Spears was there and I got to hang out with him for a while again. He seemed really relieved to have fans come up to his table, because thus far, not many of the people around were that into his stuff. But Tim and I went, and so I got to see the new pencils for the LONG AWAITED NEXT ISSUE THAT EVERYBODY THOUGHT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. :D :D :D The pencils weren't by Lolos, but the inking will be, and the script is all finished, so I got a sneak peek into what's to come, and got to talk about the pros and cons of Rick's ideas about how to end the series. it's looking cool! And then I bought a Black Metal shirt because he wrote that book and had sweet limited run stuff he made himself, and then I went home.
Unfortunately now I'm forced to return to my mundane and repetitive school life again. I'm still so bitter about being forced to repeat my sophomore year when I'm supposed to be a senior that every time I sit down to do work, it feels like I'm so angry that my blood is evaporating because it's boiling so hard. fuck you, VCU, I'm going back to MICA and I'm gonna rule the fucking school.
err...
...right after I finish watching New Moon online.
I went with sparkly-eyed Palmer, who I always get fucking tongue-tied as a bitch around, and Tim, who I think could smell my fumbling for what it was, and spent most of the day stalking around like a monster in his too-big cowboy boots and sunglasses while we were still inside. The flipside of all these anxious nerds in one place was, there was all these nerds in one place! People watching is fun for me, there were so many trekkers! And anyway, I made out like a bandit on everything I bought, which was rad.
THOUGH NOT THE RADDEST THING
I SAW THEM
I SAW THE NEW PAGES FOR PIRATES OF CONEY ISLAND.
hahaha, this series that I idolized when I was younger. I loved it. I still do. It's like this bubble gum explosion of color and violence. But Rick Spears was there and I got to hang out with him for a while again. He seemed really relieved to have fans come up to his table, because thus far, not many of the people around were that into his stuff. But Tim and I went, and so I got to see the new pencils for the LONG AWAITED NEXT ISSUE THAT EVERYBODY THOUGHT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. :D :D :D The pencils weren't by Lolos, but the inking will be, and the script is all finished, so I got a sneak peek into what's to come, and got to talk about the pros and cons of Rick's ideas about how to end the series. it's looking cool! And then I bought a Black Metal shirt because he wrote that book and had sweet limited run stuff he made himself, and then I went home.
Unfortunately now I'm forced to return to my mundane and repetitive school life again. I'm still so bitter about being forced to repeat my sophomore year when I'm supposed to be a senior that every time I sit down to do work, it feels like I'm so angry that my blood is evaporating because it's boiling so hard. fuck you, VCU, I'm going back to MICA and I'm gonna rule the fucking school.
err...
...right after I finish watching New Moon online.