Hi, my name is Andrew and I ridiculously addicted to Heroclix. I love this game and it is draining my time and my wallet away. Actually, I need to express real gratitude to this game as I have finally, finally found a hobby that gets me out of the house and interacting with other people. It has a collectability factor that I like, it has superheros which I really like, and that geek element that I hold on to so dearly. I am still a noob to be sure, but I am having fun. It gets my competitive juices flowing just right because while I like to win there is just something fun about DC and Marvel characters duking it out in myriad combinations with myriad powers and combos etc. I am really having a lot of fun with. Also of particular note is how quickly I was able to suck Brent in to this whole thing.
As close as Brent and I are I suspect he secretly despises me much like a crack addict would despise their dealer in a secret way. Before Brent and I began working together he didn’t collect comics any more (although he used to) and I took him to my store with me one day and before you knew it the dude was completely sucked back in. Collecting variant covers and all that stuff, beyond the things I get caught up in which is fine, every collector is different. Now it is to the point where he is working at the shop to support his habit. Hehe. And now he’s caught up in Heroclix with me too, although to be fair he has sucked me into bidding on figures on ebay.
I have really loved having that in common though. It has been nice having such a close friend and fellow geek nearby. We talk about stuff that would make most people fall asleep in boredom and its great, I love those talks and spending time Clixing (?) as we are fairly evenly matched and seem to each win enough to keep us going. Brent’s a great friend and I know at some point he’ll read this and it isn’t that I can’t say it to him, we have shared that with each other and a lot of our friendship goes beyond the comics and clix, but it’s a lot of fun having a friend to hang with and do that stuff. It also makes me feel better about being 32 and still doing this stuff.
I have a tournament this weekend that I am stoked about playing in, the guys at Triple Play are really cool and I feel very much in my element there. Suddenly when I talk about DC ruling over Marvel there are people around me who understand what I am saying. They may disagree with me but they know what I am talking about and feel free to give me true utterly geeky reasons as to why I am oh so wrong which is great. That’s how you get into those “Hulk would hand Superman his ass” kinds of conversations. Even the dude who pretty much runs the place, Dan, is cool and a good guy who I enjoying kibitzing with about storylines and stuff, and man does he know a lot. I am humbled and tempted to go all Wayne’s World, “I’m not worthy” on him sometimes.
I love that my lifelong hobby has become fun again, that reading comics is an exciting experience for me and that going to my local shop is more than just a trip to a store now. I have a connection to outside world, which for me is tough to find. I get caught up in my work and all the demands of my time and I now have a way to step outside of that for a time, to relax and just be myself and I love that.
Yesterday Candace bought me a toolbox for my Clix figures and with that she made me feel terrific about this new thing. I love that she sees that I am having fun with it and is supporting me in it, it meant more to me that I think she knows. What’s even better is that I can now walk around with my geeky geeky game and look manly and like I am prepared to fix things at the drop of a hat, when really I am more equipped to roll dice and see if I can score a critical hit on a faucet than fix a leak.
“Hey, you got a Philips head screwdriver in there?”
“No, but I have a World at War Superman with Impervious for the first couple a clix!”
“Ah, that won’t do me any good. Besides, he’s retired from tournament play.”
Cue the * glaze *
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