Yesterday was one of the laziest Saturdays I've had in a long time. Most of it was spent on the computer or napping. Lots of napping. You'd think I never slept. And the computer time? Browsing the web and playing games on Facebook. There were two occasions this monotonous time was broken up with though.
Comic Book Ink hosted a signing of former Washington resident Tim Sale. He's best known for his work on various Batman series as well as Captain America and Spider-Man to name a few. He's also the artist behind the paintings seen throughout the Heroes television show for the first two seasons. I assume he's still working on the show for the third season, but don't want to give out false information.
While I've read most of the comics that Tim's done the artwork for, I own none of them. I do have the first hardcover Heroes graphic novel and the first two seasons of Heroes on DVD, but didn't want to go to the signing until my wife read about it in the newspaper on Friday. I picked up the first season DVD at Target, so it had four postcards with his artwork on them, so we had a total of seven things to get signed. So, with book and DVDs in hand, we went to the store and waited. He arrived about 15 minutes late, but that was all right. Things happen.
After a short Q&A session, the line started to move, slowly. At first, they were only allowing three autographs per person per time through the line. That meant you could get more than three things signed, but you had to go through the line again. That soon changed. See, Tim was there also plugging his charity, the Hero Initiative. With a small donation, you could have everything signed at once. So, we donated $20 when it was our turn in line, which I think took both Tim Sale and John Munn, owner of Comic Book Ink, by surprise since most of the bills in the box were $1's and $5's. Tim seems like a nice enough guy, but I didn't know what to say to him after spending time in line behind a big pack of nerds that annoyed me for almost my entire time in line. We also got small certificates of authenticity from John for each item we got signed. We plan on getting the postcards framed with the certificates underneath at Michaels next time they have a 50% off custom framing coupon in their sales flier.
At around 9pm, we took off for a new Target that opened up a couple months back in the outskirts of Puyallup near Graham. Maybe it's in Graham. I don't know. It's just out there and it's huge, bigger than all the ones we frequent. There's a WinCo out there we buy groceries at, so we decided to finally stop by this new Target. In addition to being huge, it has all-plastic shopping carts which are super-quiet, unlike the children that were running around the store. Don't parents put their kids to bed on the weekends? I was never out that late until I was a tween or whatever the term before teenager is.
I saw the new Star Wars the Clone Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Delta 2 Starfighter there. That thing is cool. In addition to being the shio Kenobi flies in the Clone Wars movie and television show, it splits into two vehicles, one piloted by him and the other by whatever astromech is in the socket. The human-piloted section looks like an early version of the Jedi Starfighters from Revenge of the Sith. But, it was $20 and I wanted the Plo Koon Mighty Muggs more, which was half the price. They had a few Star Wars figures I wouldn't have minded getting either, like Breha and Bail Organa and Stass Allie. But, I'm on a budget and we still had groceries to buy.
I'd go on about the grocery shopping, but I'm sure whoever reading this is bored already, so I'll skip that. Today we plan on seeing Bolt. We'll see if that pans out.
