Hey Sano or orochizoolander,
what games did they have on display/for play? I read Namco,Konami, and Square are all there. If you didn’t check, please do so.
Hook it up with that MGS4 demo they be giving out 
it’s not sold out, according to the site. so saturday/sunday are open. Saturday is when they’re having panels for some of the major summer movies. means free promo shirts probably.
And here we go…
DAY 1
The show started at 3:00 and the Marvel panel started at 4:30 so I only spent an hour and a half on the main floor, didn’t see everything today. During the time I was on the main floor I picked up a CD a guy was selling since he offered a plastic cup full of BEEEEEEEEEEEEER with every purchase. :party: I found a Wizard Exclusive Sota figure of Dan Hibiki for 18 bucks! :tup: Picked up Spawn #9 for only four dollars. That issue was written by Niel Gaiman and was not reprinted in the Spawn TPB edition due to legal woes. Met up with Orochizoolander and it was off to the Marvel panel.
Konami I did see but only saw Metal Gear Online available for play. Of course I just breezed by it at the time. Former SRK member Dragon the Bomb told me that the Raiden figure was there and there were lots of them available still, so I’ll try to pick that up tomorrow or ask someone to get it for me.
The Marvel Mondo panel and Marvel’s Secret Invasion panel were back to back so it was 2 hours with the House of Ideas! Lots of things were mentioned by my memory’s a bit fuzzy, the biggest anouncement I can recall is Mark Waid on Spider-Man. Don’t know if this will be Amazing Spider-Man but it’s in the cards that Waid will work on Spider-Man.
BTW the Marvel BOy rumors of this con declaring that they are overturning BND so Spidey can be married again and Joe Quesada getting fired turned out to be false lol! Someone even asked Marvel about Marvel BOy, if they were behind this ‘scam’ and Marvel said no.
I asked Dan Slott and Joe Quesada in a pretty long, sighting issue numbers very nerdy way that will either make you proud of me or ashamed - 
- about why they didn’t just marry the notions of Spidey’s Identity going under wraps in Avengers Initiative #7 with Mephisto making everyone forget his identity. I understand of course that his identity had to be dealt with in his own book but if they would of played with this angle they could of eliminated the whole “Mephisto altered the internet, Youtube vids and newspapers of Spider-Man unmasking” (which is personally one of the hardest things I have trouble wrapping my head around). Slott said that for anyone who has not read Avengers Initiative #7 that they should go out and do so because it will play very heavily in the future of Spider-Man. JQ said that it had to be dealt with in Spidey’s own book and no matter how they got Spider-Man and Mary Jane where they wanted them to be people were going to be upset. He also assured that 20 years of continuity had not been erased and that it was possible that six months had past since Spidey’s deal with Mephisto to when he awoke in Aunt May’s house, we just haven’t seen how it all fits together. Yeah, pretty much what you can read on his blog, lol no JQ hate or anything.
The second question I asked JQ was about Steet Fighter being back in the limelight with 4 coming out, if SF blows up again could we finally see some X-Men vs. SF comics or a Marvel vs. Capcom comic. JQ said something along the lines of “There are no plans at this time. Not that there won’t be in the future but there are no plans at this time.” Hey I tried… 
Orochizoolander asked Marvel about symbiotes, Marvel told him to keep an eye out for Ultimate Spider-Man. One of the writers there (I forget which) said to look out for “Spider-Man Web of Shadows” for the PS3 and 360 since he wrote it. I saw some of the trailer for that game on the main floor and it looks pretty cool, like symbiotes have taken over New York. Oh and Orochizoolander did shout out Shoryuken.com and the Church of Bru to the Marvel panel, those who can please rep this man! 
JQ was asked about Iron Man the movie and he said he has seen it 4 times and the movie’s gonna knock our socks off. He said the romance between Tony Stark and Pepper Pots was the best comic book movie romance ever. He also said that Robert Downey Jr. is amazing even before he puts on the suit, and of course he is more amazing once he becomes Iron Man. He said obviously that he could be acused of just tooting his own horn but that we will all love the movie, to trust him and stuff.
The funniest moment was when someone asked when was Aunt May going to be aware that she had sex with a Skrull, AKA Jarvis/Jarviskrull. Dan Slott said in a creepy voice, “Not until the pregnancy.”
Ran into Kourin-chan during the Marvel panel and got to say Happy Birthday in person! :party: Hey do you know it was also Dragon The Bomb’s birthday too? Crazy… :looney: Now on to the DC panel.
Didio flashed a note that had a bunch of scribbles on it of what was going to happen in the DCU. It was on screen for EXACTLY 15 seconds and then it vanished. I can only make out “I Am Batman.” Much later, upon leaving the show DC gave us these buttons of NIGHTWING that said “I AM BATMAN.” Excuse me while I breakdance! :woot:
With Countdown wrapping up, DC said that the Zero issue that comes after Countdown will only cost 50 cents. This is to give thanks to all the people that have supported 52/Countdown for the last 2 years. They previewed a bit of the Zero issue in all of the Guides we got at the con so we got treated to the first few pages.
