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Those of us who can’t draw...namely Sidra, Paul and I did a
quick run through the rather large dealer’s room. We always do
this at the start of any convention, to get an idea of who is there,
and what is being sold, and what we want to do. This isn’t
practical for a convention like San Diego, but it works fine for
the small to the medium conventions. I halted dead in my tracks
on my initial rounds, too. Some purveyor of videotapes had a
bootleg copy of that JLA pilot for that proposed television
series. You know which one! The one that had Guy Gardner as
the Green Lantern of the JLA and the stills on the net were so
bad that you just *knew* why the pilot didn’t fly. I went no
further. Paul had to fork over the money RIGHT THEN. Paul’s
major job at any convention is taking photos and handing money
over to his family, when he’s not busy spending it himself. He’s
essentially our automatic teller machine.
My major purchase of the convention made, I went over to
Joe’s table to deposit my treasured videotape. Joe is busy
talking to Sidra, and Sidra is eying Todd Nauck’s table across
the way. I know Sidra’s major goal of this convention is to
interview him. She’s wanted to ever since talking to him at San
Diego several years ago. Todd, being the penciller of the
popular Young Justice series, and a local celebrity in Dallas
comics circles, has a line of fans around his table rivaling the
Marvel booth at San Diego. I suggest to Sidra that perhaps she
might want to get in line and ask Todd for an interview at his
convenience, and she gives me the Look of Death, and says,
"The line will go down, I’ll wait. Besides, I’m talking to *Joe.*"
Joe can talk, it’s one of his most wonderful character traits. He
can go on for hours, and he’s interesting, too. Eventually, Joe
gets himself an art assignment drawing Mon-El and Sidra joins
me on the dealer room circuit.
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