Nancy A. Collins Calls For DragonCon Boycott Over Ties To Co-Founder

[dr chimp]

someone needs to tell me something nice about comics quick - damn you seedy underbelly

[dan bailey]

Ummmm ... Curt Swan never, to my knowledge, committed cold-blooded murder.

How's that?

[Jezebel Bond]

someone needs to tell me something nice about comics quick - damn you seedy underbelly

Took me about 20 minutes but I finally got that cockroach that ran into one of my comic book rooms and beat his little ass to death.

I didn't want to use the bug-spray.

[MRP]

someone needs to tell me something nice about comics quick - damn you seedy underbelly

Whether you like his work or not, Matt Fraction is donating all his proceeds from the current issue of Hawkeye to the hurricane relief effort.

-M

[dr chimp]

db: and i'm supposed to believe JFK just shot himself - everyone is a suspect - EVERYONE
jez: a close call - a room saved
mrp: heart suitably warmed. well done matt

[dan bailey]

db: and i'm supposed to believe JFK just shot himself - everyone is a suspect - EVERYONE
j

Well, I did say "to my knowledge."

Also, having been 4 at the time of the assassination, I'm tentatively removing myself from the list of possible suspects. I'm pretty sure the likes of Cei-U! & Rob Allen were a couple of years older, though. so ... well. Need I say more?

[dan bailey]

Nothing, apparently, to do with sexual harassment or the like;

Then again, from Doran's site ...

I had the unpleasant experience of being wrapped up in one of these things when I was a teenager. I thought I was going into a publishing situation, and what I got was some incredible weirdness which included channeling comic book characters via a pseudo-religion, and people who seem to think the height of sophistication is wife swapping at conventions while wearing a costume. Which may be your thing, but is not something I should ever be hearing about from my boss, and nothing I should have been exposed to as a kid.

Note to self: Maintain 53-year tradition of not attending comics cons.

Also: Keep avoiding anything whatsoever to do with elves.

[MRP]

Then again, from Doran's site ...



Note to self: Maintain 53-year tradition of not attending comics cons.

Also: Keep avoiding anything whatsoever to do with elves.

Well then you don't want to know about the lost Marvel/DC crossover they just unearthed-Weird World/Brother Power with art by Marie Severin. They are making copies available as a San Diego Comic Con exclusive this summer...with the unused scripts for Brother Power 4-6 included.

On a more serious note, shenanigans at conventions seem to be part and parcel of the convention experience, whether they are comic conventions or vacuum cleaner salesmen conventions. Doesn't excuse them, but these things are not unique to comic conventions. Some like to paint the industry as a cesspool and some expect it be above such sordid affairs, but it is like any other industry or field because it involves human beings and all their strengths and foibles. With more an more information available due to changes in information technology, things that were once shrouded in secrecy are coming to light and we see more of the sordidness, but it doesn't mean it wasn't always there before we shone a light on it. The light may send the roaches scurrying, but they were there before the light ever revealed them.
-M

[dan bailey]

Well, yeah, of course. I'm sure that various posts on the Classic Models forum at Vacuum Cleaner Resources would make all our heads spin.

"When I asked her if she'd be willing to empty my bag, she asked if that was a nozzle in my pocket or if I was just glad to see her."

[dr chimp]

Richard Pini definitely came across as a bit "odd" when I read him describe how he met his wife

Vacuum conventions will all be about how to convert them into bongs behind closed doors.

[Rob Allen]

Also, having been 4 at the time of the assassination, I'm tentatively removing myself from the list of possible suspects. I'm pretty sure the likes of Cei-U! & Rob Allen were a couple of years older, though. so ... well. Need I say more?

Were were older, then. But we aren't anymore.