Guess who met Gail Simone today!
Meeeeeeeeee
and a lot of other people
but I am the important one.
Yeah, we had Fanaticon, and I pretty much stayed there all day. Gail was our sole big event. We talked for a bit and she signed all my trades. Also a picture! I will post pictures later, there were a lot of costumes because Asheville is where normal is weird. I saw most of my friends at the con too, Fuller, who I used to art class with in high school was a really KICKASS Black Canary seriously she was amazing.
I was a dork at the “Gender Race and Sexuality” panel and ended up asking a long rambling question that meant nothing, but at Gail’s panel I asked how it was being back at BoP and whether the Death of Oracle stuff was her idea, and she said she had been reluctant to “go back” even though she really missed the book, and DoO was her idea, and she couldn’t say more.
I talked to her husband for a good period of time, actually, he was very friendly and said Gail was a big fan of WFA and he was too, that was nice. We discussed Internet Stuff which was weird to do IRL. Anywayyy I got two Buffy trades
(oh yeah, I finally finished the entire show did I inform anyone of that? And now I”ve read up to the point in the comic where it’s going to stop being good- though how hilarious is it for Buffy to have a terrified expression on her face saying “Twilight is coming?” And since this was published before Twilight got popular, that’s a weird coincidence)
and a Welcome to Tranquility Trade, I’ve been meaning to get that forever-60% off!
I’ll try to post a more accurate report of the panels later, maybe I should have written stuff down so I could remember. Though my friend Joy accompanied me to a panel for a while, and it was fun trying to explain comics to her. It’s always fun when you get to the part where people are bought back to life arbitrarily (I was like “it’s like DragonBall Z and Sailor Moon on crack that way, okay) and then they freak out over the idea of multiple Robins…