PETE BONAVITA OF THE FORBIDDEN PLANET! Check back soon for Pete's Acceptance Interview

PETE: Everybody knows Yvonne, Everybody I talk to is like Oh yeah Yvonne, your name, you are known in the comic scene. The New York comic scene.

(Someone named Santos starts laughing like a maniac here. I am moving forward in spite of his ridicule.)

YVONNE: Who talks about me Pete? What comic celebrities?

PETE: Like Evan Dorkin, and Alex Robinson, Box Office Poison Alex Robinson, Tony Consiglio from Double Cross.

YVONNE: COOL! So, what made you do that Fabulous <--------------------------------- Bathroom Girls Display?

PETE: I was just moved. I had a vision.

YVONNE: Do you read Bathroom Girls?

PETE: I do. I read it religiously. It’s on my favorites list.

YVONNE: You don’t just read it ‘cause you know me and because I used to work here?

PETE: No. I read it because I thrill to the exploits of naughty girls.

YVONNE: Cool! So what are you going to do if you win your own comic book thanks to the Bathroom Girls Display you made?

YVONNE: OK! (Pete is referring to an idea we had for a comic book back when I used to work at the Forbidden Planet with him.)

SANTOS: As long as I am in it. As a monkey.

YVONNE: OK Santos the Monkey. I like that. So, Pete, what’s the weirdest thing you remember about working with me at the Forbidden Planet?

PETE: Um let’s see what’s the weirdest thing…?

SANTOS: I’ve heard stories about you.

YVONNE: Santos, why are you here?

SANTOS: I’m waiting to buy my Cthulu.

PETE: Remember when we had a little cult going on with little kids? It was a little weird. You know Elvis and Eddie. And I can’t remember the other kids.

YVONNE: I remember Theo. I went to pick him up from school that day when a bunch of kids threatened to beat him up. Hey, do you realize we can steal this contest if no one else enters.

PETE: Yes.

SANTOS: What contest?

YVONNE: Dude, you have been here for the whole interview. I have a contest where if a person makes a Bathroom Girls display they can win their own comic book.

SANTOS: What do you win?

YVONNE: Your own comic book!!!!

SANTOS: You get to write a comic book???

YVONNE: Yeah! You draw it whatever you want.

PETE: Yeah.

YVONNE: And we publish it.

SANTOS: THAT KICKS ASS!

YVONNE: I know!

PETE: Don’t tell him anymore because now he is going to do a display.

SANTOS: That’s my department. Over there near the video games. I’m gonna do a display.

YVONNE: What else should I ask Pete?

SANTOS: He reads Green Lantern.

PETE: No.

(Santos begins staring at me like a mental patient.)

SANTOS: Is her comic good?

YVONNE: You better go read my comic muther fucker.

SANTOS: Do we have #1 of her comic?

YVONNE: You don’t need #1 to read the Christmas Issue you nut.

PETE: Diamond was supposed to ship all the other ones with the X-mas book right?

YVONNE: Yeah, why they didn’t?

PETE: No.

YVONNE: Oh great!

PETE: I was looking at that girl’s picture on your site.

YVONNE: Who Summer Bradshaw? She’s cool! I’m gonna have you up there like Summer, since you are winning the contest so far.

PETE: So far?

YVONNE: Well, there's 50 days left. If no one else enters. Like you. Why didn’t you officially enter?

PETE: I thought someone would be like oh it’s a fix. People could be like oh that’s not cool, they are friends. But at this point hey. If nobody else is gonna do it!

SANTOS: What about me?

YVONNE: You’d better add something to that display mother fucker, like some Christmas lights or something if you wanna beat Pete, Hell just make a sign that’s 5 inches across and you could beat Pete. Pete, who is your favorite Bathroom Girl?

PETE: Sophie. Sophie is my favorite. She’s kind of quiet, reserved.

YVONNE: If Sophie was a real girl you would date her?

PETE: Probably, yeah.

YVONNE: What do you like most about working at the Forbidden Planet?

PETE: I like to influence kids. That sounds like a bad thing. You know what it was, when I came into the Forbidden Planet when I was younger, It seemed like really cool, like a magical happy place. I was really into New Mutants and one of the characters died and like the guy told me about it before hand and I was like, I want this and he was like, that’s the one where Doug dies and I was like nooooooo. I wanted to be not like that guy. I could be like the happy this is awesome recommending stuff guy.

YVONNE: You became a clerk to not be the clerk that ruins the book for you.

SANTOS: I ruin everybody’s book.

YVONNE: Yeah, your ruining my website too. Here, read this. (I give him my comic.)

PETE: Plus I get to meet a lot of cool people that do comic books.

YVONNE: Why thank you! Would you watch a Bathroom Girls TV Show? A Bathroom Girls Movie?

PETE: Yeah! I would pay my money to see it.

YVONNE: Do mostly girls buy Bathroom Girls?

PETE: No. It’s more equal, It’s more even ratio than other stuff.

YVONNE: Cool. What would be your advice to other people who haven’t entered the contest yet?

PETE: My advice is: Enter and make a big nice Bathroom Girls selling display, So you can beat me beat my ass and make me work harder.

YVONNE: What else should I ask Pete, Santos?

(Santos didn’t hear a word, too busy reading my comic)

Well, thank you for making the display, you are the only one who cares about me.

PETE: That’s not true.

YVONNE: Yes it is. I am going to go take another picture of the display. Before I go, what did it take to make the display?

PETE: It took… um… I had to make room. I had to shift other mainstream comic books out of the way, to make a space for Bathroom Girls.

YVONNE: How did you pick the materials that you made the display with?

PETE: Whatever was on hand at the time. Comic supplies. I was going with a comic book theme. I used a backing board.

YVONNE: Very creative. What did you cut it with?

PETE: I think it was scissors. Carefully measured to be the right length, to fit the shelf I scored it first and folded it, I used a Sharpee marker.

YVONNE: Two Sharpees. A Red and black one!

PETE: Well, I wanted to make sure it was special. So I tried to make it as vibrant as possible. A holiday theme. And red according to Kandinsky is action, and you know it represents that Bathroom Girls is action filled with action filled girls.

YVONNE: You went with a square...

PETE: I tried to make a circle first.

YVONNE: Did you injure yourself making the display?

PETE: I think so, but I do not hold Bathroom Girls responsible.

YVONNE: So what kind of tape did you use?

PETE: No tape.

YVONNE: REALLY? Amazing! All physics huh?

PETE: Just physics.

KID: I have this card, I have this card, I have this card...

KID INTERRUPTS INTERVIEW TO BUY POKEMON CARDS THAT ARE EACH WORTH MORE THAN ALL OF MY BOOKS COMBINED. Luckily the Loveable Santos bought the Bathroom Girls Guide to Holiday Chaos and I lived happily ever after.

YVONNE: My career is so sad.

So, YOU LAZY PRICKS who didn't enter, guess what? it's too damn late! you let another great opportunity pass you by! MY FRIEND PETE WON AND HE’S MADE YOU LOOK LIKE AN UNCREATIVE UNAMBITIOUS FUCK!!! And when he becomes a comic book super creator you will whine and bitch but it will have been all your own fault! George Bush did more to win than you did!!