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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2016 14:44:48 GMT -5
to cooper, If I have offended you in the past , I apologize. It appears that you are keeping count of the " rude or negative " comments I've made in the past and I would suggest that you could have asked me about it before today , either at the time of the post or in a PM. But I will say, that I don't know of a member of this forum that hasn't at one time or another made a negative comment. Or all we all supposed to just agree with everything that's posted? I NEVER said anything about keeping track of your comments. I was just doing what Coldwater was doing and sticking up for a fellow member. But I can see that it wasn't necessary either. So I won't continue as it doesn't seem to matter. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 17, 2016 14:49:10 GMT -5
If I'm to be honest too that is not the first time someone posted something that makes them happy be it a purchase or something else and you've come across as rude or very negative. Myself included. Whether you meant it to be or not.
Looks like you're keeping track. If I was rude to you, let's talk about it. Don't hold a grudge.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2016 15:01:35 GMT -5
If I'm to be honest too that is not the first time someone posted something that makes them happy be it a purchase or something else and you've come across as rude or very negative. Myself included. Whether you meant it to be or not.Looks like you're keeping track. If I was rude to you, let's talk about it. Don't hold a grudge. That in no way means I'm keeping track...it just means that I RECALL numerous occasions...I in no way said a number of how many times you may have said something. I also don't remember the occasions. I am not holding a grudge. If you meant no disrespect...fine. |
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Post by Trevor on Jan 17, 2016 15:06:11 GMT -5
Coldwater and Cooper, I do appreciate the defending comments and apologize for not saying something to de-escalate things. But please, don't hold back or refrain from doing the same thing in the future. Communities are best when people get a little flustered at times. We're not always going to love each other, but the more conversation the better in my opinion. It helps for personal growth, community bonding, and more content for the forum.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 17, 2016 15:08:36 GMT -5
Trevor- the first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about fight club.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2016 17:45:21 GMT -5
^ Maybe I haven't told that story here. The full story is at my first forum linked here, but I guess the highlights are below. Please forgive the length of even this short version. I have few celebrity stories so I was quite verbose. My local comic shop has Neal Adams coming in for a signing this afternoon. I've arranged to get off work early so I can make it, one free signing per person. Crap, head shot sketches are $150! Just spent 20 minutes talking to fellow fans and watching him do a sketch and tell stories. It was pretty awesome. Going back with a Micronauts #7 for him to sign and buying a sketch. The past couple of hours have been incredible. I'm probably too exhausted to post much until tomorrow, but I'll at least comment on the below. Micronauts are not only my favorite toys of all-time, but Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden's The Micronauts is my favorite comic series ever, and possibly the main reason I'm a comic book fan. Man-Thing is my favorite Marvel character. Michael Golden, who drew that cover to issue 7, is one of my three favorite artists. And I just found out tonight that Neal Adams, another of the three, inked the cover. I hurriedly riffled thru a short comic box looking for a book for him to sign, and Micronauts 7 was one of the titles I saw, wishing to myself that it was Adams'. Thinking I had failed in my quick quest to find a monthly for him to sign, I went to the signing with just the Deadman book. In line for him, the guy behind me happened to be the worlds biggest Micronauts fans. Seriously. He runs one of the best Micronauts sites, had his collection used for the Pallisades team that came out with the new Micronauts toys last decade, and had four gorgeous pages of Micronauts comic series pitch he wrote. I could go on and on but it was just the most amazing evening with all my nerd favorite things merging into an hour + of standing next to and sitting with and talking to Neal fucking Adams while he drew me a Baron Karza sketch. We ended up talking to Neal Adams quite a lot about Marty Abrams (former Mego CEO) and the reason why Micronauts has never been put in trades or revived properly. Apparently Marty is universally loathed and, true story, Neal sang us a little ditty about Marty Abrams being a f'ing a'hole. It was a surreal moment in a day full of them.  Trevor. In all the bickering that was being done i didn't even tell you how much I loved your story and the opportunity that you had to meet Neal Adams. If I ever had the chance to meet him I would be flabbergasted and wouldn't know what to say. I too am a fan of the Micronauts and of Bill Mantlo especially. Loved his Spider-Man run. And that too is an awesome sketch of Baron Karza! |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 17, 2016 18:32:51 GMT -5
Although it's not a comic-related story, I thought I'd share this. Years ago, I was on a stopover in LA en route to Texas to visit my sorta kinda ex-stepdaughters. Because my personal wheelchair was being transferred (as cargo) between planes, the airline put me in their VIP lounge to wait for my flight. To my very great surprise, the man sitting next to me was Charlton Heston. Now I generally don't babble inanely around actors or musicians the way I do around the comic pros of my childhood but I was also 180 degrees from the then-spokesman for the NRA on the political spectrum so I had mixed feelings when he struck up a conversation. Fortunately, my art history classes came back to me and we had a wonderful chat on his making "The Agony and the Ecstasy" and seeing the real Sistine Chapel ceiling for the first time. He went back years later after they'd been cleaned and was awestruck all over again. He was quite knowlegable and said he always felt humble in the presence of the great masterpieces. We talked about twenty minutes and then they were ready for me to board. It was a once-in-a-lifetime encounter I will never forget.