When asked if Batman is going to die in Batman RIP, the panel had a bunch of answers from “Yes” to “No” to “Twice” and one guy wrapped it up by saying “OH COME ON THERE’S A BATMAN MOVIE COMING OUT!”
When asked if the Batman of Trinity (DC’s third weekly) will be Bruce Wayne and where does it fit, DC answered that it will be Bruce Wayne and that story will take place before Final Crisis and Batman RIP(bear in mind this is all before we got our Nightwing ‘I Am Batman’ pins).
Tomasi got two reactions from people in the crowd thanking him for making Nightwing not suck any more. :woot:
Someone asked Geof Johns when are Beast Boy and Raven going to hook up again and when is he going back to the Titans. Didio said something like, “You know he’s sitting right next to McKeever, the guy who took over the book right?” getting a few laughs. The person who asked the question said he was only referring to the older Titans written by Judd Winnick now. Geof Johns went on to say that he really loved Sean Mckeever’s work on Teen Titans. Didio said that they weren’t talking about that, what did he think of Judd Winnick on Titans. Geof Johns just repeated that he really loved Sean Mckeever’s work on Teen Titans.
Went to the X-Files 2 panel with Chris Carter where they showed a quicky trailer for the movie. When asked about continuing X-Files as a comic, they announced that DC/Wildstorm was about to put out an X-Files comic. They accidentally made the anouncement a day before DC/Wildstorm did. Hmm, I wonder if this will be a X-Files Season 10 comic like Buffy/Angel/Star Trek are all doing. Man I still want my Arrested Development, Married… With Children, Beans Baxter and The Black Donnellys comics, someone get on that. :looney:
Texted Apathy-Inc and I just missed him, didn’t even think of ringing up Bunnyhead, just not enough time today. Hopefully we can meet up tomorrow. Had lots of fun but now I’m off to bed early so I can rest up for the next big day. 
zoolander you have to tell us what you said to marvel about the church of bru. sano did they show any preview art for the new deadpool series?
Just one image of the Deadpool series where they mentioned Way and the rest of the creative team. Lots of people were happy, plenty of Deadpool fans there.
out of curiosity, did you find any blank issues?
No but I’ll be on the main floor more tomorrow and Sunday so I’ll see if I can spot a blank SI #1.
either that one or blank cap issue they had. fallen son
To add to sano’s day1 blog:
95% Of the questions asked at the marvel panel were so retarded I felt like throwing the chair I was sitting on at them for wasting my time and making me listen to their stupidity. “When are you going to write about the second cw” “When are you going to do a big event on man-thing” and “why do you rock so hard” are just a few examples of the questions asked.
Picked up ultimate spidey #1 for $12, road to onslaught direct edition for $8, and thunderbolts hc for $12:woot:
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When I told the panel how much I liked maximum carnage and planet of the symbiotes I asked if they had anything planned for toxic or venom and someone said "watch out for ultimate spiderman 123-128:woot:
They also said a lot of the aftershocks from cw and wwh will be felt in invasion.
The dc panel hyped the hell out of the new wonder woman arc they’re working on saying “we promise you’ll love it”.
Final crisis was the main topic of discussion and beign the huge fan of the entire crisis arc that I am I asked “what the hell is final crisis?”…each member of the pane said insert well known dc hero will kill/be killed…I’m so hyped!!!
On the dc timeboard someone saw the words “superman red or blue?” I wonder what this means.
When I saw this on the mainfloor i knew I just had to show it to srk: http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1002612wf3.flv
Yes that is a wheel of gaia:wasted:
but you left out the most important detail. what did you say about the church of bru?
LOL nothing really I just demanded for everyone in the marvel panel to tell bru about the church’s existence next time any of them sees him, because I know he’d appreciate it.
I told Brubaker about us when he came to the Isotope last year. He laughed and then got mobbed a throng of hot chicks. That was an awesome night. Probably just another Tuesday for him.
updates on day two sano. did you go to any panels? did you see the hulk trailer? did you throw a pie at joe q?
Yeah I went to a bunch of panels. The one for the Hulk trailer was BEYOND CROWDED so I didn’t bother with that one, course when it was on I had already attended like 3 panels straight so I was all paneled out at the time.
I heard that during the trailer for “The Spirit” I think the movie is called they snuck a brand new Batman 2 Trailer on people! Darn it, would of loved to of cought that. Ah well can’t be everywhere at once…
The rest of Day 2 stuff coming up. EXCELLENT DAY!
Heard IM appears is in the Hulk trailer. The trailer is number 3 actually 
waiting…
DAY 2
I was able to find the Exclusive Raiden figure so no worries there!
