X-Ray Studios

Eric is currently in a Seattle, conducting a live demonstration of Nintendo's new Flipnote Studio software for the DSi. My understanding is this event should be uploaded somewhere online by Nintendo. If and when I find it, I'll post it for anyone reading this blog to see.

In the land of people not being flown to conventions in Seattle, I have just returned from the convention I was flown to in Michigan. I participated on a breaking into comics a writer panel with Daniel Way - a man who is possibly the strangest combination of congenial and intimidating. I had a great time, it's rare I get to socialize with other writers.

Here's a photo of the panel, as seen through my eyes:



I also got to stay up late hanging out with Tommy Lee Edwards. One of three people I have met personally who truly appreciate the artistry of Doctor Who. I took a picture of Tommy, but all that the camera captured was a swirl of time and space.

Speaking of Doctor Who, here's a shot from my birthday a couple of nights ago:



My friend Jon provided the cake and the alcohol. Good times.

Tron issue 6 is in stores now. I know this because I bought one. I bought one because Dan Vado of SLG openly hates me and won't come to any of my 17 different birthday parties this month.

Here's a picture of me with Tron #6.



Why am I reading this? I already know how it ends.

Branwyn and I are birthday junkies now. We celebrated again last Sunday. As you can see in the picture below, we take this very seriously.



Then Branwyn's arms began to float away. Before escaping the pull of gravity completely, they snapped a picture:



Pictured below is Todd from Comic Relief and Tyler from Image Comics. They are sad because they did not have pizza with us on Sunday. We felt bad, so we went ahead and another birthday celebration on Thursday. I don't think anyone knew it was our birthday. We got no loot that day.



Traci sent Branwyn the naughty cake Care Bear pictures. Of course I have yet to post them. This is because Traci is awesome with responsibility while I shy away from it constantly. Or something like that. She also sent the video version. I may post it this weekend.

Somewhere around here I have all this great top secret Supergirl stuff to post about. But I'm out of time. Oh well. No Supergirl news for you.

While it may not actually be my birthday quite yet, the timing seemed right for myself and Branwyn to combine forces into one mega birthday celebration. Unofficially, this celebration was entitled the Lan-Bran Birthday Bash 2008. I can't tell you what the official designation was. You don't have proper clearance.

It was held in the back room of Comic Relief in Berkeley. We had a projector, an XBox, Rock Band and a giant concrete wall, as seen here:



The picture doesn't really do it justice. Perspective is key here. That wall is far away from the people playing the make believe instruments.

Branwyn brought her Image Comics peeps to the event, I countered with crew from SLG. I've been wanting to incite a rumble between the two companies for some time now. Sadly, no rumbling occurred.

Eventually, Branwyn declared herself Supreme Ruler of Birthdays. As seen here:



She can call herself this if she wants. But in my mind she shall always be the Hambiggler.

In the end though, we all know what birthdays are about. The loot.



The loot is courtesy of Jose, Mike and Jef and Jennifer and Brian. Jennifer and Brian also thoughtfully attached a pirate eye patch to the gift bag, which I did not discover until I got home. I wish I had been more observant, as I would have worn it the entire evening.

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