http://www.williambrucewest.com/2010/07/09/best-of-the-west-1-signed-amazing-spider-man-583-variant/ He's Forgotten More About Pop Culture Than You'll Ever Know... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.williambrucewest.com/2010/07/09/best-of-the-west-1-signed-amazing-spider-man-583-variant/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Stephen Belcher Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:36:23 +0000 http://www.williambrucewest.com/?p=1751#comment-254 I really like this whole story, start to finish. Something about your writing style, I guess, lends itself to me wanting to finish the story. It helps that it's got a good ending, too, where you get this awesome thing and seem to have had a lot of fun. Too often the main impetus to write comes from anger at being wronged or some other negative emotion, so reading about this is always a nice refreshing thing. It's also amusing to hear your entire description of the game between you and "Wayne Lee," like you've got this whole secondary dialog going with just your actions; it was an implicit acknowledgement of unspoken rules and strategies. Everyone else was hurling duck pins down the lane in hopes of scoring, you guys were playing chess. I really like this whole story, start to finish. Something about your writing style, I guess, lends itself to me wanting to finish the story. It helps that it’s got a good ending, too, where you get this awesome thing and seem to have had a lot of fun. Too often the main impetus to write comes from anger at being wronged or some other negative emotion, so reading about this is always a nice refreshing thing. It’s also amusing to hear your entire description of the game between you and “Wayne Lee,” like you’ve got this whole secondary dialog going with just your actions; it was an implicit acknowledgement of unspoken rules and strategies. Everyone else was hurling duck pins down the lane in hopes of scoring, you guys were playing chess.

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