how big is philadelphia comic con in terms of walking around, is it the same size at NY comic con?
how big is philadelphia comic con in terms of walking around, is it the same size at NY comic con?
The wait is over! Badges for Comic-Con International 2013 will go on sale February 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (PT).
Good lord, NY ComicCon tix went on sale today and for the first time a blatant line outside Midtown comics, from 7am, and store didnt open to 11am. Surprise, no more 3day passes. I remember last year and year before, getting them weeks after they went on sale without difficulty.
I blame Walking Dead and True Blood for this crap.
And anime, video games, and everything else non-comic.
New York Comic Con’s about 24 hours away! Check back here tomorroe for info on everything I see and do like every year. Going to two Hatsune Miku panels so I apologize in advance lol!
As usual my wrap up for NYCC. Here we go!
DAY 1
Very first thing I saw when I entered the con was the Capcom booth hooray! Got to play the new Strider. Plays like the old version but man Strider’s weak in the demo. A few hits and he’s dead. What is this, MvC2 Strider who suffered from full body testical syndrome? ROFL they either need to tweak that or I need to get better. The later is more likely. ^_^;
Also got to play the demo for the new Phoenix Wright game. Same as the ones before but the graphics have definitely kicked up a notch. You can download the demo on the 3DS right now and try it out!
From Funimation I picked up the Sakura Wars movie on Blu-Ray. Only 25, NO TAX! I have never seen the Sakura Wars anime before or played the game, just trying to get down because they are chilling with Capcom characters in Project x Zone. Pretty much the same reason I’m watching the Valkyria Chronicles anime. Crackle.com has it FOR FREE and with subs. ANNOYING CAPCOM FANBOY PRO TIP! Lol!
Shifty Look was there and on an Ipad I got to play the IOS Bravoman game. It’s based on the comic strip up at shiftylook.com and retains the same breaking the fourth wall comedy. It was pretty cool. Didn’t dig how they character moved forward on his own while you controlled jump and attack but hey it’s an IOS game. So not bad considering.
From Archie picked up the con exclusive World’s Collide part one issue with Mega Man’s helmet (like his Mega Man 2 ending) next to Sonic’s shoes for 5. Nice!
Bought an unofficial saphire Sonic Chaos Emerald for no reason at all, it was just pretty. Arg cons always eating my money ha ha!
I saw Sgt. Slaughter on the main floor! Huge crowd around him. Never did get to ask him how he unscrewed that screw with his fingernail in the cartoon. Maybe next time… 
Up in the Mega Man and Sonic comic book panel!
THEY ANNOUNCED A MEGA MAN X COMIC WOOT WOOT! There will be two back up stories in Mega Man’s comic by Spaz before it becomes a series. We got to see an image of MMX Zero too!
Ian Flynn talked about the Ra Moon storyline, how it’s based on a Japanese only PS1 game that had a few anime cut scenes. The game was a bit darker than most Mega Man games so the comic follows suit.
We saw a variant cover with classic Mega Man vs. Bad Box Art Mega Man ha ha! The WiiU Smash Bros. Mega Man vs. Street Fighter x Tekken Mega Man go at it kinda sorta not really, it’s just a variant cover ROFL!
When asked about a sequel to Worlds Collide Flynn said he already has the story worked out. He’s just waiting for Sega and Capcom to ask him to do another.
A fan asked if Mega Man X would continue the Mega Man series or if it will be an alternate reality. Flynn confirmed that it will be the future of the classic series just like the games and that will be abundantly clear. He was also asked about other Mega Man series like the Zero series, ZX, Legends and even Mighty No. 9! Flynn just said to support the MMX series if you wanted comics fir the other franchises. Most of which he mentioned by name except for Mighty No. 9 which was ignored obviously lol!
When asked if there was potential for Mega Man and Mega Man X meeting he said it was possible and he’s thought about the scenario way down the line.
And just like every year Archie gave us a FREE large bag of comics just for attending their panel! 
That wraps up my first day at the con. Check back tomorrow for day 2!
