Mines secondhand, but it fits the profile.
A guy (Rubin) I met works at Foribdden Planet in NYC. He had a guy walk in and ask to see the Halo HC. He asked Rubin to talk it out of the wrap, he just wanted to see the coloring, since he drew it. He being Maleev.
Rubin said sure, but asked if he would mine signing some copies for the store. Maleev said okay.
Rubin gave him a ball point pen. Maleev took it, looked at it and said "you expect me to sign with this piece of shit? and threw the pen on the counter and stormed out.
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Did it look like this?MGM wrote: On the same very night, some dude got something out of his bag and I think it was Arn who asked if it was a lightsaber handle. It wasn't, it was a Dr. Who prop. At which moment I started fuming about how sick I get of that show, given how it takes up half the space in the SFX magazine. Arn could've been a bit quicker with telling me that the guy is the writer of the Dr. Who comic...
I didn't know there was a Dr. Who comic, I just watch the series.
Don't think I'd enjoy it as much as a comic. :-/Biscuit AWAY!
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Appropriate response: "No, I expect you to sign it with this pen."wolf_2099 wrote: Rubin gave him a ball point pen. Maleev took it, looked at it and said "you expect me to sign with this piece of shit? and threw the pen on the counter and stormed out.
Then smile all sincere like.
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So obviously it is my time to come in with stories. There are some rights to correct from wrong stories given to you and also the Maleev story from last year.
But anyway, let's start with what we'll call the breakfast incident, wrongly depicted by Wally but he wasn't there so it just means he was not listening when I told him the story
Anyway, it was Thursday morning and our first breakfast together at the place where we each had $5 coupons. We arrive there and nicely enough, this big table in the middle is free so we all gather around that table to have a look at the breakfast menu. None of is sitting yet since we have to order at the bar but it's obvious we are going to use the table.
And yet, this lady comes from the bar with her cup of tea to sit at the table next to us where her friend is waiting for her. As her table is small and there are already stuff on it, she tries to find a way to make room on the table and for this her friend has a very simple solution, she takes her used, dirty plate and just puts it on our table and goes back to talking to her as if nothing had happened.
Cue to a very awkward moment where all of us look at each other, rather shocked by the rudeness of this lady. After a couple of minutes of waiting to see if she is going to pick her plate up again, Michel turns around and tells her "Could you please take your dirty plate back?". The one who had put it there does nothing and looks at her friend as if she did not understand Michel but her friend take the plate off our table. Then follows a short conversation between the two girls, I guess one is asking the other what did Michel just say and so on.
And then, that lady (the one who had put the plate on the table) stands up to go to the bar and says loudly to her friend "Un français ne se permettrait pas de faire une telle remarque". Of course, you my friends have no clue what I just wrote. Same as my friends at the time had no clue what she had said. But little did that idiot know that I, too, was French and that she had just said "A French person would never have dared make such a remark".
To which I immediately replied, as loudly as I could and staring right at her, "Ah bon, vous êtes sûre?" which means "Oh yeah, are you SURE?".
Needless to say that this made the girl really quiet and she avoided our gaze for the rest of the breakfast.
Funnily enough, she was there again on our last breakfast and when we left the place, Cameron waved at her with a silly smile on his face.
Now, about my messing Steve Epting AOA titles...
We were on the con floor and I don't remember how Epting came to the conversation but Mitch ends up asking me "He did Gambit and the X-ternals" during Age of Apocalypse, right?". I answer a straight yes.
Cue to later that day, I arrive at Epting's table to get some books signed and Mitch is there chatting with already. I hear Mitch the Gambit AOA book and the dubious look on Epting's face (at the moment, my mind is already racing. Why would he frown so? Was I wrong?) so Mitch turns to me and says "You told me he did Gambit and the X-ternals, right?". And at that moment, it hits me. In my inner eye, I see the image of Cyclops with his visor over only one eye, and a long streak of hair covering his second eye, all this in the recognizable style of Epting so I say "Oh no, he did X-Factor!". To which Epting says "Yeah, that was the one, X-Factor".
See even Epting didn't really remember which book he had been working on so cut me some slack, will you?
