[Pen/Pencil Review] The Houston Adventure
This won’t be a “for real” review – mostly because we’ve been traveling since Thursday. Houston was awesome. If I met you at Comicpalooza – thanks you for coming by the table or the panel! I appreciate the opportunity to meet so many people there, and to run into some familiar faces.
Because we had some time, not only did we do Comicpalooza, we did some other things – like touring NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and heading over to Dromgooles, a premiere pen store in Houston. As well as doing a quick jaunt down to the edge of Galveston to put toes in the Gulf of Mexico. Fortunately Jimmy is with me on this idea of if you have the opportunity to go to a beach and put toes in ocean, you should do it. So we did. It was an exhausting trip. It was an amazing trip. I don’t really want to go back to “normal life” again, but something has to support the pens.
The “astronaut” pen and Houston pen came from the Hilton-Americas Hotel gift shop. The environmental pack is the plunger for the retraction of the point. The “Houston We Have A Problem” pens are from the Johnson Space Center gift shop, as is the Fisher Space Pen with the Space Shuttle detail on the clip. Because, come on, really? Did you expect me to go to a Space Center and NOT buy a Space Pen?
The silver, tapered stick at the top with the tube that says “Napkin”? That’s the Napkin Forever Prima Pen. It’s something I saw once and thought was cool. It’s an inkless pen or leadless pencil. It apparently uses oxidation to create marks on paper – look super cool. I’ll talk more about it later. It was 30% off at Dromgoole. Also picked up a single Blackwing Volume 4 Mars pencil. Wasn’t sure I wanted a whole dozen, but I did want the single one – because Mars.
Many things to look into over the next few weeks. Looking forward to getting back to it.