Sometimes gaming asshattery gets me down. Then I run up on something like this and remember that compared to comics fans, gamers are like fingerpainters looking up at the Dutch Masters.

http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/02/27/justice-league-on-for-2009/

Dear Alex,

I have had it with Acme products! They do nothing but blow up in my face. I know you are a super genius and can help me with my quest to catch that damn bird. Dinner is on me if you can build me something that will do just that. I'll even save you one of the legs.

Sincerely,
Wile E. Coyote

I'll have to take you to the Isotope parties and things next year so you can hang out with the cool kid comics nerds who don't suck.

You get a delivery from Organs-R-Us containing a freshly cloned liver; a jumbo-size bottle of anti-cancer pills from DrugstoreDotComic; and one from DisruptorsOnline containing a slightly underpowered palm-size bowel disruptor ("Petite Prolapse" model). As the delivery girl is leaving, you receive an email from Jerusalem thanking you for "bailing me out of that gonorrheatic Skrull-clone clusterfuck at ComicCon. Never drinking monkeybrain vodka again. Filthy assistants claim to have video. Will blackmail them. Must go, cat is eating my head. Grapefruit. Spider."

I am having entirely too much fun with this meme for someone who keeps claiming to not have enough brain to reply properly, aren't I?

And Kai wrote one from Wile E, but it exploded.

No, no, he wrote it and tied it to a rocket and... well.

Much sympathies for your health woes, but of the three ComicCon conventions, I still go to Alternative Press Expo. Interesting if arty stuff, without the IndustryWank of the other two.

Actually, it's going to be late this year; they're moving it to fall. November 1-2 at The Concourse in SF.

i hope you feel better soon. :)

i went to the last wonder con last year it was ok. I missed this one. i just like the movie previews.

I don't know if this address is still good for you, but I had to try.

I might as well get the rumors out of the way first. Yes, it's true I've taken an apprentice again. Yes, it's true he's a Klahd. Yes, it's even true that I've lost my powers for the rest of the century.

All three of these things are Garkin's fault. Remember him? Remember the summoning game we'd play? Well, he summoned me to Klah an laced the brazier with "joke powder" to wipe out my powers for 100 years.

THEN THE SLIMY OLD FROG-KISSER GOES AND GETS HIMSELF KILLED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMONING!

So, yes, I'm stuck this way and yes, I'm stuck with his apprentice. Fortunately, for a Klahd, the kid's not entirely inept. Maybe you've heard of him. He goes by The Great Skeeve.

So, anyway, I've hooked up with Tanda and Chumley and a couple of others and we're taking jobs, one of which might bring us by your neck of the woods.

So, want to meet up with some of the crew from the old days? Just drinks, I promise. Cross my heart. You owe me a round anyway. Oh, and maybe one small favor.

Aahz

(It's been about a decade since I last read these. I set the letter just after Hit or Myth, timewise.)

A cracked molar, eh? I remember one time I was on shore leave and got a cracked molar. Curzon told me he knew a dentist, but neglected to mention until I was already in the chair that the dentist with a Klingon! I don't think I ever saw him laugh so hard. Still, my tooth got fixed, and I dare say I now understand the Klingons in a way that few in Starfleet do - not that they'd want to. Here's hoping your dental work isn't quite so ... educational.

Sorry it's taken me so long to write you-- we had a beastly time of it sneaking past those giants, and Scrubb INSISTED upon taking the long way round. Between his lecturing and Puddleglum's being a complete wet-blanket, I'm going positively mad. It's a good thing we're going to that castle up ahead, I'm all in.

Oh, now that I've written to you, there's something else I had to remember... what is it? It'll come to me....

Baker--
Privately I agree with you-- Lee CAN be a bit of a twit. But in public, I expect you to address him as befitting his rank. For all the gods' sakes, don't make me dress down one of our better men in public-- your department has improved tenfold since your promotion into it, and I notice things like that.

Also, sometime I want to know off the record what that odd green drink is that's coming out of your department's still that I don't know about.
Adama

LOL... Nice,... and ever soo true. I've been to three Comic cons,.. and dread them. The only Con almost worth attending any more seams to be either Gen con, here in Indy, or some of the Anime cons,.. Though I have to admit Dundra con was my personal fav of the list. I do hear that "Nor west" is a must attend,.. and this cone here:

Animazement
May 23 – 25, 2008
Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center
Durham, North Carolina

WHile yes,.. its on the other side of the country,.. if you like Anime, and you actually want to meet peopel involved and chat with them, have drinks and such,.. that is the event to attend acording to my sources. I personaly havent been yet, But Finals permitting,.. I am SO going! Just check out the Panelist,.. :
http://www.animazement.org/index.php?page=guests-of-honor-2008

Aparently,.. this is an annual thing that has been going on for over 5 years,.. the sad part, the space is too small, and the con doesn't have a lot of promotion so in the end you end up with only a max of 3k, but odly enough their are only an average of 1k that actually attends. LOL,.. from what I hear about 1/4 of the atendies actualy pay any attention to the panelists and who they are.. so in the end you quite literaly get to talk with and have casual conversations with the panelists.. LOL

=^_^=

oh and take your time in getting back to me,.. LOL,.. I'm never in a hurry these days,.. unless their is a paper due,.. then Im a writting frenzy.

=^_^=

Did I ever mention my last IT job was helping to implement that screwy new patient management system at Kaiser? Fun.

--gary

Sorry I vanished from Eve for so long, I had a crazy week. Ping me next time you want to hop in, and I'll fly to wherever you happen to be.