Unthinkable Foolishness from TSA
“Flying from Los Angeles to New York for a signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe Wednesday (May 13th), I was flagged at the gate for ‘extra screening’. I was subjected to not one, but two invasive searches of my person and belongings. TSA agents then ‘discovered’ the script for Unthinkable #3. They sat and read the script while I stood there, without any personal items, identification or ticket, which had all been confiscated.
“The minute I saw the faces of the agents, I knew I was in trouble. The first page of the Unthinkable script mentioned 9/11, terror plots, and the fact that the (fictional) world had become a police state. The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics. (From Boing Boing, “Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA”
Issues of Unthinkable are only $3.99 each, a bargain! Why not pop over to Boom studios and support the artist? [link to http://www.boom-studios.net/catalogsearch/result/index/?q=unthinkable&x=0&y=0 no longer works]
This comment doesn’t pertain to the article, but I didn’t see an email link anywhere… not that I looked very hard… but anyway, not sure what it is about your blog, but every time I try to load it in Chrome it crashes.
Just FYI.
I am able to reproduce that Chrome crash, FWIW.
@dave – bloggername@emergentchaos.com will work
Thanks! My peeps at Google have put in http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=15767&can=5&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Pri%20Area%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Modified%20Owner%20Mstone
Ah!!! at last I found what I was looking for. Somtimes it takes so much effort to find even tiny useful piece of information.
Nice post. Thanks