DAY 2
Swung by Artist Alley today to meet some of the artists of course! Fist bumped Zub of Skullkickers and Udon fame. Also said what’s up to the artist of and SRK member Tokoyama2000! Nice seeing them again!
Mark Brooks was there and picked up his art book because his UMvC3 drawing of the six new Marvel characters was in it. Cool!
I also met the artist of the Darkwing Duck comic, from Boom and told him how much I missed that comic. He said they have more stories and are waiting to see if the comic gets picked up again. Hope so! Got to thank him for all the Disney cameos he used to sneak in the backgrounds. My favorite was when he showed Uncle Scrooge’s office in the Money Bin and we got to see Huey, Dewey and Louie as stock brokers ROFL! Sorry if I’m blanking on his name.
Saw Alvin Lee! Long line to get a sketch from him so I was cool just buying a sketch book (lots of Capcom characters in there heh) from him for now. Reminded him of the Ryu sketch I had him do for me years back where I forced him to make Ryu smile, he’s always angry in Alvin’s sketches lol! Got to show him Mark Brooks’ art book too. Alvin said Mark Brooks has improved a lot, come a long way. He was always good to me shrug… Nice to see Alvin Lee back in NYC!
Arrived to late for the Hatsune Miku panel, huge crowd waiting to get in! So hit up a DC Collectibles panel to see their upcoming DC figures and stuff. At one point a kid dressed up like the Grim Reaper / Death, skull mask and all asked about them making more Lantern figures. They said they are working on it and asked the kid not to kill them just yet. The kid said “Okay I’ll give you more time!” LMAO! They gave him a Superman cape for his question.
At the Sunrise panel I got to see several anime trailers, including one for the Tiger & Bunny anime movie that dropped October 1st in the US, Tiger & Bunny The Beginning. Ha thought it was a recap movie of the first few eps of the anime. Didn’t realize there was a new villain in the story. An alternate reality movie looks like. Will remember to check it out whenever I finish watching season 2. So much anime so little time…
There’s going to be a new Tiger & Bunny movie called ‘The Rising’ in Japan that takes place after the TV series! In Japan it’s coming out in February 2014. A bit later for us. Yay more time for me to catch up! Anyway in the trailer we saw all of the Super-Heroes beat up by a new villain, the city was destroyed and Tiger & Bunny looked like they were about to fight each other. Tiger & Bunny Civil War? DUN DUN DUUUUN!
Of course the whole reason to attend a Sunrise panel is, GUNDAM! They ran through the history of Gundam with a short vid showing clips of all of the various Gundam anime. Surprised that Mobile Fighter G got the applause it did! Lots of love for Wing as expected but no one was cheering for Char except me! Ah hell naw everyone else attending this panel sucks! CHAR >>> EVERYBODY IN GUNDAM! M’KAY?
So moving along… They mentioned Gundam Unicorn episode 7 is coming next year, but they only had a trailer for episode 6 that’s already out because Japan is still working on episode 7. They teased that episode 7 will feature a bunch of new Gundams, some that will be surprising!
Gundam Seed Destiny is getting an HD upgrade re-release. Not a Gundam Seed fan personally. No Char boooo! At least Gundam Unicorn has Full Frontal. Screw the books that IS Char not a clone! Amuro’s dead though. SCREW AMURO!
They mentioned the new Gundam series that started airing in Japan this week and you can catch it on the Gundam website too with subs since it’s a simulcast, Gundam Build Maker. It’s a show about people making Gundam toy models and making them fight each other like Pokemon. Um, okay… I’ll be catching up on Tiger & Bunny no thanks!
Finally they mentioned that Gundam’s creator Tomino is working on a new Gundam project next year for the 35th anniversary of the franchise! They didn’t mention what the project is though.
Got into the Zelda panel with Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma!
Eiji Aonuma said that since he’s been constantly working on Zelda games this is the first time he’s gotten to interact with fans! Hey New York got a first hooray!
