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Well, damn…

Well, I guess there really isn’t anything else to do other then just come out and say it: the Buckeye Comic Con really sucked today. The summer show usually is their smallest, so it wasn’t really too much of a surprise, but it was still disappointing. And this one just seemed extra small.

It sounds like a stupid complaint, but it was nothing but comics. Yeah, only comics and a comic book convention? You can see how, as a comic book fan, I would be upset. Okay, let me explain: I have a pull sheet at Comic Town, so I already get most of the comics I want. I go to the cons for the extra stuff. But it just wasn’t there this time. There were no trade paperbacks (Collections of whole story arcs.), no statues or bust, no posters, no movies. And, on a more understandable complaint, the comics that they did have weren’t really all that great. Lots of old stuff. I know I run the risk of having my geek license revoked by saying this, but I actually like modern comics more then Golden or Silver Age stuff. You’ll hear most hard-core comic fans argue that those were the days “back when comics were still good”, but I just like modern comics more. Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand and appreciate the influences of those periods. There are even a few exceptions that I really love. But, for the most part, I just don’t like reading them. In my opinion, today’s comics have stronger and more developed characters as well as stories. For instance, one complaint I’ve heard a few people say about both DC’s “Infinite Crisis” and Marvel’s “House of M” is that when they were told in 6-7 issues, back in the day, they would have been told in, like, two. But I personally think that shows why comics are better currently. “Back in the day” the comic usually went a) Oh, no, there is a problem, b) Superman punches some guy, c) Happy ending. Now we go so much more in depth.

Eh, I could go on but I’ll spare you.. Like I said, there just wasn’t a whole lot I was interested in. In the end, I only bought 5 comics. I finished off my collection of “Teen Titans” and I picked up one issue of Green Arrow that I was still missing. (Three more to go until I have the complete set.) I couldn’t even find the books that friends had me looking for. (Jon had me going for Tag and Bink –though, dude, I think I still have that one issue you left at my house-, and James at work had me looking for the issue of Amazing Spider-man that introduced the new costume.)

Of course, it could have just been me. Disappointed in the con, I went to Comic Town afterward and I still couldn’t find anything I wanted. I was just really unlucky today, I think.

Oh, well. This show may not have been so good, but the Fall one is in October and that one is usually their best. Heck, even Mid-Ohio Con isn’t that far away. (Last weekend of November.) I can’t wait.

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Buckeye Comic Con Sunday!!!

It occurred to me earlier that I had not mentioned yet that the Summer Buckeye Comic Con is this Sunday. I am so psyched. The very first real con I ever went to was a BCC, so in addition to just being excited about going to a comic book convention, these are somewhat sentimental for me. (It also helps, I suppose, that it’s one of the, like, two comic cons regularly held in Central Ohio.)

I’m really excited for it, but there really isn’t much to say right now. If you interested in attending, it’s this Sunday at the Buckeye Hall of Fame Café, and I think it runs from about 10 till 6. (Though, I’m really not sure about hours.) Expect a full review here and maybe even pictures if I can possibly remember to take the camera and actually use it this time.

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Infinite Crisis Drawing – Part 4

This one still has some work to be done to it once I start putting together the “Big Picture”, but I figure it’s as ready for it’s preview as it will ever be. Enjoy.

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Clerks 2

I still didn’t like football much way back when (it has since grown on me), but Dad and Jared were. Anyway, you more or less HAVE to watch the Super Bowl. But, hey, I got to watch those cool commercials. (This was back when the SB commercials were still good.) One commercial stood out to me. It wasn’t so flashy and it wasn’t especially funny in the sense that SB commercials used to be, but it was advertising a new prime-time cartoon. It was for some goofy little cartoon called “Clerks”. So, I waited until it finally came out and I loved it. It was the episode where Jay sues Dante for 10 million dollars. (To date, it’s still my favorite episode.) One week later, I tooned in again and laugh historically as they attempt to do a clip show for their second episode. (It was funny even out of order.) And once again, one week later, I turn on good ‘ol ABC and … nothing. Something else was on. Hmm, that’s odd. Maybe next week, I say to myself. But, when next week came around, it still wasn’t back. The trend continues and, after a while, I forget all about the silly little cartoon about rude clerks.

Sometime later, like magic, this strange movie channel just appeared out of nowhere as I flipped through the channels. For as long as my family has had cable, we’ve always had basic. That means no HBO, no Stars, no nothing. But all of a sudden, without warning, the Independent Film Channel, or IFC, appears on CH 70.

I won’t lie to you. My first interest in the channel came with I realized that it freely showed nudity. What preteen boy wouldn’t be fascinated by the promise of boobies, regardless of how much snooty independent films he had to sit through in order to see them? But one late night, they were showing a movie that I had never seen before, yet, somehow, it seemed familiar. It was about two rude clerks. Hey, it looked very similar to that weird cartoon they used to show. I watched it and instantly fell in love.

