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October 15, 2009
The Untold Story
It has been one of those weeks. Tomorrow morning I will drive across the Bay Bridge for the fourth time in seven days. My days of late have been long and stimulating. And long. I am grateful to Robbi for so ably telling the story of our weekend at the Baltimore Comic Con. But I must quibble with a few of the things that she did not include.
For example, she did not share our encounter with Mini Batman.
Or our serendipitous sighting of Mario and his brother Luigi.
For baffling reasons, she chose not to show you this photo of Predator and Guy Who Tries to Kill Predator.
Also, you would have had no way of knowing that we ran into this superhero with a mace whose name I should know but somehow can't remember.
And this greenish girl superhero with white stripe in hair whose name I'm also supposed to know and also somehow can't remember.
And, of course, the Joker (even I cannot forget the Joker).
And the ever-terrifying Powdered Toast Man.
And the ever lovable, roly-poly (yet still quite terrifying) Great Big Butterfly Guy.
Perhaps most conspicuous among the many omissions to Robbi's post was the following shot of a rather compelling hero.
Neither heroic nor awe-inspiring, nor physically impressive nor agile nor able to fly nor capable of shooting beams from his eyes nor armed in any obvious way, the hero nevertheless knows how to pose. (And jump, though admittedly the photo provides no evidence of it.)
Here he is with others from his fearsome band of evil-fighting black-leather green-haired hero people.
Inspiring, no? It's why we go to Comic Con, for sights like these.
Can you believe that Robbi had the gall to omit these images from her post? I can only attribute it to an utter lack of vision, an intractable refusal to dream, a prudish unwillingness to dress up in lycra, wield a rubber weapon, and harness her inner superhero.
At least this small-mindedness has not been passed along to Alden, who shows no qualms about dressing up as her hero.
Posted by bogenamp at October 15, 2009 10:00 PM