I’ve always bought permits to park at the convention center. It was 10 bucks a day but the fee was like a couple bucks. I would recommend getting that because if you were to buy or carry a lot of stuff you could always go back and forth and drop stuff off. When it comes to permits its not like buying badges in which everyone goes crazy waiting about it. They do sell quick but I think most people prefer to take the train there or walk from their hotels.
I’m worried about the hotels. The hotel I stayed at sucked. I want to crash at one of the top tier hotels but its too damn pricy.
DAAAAMN. 10 bucks, well that sucks. Will be doing that next time.
Yeah the hotel thing was a pain too, I remember trying to sign up for those when they had the deals. The thing was like trying to buy comiccon tickets all over again.
The hotel we stayed at wasn’t too bad, it was about 10 min walking distance (which didn’t even feel that long) and they gave us alot of free food. We went back there alot to drop off our stuff. Our plan was to have more people and split the fee so it would be as bad for everyone trying to get a room. We tried doing that with some people we knew but by the time we knew it, they were 8 people already in the group. We met some people at SD hat were really nice, and they host alot for their friends for a small fee so we’re looking in to doing that next time as well since they’re really close to the convention center. But hopefully we get a big enough group to get into those top tier hotels. We really don’t mind who stay with, honestly I think we were hoping we would meet people just because it would be more fun that way especially during the event.
Yeah. I would totally be down to put in for a hotel. Don’t the hotels get mad if you have a lot of people crashing in? I know the crappy hotels they don’t care but like the Hilton, Hard Rock, Marriott.
I also want to party too kinda regret not doing that for the times I’ve been going to Comic-Con.
Yeah, I feel yah man. It felt weird on those nights after comiccon ended, we felt like there was still more to be done and people to see. Thinking about cosplaying for a day, it seems like people with costumes have more fun.
Yeah, he’s actually one of the guys we tried hanging out with. He helped me the first time with getting tickets for comic con.
My cousin works for him (he’s actually one of the people that filmed the early ones), they have a site called “Critiques for Geeks”. He’s a really cool guy, I’ve met him a couple times and I had no idea he was the deadpool guy. I guess that’s why it was so hard trying to keep in contact with him that day, apparently he was busy haha.
Its going to be awesome though next year, I can feel it. This is a good start. We’ll work our way through conventions and small events to get the small withdrawals out the way. But next year man, we’ll be ready.
Damn, even when I did save it still didn’t feel like enough! Next time the plan is get exclusive items first day, lay off on and get free swag the next day, do panels when you can on the saturday, and do all the spending on sunday (with hopes that the prices go lower).
Alot can happen in a year though, so we’ll see what happens. I just need to stop spending money on all these fighting games and artbooks they got coming out and i’ll be good haha
That was my gameplan this year.
Day - Original plan : Actual outcome
Wednesday - Exclusives (Kid Robot, Capcom, Entertainment Earth, Funko ) : Got Kid Robot Homer Buddhas and Hypnotoads, no Hello Kitty Chuns, got a few Funkos, random swag, headstart on Adventure Time scavenger hunt
Thursday - Exclusives (Hasbro, Lego, etc), Adventure Time scavenger hunt : Lined up for Hasbro at 5:30 AM, return ticket for noon, got all our stuff by 1:30, Completed Adventure Time scavenger hunt, got Lego Darth Maul exclusive, random swag
Friday - Hall H all day : Hall H all day (lined up at 3:30 AM) got a pic and autograph of Joss Whedon while he walking the B20 line for Firefly.
Saturday - Adventure Time panel, other exclusives if available, get swag til 5 then over to Petco for Walking Dead Escape : Adventure Time panel (lined up at 6:00 AM), not much swag AT ALL, picked up Mattel pre orders, Walking Dead Escape at 6:00 (videos I posted earlier)
Sunday - Adventure Time museum, get swag last minute : Adventure Time museum, went up to Sails at 4:30 and got a bunch of swag bags (you can really get as many as you want - Hobbit, Man of Steel went first and I didn’t get any)
Hard to answer because every year is different. Some Sundays have a lot of big announcements and surprises, some don’t. Sunday will probably be the least important date. It’s usually people packing stuff up so they can go home early. Up to you I guess.
Last year there was the Archie / Mega Man comic panel and one final Capcom panel. Me personally I’m glad I didn’t miss either.
