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...well, except perhaps the people who use his name to denounce others to achieve their own personal, agenda.

A little background; Fred Phelps, and the asshats who follow him as members of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church apparently hates gays so much that they regularly protest at the funerals of servicemen and women who have been killed overseas (defending the right for these maroons to be douche-bags). Classy, right?

Well, they recently got it in their heads to protest gays at the International Comicbook convention in San Diego, the biggest comic con in the world. Well, unbeknownst to these misguided folks they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. You see they were going up against folks who think nothing about dressing up as robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and, well furries, than then walk around in public.

Needless to say, the good folks of San Diego's Comic-Con were well prepared for the arrival of the Westbror protesters with their own special brand of superhumans where they counter-shouted "WHAT DO WE WANT?" "GAY SEX!" "WHEN DO WE WANT IT?" "NOW!" while brandishing ironic (and some very sincere) signs.

The Westboro protesters were not only not prepared, but simply didn't know what hit them.

Yeah, that's right, most of the times these yabos show up, encounters with them degenerate into an angry shouting match, which just gives more air time, and (to their way of thinking) bolsters their cause.

Hopefully this encounter will serve as a model for future encounters (assuming that the Westboro clowns can ever recover what little "dignity" they might have left), and if they ever show up somewhere again, they will be likewise humiliated.

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Like the people who pooh-pooh'd Harry Potter, Twilight outsiders are just getting their dander up over the fawning nature of the Tweenagers, and Kevin Smith had a moment to address this during this last week's Comic-Con in San Diego.

It's Kevin Smith, so expect a fair number of conversational expletives. Otherwise, he's pretty much right on the money. If you don't want to spend the 2 1/2 minutes listening, he's telling the mostly male audience that these girls will grow eventually grow up, and when they do, they'll be cool with all sorts of things, (nudge nudge!) ... only he says it in his own Kevin Smith sort of way.

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So, I just learned that there is a very distinct possibility that at this year’s Comic-Con International: San Diego there will be an announcement about the THUNDER Agents. I know that I don’t have to remind you all of this site’s connection to the Agents, (but I’m going to anyway).

Walt and I were introduced by John “I may be dead, but I still own the THUNDER Agents” Carbonaro. I (The Perfessor) met John some 30+ years ago at a comicbook convention and eventually wound up championing his cause, when a former friend business associate (and scumbag) attempted to defraud John by stealing his property out from under him, and discrediting John in the process (for a number of years, while John was defending himself from the scurrilous charges against him his friends would chide him as being “a broken and tragic man” — one of the epithets used against him by the former employee). Later on, after he won his suit, John would wear a T-shirt that proudly proclaim “My Lawyer can beat up your lawyer.”

Walt met John when John relocated to Houston from NYC. eventually John introduced Walt and I to each other when both of us seemed to be the only ones who supported his cause of bringing the Agents back into print.

To be sure, John had a number of folks interested in the Agents, a few of these efforts actual made it into print. Unfortunately, none of them lasted. Well. John passed away earlier this year, and control of the Agents passed on to his heirs. I was able to consult with the executor of John’s estate shortly after John’s death, and not only advise him as to who the “players” were in the field, but to put him into contact with a number of parties who were interested in continuing the legacy of the Agents.

Well, I just heard from the executor that there is a very good possibility that there will be an announcement concerning the Agents this year at SDCC, and that we will be among the first to be notified if such an announcement is to be made.

So stay tuned kids, there is more to this story yet.

The Perfessor