One month before its official grand opening, a local paper invited me to take part in a preview tour of the still-very-much-under-construction EMP with a hand full of other "creative types," in order for me to write a comic about it in an upcoming special supplement. The people who hired me made no bones about their hoping — ASSUMING — that I would savage the place...

I assumed I'd be savaging the place too, since everything I had heard about the EMP up until then was ALL BAD: that is was an obscene waste of money; a monument to one man's ego; and that it was ugly Ugly UGLY.