Cost

Cost for a fucking weekend pass to Boston Comicon: $35

Cost of getting a fucking awesome Hulk sketch from Skottie Young: $60

Cost of coming home from work to see that your fucking wife had destroyed the piece: 4 fucking years off my life expectancy

"I'll just put these blankets in my husbands closet. But where? Oh, here on top of this 'paper'. I'm sure this stuff has nothing to do with where he was all weekend".

Boston Comicon

#comicmarket

I had a great time at the Boston Comicon this past weekend.  I met some amazingly creative minds.  I also met some creators that gave me a great deal of fun and entertainment in my childhood. Al Jaffee & Paul Coker Jr. from MAD magazine were there and it was an honor meeting them.  If you don't remember Fold-ins you haven't lived.  

Artists, like Michael Goldman, who worked on G.I. Joe and The 'Nam.  Artists like Ed McGuiness, who had the longest line by far, accommodated every single person that he met with a smile and small chit-chat.  It was a great time. Most of the creators are always a pleasure to meet - comic book writers are a different breed. They appreciate their fans and cons are the living proof.  In no other industry do you see something like this.  There's no Hollywood-con, no Rock and Roll-con. 

Are there prima-donnas? Absolutely. There is a rotten apple in every bunch, but there's no way that apple can spoil what the other creators give us.  They give us, week in and week out, escape.  I sit in my cube 5 days a week, grinding away but I know every Wednesday these guys and gals, these storytellers...give us all something to look forward to.


At the end of the day, as I'm driving home, there's one creator that made the most lasting impression. I probably spent the better portion of an hour talking to Victor Toro, the creator behind Toro Comics.

Walking down the aisle his book and set up jumped out at me...(the fact that he had a his beautiful girlfriend there didn't hurt either :) ).  From movies to music, from kids to kung-fu we talked.  


His were the first books I read when I got home.  You can also check them out at theonemanriot.com. His stuff is worth every penny.


They made my con worth it.  My regret?  Not getting a picture with them so that I could say, "I knew him when...". :)

Outside The Hynes

Is a big important building.

On The Road

Like Jack, but not.

Iran And Their Lies

Combine Ronald Reagan and the blog Proof Positive and you'll find yourself dealing with some categorical truth.

Reagan was a man ahead of his time, much like George W. Bush (minus his pandering to the Left towards the end of his second term).  Just as history has uncovered the truth and depth of Reagan's brilliance, the same will be done regarding Bush 43.

Bush's foreign policy will be viewed as visionary and the Middle East will be a different place because of his faculty to see the world for what it was and where it was headed.  And the, pardon the Gorilla Monsoon phrase, the intestinal fortitude, to do something about it.

Anyway...Proof Positive showed me a great political cartoon today with the post title of "To Paraphrase Reagan, We can Trust the Iranians... to Act Like Iranians"

The Iranians, besides being utter fucking loonballs, know the US will do nothing to them with out a blessed UN approval (a useless organization that undermines us yet which gladly accepts our funding for which they would be unable to operate to begin with). Iran also has two very powerful powerful countries looking out for them: China & Russia.

These two countries have their deal with the devil and their comeuppance will be just.

Anyway, as PP's post says better in 0 words than I can than can I approximately 300, we can trust them to be nothing more than what they are: a country of mis-leaders, tyrant, fools and hatemongers.

Anyway, Iran tried shutting down the Hormuz Strait before. It didn't work out very well, as Israel (a real country) set them back 22 years.

Disappearing Images

Something's rotten in the state of Googlemark.

As you can see, some pictures have randomly been replaced by large exclamation points.  You do see this, correct?

I've emailed Blogger, hope they get back to me.

Oh, FYI...these are pictures uploaded from my PC, not images hosted somewhere.

Any ideas? Anyone else having this issue?

U.S. Puts $10 Million Bounty On Pakistan Terror Group’s Leader

U.S. puts $10 million bounty on Pakistan terror group’s leader

“The whole world knows that Hafiz Sayeed and Abdul Rahman Makki are not hiding in any caves, and they are rather popular leaders of this great country Pakistan and busy in welfare activities for the people of this country,” Mujahid’s statement said.

I'm sure some will be crying about our government caring out "vigilante assassinations", while they sit idly by quiet while the New Blank Panther organization incites fellow Blacks to murder George Zimmerman.