CAPE! Day Means Oven Toasting

I helped the Zeus boys out for CAPE! today. CAPE! is a Free Comic Book Day event, and there are several artists and writers signing and meeting fans. It was actually chilly in my shorts and T-shirt as we got started. Otherwise it's been a lovely day and I think CAPE! is going quite well. There was a lot of help this morning, which I'm sure Richard (dedagda) was grateful for after his recent injury.

After my shift was over, I ran around the tents, probably spending more time looking at the artists and writers who are cute because I rarely remember who writes or draws the comics I read. There were a lot of cute ones this year. Chris did a good job of getting pics of them.

There were a lot of good looking customers, too!

I've never seen so many Iron Man T-shirts in one place. The movie's barely been out and everyone is already spending their economic stimulus checks on merchandise.

In the end, I'm dog tired as I realized I haven't done that much physical labor in a while, especially standing for a long period, even though it was on grass this year. I don't have the standing stamina I did when I worked retail many years ago.

The other problem is that I forgot sunscreen, and although it doesn't make that much of a difference, there wasn't a cloud in the sky at the park. The farmer's tan look will be out in full force when I peel off the upper layer of my skin in a few days. I looked around, and there's no aloe vera in the house. Damn!

Joey's looking at me and thinking of cracklin' pork rinds, I'm sure.



Here's a picture of Josh at CAPE! You can see it was a highly sun-tacular event.

A few more pics will be on flickr shortly.