Cei-U!
I summon the make-believe Michelangelo!
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 17, 2016 18:42:43 GMT -5
Although it's not a comic-related story, I thought I'd share this. Years ago, I was on a stopover in LA en route to Texas to visit my sorta kinda ex-stepdaughters. Because my personal wheelchair was being transferred (as cargo) between planes, the airline put me in their VIP lounge to wait for my flight. To my very great surprise, the man sitting next to me was Charlton Heston. Now I generally don't babble inanely around actors or musicians the way I do around the comic pros of my childhood but I was also 180 degrees from the then-spokesman for the NRA on the political spectrum so I had mixed feelings when he struck up a conversation. Fortunately, my art history classes came back to me and we had a wonderful chat on his making "The Agony and the Ecstasy" and seeing the real Sistine Chapel ceiling for the first time. He went back years later after they'd been cleaned and was awestruck all over again. He was quite knowlegable and said he always felt humble in the presence of the great masterpieces. We talked about twenty minutes and then they were ready for me to board. It was a once-in-a-lifetime encounter I will never forget. Cei-U! I summon the make-believe Michelangelo! "Mister Heston. As I shake your hand and bid you a fond farewell...could you say the line?" "What line?" "Uh...Planet of the Apes..." "*sigh* Oh, all right..." I'd have been very tempted to make that request. Then again, I'm classically weird like that. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 17, 2016 18:52:52 GMT -5
Heston was the man.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 17, 2016 19:06:25 GMT -5
I met Neal Adams years ago in a con In Ny. No great encounter but I handed him Ms. Mystic to sign and before he signed it, he paused and looked at me for a few seconds. Maybe most people give him his more famous DC and Marvel books?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2016 19:39:25 GMT -5
I met Neal Adams years ago in a con In Ny. No great encounter but I handed him Ms. Mystic to sign and before he signed it, he paused and looked at me for a few seconds. Maybe most people give him his more famous DC and Marvel books? Maybe he thought he might have recognized you from somewhere? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 17, 2016 19:46:05 GMT -5
I met Neal Adams years ago in a con In Ny. No great encounter but I handed him Ms. Mystic to sign and before he signed it, he paused and looked at me for a few seconds. Maybe most people give him his more famous DC and Marvel books? Maybe he thought he might have recognized you from somewhere? It will remain a mystery. He wasn't at a special table and there wasn't a big line. He just kind of looked at me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2016 19:56:50 GMT -5
I can say mean things, like how variants and slabbing/grading are evil and are killing our hobby. Them be fighting words...now you've pissed off the variants and slabbed comic fans here....all 3 of us  |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 17, 2016 20:04:21 GMT -5
I met Neal Adams years ago in a con In Ny. No great encounter but I handed him Ms. Mystic to sign and before he signed it, he paused and looked at me for a few seconds. Maybe most people give him his more famous DC and Marvel books? I always seem to bring people stuff to sign that they almost never get. When I went to Rhode Island a couple months ago, my friend Stan and I were waiting in line for Chris Claremont and we started talking to the other people in line. The guy behind me had Wolverine #1, with the Frank Miller cover, and another guy had, like, X-Men #266. Stan said, "I'm just waiting for when you give him the comic to sign and he says, 'Oh my god!'" So I get to the front of the line and fork over my copy of War is Hell #9. Chris Claremont: "Oh my god!" Stan had a good laugh out of that. It usually makes for a good conversation too, though apparently not with Neal Adams. I've had plenty of times, including that instance with Chris Claremont, where the creator had to spend a little while looking through the comic because they had forgotten it. I think it's fun for them as well to see this stuff; I'm sure Amanda Conner has signed about a million Harley Quinn comics in the past couple years, but judging by her reaction, I doubt anyone else has brought her a copy of Solo Avengers #12 to sign. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2016 20:10:56 GMT -5
I can say mean things, like how variants and slabbing/grading are evil and are killing our hobby. Them be fighting words...now you've pissed off the variants and slabbed comic fans here....all 3 of us Yessssss. |
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