True Tales From HeroesCon

Overheard while shopping at a dealer selling bootleg DVDs:

Random Guy 1: (holding the Japanese Spider-Man tokusatsu show) See! I told you the Japanese created Spider-Man!

Random Guy 2: When was that made?

RG1: The 70s! I told you!

RG2: Stan Lee created Spider-Man in... the 60s!

RG1: Whatever, I told you so! Spider-Man is Japanese!


Personally? I weep for the future.

True Tales From The Comic Shop

Regarding whether the upcoming Watchmen film will connect with mainstream audiences:

Me: I mean, Watchmen is held in really high regard, but it doesn't have the public awareness of even something like Iron Man.  Iron Man has been published for more than 40 years, Watchmen was only 12 issues published from 1986 to 1987.

My Beautiful Wife: Well, I guess it's hard to suck in 12 issues.

(Technically, this conversation happened in the car and not the comic shop, but still.)

True Tales From The Comic Shop

Regarding the new title from Radical, Calibur:

Me: I think this is something you'd dig. I think you told me you like Weird Westerns. It's Arthurian Legend in the Old West.

Borderlands Employee Darren: Oh yeah man. I want MacBeth in the Old West.

Me: I think anything works if you put it in the Old West. Like, a World War 2 story, put that in the Old West, and it'll sell like hotcakes.


Admin Note: I'm going to be out of town this weekend, so the Weekly Dose of Weird and your Links are most likely delayed. I am going to try to post them, but I may have to wait until I get back.