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Comics writer Mark Sable was intensively searched by the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) after they found a script in his possession about a writer who gets detained and intensively searched for writing a comic about terrorism that seems to predict real terrorist events.

Is it weird that I’m currently watching a movie about an actor who plays a POW in Vietnam and is then taken hostage in ‘Nam, for real? (Tropic Thunder, those facts about the story line might be slightly off).

“What do you mean, ‘my people’?”

“Flying from Los Angeles to New York for a signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe Wednesday (May 13th), I was flagged at the gate for ‘extra screening’. I was subjected to not one, but two invasive searches of my person and belongings. TSA agents then ‘discovered’ the script for Unthinkable #3. They sat and read the script while I stood there, without any personal items, identification or ticket, which had all been confiscated.”

“The minute I saw the faces of the agents, I knew I was in trouble. The first page of the Unthinkable script mentioned 9/11, terror plots, and the fact that the (fictional) world had become a police state. The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics.”

“I cooperated politely and tried to explain to them the irony of the situation. While Unthinkable blurs the line between fiction and reality, the story is based on a real-life government think tank where a writer was tasked to design worst-case terror scenarios. The fictional story of Unthinkable unfolds when the writer’s scenarios come true, and he becomes a suspect in the terrorist attacks.

“In the end, I feel my privacy is a small price to pay for educating the government about the medium.”

SF Scope via Boing Boing.

Via FilmBums

We could have easily compiled a top 10 list of stupid celebrity quotes that was not in comic book form but the format complements Britney Spears‘ and Tara Reid’s mind-blowing (and occasionally head-shaving) intellect.

Plus how else were we supposed to show that Brooke Shields and Kirstie Alley are the same person without thought bubbles?

They are the same person, right?

Here are the Top 10 Stupid Celebrity Quotes (In A Digital Comic Book of Two Pages).

(click here for a larger view of page one)

(click here for a larger view of page two)

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