We saw a video featuring fan art submissions for the HD Wind Waker’s release. We only saw a little bit of the video since it’s pretty long. The entire video is up on Nintendo’s website. Some of the drawings are really nice!
We saw a lot of gameplay footage for Zelda A Link Between Worlds. Since it’s a direct sequel to A Link To The Past for the Super Nintendo, Aonuma asked if anyone played that game. Of course everyone raised their hands, myself included!
We saw gameplay footage and a trailer. Basically Link becomes a drawing on the wall and travels to another world opposite of Hyrule called Lorule. You can also travel along walls with this ability. A funny part of the gameplay vid was Link went from Lorule to Hyrule and emerged out of an overweight woman’s dressing closet! The woman, dubbed ‘Stylish Woman’ was surprised to see him since she didn’t let him in her house! Still she said he could visit her anytime, blew him a kiss which turned into an extra heart retainer increasing his life force. Being a pervert pays off apparently lol!
A fan who’s favorite game is Majora’s Mask asked if there are any plans to create a follow up to that game. Aonuma said to play A Link Between Worlds to find out. Whoa does this game have any connection to Majora? But… Majora’s Mask happens in the Zelda Child Timeline and Link Between Worlds happens in the Hero of Decline Timeline. How can they be connected? UGH just when they reveal the three Zelda Timelines we get another curve ball DOUBLE UGH… Ah well part of the fun figuring out how it all works out!
At the Avengers panel! AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
So that online Mindbubble teaser image was for an upcoming Captain America story. Doctor Mindbubble is a villain and a product of the Weapon Minus Program. Um…uh… hmm… x_X
Spider-Woman is joining Secret Avengers.
There’s going to be another Avengers book by Hickman called Avengers World.
Black Widow’s getting her own series.
Hickman confirmed that Doctor Doom will show up in New Avengers. YES! Hickman’s Doom is awesome!
A fan asked if the current government shutdown in America would have any effect on SHIELD and the Avengers ROFL! Hickman said before he left the Ultimates line he wanted to do a story where President Captain America locked the two opposing members of Congress in a room, beat the crap out of them and guess what? A deal was struck! OMG wish that happened in real life ha ha!
A Capcom fan asked if they could incorporate Capcom characters in their book would they, particularly mentioning Ryu with Spider-Man. No the fan was not me HA HA! Brevoort said he never really thought about it but it could be fun. One of the artists on the panel said he drew a Street Fighter / Batman mash up when he was a kid and he’ll scan it one day. Lol oh well, at least Shuma-Gorath is running around in Mighty Avengers currently heh heh!
Was at the Ranma 1/2 panel and both the manga and the anime are getting re-released! The manga will be presented unflopped and the quality will match the original manga more, you’ll see more variations of gray lost in the original translation. In Japan they recently released the anime on Blu-Ray touched up and upgraded to HD. Looks great and it’s coming here with the original dub or subs option! Both should reach us in the Spring!
I told the panel about how when I was a kid I collected Ranma 1/2 as a comic book but since I couldn’t wait to see what would happen I would go to a Japanese bookstore and buy the original manga even though I couldn’t read it. The crowd got a good laugh lol! Anyway, the Japanese volumes all had Ranma’s head on the spines and each one had a different hair color. It looked really cute when you lined the books up! I asked if the re-release would have those Ranma heads too and they said no, they are going for a more stylized look. Aw man! Oh well still good to read Ranma again!
About to be among the first to see the third Evangelion movie, 3.33 dubbed woot woot! Doubt I’ll have much to say except for how awesome it is so I’ll stop now. Be back tomorrow for Day 3!
DAY 3
At the IDW panel word!
The legendary Darwyn Cooke talked about his upcoming Parker work. Besides another graphic novel they will also release the first 6 Parker prose books accompanied with Cooke’s illustrations as well!
IDW will also start releasing the Peanuts comic strip but not in chronological order since they have their pick of all 7,000 plus strips.
Through a deal with DC they will release Jack Kirby’s New Gods, Artist Edition series! You can see reproductions of the original pencils and inks of the series in black and white!