And that was my first introduction to the wild and wacky world of Kevin Smith and Clerks. Since then, I’ve become a bigger junky then Jay when it comes to the “Jersey Trilogy”. My long time screen name, “Silent Lector”, was a combination of two of my biggest cinematic heroes: Silent Bob and Hannibal Lecter. (The ‘o’ was a typo that I decided I liked.) So, needless to say, when I heard that they were going to make a Clerks 2, I was psyched. I still remember seeing the trailer for the first time before Scary Movie 4 and just getting chills. (It actually ended up being one of the better points of that movie, too.)

Well, I finally saw it tonight and I just have this to say: That. Was. FUCKING. AWESOME!!!

Smith knocked it out of the park with this one. Admittedly, he’s had some issues with some of his more recent movies. Ultimately, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” disappointed me. (90% of it was taken directly from a comic I had already read for crying out loud.) Now, “Jersey Girl” I really liked, but a lot of people bashed it hard and, really, it just wasn’t part of the “Jersey Trilogy”. But Smith is back in full form and Clerks 2 is simply amazing. It had me laughing from almost the first frame and right on up through the end. I’ll even admit, I had my doubts about Rosario Dawson going into it, but she totally won me over.

I wish I could get into it more then “THAT WAS GREAT”, but I really don’t know what to say. There were so many great moments that it’s nearly impossible to narrow it down to just one thing. And I really don’t know if I can think of a single complaint. The only thing I can think of in that regard is that I wish there was more. Even though this one wrapped everything up quite well and I really don’t expect it, you could completely sell me on the idea of Clerks 3 right now. Hell, I’d settle for a sitcom or something like that. I just love these characters.

So, whatever you are doing this moment, stop. Go see Clerks 2. When you’re done, go out and find 10 friends and take them to see it. Then have each of them bring in 10 friends. Repeat the process as many times as you can before this excellent movie is yanked from the theatres because of the ignorant masses and their refusal to support anything good. (Okay, here’s one complaint: There were no Little Men. </sarcasm>)

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Mac? PC? I’m The One With The Gun…

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Dose That Make Me Crazy?

Possibly.

I bought the Gnarls Barkley CD “St. Elsewhere” today and I’ve been playing it almost constantly since. Jon played some of it over the weekend and I had to check it out. I didn’t see his performance on the MTV Video Awards, but I’ve seen pictures. I hardly know what to make of it other then how great it is.

For some reason, I’m just really digging the music on the iTunes playlist I’m listening to tonight. It’s weird. I love music, but there are some times when I just really get into it more so then usual.

Just a few other artist/songs I feel like plugging at the moment:

“Hate This Place” – 9mm SOLUTION

“Oh My God” – Kaiser Chiefs

“Diamonds And Guns” – Transplants

“Black Horse And The Cherry Tree” – KT Tunstal (Sooooo hot. Want to touch the hiney.)

“The Ballad of Serenity”

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AC AOK!

My parents found a small air conditioner at a yard sale over the weekend and they put it up in my room. (Their’s already had one and mine is probably the hottest room in the house.) They put it up tonight when I was at work, so I’ve only stepped into my room once or twice since then, but I already can tell that this is going to be nice. Finally, I can say goodbye to long nights of slowly sweating to death!

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Murphy’s Law

Man, work was kind of crazy today. 90% of it was fine, but the third set was just plain fucked. Anything that could mess up did. The bizzaro schedule caused me to overlook “Garfield” so it started late. “Pirates” inexplicably brain-wrapped for no reason I could find and caused the movie to stop twice. Busy trying to fix that, I ended up starting Click late. About that time I realized that I had started “You, Me, & Dupree” way early. I don’t even know what happened on that one. I think that, in my panic as this other shit was going on, my mild dyslexia (which only seems to come on when I’m rushing.) caused me to misread the time at some point and start it.

Amazingly, though, the only time any customer said anything was in Pirates and that was only because he was getting his theatre promotions mixed up. (Apparently, there is some theatre that will give you your money back if the movie stops, even if it starts right back like it did this time.)

Luckily, Bobby, my asshole GM, had already left by then. (Actually, he sort of chewed me out for Garfield, but was gone after that. Thing is, he really couldn’t say much because it was made apparent that he had no idea how to operate the new platter in which Garfield just so happened to be playing off of. Sort of hard to yell at someone and admit they know more then you in the same breath.)

It didn’t help that I wasn’t able to pack a lunch today. Since we’ve moved to the 13-hour+ schedule, I’ve been packing a lunch as I generally don’t get a break to go get anything. Today, however, no one had gone to the store lately so there wasn’t anything to pack. It didn’t really bother me until the end of the day.

Really, it wasn’t a bad day save for a few crazy moments. Glad that tomorrow is my “Friday”.

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Saturday With Jon

Hung out with Jon yesterday. I really only expected it to last a couple of hours, but it ended up being about ten. It was actually really cool. We did so much; it would be a bit difficult to relate it all. Did some costuming stuff, played Mario Cart on the DS (He schooled me, but I did a lot better then I expected considering that I usually beet the computer characters at least.), created the weirdest comic I’ve ever seen on the DS’s Pictochat, bought an air-soft gun after driving to about three stores looking for one, harassed the morons at Pizza Hut… I’m sure there was more, but I can’t remember at the moment.

