all these wolverine comics and there was only 2 half assed wolverine cosplay?
i wouldnt be so annoyed if I didnt just know that because of the movie, a bunch of people will cosplay wolverine next year. gay.
but some of the costumes were awesome at the con this year. do they always throw a travel show in with comic con? it felt bootleg walking in.
No but there is always 2 shows at the same time. The only show I’ve ever seen there that gets the entire space is the car show. Even when there isn’t two shows going on at once the other space is getting ready for the next event. Everyone wants a piece of that Javitz lol!
The space we have is adequate though I think. The second year was pretty akward when they crammed all of the artists upstairs where hardly anyone went, but the last 2 years things seem just about right.
I saw a lot of Wolverine cosplayers. They were all Hugh Jackman Wolverine wearing a tank top, but there was a little kid wearing the yellow and blue outfit. Don’t think I took any pictures of them and stuff, I’ve seen better Wolverines in previous years.
Hey I’m thinking of buying this Spidey Dark Avengers cover by John Romita Sr! My tax return check needs to hurry up and get here already lol!
You can see all of my convention pictures here. 
ok about 90% of the book si;m taking to wondercon are written by bru, and or fraction
ron lim is doing shuma for you Sano. $60 is what he charges.
That’s cool! I guess you got the DP sketches! :tup:
Shuma looks awesome. Post pics when I get home
Pretty cool. I’ll probably see you tomorrow, Painy.
Where are you Zephy?
Wow those are nice! Shuma looks sick! :tup:
WW sketch from lopresti
sano that girl with the thighs where the heck? ha ha those caught me by suprise. i didnt see her by the marvel game booth
so i talked to our lord bru. i was very humbled and could barely get a word out. told axel alonso that i wanted more deadpool series, then told him i have a deadpool crush. fraction said that he was not going back to iron fist :sad: got a shitload of trades, plus those sketches i posted. i have another somewhere that i need to post.
ron lim is a very cool guy. had a lot of laughs when i asked if he would sketch shuma for Sano. someone right before me asked him if he would draw galactus. ron gave him shit about it. when i kinda explained that shuma was an elder god, ron got excited and said he would do it. then i said “at least i’m not asking you to draw someone who you have drawn before. you know, like galactus” lots of laughs were had by all of us.
had azarello sign a brand new copy of joker. he even commented on how it was still sealed. i bought it, then ran over to him to have him sign it. had lopresti sign planet hulk, and deadpool -1. i think i surprised him with the deadpool issue.
watchmen panel was great. got to see inkblot face combo food tray beatdown XX hot oil on face. it was great.
gave zephy some spawn comics that i’m sure he already read about 15k times. finally bought civil war #1 turner variant. some guy sold me 4 SI variants for $5 each. not bad just a dollar more than cover price.
That’s classic man! 
Thanks for sharing. I’m still waiting on my tax return money so I can pay you for the Shuma-Gorath sketch. It should come in some time this week since my accountant did it online last Tuesday.
I was at the WonderCon, but I didn’t do much. I didn’t go to any panels this year, and I didn’t try to meet any creators. I don’t think I walked one row into Artists’ Alley. In fact, I didn’t even look through the program to see what was going on until I got home. Basically, all I did for like six hours was scrounge for deals in the 50% off TRADES, BABY areas and rifle through long boxes, seeking to find scarce back issues (for cover price or less, of course).
The people who organized the convention this year didn’t do a good job. They set aside about 1/5 or 1/4 of the entire convention floor for signing-in. In previous years, they would have people pay to get in on the top floor and they would use the auditorium-sized space downstairs for more booths and for holding the really large panels. This year, that space was completely wasted. It was seriously desolate looking, and I can’t imagine why the organizers did that. Were they worried it was gonna rain and they didn’t want people standing out side to get wet?
It made the whole con floor ridiculously crowded and unpleasant to traverse. I am not down with cosplay. At all. It angers me if I almost physically brush past a cosplayer in a crowd. If I don’t maintain at least a fifteen foot radius from a cosplayer, I feel my personal space being violated. I seriously almost killed a fat guy in a Wolverine costume with rubber claws. That’s how bad it was.
Capcom had a booth with various games set up, including SF IV. I watched people play for a while, but there were extremely long lines, which just added to the crowdedness of it, so I didn’t try and play. Most of the people I watched were just the average, run-of-the-mill Ken scrub you can play online (jump-in fierce to standing fierce to fierce SRK is their only combo other than jump kick sweep, wakeup fierce SRK everything, random fierce SRKs every other move, etc) but I walked by again later that day and there were some people who knew how to play. I saw this one girl get a three or four-game winning streak using Zangief. Then some nerdass fanboy in line started talking really loudly. He was all, “WOW! She’s using Zangief! A WOMAN AFTER MY OWN HEART!” She ignored him. That loser. He’s lucky he wasn’t cosplaying or I might’ve flipped out.
I ended up spending something like 150 bucks on comics. From the half-off bins, I picked up the first four volumes of Dark Horse’s Conan, each of the first two TRADES, BABY from Brubaker’s Uncanny and Carey’s X-Men, Godland v.3, Batman: Jekyll & Hyde, Milligan’s X-Men: Golgotha, and Savage Sword of Conan v. 1. I also found this booth selling all their TPBs five for a 25 bucks, so I went in with a couple buddies and came out with Red Rocket 7 (the original Dark Horse printing, which is album-sized unlike the recent Image reprinting), Fantastic Four: Disassembled (the last Waid FF book I never owned), and Messiah Complex (five bucks is close to the max I’d pay for that). I easily could have spent twice as much money, but I had to restrain myself. One of my buddies somehow found an awesome-condition Absolute Sandman v.2 in the half-off bin; he bought that, for sure.
I also bought a few handful of issues I’ve been searching for. I picked up four issues of Priest’s Black Panther run, so now the only one I’m missing is the Deadpool crossover issue. I found the last two issues I needed of the original Nexus ongoing series as well as the final missing issue I needed for Jon Sable Freelance. I also got a copy of Untold Tales of Spider-Man '96, which is one of my absolute favorite single issues ever, and one of my favorite Spider-Man stories ever. I found all of these in a place selling back issues for two bucks. (It’s against my principles to pay more than cover price for back issues.)
On the way home, I found an old bearded guy dressed as Sakura. I lured him into a darkened alleyway and murdered him with a rock.
That’s good that you got to buy so much stuff even though you were there for a little while. This year I didn’t buy too much. The NY con was way too early in the year for me so not much money to spend. I did get a Swamp Thing comic by Alan Moore for free from DC so that was cool. I think I’ve read maybe 2 Swamp Thing comics in my entire life prior.
Cool. Which Swamp Thing comic did they give you? The Anatomy Lesson?
Yeah Anatomy Lesson! That was a great story.