And I'm still on top of my game when it comes to creators as I clearly remember saving Farhan from making a fool of himself by presenting a book to a writer that had nothing to do with it. I can't remember which book and which creator it was though.
And anyway, the moment you have all been waiting for, yet another proof that Alex Maleev is a big jerk, a prick of the worst European kind.
Last year, on Sunday, Malorie and I are wandering around Artist's Alley. I am dazzling Malorie with sketch-getting skills. As we walk past an art dealer's booth, I stop dead in my track. That man with the silly hat, just standing there chatting with the owner of the booth, it has to be Alex Maleev. Quickly, my bag is on the floor and I'm looking for my sketchbook and my Daredevil #26 that Bendis had already signed the day before. When I stand up again, luckily the conversation is over and Bendis is now alone in the booth. I ask him if he would be ok to sign the book. I don't remember how the conversation was but he signed it so all good. But listen to what's next:
I proceed to ask him if he would be ok to do a free quick sketch for me. He looks almost disgusted. So I say "Just something quick, but it's up to you, if you don't want to, it's not a problem, I understand". So he says "Yeah, give me that sketchbook" which I happily do.
For the next 3 minutes, he does the sketch while standing really uptight in his chair, as if there were a broomstick up his arse. I happily watch as a very good Batman appears from under his pencils. When he is done, he signs it, closes the book and ... throws it away spinning accross the table in my direction, saying "Here is your "free" sketch" (with emphasis on the "free"). Malorie and I were so shocked by the rudeness of this gesture that we just took the book from the table, said goodbye and left. What a fucking prick! I could have said no if he didn't want to do it.
So be careful the next time you dare pretend about the reliability of my Database, I might just Maleev my signed books at your face.
But anyway, let's start with what we'll call the breakfast incident, wrongly depicted by Wally but he wasn't there so it just means he was not listening when I told him the story
Anyway, it was Thursday morning and our first breakfast together at the place where we each had $5 coupons. We arrive there and nicely enough, this big table in the middle is free so we all gather around that table to have a look at the breakfast menu. None of is sitting yet since we have to order at the bar but it's obvious we are going to use the table.
And yet, this lady comes from the bar with her cup of tea to sit at the table next to us where her friend is waiting for her. As her table is small and there are already stuff on it, she tries to find a way to make room on the table and for this her friend has a very simple solution, she takes her used, dirty plate and just puts it on our table and goes back to talking to her as if nothing had happened.
Cue to a very awkward moment where all of us look at each other, rather shocked by the rudeness of this lady. After a couple of minutes of waiting to see if she is going to pick her plate up again, Michel turns around and tells her "Could you please take your dirty plate back?". The one who had put it there does nothing and looks at her friend as if she did not understand Michel but her friend take the plate off our table. Then follows a short conversation between the two girls, I guess one is asking the other what did Michel just say and so on.
And then, that lady (the one who had put the plate on the table) stands up to go to the bar and says loudly to her friend "Un français ne se permettrait pas de faire une telle remarque". Of course, you my friends have no clue what I just wrote. Same as my friends at the time had no clue what she had said. But little did that idiot know that I, too, was French and that she had just said "A French person would never have dared make such a remark".
To which I immediately replied, as loudly as I could and staring right at her, "Ah bon, vous êtes sûre?" which means "Oh yeah, are you SURE?".
Needless to say that this made the girl really quiet and she avoided our gaze for the rest of the breakfast.
Funnily enough, she was there again on our last breakfast and when we left the place, Cameron waved at her with a silly smile on his face.
Now, about my messing Steve Epting AOA titles...
We were on the con floor and I don't remember how Epting came to the conversation but Mitch ends up asking me "He did Gambit and the X-ternals" during Age of Apocalypse, right?". I answer a straight yes.
Cue to later that day, I arrive at Epting's table to get some books signed and Mitch is there chatting with already. I hear Mitch the Gambit AOA book and the dubious look on Epting's face (at the moment, my mind is already racing. Why would he frown so? Was I wrong?) so Mitch turns to me and says "You told me he did Gambit and the X-ternals, right?". And at that moment, it hits me. In my inner eye, I see the image of Cyclops with his visor over only one eye, and a long streak of hair covering his second eye, all this in the recognizable style of Epting so I say "Oh no, he did X-Factor!". To which Epting says "Yeah, that was the one, X-Factor".
