First off, J.D. Long wants me to mention that you can get beer at the concession stand in Texas. This is important (in his view) because he loved my reaction when I saw him with a beer hanging around our booth. I was getting ready to blow my stack at him for being such a moron as to endanger our booth if security should see it when he pointed out that he bought it there.
So, for you beer lovers out there, that may be a selling point for a Texas convention: beer at the con. I should think a few beers before a lecture might make for some more interesting Q&A sessions. Give Bob Wayne a couple before the DC announcement event and see if he’ll spill the beans on some hush-hush projects. It’s a thought.
Bob Wayne, by the way, is a very friendly and witty guy who manned the DC booth all three days. It was the first time I’d met him in person (after some e-mail correspondence) and it’s surprising how much he looks like the 1970s Marv Wolfman…who, in turn, was the basis for Funky Flashman in Mr. Miracle. In other words, DC has a marketing guy who is reminiscent of Funky Flashman (in appearance, but certainly not personality). Maybe some Halloween he’ll have fun with that.
Bob made sure that I had a chance to talk with Dan DiDio…the Main Man at DC. Dan and I had a good conversation about DC’s sci-fi characters, and he mentioned that they are looking at doing more with Adam Strange. I’m glad to hear it, and I only hope that the person doing anything new understands the general principles of the premise. That seems like a very low bar to jump, but after seeing the Zeta beam pulling Adam OFF of Rann when he didn’t use the beam to get there (in an issue of Impulse), I realized that some writers don’t get the idea.