A Time Machine Into Shame

CAMEO WATCH!  In one of Sporkman biggest cameos (if not THE biggest cameo), Michael Poe inexplicably gave him an awesome spot in “Exploitation Now” on August 30, 2000.  I loved this cameo so much that I printed it out and stuck it to the cover of my three-ring binder.  It stayed there until I graduated high school a year later.  I mentioned it to him a few weeks ago, here in 2013, and he just said that, hey, I was a helpful and generally good dude back then, even if my comics were weak.  So that’s nice.  Poe is pretty bitchin’ himself.

At the time, I recall hearing people say that Poe drew Sporkman as too “feminine,” whatever THAT means.  I personally LOVED the way he looked, and Poe’s slender, perhaps even girly-looking, Sporkman heavily influenced the way I eventually ended up drawing the character to this day.