Jim Lee Cost Me Money
If you look over at Newsarama right now you will see Jim Lee talking about the poker game in Chicago. Well I wasn’t in Chicago but I did play in the Wizard World LA and Comic-Con games. I’ve also played in one small tournament besides that. I actually won both the small tournament and the Wizard World LA game (much to the chagrin of Nick Barrucci) so I’m pretty good at Texas Hold’em.
It’s important at this point of the story to tell you what I did with my winnings from LA… I bought two original art pages and page for my hotel room for the weekend. The two pages were both Jim Lee pieces. One from his run on Batman the other from his Superman run. Jim Lee is pretty much a comic GOD in my opinion.
Well, the Comic-con game came around and I went up to play. The room is filled with everyone from retailers to creators to editors and company owners, a pretty interesting mix overall. We get our seating assignments and I size up the table. Mainly everyone there was from the business side of comics and all very nice guys. Well, as I’m sitting there waiting, one last player shows up late. Now this is a player that everyone was waiting for… Jim Lee. Mainly they were waiting because we were all in his hotel room. Well Jim pulled a card to see where he was sitting and sure enough, he sits two seats from me.
So my first reaction was: “Oh wow, it’s Jim Lee.”
I took a deep breath, thought to myself that this is a group of people in the same industry sitting together for a nice game of cards. And Jim Lee, thought very talented, is just another card player.
So my second reaction was: “Holy shit, it’s Jim Lee!”
We played a few hands, a won one or two and then I had to explain to Jim exactly who I was and why I was there. It’s funny but that’s how it goes. No one cares who you are unless you start winning a few hands and then it’s: “Why are you here?” Explaining that I wrote a book for IDW seems to quell the curiosity enough to get back to the game.
Oh, and Nick Barrucci put a bounty on my head.
Now to speed up… I got a little goading to play more aggressive… some of it SEEMED to come from Jim. And the end result was I played the worst game of my life. I went fishing on hold cards I should never have even thought about holding.
The bottom line is out of 8 people at my table I was the third one out. Out of the 48 people playing I don’t think I made the top 40… But I had one tiny bit of solace…
Jim Lee went out before me.
And he is still a comic book GOD.
If you look over at Newsarama right now you will see Jim Lee talking about the poker game in Chicago. Well I wasn’t in Chicago but I did play in the Wizard World LA and Comic-Con games. I’ve also played in one small tournament besides that. I actually won both the small tournament and the Wizard World LA game (much to the chagrin of Nick Barrucci) so I’m pretty good at Texas Hold’em.
It’s important at this point of the story to tell you what I did with my winnings from LA… I bought two original art pages and page for my hotel room for the weekend. The two pages were both Jim Lee pieces. One from his run on Batman the other from his Superman run. Jim Lee is pretty much a comic GOD in my opinion.
Well, the Comic-con game came around and I went up to play. The room is filled with everyone from retailers to creators to editors and company owners, a pretty interesting mix overall. We get our seating assignments and I size up the table. Mainly everyone there was from the business side of comics and all very nice guys. Well, as I’m sitting there waiting, one last player shows up late. Now this is a player that everyone was waiting for… Jim Lee. Mainly they were waiting because we were all in his hotel room. Well Jim pulled a card to see where he was sitting and sure enough, he sits two seats from me.
So my first reaction was: “Oh wow, it’s Jim Lee.”
I took a deep breath, thought to myself that this is a group of people in the same industry sitting together for a nice game of cards. And Jim Lee, thought very talented, is just another card player.
So my second reaction was: “Holy shit, it’s Jim Lee!”
We played a few hands, a won one or two and then I had to explain to Jim exactly who I was and why I was there. It’s funny but that’s how it goes. No one cares who you are unless you start winning a few hands and then it’s: “Why are you here?” Explaining that I wrote a book for IDW seems to quell the curiosity enough to get back to the game.
Oh, and Nick Barrucci put a bounty on my head.
Now to speed up… I got a little goading to play more aggressive… some of it SEEMED to come from Jim. And the end result was I played the worst game of my life. I went fishing on hold cards I should never have even thought about holding.
The bottom line is out of 8 people at my table I was the third one out. Out of the 48 people playing I don’t think I made the top 40… But I had one tiny bit of solace…
Jim Lee went out before me.
And he is still a comic book GOD.
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