See even Epting didn't really remember which book he had been working on so cut me some slack, will you?
And I'm still on top of my game when it comes to creators as I clearly remember saving Farhan from making a fool of himself by presenting a book to a writer that had nothing to do with it. I can't remember which book and which creator it was though.
And anyway, the moment you have all been waiting for, yet another proof that Alex Maleev is a big jerk, a prick of the worst European kind.
Last year, on Sunday, Malorie and I are wandering around Artist's Alley. I am dazzling Malorie with sketch-getting skills. As we walk past an art dealer's booth, I stop dead in my track. That man with the silly hat, just standing there chatting with the owner of the booth, it has to be Alex Maleev. Quickly, my bag is on the floor and I'm looking for my sketchbook and my Daredevil #26 that Bendis had already signed the day before. When I stand up again, luckily the conversation is over and Bendis is now alone in the booth. I ask him if he would be ok to sign the book. I don't remember how the conversation was but he signed it so all good. But listen to what's next:
I proceed to ask him if he would be ok to do a free quick sketch for me. He looks almost disgusted. So I say "Just something quick, but it's up to you, if you don't want to, it's not a problem, I understand". So he says "Yeah, give me that sketchbook" which I happily do.
For the next 3 minutes, he does the sketch while standing really uptight in his chair, as if there were a broomstick up his arse. I happily watch as a very good Batman appears from under his pencils. When he is done, he signs it, closes the book and ... throws it away spinning accross the table in my direction, saying "Here is your "free" sketch" (with emphasis on the "free"). Malorie and I were so shocked by the rudeness of this gesture that we just took the book from the table, said goodbye and left. What a fucking prick! I could have said no if he didn't want to do it.
So be careful the next time you dare pretend about the reliability of my Database, I might just Maleev my signed books at your face.
Yeah, I admit it, I was so sure I was right about this that I followed Cebulski into the bathroom of the bar to ask him the question. I was though gentlemen enough to ask him that while he was washing his hands and also did ask first if it wasn't too awkward for me to ask him a question while he was in the bathroom. He didn't mind that at all and I must say that from the various encounters during the con that Cebulski seems like a really nice guy, unlike that prick Maleev.MGM wrote:As for some thing where Wally wasn't around:
On Thursday when the four of us (Arn, Cam, Andy and me) were at the CBLFD, Arn mentioned he saw C.B. Cebulski around, to which I stated his Black Widow mini-series were pretty good. Arn looked somewhat confused and said he hadn't written any. Quickly, this came to a bet and Arn went of to ask Cebulski about this. He mentioned to ask Cebulksi the question in the bathroom. Alas, I was wrong. Twas Sienkiewicz I was thinking about (long name is a long name...).
Another good story was how Leandro Fernandez turned down Michel for a sketch and yet did one for me.
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There is a front and back to the T-Shirts.MGM wrote:I was thinking... when we go there again, we need BX shirts. Bisc's picture is fine, but it does need another slogan. Which would be more inappropriate?
DO YOU LIKE COMIC BOOKS?
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WHAT WOULD ALEX MALEEV DO?
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Damn.. Maleev doesn't seem to be a fan of the BX crowd. Sorry he's treated you all so shitty in the past and again this year.
But Arn, I would never truly doubt your Database skills. We all need them way way too much. Tho, even if you falter for a short moment, we'll all probably ride it out as long as possible
But Arn, I would never truly doubt your Database skills. We all need them way way too much. Tho, even if you falter for a short moment, we'll all probably ride it out as long as possible
My Database skills are getting up there.Tragic Angelus wrote:Damn.. Maleev doesn't seem to be a fan of the BX crowd. Sorry he's treated you all so shitty in the past and again this year.
But Arn, I would never truly doubt your Database skills. We all need them way way too much. Tho, even if you falter for a short moment, we'll all probably ride it out as long as possible
They might be better than Arns when it come to mainstream talent.
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