Sorry if it seems I'm bragging. I am, actually, but this was just so awesome. In the most amazing find in my last few years of going to conventions, I was browsing through a doujinshi box when suddenly I see Pochiyama-san staring at me. I think, 'Wow, lucky day!', because while I have most anything of state-side release, like Omnipresence, I don't have much in the way of the original doujinshis. Picking up one would make my day, if not my entire month.
So, then I look on the side where there looks to be some sort of squiggle marks. Turns out it's a signature in silver marker. ( My really lucky day! )
So I go to pick it up. And hey... it's a three pack! Yakkoku no Pochiyama-san volumes 1, 2, and 3, and they're all signed! And behind that? A copy of 'I am an Alien'. And IT'S signed.
So, after the utter elation of holding these four awesome doujins in my hand, which were actually touched by the man himself; I begin to realize... I only had about $80 in my pocket. I mean, signed, originals, mint condition... these were going to be expensive. So I ask the dealer, how much.
$50.
/floored
So I now have in my possession 4 signed ABe doujinshi for $12.50 a pop. Glorious!
Although this topic may not seem very serious, I'd like to take an objective approach to it. Ever since I saw Lain, my experience with ABe has been wonderful. I think his attention to fundamental questions of life is unparalled. But also, since then, something has been nagging me (not in a bad way), and I think I've figured out what it is. In everything I've seen from him, there seems to be a very subtle homosexual undertone to some of the female relationships. It's never anything all that obvious, and I don't think I'm imagining things. If there are lesbian undertones, I think it just adds to loveliness of his work. What does everything think about this?
