So Saturday, was the thing at Mershon Auditorium with Jeff Smith and Scott McCloud. Lots of fun, and gots me some autographs, lol. Also came to the realization that these guys really aren't celebrities, even though in my mind, they're huge people involved in something I love. M and I went and got good seats for what boiled down to a discussion of the making of Bone. Good times, especially since M recognized Jeff from her days as a pharmacist in German Village. Apparently, Charles Vess was in the audience at one point and anyone who knows about my comics addictions knows how disappointing it was to me that I missed him. Especially since he didn't actually give any kind of presentation back when he had his show at ONU...

But yesterday was also a really good day. M took the day off work, swapping it with Monday. While she was supposed to go to Meijers while I was asleep, she didn't get up in time. So we went and honestly it was probably the low point of the day.. mainly because I hate big box stores and because we did most of the shopping in the garden center and I was wearing shorts, due to a miscommunication between myself and my Storm God heritage and the actual weather..

So then we hit the comic store and I picked up a couple books and a couple from the back issues (a copy of the final issue of Strangers and the issue where David.. um, does that thing he does at the end of the series - Sorry, I haven't forced the story down all of your throats, yet and I didn't want to spoil it). Besides that, I had my other copy of Strangers 90, Strangers 1 (the Homage reboot, unfortunately) and Echo 1, with that foil cover I so, so adore...

Why? I'll get to that, but first we met up with Mystie and hit Mac's for $5 Burger night. Yum! Good eatin's and conversation.

And then we hit Wexner Center for the Terry Moore presentation. As I sat in the half filled auditorium, I couldn't help but feel where the guy is coming from. I also could think of about a dozen of my friends who would have enjoyed the presentation. Oh well...

I took away two major things from that one though.. First, Neither Terry or Jeff (who was also there) actually started self publishing until they were in their thirties, so there's hope.. lol, slim though it may be.. (Maybe all it would take is some meds for Adult ADD, LOL). And the other thing Terry said in passing, talking about people in their twenties (in reference to small press publisher's content, but also as a general statement) was that people in their twenties are coming to the hard realization that no one is going to take care of them and that most of them spend about a decade working this out for themselves in a state of depression/anger. So maybe there's still hope yet.. lol

And then we picked up Mystie and hit Jenni's (Ice Cream) on High St. I have to say, I wasn't really impressed, but then I like my flavors and they had nothing even approaching it, so I went with some fruity stuff... Strawberry, Banana and Passion Fruit. It was good, just not my thing...

Also, I have come to the decision (delusion?) that Robocop was based off of my life story, nearly word for word...