Dave Gibbons appeared in a video to announce an IDW Artist Edition series of Watchmen too! Alan Moore also appeared on the video and said get it! Ha I KEED I KEED!
Jim Steranko showed up too WHOA! IDW’s also publishing an Artist Edition of his Nick Fury Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D. book! Along with his Nick Fury and Captain America stories! IDW’S DOING IT BIG!
Steranko told a long and funny story about how he’s been pitching stories to Marvel and DC for the last few years that break the six panel format. They’ve been rejecting his ideas for years but IDW’s going to do it and that’s why he attended the panel! IDW’S BREAKING NEW GROUND YUP YUP!
At the Marvel video game panel they announced a Doctor Strange upgrade for Marvel Pinball. SHUMA-GORATH IS IN THE BACKGROUND! Marvel video games’ Chris Baker asked if there were any Marvel vs. Capcom fans in the audience. After the loud applause he confirmed that Shuma-Gorath is in the game solely due to his popularity in the Capcom games! Comes out later this year. SUPPORT SHUMA! ~_^
A fan asked about a Marvel vs. DC fighting game. Marvel’s TQ Jefferson said create online petitions, make your voices heard but no plans at this time. Come on people, the battle of the century has to happen! Shuma-Gorath vs. Starro OH SNAP! Who’s with me? cricket noise cricket noise cricket noise
At the Once Upon a Time / Once Upon a Time in Wonderland panel we got a surprise guest. Jennifer Morrison, The woman who plays Emma Swan! Really cool!
The moderator asked about a deer that was on the show last week, if it was Bambi. The writers said that it was a deer that just walked on the set and they left it in the shot. There’s no way they can afford to set up having a real trained deer show up, so sure that’s Bambi! Jennifer said that once they received a warning that a bear was sited in the area so they should be careful. So we almost had Baloo too lol!
We found out that Ariel is coming to Once Upon a Time soon. Oh and a fan asked if the hammer spotted in Rumpelstilskin’s closet in a clip we saw of the next episode was Thor’s hammer. One of the writers said sure why not, but don’t tell Marvel! The moderator of the panel said that if you zoom in on the hammer it says “Watch Marvel Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D. on Tuesdays!” ROFL!
Went to the Star Wars Rebels panel. They are still working on the show so we didn’t see a lot aside from design work. We were the first to see the main villain hired by Darth Vader to chase down the rebels, The Inquisitor! He looks like Darth Maul only his flesh is white like a ghost with red markings. He weilds a double red llight saber. Man whatever Hayato from Star Gladiator can kick his ass! Lol seriously I’m a big Greg Weisman fan so looking forward to the show!
Got locked out of the second Hatsune Miku, still way too crowded! They gave us FREE Hatsune Miku stickers for trying though!
Wrapping the day up with watching the premiere of the English dub of the third Berserk anime movie! Back tomorrow for the last day!
DAY 4
Hit the main floor one more time to play the new Strider. Got a lot further than I did the last time. Once I got the slide upgrade I started doing a lot better. Very Metroidvania-y so didn’t know where I was supposed to go before I died but at least I’m improving heh! Can’t wait for the game to come out next year!
At the Anthony Daniels panel. C-3PO! He did a really funny bit where he got two female cosplayers dressed as sexy R2D2 and C-3PO to play out the scene from Star Wars where the two droids are walking through the desert. He got other people to create sound effects and my friend Jose played the dragon skeleton in the background ROFL! The video should be up on Twitch TV after a while.
Anthony Daniels was asked about being the only actor to be in all 6 Star Wars movies. He said yes he’s been in all 7. OOPS! Lol possibly a slip up but I don’t think anyone believes that he won’t be in the next Star Wars film anyway.
Attended the 30th anniversary Voltron panel and they announced that they are working with Dreamworks for a reboot of the franchise, possibly a CGI film. They talked a little bit about the upcoming crossover comic with Robotech. Roy Fokker is in it! Wait isn’t he dead? Man I dunno but it’s taking place during the Macross era it seems. First issue drops on 12/25/13. Christmas day so there might be a skip day or a skip week for comics so keep an eye out.
