Mike Hagan sent me a very important correction to my map of states I've visited…
On your list of traveled states, you omitted Missouri.
However, I know you have been here. In 2008 at the Mo-Kan Comics Conspiracy, a friend and I met you, had you sign your new (then) Kirby: King of Comics book, and had an enjoyable conversation for 10 minutes or so. The event was held in Kansas City, Missouri. Easy to see why you'd forget…the event was lightly attended from what we could tell. But, hopefully, you had some barbecue when you were here.
I didn't forget the convention. I forgot that a con in that Kansas City wasn't in the state of Kansas…which is an easy mistake to make. I have now yellowed Missouri on the map and unyellowed Kansas. Thank you for catching that. Maybe someday I'll get to Kansas and I can yellow it back up.
We did have barbecue there — at Arthur Bryant's (which did not impress us) and at Jack Stack (which did). I see that Jack Stack ships ribs and other eats nationwide but I doubt that by the time a shipment got to my table, their burnt ends and other fine concoctions would be anywhere near as wonderful. And before anyone tells me otherwise, let me remind you that there are no cooking or reheating instructions that I can't screw up.