Fell and Stuff

I picked up a copy of Fell Feral City to have Ben Templesmith sign tonight and proceeded to read it. I was amazed at how good it was. I might need to read it again to make sure my brain was processing correctly and it wasn't an illusion.

I did notice something about the way Warren Ellis writes. He likes to have characters talk, and by talk I mean tell everyone how it is showing how cool they are and how everyone else is wrong. Of course someone usually smacks them down for some reason, but boy do people like to monologue or show how smart they are in his comics.

Last night Darwyn Cooke signed two of my books. He seemed very social and cool, joking around and talking with everyone. Watching him draw a Batman sketch for someone else was very cool. He drew the Spirit for me (which I didn't ask for he just did) and joked that it always rains on the poor guy while adding rain to the sketch. When I asked him to make one of the signatures out to my fiancee and I he drew a heart around our names.