Closing things out by hitting up the Spider-Man panel!
Online teaser for ‘The End’ turned out to be for the upcoming Spider-Man storyline ‘Goblin Nation.’ Slott said anyone can die, doesn’t matter if Ditko, John Romita Sr. or whoever created them no one is safe ALL BETS ARE OFF!
…Um, Slott how about killing Aunt May, PLEASE?
Captain Marvel is not getting cancelled, just getting relaunched. Same writer, but Carol will be in space after Infinity in the New arc.
Elektra is getting her own series by Zeb Wells! Coming March 2014.
More Punisher is getting a new series. He’ll be in LA. Coming February 2014.
New Warriors will also return! Scarlet Spider will be on the team so that’s what he’s up to after his cancelled book. Speedball and Sam Alexander Nova are members too.Yost is writing. February 2014.
Dan Slott is going to write Silver Surfer with Mike Allred!
A fan asked about bringing Ben Reilly back to life and the response was no.
A Gwen Stacy cosplayer asked the panel about who their favorite Spider-Man girlfriend was. Slott trolled and mentioned Ock’s current love interest. One person said Gwen and everyone else said MJ. HOORAY US MJ FANS WIN NEW YORK COMIC CON!
And that’s all I wrote. Had an amazing time! Pictures coming soon!
My pictures are up!
I seriously need to go to NYCC lol.
I did get the East of West HC from my buddy and my Esad Ribic commission too.
My sketches from Long Beach Comic Con
got this done by Jimmy Palmiotti. Amanda Conner was there but she doesn’t do sketches at conventions.
Jimmy did this as well. On my Garth Ennish Punisher omnibus both sketches were unexpected. Great guy.
Got this Cyber Akuma done by Jeffrey “CHAMBA” Cruz. Love his work on Street Fighter II Turbo. I would have wanted to get a full body but didn’t have enough funds. Hopefully I get to see him at San Diego next year.
Dr. Doom by Scott Koblish. If you give him enough time he does some great work his quick sketches are just awful lol
X-23 by Peter Nguyen. Hooked me up with color looking to get another one from him in the future.
I got this Batman pony done by Tony Fleecs for 4 bucks.
Finally, got Ghost Rider from Marc Silvestri. I had to wait 3-4 hours for him because I was suppose to get one from him a couple of weeks ago but since there wasn’t time at the previous con my commission was moved to this con instead. I was the last one to get a sketch from him today since he was only there today. The con ended at 7pm PST and he was doing 2-3 after the con ended. He somewhat rushed it because one of the ushers were trying to get people out of the convention. I’m glad I got the sketch would have been upset if they cut me off. If he ever does an appearance in your area I highly suggest you get one from him. Classiest guy ever.
edit: Sorry for the large images lol
Nice. That Cyber Akuma is amazing!
got my badges for San Diego (all 4 days plus preview night) and Wondercon (all 3 days) can’t wait!
Looks like we are getting a mini comic book convention in NY at Javitz, Special Edition NYC on June 14 and 15. I’ll definitely be there and take pictures!
I want to go to that con since it has a nice artist alley!
DAY 1 AT SPECIAL EDITION NY COMIC CON!
This is a much smaller show which is really great because you get to meet a lot of people in the field and get any book you want signed. Still lots of people but not the huge crowd you get at NYCC. You can also get into any panel you want, no one is getting locked out since the crowd isn’t as insane.
A big plus for attending is if you go you get to buy New York Comic Con tickets at the show early and at a discount. Got my 4 day tickets for October so definitely ready!
Talked to Peter David my favorite writer like I do every year! I asked him about his health since he had a stroke last year. He’s doing okay. He was selling prose books so I wanted to buy one to support. He noticed my Devil May Cry ‘Devil Hunter’ T-shirt and suggested I buy a vampire one. The title escapes me but I read the first chapter and enjoyed it. Got it signed too!
