One of the fun, weird pieces of conversation that we had this summer that never quite made it into print was a conversation we had at San Diego Comic Con International with Seinfeld‘s Newman–Wayne Knight, currently starring on TV Land’s The Exes.Knight, who also appeared as Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park, was there as part of the TV Land Legends of Comedy panel along with Roseanne Barr (who wants to be in Avengers: Age of Ultron) and William Shatner (who of course wants to be in Star Wars Episode VII). And as the summer winds down and we were looking back through some of our archives, we realized that not only did we not share the highlights of the Knight conversation, but a Google search suggests that nobody in the room (it was a press roundtable interview) touched on what a fanboy Knight really was–and his secret dream of being Namor.We kid.”I loved sci-fi, I read comic books and I grew up in a small town in Georgia,” Knight said. “My father would take me to the comic book store and I bought comics for the transition between ten cents and twelve cents. It was like, ‘I can only buy four of these now! I used to buy five!’ So that’s when I started hooking.””I started out in the DC Universe but then I realized that life was more complicated than that,” Knight said when asked what his favorite comics were. “Then I kind of got into the Marvel Universe and then later my friend took me to the Dark Horse and Valiant Universes and other places.”He noted that he never wanted to actually be a collector, which is what prevented him buying and reading more comics. Asked, though, whether there was a comic book character he’d like to play, the actor hesitated.
