Excepting some colossal disaster, the Ant-Man flick is really happening. There is always a glorious tingle in the loins when a whispered fan legend actually comes to fruition.

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On Friday, I think, at NYCC, a couple of lovely attendes stopped by the booth. They were breathless, asking if we knew where Jessica Nigri was. We did not. They explained she was apparently in a Lady Fox McCloud outfit. Now, now I understand why they were so excited.

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Behold this gorgeous spiral structure rocking out new a local Milky Way star. Is it truly local? Cripes, yo. Relativity is everything. I reckon I’m relatively close to you, when you consider how far away from the center of the Universe we all are. Just picture me breathing on your neck.

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Sweet crap. Tasty, honeyed crap. BioShock Infinite keeps shedding developers like woah. Can’t even come close to keeping them in tow. They’ve lost two more on top of the already plagued procession that is this game’s development.

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I missed Felix’s fantastic leap from space yesterday, working the NYCC. Goddammit. If these highlights are anything to go off of, the entire endeavor was glorious.

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If you’re late to the game or new to the site, it is worth mentioning that I think AvX was a steaming pile of “refresh”-powered nonsense. I don’t think anything proves my point more than the fact that they’ve brought in a wrestler to do the introduction. I know he’s a legit comics fan, but. I don’t know. I suppose there isn’t really any purpose to bringing in someone with insight to a slug fest batch of hot water crap.

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Catching up on other swag that I enjoyed pre-NYCV is the Django Unchained trailer. Number two! Number two. There’s something unsettling about making a slave master so humorous, but I suppose it would not be Tarantino if he wasn’t surfing controversy.

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Here is the thing about working NYCC: I go nowhere, see nothing, learn about less. I just heard that Agent Coulson lives, which is a total jolt to my geek g-spot. Enough to pay for the fucking wi-fi here at the convention center so I could post about it. Cyeah!

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Have I already written an intro where I apologise for it being a ‘quiet news week’ and then try to make light of the situation and appear witty and insightful by pretending that I know lots about the video game industry? I have? Damn. Well, somehow the games industry has managed to stay quiet throughout NYCC. Go figure. The nether realm is upon us and reality has collapsed into itself. I don’t believe in anything any more.

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[WEEKEND OPEN BAR: The one-stop ramble-about-anything weekend post at OL. Comment on the topic at hand. Tell us how drunk you are. Describe a comic you bought. This is your chance to bring the party.]

Once again our intrepid heroes are out there fighting the good fight.  So while Caff and Rendar are ingratiating themselves with the folks at Comicon, why don’t we have a chat.  Pull up a chair, its story time.

Death is all around you.  It will take you at some point.  When you are a child, you don’t know this.  Hell, if you did, you probably wouldn’t care all that much.  Death doesn’t have to be a bad thing.  It simply is a transition.  I’m sorry about getting all philosophical on you.  I always get this way around my birthday.  Also, I’ve had a few.  So, depending on when you read this, it may in fact be my birthday.  I suppose that’s true of any article I write.  Well, if its Saturday, October 13^th, then feel free to send along your birthday well wishes (Cheap Pop).  I’m not going to tell you all how old I am as that may kill any cool vibes I may have garnered, however I will say that it is the one year anniversary of my 30^th birthday.

Sorry for my digression, lets move on to this week’s Open Bar topic.  When did your childhood die?

Let me add a bit of perspective.  When you are a child, you have your perception of how the world works.  Specifically with you at the center, and everyone trying to please you like you’re Caligula.  However, in most cases, there is a world event that occurs that kind of snaps you out of this fantasy.  You start to see the world as a large organism that you are a part of rather than background noise.  As you slowly realize that if you disappeared, nothing would change on the large scale.  You then find yourself wondering what your place is in the world as opposed to wondering how the world would shape itself around you.  When you start to question your place in the world, your childhood is dead.

So, what global event killed your childhood?

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