Another 'I love my life" anecdote

Sometimes it takes effort to pry yourself away from your work and almost force yourself to spend time with your loved ones.

What this means for me is skipping Comic-con on Friday and going to Sea World with the missus.

God, I am such a child! I love it!

I am a pussy

I am embarrassed that I almost censored myself while doing the cover to X-Force #9, purely out of fear of repercussion from various critics on the Internet who might have seen it as mysogynistic (I mean, it's a book called "X-Force!").

Then I realized that a lot of these people claim anatomical impossibility as the reason why you shouldn't be able to see both of a woman's breasts while seeing both her buttcheeks, and yet don't bat an eye when you can see both pecs and buttcheeks on a man, or when you see both shoulder blades on the back and hip bones on the front of the pelvis at the same time.

So I went with the original layout I had in mind (which would eventually be turned down by the editors anyway, but only because you couldn't see one of the two characters' face).

The reason I'm embarrassed is because it's actually pretty tame, but shows both the male and female characters in a sexy pose. The only people who had seen it before I submitted it were women, and they all liked it, but even then you can't take it for granted that it won't offend people with its perceived mysogyny, both women and men.

If you're censoring yourself, you better be sure and comfortable about why you're doing it. I wasn't, so I'm glad I didn't. I had to remind myself that if I genuinely think that I'm not being sexist (and come on, it shouldn't be something you need to double check on, or something you turn on and off, it's part of who you are), then I should be happy with it. If I care too much about what any particular group of people think (who sometimes aren't even the targeted audience), I won't ever make it in this industry.

The WNBA is just as unwatchable as the NBA

And I actually LIKE women's basketball.

Another basketball brawl in Detroit

Painful to watch, especially when you can see Cheryl Ford go down because her own teammate was thrashing around like a maniac, trying to get away from her.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Mahorn gets pressured out of the WNBA for doing something that would get him praised in the NBA (forcefully trying to get an opposing player away from the fight). Not saying that would be uncalled for, but it will absolutely underscore the differences in gender treatments between the NBA and the WNBA, and I think that's something the WNBA wants to get away from.

Don't you just love

getting assignments on Friday afternoon that are due first thing on Monday?

Enjoy your weekend!

A Thread on CBR

I want a job as a story plotter for the X-Men

I want a job as a story plotter for the X-Men, does anyone know what one has to do to get a job as one. I have all these fresh ideas runing thru my brain for possible X-Men stories. Whats the Difference between what a Writer does & a Story Plotter. Is there such a thing as a free internship at marvel for people not currently in school, Does Joe Quesada have an E-mail where he can be reached with questions

Fanboys

I will never understand the fanboy mentality to completely disregard facts and the way things work and claim that the success of The Dark Knight means that Marvel sucks.

That and the idea that a company continuing to make a product that fanboys hate but consumers continue to buy is somehow the company's wrongdoing.

If everyone's there, I'm probably going to drink at the Hyatt

Because I don't believe in boycotts.

I'm not going to use the "servers with no agenda need the money" argument or what have you, but it's because I truly believe that higher-ups like Doug Manchester who people are boycotting against don't give a shit about boycotts. What, the goal is to make them aware that there are a lot of people who want gay marriage legal? You don't think they already know that?

So if I hear that everyone (especially my gay and gay-friendly friends) are there at the Hyatt drinking on Friday, I'm probably going to go. Because whether he gets it or he doesn't, Manchester doesn't give a shit about tens of thousands of dollars, not when he's donating six digits to a cause.

You know what he DOES care about? Not the money. He cares about KEEPING GAY PEOPLE FROM GETTING MARRIED.

So if you live in California, VOTE against Proposition 8 in November. I'm making sure that everyone I know who lives in California know about Proposition 8 and are voting against it. Anyone wants to start another petition, I'm signing that shit. Anyone wearing a "No on Prop 8" shirt gets free shit if I'm at an Artist Alley table.

I don't know, all I'm saying is that boycotting the Hyatt bar not only seems like the least you can do, it really seems like you wouldn't be doing it for anyone other than so you can sleep at night. Yeah, that's important, but hopefully helping to defeat Proposition 8 directly will make you stay up and party all night.

Actually, you know what you do? Go out and distribute "No to Prop 8" flyers to everyone at the con, on the streets, and at the Hyatt bar. Just litter the place.

It's not about pissing off Doug Manchester because he wants to be arbitrarily selfish about marriage. He's nowhere NEAR the only one. It's about fighting for a cause that you believe in that he doesn't. Who he is doesn't matter. And I know it might just sound like me rationalizing drinking at the Hyatt bar, and yeah, I'll admit that might have something to do with it.

But not much. I genuinely think that a lot of people are going about things the wrong way.

Anyone who boycotts the Hyatt bar, but doesn't vote or convince someone to vote No on Propostion 8 is a complete dumbass. And I know that will apply to quite a few people.