The X-Files 20th Anniversary Cast Signing AT IDW! Gillian Anderson! Chris Carter! Dean Haglund! And Losing Suddenly Susan In The Madness Of SDCC! DOH!
I would say one of the coolest and most unexpected things to happen at Comic Con this year was getting into the X-Files 20th Anniversary signing. I didn’t really have it on my agenda because it was so hard to get into. They only gave out 50 wristbands on Thurs and another 50 on friday so it was really limited.
Participating in the signing were X-Files star Gillian Anderson, Chris Carter, Dean Haglund, Joe Harris, and Joe Corroney. You could bring three items to get signed or buy three items from the booth… Wait… Three!?! If I would have known I would have brought some of the cool stuff I had at home, however… I had nothing!
Thanks to Suddenly Susan, I along with Erica, The Novel Strumpet, and Billy Beer were able to get into the signing. Score!
I got there early and secured our spot because sometimes you just never know with these things. Suddenly Susan however, was lost in the mix! Was she gone? Did she get abducted? Was she stuck in a ditch? Did her NBC Dracula stool with the face of Jonathan Rhys Meyers collapse, causing her to fall and not be able to get up?
I was worried.
Crazy things happen at Comic Con. One minute your walking along trying to find the cast of Teen Wolf and then next your Chloroformed only to wake up in a storm trooper costume dancing for a group of slave Leia’s waiting to take over Jabba’s palace. But enough about me. This was about Susan…. SUDDENLY SUSAN.
She was gone.
When a member of the MTF Family goes missing we all react. I said Billy, call Susan cause like every horror film from the year 2000 and up I had no service. Billy said, “Susan?” I was like yes Susan! He stared blankly at me like I ordered an import brew at Hooters. “Suddenly SUSAN!” I exclaimed.
“Like the 1990’s sitcom starring Brooke Shields?” Billy asked. I ripped the phone out of his hands and dialed myself. No answer.
I said “Erica!” Turning to see her activating her network into play. She had already texted, phoned an friend and got some skywriting up with a a homing beacon going but alas nothing from SS.
And so… We waited.
I didn’t know what to do.
Also, Suddenly Susan had my X-Files poster I was getting signed. Thankfully, I bought a comic, Billy gave me a photo and Erica spied these awesome lithograph posters they had for sale. So we both bought one. After we bought them the booth hid them which I thought was odd since they were having a signing.
Cue the X-Files Theme
And then… The cast arrived! Scully in the flesh! Gillian Anderson! Who by the way looks amazing!
The hearts of fanboy’s everywhere pounded and pounded.
Billy said, “The smell of virginity is in the air!”
Immediately I said, “Is CB Here?”
Billy shook his head and tried to whore himself out for a Molsen Ice that a couple Jawas were carrying down the aisle.
And still… No Suddenly Susan. And worse, no X-Files poster.
The line started moving. Billy had a really cool original X-Files Rolling Stone to get signed (It has a mailing label on it, so you know… It’s not THAT Cool but still it’s not an 8×12 photo) that David autographed previously.
Billy was sweating getting something signed for his sister because she loves everything, everyone and will torture Billy if he doesn’t get something signed for her while delivering a personal message about specific episodes (except the X-Files Annabeth Gish years because she says they don’t really exist).
It was my turn now. I talked to Dean for a hot second but I really wanted to tell Gillian Anderson how much I enjoyed The Fall.
I said how I thought it was the subtlety in her performance that really sold the series. She was very engaged and made eye contact and thanked me. I also said how more American shows need to do limited series like that.
She nodded her agreement while signing the mini poster, comic book and a photo for my friend Scott (Billy has the comic and photo right now which is why I don’t have photos. I fear his sister is whipping him now and I’ll never see them. But I have a secret. I have Billy’s Wilfred poster… Signed by HALF the cast! Oh yeah… LEVERAGE!)
I ended my conversation with Gillian by saying, “Oh, and I loved the nail polish at the end!” realizing very fast that sounded like a fashion critique out of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy! DOH!
Chris Carter wasn’t really chatty but was cordial and very nice. Smiling at everyone as they came by.
And that… Was it. We’re still looking for Suddenly Susan. Allegedly, she had another signing before this one and I forgot (which is crazy talk right? Me forget? WTF!) and she wasn’t in a ditch or kidnapped by crazed fans trying to do a shot for shot remake of The Goonies, forcing her to play Martha Plimpton’s part, only with more zest and less glasses.
I don’t know WHY I thought of that…
Yay! For this awesome signing!