Pained Auron - Ah, the blank Secret Invasion issue. At first I couldn’t find it but I located the blank Fallen Son issue. I left that with Apathy-Inc - who BTW is a really cool guy in person, and also a great artist too - who left it with his friend Marvel artist David Nakayama so he could sketch Deadpool on it. I left him with some Deadpool reference too. And wouldn’t you know it! The second I did that I saw the blank Secret Invasion #1 issue a little while after! So I returned much later in the day and David Nakayama still hadn’t done the Deadpool sketch yet, so I was able to buy the blank Secret Invasion issue and swap it out with the Fallen Son issue. Yeah don’t worry about it, I will get a Shuma-Gorath sketch on the blank Fallen Son issue eventually for myself, but I will have to get all of my Shuma-Gorath reference ready so that will be for my next con. :looney: Left the book with David and I should pick it up tomorrow morning and your Deadpool sketch should be on it’s way. Once again, an extra special thanks to Apathy-Inc for helping me out with this whole ordeal. Yeah, my quest for this blank Secret Invasion #1 issue is a heck of a lot longer than I’m typing out, just ask me another time for the full story because I don’t want to bore everyone else with this one at the moment.
I was on the main floor for a much longer period. Yeah I asked Konami and they said they were not handing out any MGS4 demos, at all, sorry! Yeah Konami was rocking the Online MGS game, a Hellboy game, one of their dancing games and the Track & Field remake for the Nintendo DS that has character designs by Omar Dogan of Studio Udon! Wasn’t able to play Track & Field because it was swamped so I’ll try to get my hands on that tomorrow.
Squeenix didn’t have any games from what I saw, just toys. And I really didn’t see Namco/Bandai. Namco/Bandai comes to the NY Digital Life show every year, any questions ask me to relay it to them then when that rolls around. Not sure if they are at NYCC this year but they are a heck of a lot more visible at Digital Life.
Stuff I got - I left my list at home of comics I was searching for but I found a lot just going by memory. I picked up Blackheart’s origin and a bunch of comics with Blackheart! I also got Web of Spider-Man #100 which features the Spider-Armor he has in MSH vs. SF. Yeah, lots of my back issue purchases are related to Capcom’s Marvel games somehow. I got a pretty cool Naruto poster from Bleedman who did the online Powerpuff Girls doujinshi, pretty wicked! They were also selling Spawn #1 in 3D with glasses and I just love gimmicks!
I saw Cebulski and I got Compass #1 signed by himself and the Japanese artist behind it whose name escapes me right now. Hey Cebulski speaks Japanese! Course that makes sense since he did translate Spider-Man The Manga lol! Told him once again (I say this whenever I see him) how I love the Marvel Fairy Tales comics and he said after Avengers Fairy Tales that Fantastic Four was next, YIPPEE!
As an aside today I wore a shirt that had lots of Spider-Man covers on it (yesterday I wore a Nightwing T-Shirt, man am I predictable ha ha) and everyone really liked it. My running joke whenever I was complimented on the shirt was “Some of these stories are still in continuity!” Hey some of the issues on the shirt did take place before the marriage, so yeah…
I MET DAVID MICHELINIE! Man I totally geeked out. I told him how when I was a kid Amazing Spider-Man #300 had such a grand effect on me, so much so that I stopped buying Spider-Man for a while becauset the time I felt they would never top that issue (hey man I was like 12 LOL)! David game me the “Oh no that’s not good” face and I assured him that I did go back to pick up 301 - 311 eventually lol! He complimented me on my Spidey shirt saying that I’m obviously a big Spider-Man fan and I said yeah even though I’m not such a big fan of what Marvel is doing with the character now. He assured me, “There’s always back issues!”
First panel I attended was a DC one and Morrison was present. Morrison is a freaking RIOT! He was asked if Nightwing was going to show up in Batman and he said that Nightwing was going to be in the next issue. And then he said “There’s going to be a lot of Dick in Batman.”
DC gave me another pin, this time with some blue-skin / blue suited guy I’ve never seen before, it looked almost like a Blue Lantern??? The pin said “I AM BATMAN” just like the Nightwing one I got yesterday. I asked the guy who gave me the pin who it was and they responded “Batman.” Okay now I don’t know what’s going on and I’m just being toyed with here but now I don’t know if Nightwing’s gonna take over the Batman role or not, who knows… :wonder:
This was brought up yesterday but I forgot, though it was raised once again today. Gail Simone was asked about the future of Wonder Woman. She said that scientists have discovered a way to defeat Wonder Woman and they considered the Amazons, a ‘failed experiment.’ So they came up with a new Wonder Woman to beat Wonder Woman up, only the new Wonder Woman is a man. Didio kept trying to push for the male Wonder Woman to be called Manazon, a product of the new Amazons (male Amazons = Manazons) but Gail was dead set against that name, even hating that she had to use that name as a working title for a time.
