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and I hit Planet ComiCon yesterday. Fairly typical small show — mostly a back-issues flea market with a few guests doing signings. I did manage to score some good stuff:

• The complete run of Alien Legion (vol 1), for about a dollar an issue.
• The complete run of Doctor Strange: The Oath for 10 bucks.
• A copy of the Doctor Strange: A Seperate Reality trade paperback, for 5 bucks.
• A copy of the Doctor Strange-related Witches trade paperback, also for 5 bucks.
• A copy of the Moonstone short-story collection of The Spider, signed by the interior artist (a guest, whom I knew from various online fora).

I was thwarted in my wish to track down a set of 52, as nobody had complete runs (oddly). I’ll wait for the trade paperback. I also grabbed a “Free Comic Book Day” issue from Dynamite Press that featured their take on The Lone Ranger — it was cool enough that I now want to track down the first 6 issues of their series. In other news, I noted with some small depression that two 70s/80s series that I onced owned, and hope to own again (namely Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts and Master of Kung Fu) are now going for near 30 bucks an issue for early issues. Nostalgia, thy name is Expensive.

Had a lovely “Cinqo de Drinko” lunch with and , whom we met up with at the show.

Slept in today, and spent the late morning watching the live broadcast of Arsenal vs Chelsea on the Fox Soccer Channel. An absolutely amazing game — Chelsea had a man sent off, yet still managed to come back to tie, and very nearly win the game, fighting until the last second of stoppage time. With the Chelsea tie, however, Manchester United has now secured the mathematical certainty of being Premiere League champions.

To which I say: U-N-I-T-E-D…!

So I’ve noticed a slight increase in the past couple of days of wingnut fucktards posting comments in my more political posts.

A quick check of user profiles indicates that — *shock of shocks!* — they’re all friends of a particular right-wing stain whom I banned from commenting last year.

(EDIT: Apparently, that’s just a case of “dumb fucks flock together” — the actual culprit (as per a comment in my “Queer or Female?” post) is apparently some forum filled with these asshats, who feel its their right to piss all over my journal because “it’s public.”)

I suspect they’ll get bored with being made to look stupid, but while they’re here, feel free to play whack-a-troll with ’em, if that’s what catches your fancy.

Gareth, Early 70s Edition As per the meme that I first spotted on ‘s journal, here is a picture of me. Write a caption for it, please. Then post a picture of you as a kid to your journal, and invite your friends to post captions.