Marco Ilao Answered the call to Be a Hero

Remember when I posted that call to volunteer, Be A Hero? I said if you come in a superhero costume to a relief center and you send me pics of your lapse in judgement, you’ll win a prize. Now, those were the rules, right? No super hero costume, no prize. Sadly, this isn’t the first Comicology contest ever conceived. No one really just gave enough of a fuck to join. Much to my suprise, someone sent  in his relief effort pics.

This really makes me happy, to be quite honest. This means there is, at least one guy out there, who reads Comicology. I remember having a contest last Christmas for a Skull Candy headset. No one joined. I hate you all, by the way.

For some unknown reason, Marco Ilao, known as flightmarco on PTK (at least, I think that’s him) sent in his pictures from his relief effort.

The emails completely caught me by surprise. Dude sent in 3, with about 10 pics each. I just picked the ones I liked best. No one ever sent me anything before. It took me about 5 minutes figuring out why the fuck anyone would send me pics of a relief effort. I even figured they were from the people who organized the one over at White Space, because I volunteered there last night. Then I saw the name “Marco” and I made the connection between that one line I wrote, which I thought no one was going to take seriously, and the email.
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