So I didn’t go to Motor City this year, but I did swing by and visit folks afterwards. All the usual suspects were there: Paul, Sean, JimO, Pam, Michelangelo, Matt Feazell, Katie, Suzanne, and a new guy named Jeff.
Man, it’s really good hanging out with the cornwhackers. What great folks. So nice to see everyone, especially because of conversations like these:
On seeing the dance:
JANE: “Do you think I’ll get more girls if I wear my new stormtrooper helmet or just carry it?”
Over dinner:
JANE: ___ isn’t really a spook. He’s more like “spook support”.
JIMO: My cousin Louie’s in “spook support”. I don’t think he’ll ever get any time in the field, though.
SEAN: Why not?
JIMO: ‘Cause he’s six foot eleven and a hundred and ten. Unless they have a job for a pipecleaner…
JANE: Oh, man. I smell a minicomic.
SEAN: We could draw all the situations where he could actually infiltrate… like the NBA…
JANE: “Louie Ottaviani… Worst! Spy! Ever!”
Passing around Sean’s newly-acquired (and very hot!) book of high-art erotica:
MIKE: Hey, married people! Quit hogging the porn!
On seeing Pam’s new mini:
JANE: GAY WEREWOLF! NAKED GAY WEREWOLF! I’ve been waiting months for this.
PAM: The mini’s all-ages-appropriate, but I’ll have to show you the stuff in my sketchbook. I had to go buy a special British book of photography to get this one right.
JIMO: Why a British book?
PAM: Well, if you want pictures of guys in their “unadulterated” state… that’s not as easy to find in American photography. And this one was four dollars at the used book store.
On getting booze:
SEAN: God, there’s no place to buy booze here, *anywhere*.
JANE: Think they sell booze at Petsmart?
MIKE: Only doggy booze.
SEAN: Tequila! (Tequila!) Dog Tequila! (Dog Tequila!)
And I got new minicomics from Sean and Mike and Pam and Suzanne, which is probably everything I would have purchased at the show, anyway. And then we bought two bottles of wine with monkeys on the label, and one without, and then defaced the monkey-free label appropriately. A grand time was had by all, even if I did have to drive five hours just for dinner.