Inglourious Basterds was amazing. And you’re all jealous of our Hal Jordan Orange Lantern figures.
Actually, we failed at acquiring both the tickets and the figures DESPITE an aggressive, bleating 6:30 wake-up call from the front desk. The problem with competing against other nerds for limited or excessively-hyped items is that there will always be someone nerdier than you. The first sign of trouble on Saturday morning came from the cab driver when we told him our destination of 6th and G Street. “Why so many people going there?” he asked. Gardner explained the Tarantino ticket giveaway but he still didn’t understand. Not surprisingly, some Con-goers camped out for tickets while we chose to stay in our moderately expensive hotel room. No vicious Nazi killing for us on Saturday evening.
The Hal Jordan Orange Lantern lottery didn’t go much better. Although I stood in line for the drawing (pick a green ticket, you can buy the figure. Red ticket, you win Frustration for standing in that stupid line), I chose poorly from the ticket bag. Gardner, citing his line phobia, declined to participate in the entire charade, which was probably the right choice. The dude in front of me was trying for the fourth consecutive day to win a figure. He walked away a loser again on Saturday morning. I’m pretending his luck turned on Sunday morning.
Regarding RW, we experienced a MAJOR breakthrough. One of the goals for the weekend was to give the book to the right people. On Saturday afternoon, we found the perfect guy:
You have a deal sir!
Gardner sold his soul to the devil (mine was too stained to barter with). Whoa. Now calm down everybody. No need to crank up the righteous judgment engine until you hear our end of the deal. For future rights on G’s eternal soul, RW will reach 1 million unique page views a day by 7/1/2011, Image will publish all strips in exciting, glossy collected volumes, the RW toyline will wow collectors and children alike and the live-action trilogy (sorry Dave, we sweetened the deal with your soul for a complete 3-picture franchise. You’re receiving a percentage of the gross) will hit theaters in 2014. Not bad eh? Besides, look at that face, if you can’t trust the Dark Lord (reading from the business card), you’re just a cynical husk of a person. And don’t worry about G, I’m sure if he adopts like 21 disfigured orphans, saves all the whales via underwater pugilism and puts an end to Creed’s reunion tour, he’s looking at a 40/60 shot of walking through the pearly gates despite the standing agreement.
We also managed to give copies of RW to a number of talented web comics creators on Saturday and Sunday including Kevin Church, who graciously bestowed some web wisdom on us (also his friend Jenn sold me a perfect thing for my friend Ice). Some other people who politely talked with us were David Malki !, Kris Straub (read Chainsawsuit now!), Scott Kurtz and Lar DeSouza. After observing the success of these guys, we can visualize some future goals for RW.
Overall, San Diego proved to be as much fun as in years past. Fingers crossed that the nice tall man in the picture above keeps his word.
Chris
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