my dinner with mistersleepless

I lie, i lie; i had dinner with palecur, rjray_rss, and erikred, the last of whom drove us from downtown Oakland (after we BARTed up from Fremont) to downtown Berkeley last week for a last-minute booksigning by Warren Ellis at Comic Relief, which is in the process of being evicted and thereby searching for a new location.

(Now that, kids, is a run-on sentence.)

We arrived at Comic Relief just a couple of minutes before Warren bounded in. As fate would have it, i ended up first in line. Rory the Man at CR broke out the free candy. Warren was as charming as he could be, given that he had a cold (i was as tongue-tied as a teenaged girl — what a dork). He signed my copy of Hellblazer: Haunted and heartily endorsed my acquisition of Dean Motter's Mister X Volume 1 (after all these years, i know where Robert Reimann got his mr x persona; in many ways, he expanded and improved upon Motter's design). There's a panel in Mister X which is reproduced full-page in Transmetropolitan (i noticed when i first saw it that it had a Hernández Bros. look and feel). Unfortunately, my copy of MXV1 has two misprinted pages, so i need to harass the publisher so i can get a proper copy to replace it.

( behold! facial hair galore! )

my dinner with mistersleepless

I lie, i lie; i had dinner with palecur, rjray_rss, and erikred, the last of whom drove us from downtown Oakland (after we BARTed up from Fremont) to downtown Berkeley last week for a last-minute booksigning by Warren Ellis at Comic Relief, which is in the process of being evicted and thereby searching for a new location.

(Now that, kids, is a run-on sentence.)

We arrived at Comic Relief just a couple of minutes before Warren bounded in. As fate would have it, i ended up first in line. Rory the Man at CR broke out the free candy. Warren was as charming as he could be, given that he had a cold (i was as tongue-tied as a teenaged girl — what a dork). He signed my copy of Hellblazer: Haunted and heartily endorsed my acquisition of Dean Motter's Mister X Volume 1 (after all these years, i know where Robert Reimann got his mr x persona; in many ways, he expanded and improved upon Motter's design). There's a panel in Mister X which is reproduced full-page in Transmetropolitan (i noticed when i first saw it that it had a Hernández Bros. look and feel). Unfortunately, my copy of MXV1 has two misprinted pages, so i need to harass the publisher so i can get a proper copy to replace it.

( behold! facial hair galore! )

i'm not mad! i'm ANNNNGRYYYYY

palecur mentioned A Miracle of Science the other day. The premise (mad scientists are actually the victims of a disease and as such need to be arrested by the police in order to receive treatment before they, well, take over the world) is interesting enough, but the story that sprouts from there is excellent. I recommend this highly.

i'm not mad! i'm ANNNNGRYYYYY

palecur mentioned A Miracle of Science the other day. The premise (mad scientists are actually the victims of a disease and as such need to be arrested by the police in order to receive treatment before they, well, take over the world) is interesting enough, but the story that sprouts from there is excellent. I recommend this highly.