There’s not much I can say about meeting J. Michael
Straczynski. I got to see him for about
ten seconds. He wanted to keep his line
moving as quickly as possible, so he put a 5 item limit on everyone. That’s cool, it happens. Nothing to get upset about.
But Straczynski clearly did not want to be there. I don’t want to call him an asshole, because
he wasn’t, but unfriendly would seem a fair assessment. It was kind of weird, because he wasn’t even
at the convention for all that long. His
table was bare except for two times during the whole weekend, and those were
the only two times he was actually there.
I enjoy his work. His
BEFORE WATCHMEN stuff wasn’t the best of the series, but it wasn’t the
worst. I told him MOLOCH had been my
favorite of his work on the series, and he coldly thanked me for it. He at least tried to smile, so I can’t fault
him all that much. Maybe he was having a
bad day. It happens. He’s far from the most unfriendliest creator
I’ve ever met at a convention. (If you
want to know the name of THAT person, I’ll tell you off the record.)
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