Like I said, there was a lot. Good times.

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Bill Brasky Is A Son Of A Bitch!

Before Chuck Norris, there was Bill Brasky. I’ve often wondered which would win in a fight. Or, better yet, if you bread the two, what would you get? Hmm. Anyway, here’s to Bill Brasky!

“Bill Brasky is a son of a bitch!”
“Bill Brasky is the father of every kid in this town!”
“Bill Brasky once showed me a video of him making love to my wife, and it was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!”
“One time I was with Brasky in the back of a pickup truck, along with a live deer. Brasky goes up to the deer and says, ‘I’m Bill Brasky! SAY IT!’ Then he manipulates the deer’s lips in such a way as to make it say, ‘Billbrasky’ … It wasn’t exactly like it, but it was pretty good for a deer!’”
“He’d eat a homeless person if you dared him!”
“His poop is used as currency in Argentina.”
“He sweats Gatorade”
“He once breast-fed a flamingo back to health.”
“He hated Mexicans! And he was half Mexican! …….And he hated irony!”
“I once saw him scissor kick Angela Landsbury.”
“He sheds his skin once a year.”
“He makes brooms somewhere in Georgia.”
“He did 3 tours in ‘Nam…… I was in Corpus Christi on business a month ago. I had this eight-foot tall Asian waiter, which made me curious. I asked him his name. Sure enough it’s Ho Tran Brasky!”
“I once saw him eat a whole live chicken.”
“His favorite movie is ‘One on One’ with Robby Benson.”
“He sleeps eight hours a night! …….. well, he was pretty normal when it came to that.”
“Bill Brasky was a two ton man-mountain who could palm a medicine ball!”
“Bill Brasky had a four day heart attack…a day for each chamber. At the autopsy, they said his heart looked like a basketball filled with ricotta cheese.”
“He once punched a hole in a cow just to see who was coming up the road.”
“He taught me how to make love to a woman, and how to scold a child.”
“They found $60 in change in his stomach.”
“He did all the makeup on the ‘Planet of the Apes’ movie.”
“He grew a 3rd arm and kept it in a vault.”
“Brasky drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for 8 months straight. When he woke he rubbed his eyes and said, ‘All in all, I prefer gin.’”
“They say Gene Roddenbery got the idea for Star Trek from listening to Brasky talk in his sleep.”
“He date raped David Bowie.”
“He once inhaled a seagull.”
“The Pope told him it was ok to have a mistress.”
“It was the sight of Brasky’s naked body that drove Brian Wilson insane.”
“He once had sex with a cigarette machine.”
“He killed Wolfman Jack with a trident.”
“He uses the Shroud of Turin as a golf towel.”
“He once ate the Bible while water skiing.”
“He drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls.”
“You know, he would shoot whiskey into his neck with a syringe!”
“He has dandruff the size of mice!”
“He jogged with a fridge on his back!”
“He conjured Neville Chamberlain!”
“Bill Brasky was a 10 foot monster who slept with all our wives! And punched us all in the face! And we loved him for it!”
“His first name is Bill! ……. I’m drunk.”
“He’s a ten foot tall beastman who showers in vodka and feeds his baby shrimp scampi.”
“He orchestrated the merger between Unicef and Smith & Wessen.”
“He went public with his own buttocks and made $7 million.”
“Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Brasky decides he’s going to hunt down all four of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all begged for their lives…except Fleagle.”
“We once had a bachelor party for Brasky. He ate the entire cake before we could tell him there was a stripper in it.”
“Brasky once hosted the Grammys and gave every award to Corey Hart.”
“He has a toenail on the end of his penis.”
“Brasky once got his wife pregnant and gave birth to a delicious 16 ounce steak. The after birth was sautéed mushrooms.”
“Brasky’s family crest is a picture of a barracuda eating Neil Armstrong.”
“Brasky ranked 18th in the AP College Football Pool.”
“Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky was in a production of, ‘The King & I?’ On opening night, Brasky chloroforms the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews.”
“He breastfeeds John Madden.”
“Brasky named the group Sha-Na-Na. They did NOT want to be called that.”
“If you drop a phonograph needle on Brasky’s nipple, it plays the Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds.’”
“They use Brasky’s foreskin as a tarp when it rains at Yankee stadium.”
“Brasky directed that commercial where the women play basketball in high heels.”
“All the ‘Yes’ album covers are Brasky family photos.”
“He wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.”
“Did I ever tell you about the time he taught his son how to drive? He did it by entering him in the Indy 500. The kid wrecked and died. Brasky said it would’ve happened sometime.”
“Brasky’s semen can form into a liquid human – like the guy from ‘Terminator 2′”
“Brasky still believes in Santa Claus, and he wants to put him in porno films.”
“He thinks the Iron Man is gay.”
“He framed Roger Rabbit.”
“The character of Johnny Appleseed was based on Brasky – except for the apple tree planting and not raping men.”
“He gave a handjob to a manta ray.”

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