I've Terminated Your Self-Respect

When it comes to actors making appearances at comic conventions, I imagine it takes guts (and some pride swallowing) to sit at a booth, sign pictures from a 30-year-old role, and listen to a bunch of weirdos in costumes talk about their pet ferrets.

That being said, I was trying not to act like a tool at Wizard World (a comic convention) today, when I had an opportunity to meet one of my childhood idols, Michael Biehn. For those of you who've never heard of action films, Michael Biehn played Reese in Terminator, Hicks in Aliens, Johnny Ringo in Tombstone... etc. He is, as I would put it, a major dude. He's played a Navy SEAL three times.

So as I’m shaking his hand and trying not to be a douche, his girlfriend (Jennifer Blanc, evidently from Party of Five according to the sign) asks to see my glasses, and then puts them on Michael Biehn’s face to see how he would look. My friend Wade managed to snap a picture of him, and to answer Jennifer’s question: It turns out my glasses make Michael Biehn look pissed off.

His characters all have a tendency to die. He dies in Terminator. He dies again in The Abyss. And he dies in Tombstone. I think it’s safe to say that Michael Biehn also wanted to die at Wizard World 2010 today.