It's nice to see the sane folk still here, but I'm sorry to see that China has left, and that's not from some horny fanboy perspective, either.
She was a definite ray of light.
Not that anyone remembers me or does it matter, but things just got way too busy in March of...ugh. 200
! to continue forward actively, and things were so out of control with the Kaiju boards, with all the bickering and slandering and weirdness, it became a waste of time. I think I just turned away for the most part after some thread over Fantastic Four and how some guys aggressively defended it ( 
). Shortly before, I left the newly rebooted forums at Tokyo Monsters because of the arrogant strutting around over there by Huntie, doing pretty much what Dutch did here. It's odd that while I found myself agreeing with their actual opinions, their self-centered personalities were just dark and overbearing, to the point of intolerable.
As far as the Mazer city stuff, "Kids, pfft" is all I have to say to that. It seemed about as important as a treehouse fort full of foulmouthed latch-key kids throwing rocks at anyone that got in range.
And somewhere during all this, Aaron who was already going through an awful lot, and seeing how slanderous a handful of punks were being about him, while he continued doing with humility what anyone would consider "the right thing".......his emails pretty much stopped when his mother passed away, he was beyond broken in his last email to me.
Then, not too long after (it didn't seem long, I am unsure), news of his passing just left me wordless.
Anyhow, I have always appreciated the focus and dedication many of you folks have spent on this, and it's great to see familiar names.
Work's gotten more stable, personal things in life are calmer and I've been able to spend more time enjoying the things we all love, and hopefully getting to talk and exchange about them. I even got to go to the SDCC last weekend, something I haven't done since 1980!
I was only able to attend one day with my friend Dave (he wholesales toys and vinyl from Japan and China), so I never made it past the exhibit hall (cavern) and I was pretty much a deer in headlights.
I was all about the designer vinyl, mostly non Kaiju (saw some kaiju vinyl there, but don't remember anything earth-shattering) toys like Strangeco, Super 7, Rocketworld, and I loved the multitude of artists present or represented. Got to meet August and have his book signed by him
, which was a major highlight of the day, and then I ended up springing for the goofiest damn vinyl I've ever seen, a 2-foot tall cow designed by Frank Cho.... I don't know much about her (a very masculine her, though), but she makes a somewhat rude decoration on top of the fridge.
She was also pretty cumbersome in the box she was packed in and that with Dave's large box containing a Voltron set of bookends, well we hired one of those rickshaws outside the convention center to get us back to the right parking lot.
I've taken the Amtrak halfway across the state for less money than what that 3 block rickshaw ride raped us for.
And today, we go to the Egyptian Theater tonight to enjoy that triple-bill with Bringing Godzilla Down to Size, WOTG and Mothra! :bouncy:
More fandom this last week than in the last few years! If anyone's going tonight, see ya there!
Bill
