From: The Great and Powerful Danny Sichel Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.arts.comics.misc] Re: COLUMN -- In the Bins #21 Date: 17 Jun 1998 10:55:52 +0200 Subject: Re: COLUMN -- In the Bins #21 From: Leah Adezio Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc, rec.arts.comics.marketplace Steve Lieber wrote: > > In article <3580D090.54F3EBAD@charweb.org>, Wowzapow > wrote: > -> > A co-worker scared the living hell out of me the other day. She's a -> > grandmother, but not quite near retirement, and we were talking about the -> > "Teenie Beanie" craze at McDonalds. And she tells me, without a hint of -> > humor, "Well, I've bought about a hundred and fifty of those things for my -> > granddaughter. That's her college fund right there." -> > -> > Oh, no. Say it ain't so. -> -> If there ever was a message that will keeping from eating while reading -> Usenet...ick. Here is a girl who will not be going to college, but at -> least she'll have something to soft to sleep on. > I was at a convention talking to David Wohl from Top Cow, when a > triple-chinned, snorting lout, about 35, with a high-pitched, grunting > voice and piggy, cholesterol-ish eyes came up to David, waving a (bagged > and boarded) comic and demanding to know if the signature on it was that of > "the real Witchblade." Evidently, he had had some woman dressed as > Witchblade sign the comic, and had then heard that she was just some woman > in a Witchblade costume. David explained that Top Cow doesn't employ anyone > to play Witchblade at cons. > The guy was furious. > He also didn't believe David at first. The woman had said she was "the real > Witchblade." She had the costume. David explained that there is no "real > Witchblade," that she is a character in a comic book. The guy got angrier, > and insisted that Top Cow replace the comic, which was evidently some sort > of gold edition, because the comic, having been signed by a fake > Witchblade, was no longer a valuable collectors item. David, as patient as > ever, tried to make it clear that they didn't have any more copies, and > there was in fact nothing they could do to prevent some woman from > attending a con in another state and dressing up as Witchblade. He and the > guy went back and forth for a long time. Finally, the guy squealed, "Well > then what am I gonna do wit dis comic?!" > "You could read it," I ventured. > "Oh fuck dat! I gotta put my kid through college!" > If anyone can draw a moral from this, I'd love to hear it. The only one that comes to mind is "Stupid people shouldn't breed."