Free Comic Book Day 2099.
Oh man, I almost forgot to tell you about the coolest shirt one of our customers wore to our Free Comic Book Day event. I wish I had taken a picture of what he was wearing, but instead I’ll have to settle for images borrowed from this eBay auction:
Yes, that’s right, I had a customer sporting a Ravage 2099 shirt. And no, it wasn’t an old, ratty shirt he’s been wearing since the early ’90s. He’d picked it up off the eBay still sealed in its original package, much like the auction I’ve linked to.
Okay, the exact value of “coolest” may vary depending on your opinion of Stan Lee’s finest creation, but this was the last thing I expected to see a customer wearing, particularly in this Year of our Lord, Two Thousand Twelve. It gave me a good, surprised laugh, and thus, my most sincere kudos to that customer of mine.
Hahahaha!
I always thought Marvel BLATANTLY ripped off the James Twilly-version of Grimjack for this series. I’d be pissed if I were Flint Henry or John Ostrander.
I loved Ravage.
That is all.
I’m a 2099 junkie all the way around. I would sport that shirt all over town.
I recently reread a lot of 2099 comics, and much as the stuff not by Peter David or Warren Ellis gets maligned as ’90s gimmickry, there’s quite a few diamonds in the rough.
Ravage is not one of them. Christ, that was one awful book.
Stan Lee’s finest creation? I thought you were cool. How could you forget Stripperella?
That is… that is something.
BBayliss says:
“I always thought Marvel BLATANTLY ripped off the James Twilly-version of Grimjack for this series. I’d be pissed if I were Flint Henry or John Ostrander.”
I agree! and what a TERRIBLE book Ravage was.
DOOM 2099 on the other hand, was suprisingly good!