Posted by Joe Casey on July 21, 2006

CASEY: As promised, we’ve ropped disco dynamo Fraction for a little BT-reunion, live from the Con floor. Okay, man, we’ll keep it brief, we’ll keep it witty… one hopes. So, now that you’re sporting the Chuck Heston-in-the-first-APES-flick look, how’s the COn treated you so far…?

FRACTION: GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME YOU DAMNED DIRTY NERDS!!!

Oh, my kingdom for a diagonal zipper.

The Con has been completely insane. Not as insane as me sitting here and typing this out instead of just saying it out loud to you, but insane all the same. I think we’re gonna sell out of CASANOVA #1 and #2, if not tomorrow than maybe Sunday…? And we brought a case of each…?

It’s been staggering. What about you? What’s life been like here at the MOA crash pad? What’s it like living at a con and being across the aisle from the DC Palace?

CASEY: A random lady just walked up and asked me what computer program her kid should start with if he (I assume it’s a “he”) wants to get into computer animation. Like creating BEN 10 makes me an animation expert, right? I told her to download Macromedia Flash like I knew what the hell I was talking about…

I’m thinking I’m going to hit up an artist friend who is carrying a bottled marked “generic for Vicodin” just to help the time pass. Otherwise, the GODLAND trades are kinda blowing out, too. Could it be that, at a massive Con like this, the original ideahas more of a premium — at least in this building — than the INFINITE CRISIS spinoffs and CIVIL WAR ramifications…? Could it be our time has come?

(I really haven’t taken the Vicodin yet…)

FRACTION: You know how I knew BEN 10 was gonna be a thing? Like, a real thing, I mean, and not just one of those thing-things? I watched the pilot, and the goddamn themesong was stuck in my head for six freakin’ days after. Thanks, Man of ACTION!. Thanks A LOT.

You know, as a part of CIVIL WAR now, I think I’ve lost all cred coming and going. I’m in that big glass house right by the rock quarry, maybe, but I know that we’ve been overwhelmed by how many people have been into FIVE FISTS and CASS. Let’s hear it for the Original Idea! Long may it reign.

CASEY: Said the new PUNISHER writer. Here I was, writing about our creator-owned babies when Marvel Editor Supreme (and second base slider), Axel Alonso popped into the MOA booth to discuss future storylines. The dichotomy of comicbook writing in full effect. It’s where we all live, isn’t it?

And, you’re right. BEN 10 is a thing. We’re just not sure what.

And, with that, we’re out of here.