Until next time kids…
Share on Facebook
I really appreciated the concern. I like that you added that “more importantly” I had your X-Files poster. 🙂
Oh Susan, I wept when I saw that you were lost at Comic Con. I said to myself Surely, there was a way she could climb out of that makeshift ditch and find her way back- back to us on the mainland of life.
the dread has not subsided, I felt as if I was in a coccoon of sadness and unlike the butterfly not able to poke out to shed my skin and break new life. Alone- Alone with the dread of the abandon! For life without Suddenly Susan is not worth the undertaking.
Arise, the Phoenix and climb out of the wreckage and rejoin the Fanboy Family dear Suddenly Susan, we can’t lose you. I echo the brave complexity that Mike faced and would have done more than put out a beacon like The Lovely Erica. I would have climbed the tallest man in the world to look for you, perched on his shoulders and cried out. “SUSAN! I WILL SAVE YOU!”
If you can hear these words, if you can hear this breath, I will come. I’m booking a flight to this San Diego Comic Con and will find you. Even if I have to look under every cardboard box in the city.
Did you lose your memory? Overdose? Crack? Smack? Heroin? All are sad. addiction is a cruel mistress and I cry. Alone… Alone! ALONE!
Then I say, WWSS do? She would survive. I’m praying for your safe return. I will kill a medium sized mammal if it would help, but I don’t think it will. I don’t like violence, perhaps a duck, but even then it would be unruly torture.
My father wanted me to kill a frog as a small child but I said no… I will send word to the large Frenchman to come rescue Suddenly Susan!
I will see that magician movie for more clues to where Suddenly Susan is!
Pound Puppy- It was a joke! Jesus.
Great article BTW! F’n hilarious! I can see it was a joke not like the Pound Puppy Wanda!
Dear Wanda – we’ve all been home safely from Comic Con for 2 weeks now and have been reporting bits and pieces, as there is so much to talk about. I truly appreciate the concern, and assure you that I am not a drug addict. In fact, I’ve never even smoked pot. Mike had forgotten that I had a signing before X-Files and so he was actually worried that day, and jokingly played it up here. All is well, I promise.
Ryan B. – Glad you saw and enjoyed the humor. No comments on my Tom Cruise write-up?
Leverage is that you also have my Beauty and the Beast Poster! I will also keep your “humor” in mind while I’m finishing up my long over due articles!
And Billy, you have my signed X-files comic!
Anderson is a snatchy Bitch.. This must have been her good half hour of the day.
Just wait until my write up on her, Mike. That’s the Gillian I got. Snatchy indeed.
Oh my divine Susan. How my heart is humbled and healed by your safety. I saw you lying in a pool of inflammatory muck like in a tide pool only surrounded by like minded peers with Yoda ears. Relief that you are safe. Relief that the world is righted and we are all in a state of safety.
I know you are not on any sort of hallucinetic drugs, uppers, downers, hash, hashish, crack, smack or speed balls. My Susan would do none of those things. She is the sign and substance of all things right. Of goodness mixed with ivory. When I set my mind I think, oh Susan would not approve and I do not do things that are naughty. WWSSD! The motto we should all live by, through and keep a remembrance of . It will right all wrongs.
Oh…
I can’t stop crying for the Susan is home, nestled and snuggled in her bed, to further regale us with stories for the ages. To be passed down from person to person in times of utmost despair and poverty. Susan’s tales will keep us fresh.
I didn’t kill that duck– And I’m glad.
I know the reason you had success at Comic Con or as the cool kids call it… SDCC is because you are positive and only send out positive notions to the world. I’m sure you helped our your fellow man, and gave away selflessly trinkets and bobbles. Oh Susan, to just see you’re day once, would be a dream.
I am here in a unsewn ground having to deal with troublesome souls like Ryan B. who come and try to undermine Suddenly Susan. I don’t know why he thinks I’m a dog from a fenced in enclosure, but I’m not. I’m Wanda. I’m just a fan of Suddenly Susan, the huntress.
I didn’t call that Frenchman. I don’t need to though, unless you need him to rescue you from Ryan B.
I decided to fight Ryan B. with the sword he uses… Words… So listen Ryan B. Here it comes…
Ryan B.! You’re not a cool person with happiness.
HA!
I hope Suddenly Susan is not mad at me. It sounded like she was mad and If she was mad I would not sleep for 10 winks… Oh… Now I’m alone.
Yeah I saw the Tom C. article Susan. Man, those posters look awesome! You are awesome!
Wanda- WTF! No, I’m not a “cool person with happiness” because I don’t know what that means! If you made sense then fine but since you don’t stop trying.
Pound Puppy!
I’m on Team Suddenly Susan!
Of course I’m not mad 🙂
Thank you Ryan 🙂
Why does Gillian look so pissed?
Because like the other Mike said, she’s a snatchy bitch!