From: [mac 7] at [po.CWRU.Edu] (Michael A. Chary)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: One Day at Chicago Comicon
Date: 3 Jul 1994 21:21:36 GMT


I had three definite plans for this con, and I got two of them done.
I did see Alan Grant and Val Semieks.  I asked both of them
if they had ever seen any of Sam Peckinpah's movies. They both
laughed and said yes.  Val's favorite is "Straw Dogs". Alan
does not have a favorite. (Based on the Christmas Lobo I would
have bet money on "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia;)")
They claim Peckinpah is notr an influence on Lobo, but I don't
believe them;) I asked Val why when Lobo gets shot he alwaysends up with bunches 
of bullet shell sticking out of him. (I mean in my experience
the shells tend to stick around me, not my target:) He said
that that was interesting but he thought they were alien bullets.
I asked Alan why he had made Lobo an imbecile. After
all he was intelligent in the first appearances.  Alan said
that Giffen had decided to go that way, but he added that
he thought I had a point. ALAN GRANT SWORE TO ME THAT LOBO
WOULD ACT MORE INTELLIGENTLY. (riiiiiiight;)) Grant also
said that there was a Lobo/Judge Dredd coming (at this
point they are almost the same character though so...)

I did meet Julie Schwartz and shake his hand but it was so loud
he couldn't hear me. But none the less I MET JULIE SCHWARTZ.

I did see Claremont.  I did not however ask him the
question I had wanted to ask him since I found out he was
from England in 1986:  "Did someone tell you that you would be
deported if you finished a story?"  I chickened out;)

random comments

Buy Superman: The Man of Steel's Zero Hour crossover. It has
a lot of Batmans in it. Mike Carlin demanded that I read it and stood
there to make certain I would (I always end up arguing with him
at these things:() He was right it's a good story.

He said that nothing I wanted to happen at Superman would happen
as long as he was working there. (It wasn't personal as such,
although he did put it like that;)

While i was talking with Carlin, this kid walks up and asks
him to sign the Death of Superman. Carlin point out Jurgens
and the kid squeals "THAT"S DAN JURGENS!!!!" I was surprised but
I wanted to do the same thing when I saw Jack Kirby a few years back
and when I saw Julie Schwartz this year;)

Denny O'neil has not read the recent GL's. I feel better somehow, knowing
that.  

JMS says the B5 comic will be canon, so I guess I'll have to buy it;)

The PAD/ Harlen Ellison interview was entertaining and informative.
PASD asked Harlen aboiut The last Dangerous Visions and lived,
thought someone was going to have to get some thorazine into Harlen
for a minute there;)

Jeff Smith has a very rational position on Work for Hire which
was essential that it pays the rent, and Marvel is not
evil and that Kirby knew what he was signing. He does
not that it is EVIL.  Un fortunately he said this while
Coleen Doran was there so he's dead now:( (just joking but
she was not happy).

The rac meeting was pleasant from my perspective, tho they 
screwed up the reservations. I was a bit obnoxious to the manager
(who reminded me of a few of my former managers) but we did
get in.

Mike Kelly came up with the best one-liner I have heard in a
while. Glenn asked him where he had gotten his coffee
and Mike said, "My Juan Valdez sense.  I was bitten by a radioactive
Columbian mule and..."

Btw, all you people who argue with elmo: feel free but I am
not going to tick off anyone with muscles like that.  The
man looks like he stepped off an Image! book;)


Does anyone know what the deal is in Rosemont?  There were
these guys with odd uniforms around the water tower.
-- 
"You were clinically dead for six minutes -- what was it like on
the other side."
"There was an *INCREDIBLE* duty free shop, but I didn't have any money."
-Bizarro  "Ipsa scientia potestas est." - Roger Bacon