By request: a Comic Con attendee stuns BatYam by cosplaying as long-forgotten FW Act II character Cutty McCutterson, WHS’ legendary wood shop teacher. Remember his running gag about the tourniquets?
Hey gang, just a quick Wednesday night post for the hell of it. I was visiting The Komix Thoughts blog, and learned that our old pal BatYam was, of course, attending this year’s Comic Con. So I clicked to “read more”, and discovered that Comic Con mainly consists of cosplaying weirdos and standing in (or as we sometimes say out here, on) line. And after reading his five or six gripping sentences and seeing his handful of rather mundane photographs from the event, I began to ponder the question of what it would take to get ol’ TomBan excited about anything at all, as he always seems to be all low-key and barely amused in that annoyingly dull and tedious way of his.
“Today I was rooting around in the attic, and I found a mint copy of Action Comics #1. It was exciting.”
“Today an old friend gifted me with the actual suit Adam West wore in the “Batman” TV series. It was interesting.”
“Today I was bitten by a spider, and now I seem to have developed super powers. I wonder where this will lead?”
Comic Con is like his FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD and he describes it like a trip to the DMV. And this, in a nutshell, is why we so mercilessly mocked his “writing” abilities. We should all chip in and buy the guy a bottle of No-Doz and a Benzedrex inhaler, just to maybe wake him up a little.
“Comic-Con isn’t nicknamed “Line-Con” for nothing”. Given his rare knack for hilarious insights and witty zingers like that, it’s easy to see how FW ran for over two hundred years. I love his random, mundane vacation pics. Like when he went to Hollywood and took pics of that one building. Great stuff.
Son of Stuck Funky 