I don’t do photographs (except of cosplayers walking around mostly lol) or autographs at all so honestly I couldn’t tell you. I’m mainly there for panels.
I guess if you miss getting autographs from someone Thur / Fri / Sat it’s another day. The bigger sigatures will probably go down Friday and Saturday but again, every year is different and the schedule still isn’t up yet.
I forgot to write up about Comikaze. Only went on Saturday. My friends and I arrived there before 10 but the line to get the wristbands were long. I think that was the biggest complaint from the convention and the other was about parking. It was the 2nd time they had it there but the first time since Stan Lee put his name on it. After we got in looked around the various booths. We Went in line to meet Todd McFarlane but the fat security guard was like its not guaranteed but Todd started to sign before 11. While my friends waited in line, I headed over to J Scott Campbells booth to get some of my comics signed. One guy in the McFarlane line was jealous that I had the Uncanny X-Men 510 variant of Psylocke. After getting my stuff signed and a brief chat with Campbell went back to my friends. It was already 12:30 so we left the line since it was out of reach. After we stepped outside the convention to go check out the food trucks, I went back inside to get in line for Marc Silvestri. The line at first took a while since Marc was talking to the fans and the people behind his table. Once it was my turn he noticed my shirt and liked it. I wore the Curleh Mustashe shirt. I went back to the McFarlane line and a funny thing happened behind me some girl accused some guy of cutting in line but they never called me out about it for some reason even though my friend was in line for me but stepped out. By the time I got in front it was only 1 item and I had my Spider-Man 13 signed. I went to charge my phone at one of the charging stations there and saw Reynaldo there as him and a buddy were streaming Aftershock on his phone. I went to look for trades and met CHOWZ there while I looked through the long boxes. After I got my books I wanted to leave already since there was nothing left to do. Only regret I had was buying the books I bought. I really wanted to get an omnibus there but didn’t have enough and cheapgraphicnovels didn’t accept card there. Also, not taking enough pics. I did get a pic of Toni Darling, a hot Thor cosplayer <3 with a cute Black Canary and a meh Nightwing.
I bought Essential X-Men 7-8, Essential Spider-Man 4, Essential Wolverine 1, Avengers Kang: Time and Time Again, Captain America Operation Rebirth, Fantastic Four Visionaries Walt Simonson vol 1, Incredible Hulk Visionaries by Peter David vol 2 all for 40 bucks.
I wish they had more comic book artist & writers there. I didn’t get to see the Salute your Shorts or Wild and Crazy Kids panel there because of going in line to get stuff signed. Them selling the program for 10 bucks was a ripoff even though the cover was cool. It did have a preview to Iron Man by Kieron Gillen and some other comic.
I had a feeling that was you! Had to check the shirt to confirm. But yeah, you were in the zone looking for those trades! lol I did not want to distract.That’s still a pretty good deal though, I think. Even if you do regret buying them. Last year, I walked away with a How to draw the marvel way book (john buscema/stan lee), some DC amalagam trades, Mcfarlane hulk/spiderman trades, some obsecure SNK/Capcom manhwa and some other books I can’t remember all under the price of 30 bucks. I really REALLY regret not bringing anything to sign this year. Well, I could’ve looked around some more and bought stuff but I felt pretty lazy after the the long drives/lines. Its been my 2nd time seeing J.Scott Campbell from afar and I still haven’t met him. Also the third time looking for jhonen vasquez, and we still could not find the guy. Hopefully i’ll get another chance with them including mcfarlane at comicon if he shows up. I still had fun though even if I did go out empty handed this year. Saw alot more celebrities this time around than at ComicCon, so that was pretty cool.
This year was alot bigger, as expected. I just found out some of my coworkers and old highschool friends went and they’re all about two hours away from LA so its become quite a big deal.
But anyway, see you around at nuke the fridge or frank and sons sometime.
I knew for a fact that I would be the only one wearing that since everyone was probably focused into Aftershock that day. I kinda got irritated when some fat dude came started to look while I stood there waiting for someone to clear up and look for more stuff.
I think I want to get J Scott Campbell’s Marvel art book on his site and get Silvestri’s Wolverine.
The next con I know is the Long Beach one but the lineup doesn’t impress me. Haven’t been there since the first one when they had Jim Lee there.
