Comicon ’09: Thursday Morning

I'M AWAKE, BITCHES (esteemed ladies and gents)!

I'M AWAKE, BITCHES (esteemed ladies and gents)!

Had that dream where my face is preternaturally wrinkly and, well, you know how that one goes.

Woke up just after the bit where I’m spinning with my chainsaw arms in the room full of kindergartners, and discovered the bagpipe music I thought was just part of the nightmare was actually squeaking up at me from somewhere down in the streets, along with the blaring train horns and turkey gobbling of people amassing for the con day ahead. Reading over that last line, it comes off as people amassing for the “corn dog” ahead.

Really hoping more people go for a sci-fi space salute instead of a handshake today, as even just yesterday the touching of damp, human hands was a bit much. It gets to where you go in for the handshake and the juices from their balmy flesh just accelerate your gesture so that you slide right past their hand, impaling their stomachs instead. Before you even know it you’re shaking some hunk of their large intestine, smiling casually in hopes that they think it was all very deliberate.

Anyhow, the day’s just begun, I’m incredibly fat from all that pasta I drank last night, and it’s time to hit the gym (spinning in the desk chair here in the room). If you’re planning on coming by the SLG booth, I sign from 2-4, take a short break where people tap me on the shoulder to scream that they can’t come back later because their house is on fire and they have to leave right now and could I please sign their thigh-pimple ridden arms, then come back to sign from 5:30-7.

Wish.
Me.
Luck.

COMICON ’09 DAY 1: I’ve gone on holiday by mistake.

From my sniper's nest

From my sniper's nest

I killed a man today.

More importantly, I got in to San Diego to attend this year’s San Diego Comicon, the biggest, most terrifying comics (and by comics I mean video games, movies toys and black magic) convention this side of the boopa doopy.  I actually have no idea if it’s the biggest or not, so I through in the very vague “boopa doopy” there instead of something more specific that would require me to do any research.  Tricks of the trade, friends.  Tricks of the trade.

I’d love to tell you that these updates for the next few days will be as life-altering for you as the ones from when I attended the Supanova convention in Australia, but to be honest, things here are a lot less alien and therefore far less interesting.  I mean, in Australia, I was a child gazing in wonder at very single thing around me.  Did you know they don’t even walk there?   How do you go through 67 years of life like I have and never find out that Australians just squish around on slug-like lower halves until you’re there amidst a sea of the slimy bastards just mushing around you, slapping you on the back and shouting “Well done!” for no reason I could ever figure out.

I also got to write about all those celebrities that I was packed in with for the rides to and from the convention halls, a surreal experience that allowed me to have such adventures as being attacked by Katee Sackhoff and exorcising the midget that was powering Hayden Panetierre, releasing him from his tiny hell-prison.  I have to admit, as strange as it was, I’m going to miss being driven about all over the place in those uniquely Australian buses with the treads made of Koala bears all working together.

No, this is me, back in The States, yawning at everyone with their stupid legs and neckbeards, having to drive myself around in a car not at all conveyed by small animals, but don’t let that stop you from tuning in obsessively to find out what new boring things I’ve been up to here in San Diego.

Today, Wednesday,  was just the preview night, so I got to wander around without having to stick to any signing schedule or anything (that’s for tomorrow).  Hate to say it, but it really was pretty uneventful compared to what you’d expect of me.  I did get to talk to a few people that I had been meaning to say hi to. Andrew Bell gave me one of his O-No Sushis, which was quite nice of him.  People giving you stuff is always a dicey, nervous thing for me, as I’m always very happy to know someone’s being so generous with something of theirs, but I get uncomfortable about possibly letting on that I think this thing they’re giving me is terrible or something.  In this case, I think I did just fine, but, just between you and me, when I got the thing back to my hotel room and tried eating it, I almost chocked on the fucking thing.  How does this guy have the nerve to call himself a chef?  I was furious.

One weird thing did happen, however.  I was chatting with McFrontalot ( a lot of people think it’s “MC” as in Em-Cee, because of his career, but it’s actually McFrontalot, like McDonalds) and I noticed that the conversation was just completely generic.  We had been going on for a few minutes and the nature of the conversation was just so small talky and vague that I realized he had no idea who he was talking to.  Worse than that, he couldn’t take my eyes off my tits, and that’s when I realized that I had enormous breasts.  It all came back to me!  I wasn’t Slavegirl Leia at all, I had just dressed up as her so as to be able to walk around the convention without having to stop and do that dance that I’m famous for.  Noticed there was a plastic surgery place nearby while driving in, and I had them install some knockers that I could just slide in and out of the skin pockets that formed naturally as I was growing up.

McFront

McFront

Well, I’m tired.  Was a long day of wandering around the convention and then walking the streets to make a few bucks from a couple of a sick perverts.  Tomorrow will be a lot more exciting.

Bioshock 2 Print: The Sisters

Helmet/furnace combo never really caught on.
So, I’ll be signing at the 2K Games booth (#5033) on Saturday July 25th from 2-4 PM at the San Diego Comicon. I did a lil print for Bioshock 2 not too long ago, and it looks like they just unveiled the thing.

2K will have 500 of these on hand for people that squish their way through the crowds at Comicon to pick one up.

Go look at the image and read all about it over at their Cult of Rapture site!

San Diego Comicon 2009 Information

Bloop

Bloop

So I’m going to the San Diego Comicon later this month, right, and I’m thinking “Hey, maybe some people would want to know that I’m going and how to find me during official times.”  Then the guy that I’m looking at while speaking this out loud asks me if I’m going to order anything because I’m holding up the line and there a re a shit-ton of people behind me at two in the morning who really want doughnuts.

This past year wasn’t really spent working on things that I can show, however,  so I had my reservations about going.  What the hell sort of stuff HAVE I been working on, you might ask, probably in an incredibly tactless manner thanks to your having been raised by a computer that never taught you how to interact with flesh and blood human beings outside of a webcam situation.  Well, I won’t get into much of that in this post, so maybe I’ll save that mess for later.  I can’t even tell you right now what small thing I have that ultimately made me feel not so bad about going this year.  Everything’s very mysterious, kids.  Ah, well…maybe that other stuff will pop up sooner or later.

Anyhow, CLICK HERE to see  the schedule for when I’ll be signing at the SLG booth.  Keep an eye on that page because my signing times might change!
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DEATHMATCH #1: The Concludinations

He will, too, ya know.

He will, too, ya know.

Remember when the world was young, you still had hope in your hearts and a certain terrifying King of Pop still scuttled amongst us? The year was 2008, and the place was this very Mindspill, where we all gathered with love and joy in our hearts to celebrate the commencement of the very first (and thus far ONLY) DEATHMATCH.

The plan, back in those innocent early days, was to have people submit artwork based on certain guidelines per contest that they might win such incredible prizes as posters and the freedom of their loved ones. Well, a lot more time than was expected has passed and those loved ones are just cartoon skeletons dangling from chains in what is now a storage room.

Let’s not get hung up on whose fault it is that it’s taken so long for me to actually come back to the DEATHMATCH judging, though, yeah? I mean, it’s probably your fault, and I’m okay with that, so if I can be so big as to let that offense go then so can you. Good.
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