So, things ended up working out… I went to my friends wedding, which was awesome (he walks up to the altar to the symphony orchestra version of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir,” it doesn’t get more epic than that) and got to see Max Payne afterwards, which was less awesome (how can you take such an epic idea of giant winged demons and make it so non-epic?)

This leads me into a discussion of “epicosity.”

Epicosity is the measure of how epic something is, and epicology is the study of epic things (in England, epicology is called by it’s less formal name, “beer gazing,” and the French refer to the study simply as, “that thing we never do.”)

Epicosity can be measured simply by this formula:

E = [(A + B²)(W - R) + c³] / [S + Ψ]

wherin, A is the number of action scenes in the movie
B is the number of times Bruce Willis is in the movie
W is the number of romanticized weapons that appear in the film (usually this is swords or bo-staves, although guns are becoming more romanticized ala ‘Equilibrium’ and the “Dark Tower” book series)
R is the number of romantic (love interest) scenes in the film
S is the sequel number (if the movie is an original franchise, a ‘1′ is used, although this applies only to movies made pre-1984, when Hollywood stopped using original franchises)
Ψ is the number of minutes that Steven Spielberg or George Lucas was involved in the production. The symbol Ψ in this case is not used because of some abbreviation, but rather because it resembles the devil’s pitchfork that is used by Satan to flay fans of Indiana Jones.

c, of course, is the speed of light.

Speaking of epic things, I need to tell you that, although the talk balloon in today’s strip covers it up, Bob does have a Steven Segal poster next to his bed.

Segal’s personal epicosity rating is 1,247.68

Don’t forget kids, tomorrow and Sunday is the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo, where I’ll be appearing alongside such greats as Jewel Staite (firefly, Serenity) and Bruce Cambell (Evil Dead, Everything Awesome).

Come say hi if you get a chance, it’ll be a good time. For all the details, just click here. See ya there!

This conversation actually happened the other day, because I really did see a car with three Christian Fish under the window… I realize they were probably just saying that they were a Christian, but under the window like that… it looked like there could only be one explanation. Like the fighter pilots of old, this dude was keeping track of his exploits.

In other news, I just got from the “Star Wars Fan Days 2″ Convention, which was totally awesome, special thanks to everyone who came by and said hey! It was a great show. I’ve put some of the sketches I made for the show up over at my Deviant Art page, and I’ll be posting some more of them there throughout this week, so check back often over there. There’s a good chance I might have an original art sale soon for some of the things that didn’t sell, so keep an eye out for that as well.

I’ll give a more full report of the con later, when I’m not exhausted, and have to wake up in like 6 hours.

Also — in related news — I’ll be appearing at Wizard World Texas here in 2 weeks, November 7-9, so if you missed this show, or you’re rearin’ for more convention action, come check it out. More details on that to come later. See ya!