Oh snap PAD noticed my Devil May Cry shirt and now he’s gonna research it and BAM bust out a Devil May Cry comic book yup yup! Awww shut up I CAN DREAM CAN’T I?
Lol well looking forward to him writing Spider-Man 2099 again!
Speaking of Capcom (when am I not speaking of Capcom ROFL) I picked up the exclusive Mega Man / Mega Man X con variant for the last issue and got it signed by the artist!
I asked someone there about Phoenix Wright’s ‘maybe’ appearance two issues ago. The Archie rep said he didn’t know what I was talking about they are not allowed to use Phoenix Wright HA HA! He told me they sent those pages to Capcom-unity early on and they got a good laugh at it.
For those that don’t read the comic, a guy that looked an awful lot like Phoenix Wright cleared Doctor Wily of all crimes in front of a judge that look a lot like the judge from the Phoenix Wright games. I still have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, I don’t want Phoenix to ever lose a case but DAMN it’s freaking Doctor Wily! Lol it was cool though since I always have crossover stuff on my brains before I turned the page I was thinking, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if Phoenix Wright was at the trial?” And then BAM instant wish gratification. Noice!
Only attended two panels. One that shone a spotlight on Mike Allred, Doop’s daddy! Aside from comic book stuff his wife Laura Allred was there and they told the story of how they met. Really sweet. A few grandkids later and like that old couple on In Living Color THEY STIIIIILL TOGETHER!
Finished up with a Marvel panel discussing their upcoming stuff. As you may know, Angela who hails from Spawn’s comic and is in the Marvel universe now is going to be revealed to be Thor and Loki’s long lost sister. So a female Angela fan asked if they were erasing her Spawn history. Brevoort said that they can’t really talk about stuff that starts with an ‘S’, but all of that stuff still happened.
Um, I’m not sure how? Last I heard of Angela in Spawn, she went crazy after Violator (playable in a Capcom game BTW yup yup) removed her wings and is having a delusion about living in a world with made up heroes. Wow… Love Todd McFarlane for everything he’s done for Spider-Man but he is quite a jerk sometimes.
Well, it is kind of funny to imagine 616 existing in Angela’s head. I guess that makes Brevoort right. WHOA MIND BLOWN AT A SPECIAL EDITION COMIC CON WHOAS!!!
ROFL! Day 2 wrap up either later today or tomorrow.
DAY 2 AT SPECIAL EDITION NY COMIC CON!
Attended a panel that discussed forgotten characters from the golden age of comics. My favorite was a guy named Micro-Face! No, he couldn’t shrink his face. He just had a microphone in his mask! MARVEL PLEASE BUY THIS CHARACTER HE HAS TO IN MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 4!!! Lol!
Attended Batman’s 75th Birthday panel. Happy Birthday Batman!
Went to Marvel’s 75th Anniversary panel where the special guests were Chris Claremont and Peter David, ARCHITECTS OF MY CHILDHOOD YOS! My favorite moment was when Peter David said he went to see X-Men Days of Future Past in theaters with his wife. As you may know, Chris Claremont and Len Wein are in the movie as members of the senate grilling Trask. So when PAD and his wife saw Chris and Len they laughed, but at that moment the camera went to Peter Dinklage and people thought they were laughing at a dwarf playing Trask! AWKWARD HA HA!
Finally, attended the Mega Man / Sonic panel. For the current Mega Man / Mega Man X crossover there is an upcoming cover of Xander Payne falling through what looks like a time warp of sorts. They revealed that this event will change Mega Man’s world FOREVER! What can that possibly mean? Obviously when Mega Man chases Xander this is how Mega Man goes to Smash Bros. Land and beats the crap out of Mario, Pac-Man and Sonic what else?
That’s about it. Had a great time and ran into a lot of old friends. No crowds which was great. I only took a handful of pictures but I’ll toss up what I have soon!
nice write up.
Saw the artist alley on there jealous of that lineup lol