20130508 Told You So

05/08/13 - HEADLINE: Iron Man 3 Has Second Highest Opening Weekend Ever!

Let me start out by saying that I was fortunate enough to have very supportive parents... for the most part. They were of course concerned about my future financial stability. With what I am sure were the best of intentions, they would subversively devalue my interest in "childish" things like comic books and video games in favor of what they considered "useful" or "employable" endeavors. By my early teens I had Corinthians 13:11 forever burned into my memory.

I feel that the recent main-stream success of comic book properties like the Avengers and Iron Man, as well as the prediction by Forbes that the video game industry will soon top 80 Billion in sales, proves that there WAS money to be made imagining new Superheros or creating little games on my IBM PCjr. Who knows? Had my parents encouraged my childish enterprises, I might have been right in the middle of the New Geek Economy and they would have been able to retire in style.

Instead I became an actor. Guess that showed them.