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Monday, 5:32
2006-08-08 14:32:45

Back from Wizard World Chicago to a full day of work--and feeling somewhat under the weather as well. So blogging is going to maybe be a big slow this week.

We staged Prize or No-Prize again at the convention, which largely went over well. The crowd was a bit more lethargic than the one in Philadelphia (which was true for the entirety of the show, come to think of it), and we were crammed into a pretty small space, but by the end of it everybody seemed to have had a decent time.

I'm receiving a lot of e-mails asking how one can win one of the new digital No-Prizes. I think, though, that makbe people are missing the point: there's no one specific, easy way to go about this--that's why I'm using the term "meritorious service to Marveldom." It's not supposed to be easy to get one of these worthless things--that's kind of the point. "Meritorious service" is defined by me or Joe Q or Axel or somebody of that ilk, in whatever way we decide on any given day. These are just fun things to reward fan enthusiasm--they aren't supposed to need a manual to figure out.

Off now to the Mark Gruenwald tribute at MoCCA.

More later.

Tom B

no prizes
I read the wolverine and deadpool comic and there are no prizes handed out like candy on halloween and no matter how hard I try I just can't bring myself to give a rats bottom about them

Posted by darth maul on 2006-08-08 15:58:01

fan enthusiasm
2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate? Marvel! there now can i have a no-prize haha

Posted by neighbor on 2006-08-08 16:41:41

no prize
man,is that !@*@*!@ i'd be pissed if that happened 2 me

Posted by tarhaun on 2006-08-08 19:44:27

No-Prizes.
Just a question, if these "No-Prizes" are of no worth, why is everyone vying to get them so ravenously? I mean, if it's worth nothing, why does everyone want it?

Posted by EnvoyOfDarkness on 2006-08-08 21:38:47

envoyofdarkness
They are worth whatever people feel they are worth. Money has no inherent worth (it's just a piece of paper after all), but we assign worth to it by using them as a medium for exchange. The no-prize is worth whatever value the recipient feels it has.

philosophically,
pete

Posted by pete on 2006-08-09 09:37:48

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