Tumblr, today I needed a place to talk about Dwayne McDuffie.
I cried when I read about Dwayne’s death, a year ago as of yesterday.
I never knew the man. I saw him in person once at New York Comic Con, and he was surrounded by people who, I could see he knew personally, and I didn’t want to be “that fan” who bothers to pros on their off-time.
I’m pretty sure I made the right decision, but I wish that I’d had the chance to shake his hand, once. Or get a signature on a book. Or talk to him after a panel.
It’s rare that there is any merit to meeting your heroes, but the out-pour of reactions that people posted immediately after his death, coupled with the tributes that his friends and family continue to post in his honor, have convinced me irrefutably that Dwayne really was as great a man as I thought he was.
I am still very sad that he’s gone. It’s not accurate to say that I miss him, because as I said before, we never met. I miss reading and watching and loving his work everytime something new came out. I miss knowing that he was out there.
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