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Chris Quinn joins Dustin this month for Ball & Chain.

DC: This weekend, the Chimaeracon is hitting San Antonio, and that means a lot of geeks will be here flooding our great city. I have a couple of geek questions for you. Now, as long as I’ve known you, you have been a self-proclaimed geek.

CQ: I’m pretty dorky. I’m pretty nerdy.

DC: Tell me, how did you manage to consistently get laid all those years and be a geek at the same time?

CQ: I don’t know about that. ..... When other guys go out and mack at the club ..... I’m at home grading comic books. I’m at home looking for spine damage to the latest issue of my comics and giving it a grade.

DC: But you’re married to a wonderful lady. How did you manage that?

CQ: Humor, self-deprecation and I paid her a lot of money to go be my date to a formal dance, and I wooed her through dancing and laughter, and eventually I got my money back, so that worked out pretty well.

DC: What are some of the advantages of being a gaming/computer/comic book geek?

CQ: Some tend to be hopeless romantics. ..... You will never have to shop for a costume because we have them all. ..... You will always know the history of Green Lantern. ..... Some geeks are so proficient at reading technical manuals for starships that they pretty much know how to fix their own cars. ..... It doesn’t take very much to make a geek happy. Just some nookie. A little bit of lovin’.

DC: Those are some great advantages, but what are some of the obvious downfalls of being a geek?

CQ: They can be a bit overcritical of things because they spend so much time breaking down and critiquing their own interests with their buddies. ..... Sometimes we’re just weird. We just say and do weird, stupid things.

DC: Well, you know, I have to say Chris is a self-proclaimed geek. But I never thought of him that way. Because there have been a couple of times where the shit almost went down in the bar. One time, in particular, there were some strung-out, punk-rock heroin junkies that came over and tried to take our pool table, and Chris threatened them with a pool stick.

CQ: It was a plus 2 (gaming thing that adds or subtracts power to an object) pool stick of beating. They would have incurred a penalty to the dexterity if they would have gotten smacked with it. I rolled the D20 (20-sided dice used in gaming) before I went up. I don’t think you noticed that. But I always carry a D20 in my pocket. Because if the roll went bad, I wouldn’t have done anything. I don’t want to lose a level.