After that I attended a Robotech panel where they talked about upcoming stuff. They mentioned the Shadow Chronicles newest edition that will also contain Robotech 3000, a short lived CGI Robotech sequel made years ago but was never released for various reasons. There’s a special version of the Shadow Chronicles DVD that will come with a Hologram cover, but we all got the Hologram cover FOR FREE just for going up and asking a question. I also got myself a Robotech shirt! Yeah by the time I got to ask my question, people already took all of the toys and good stuff, D’OH! Well can’t complain. It’s a pretty cool dress shirt with the Robotech logo. :lovin: I just asked about Rand and Rook, my favorite Robotech characters coming back in a Shadow Chronicles sequel and was told that it was a possibility.
And oh yeah, Shadow Chronicles is coming to BLU-RAY BABY! :rock:
The biggest news of the Robotech panel was not only are they working on a Shadow Chronicles sequel but Warner Bros. is working on a live action movie! :wow: They mentioned how there’s huge names attached to it but they are not allowed to reveal anything. They did say that Tobey McGuire is gonna be in it! :rock: Man I LOVE the Spider-Man movies and if Tobey plays Rick Hunter and does some emo dancing I’m gonna be on cloud 9.
Next up was the full on Grant Morrison panel! OMG that guy is too freaking funny and had me laughing the entire time! He talked about his rampant drug use, man Morrison on Acid is actually the truth! :looney: Of the ton of things he said, he mentioned that one time he was high and he dressed up like a woman, and then he told us “I was HOT! I WOULD FUCK ME!” There was so much goodness during his panel, a lot of it bordered on lots of psychological themes and just outright craziness that I really wouldn’t do justice trying to repeat here. Morrison OWNS! :rock:
Ah yeah, time for the Marvel panel, Cup of Joe!
I forgot to mention yesterday but Spidey616 of Newsarama fame was at like every Marvel panel and asked JQ lots of questions man that kid’s a legend at 'Rama, got a standing ovation from crowds. :woot:
That kid at NYCC last year who asked about Venom taking over the Hulk last came back this year and asked if JQ remembered, I yelled that I remembered which got laughs and a bunch of claps ha ha! Man that little guy has some ideas lol! JQ said not at this time but it looks like he has to do the story now since the crowd was all for it.
I got up to ask my question. Respectfully I thanked JQ for making Marvel such an interesting place during his tenure. Even when things happen that we don’t like, it brings up a lot of discussion and people get passionate about it and that’s really important. Man no matter what I can never fully hate on a fellow Latino, that’s how I roll. :tup:
First thing I asked him about was the possibility of Stephen Colbert becoming the next President of the United States. Hmm, not sure if someone brought that up in his forum but yeah, Stephen Colbert is actually running for President in the Marvel Universe! JQ said it was a plot so he could get back on his show. He then mentioned what a big fan Stephen Colbert was of Civil War and lots of Marvel books. Someone else at the Marvel panel pointed out that on Stephen Colbert’s site there’s a blog of him running for President in Marvel and it’s written by Marvel. Crazy! :looney:
Next I asked JQ if we were going to see Shuma-Gorath again. JQ said “Who?”
I told him that he was an elder god, a big eye with lots of tentacles. JQ said “NO. I hate it already.”
Someone at the Marvel panel, I can’t remember who also asked Dan Slott if he had any plans for Shuma-Gorath, which just lead to more laughter from the crowd! Ack MVC2 fans, I’m trying here!
BTW Dan Slott does an awesome impression of the Thing. If you ever see him ask him to do it! He sounds like everyone who has ever played Thing in every Fantastic Four cartoon along with the movie version all rolled into one. :tup:
Someone right behind me asked about Marvel making Marvel vs. Capcom 3. JQ said that this was the second time someone asked about that (hey that was me yesterday, only I asked for a comic lol I’m famous :tup:) but he said that he has nothing to do with video games, just with publishing comics. Hey that’s two MVC type questions at the show, it’s all good now everyone keep bugging Marvel about it at cons and who knows, it can’t hurt! Next year I will wear a fake mustache and ask about a MVC comic again.
When asked about Skrulls JQ admitted that he was a Skrull. He said the real JQ would never have done OMD.
The best part was when STAN THE MAN LEE walked into the panel! Man I was SO HAPPY because I missed Stan’s panel this morning, but I will try to catch his Sunday panel. Standing ovations all around and the first thing he did was walk up to the mike and in an angry voice he said “I WANT TO KNOW WHO WAS IT THAT MADE SPIDER-MAN SINGLE AGAIN?”
He then said seriously that he thought it was a great idea. He shook JQ’s hand. Next Stan talked about JQ and said that he loved the guy, even though he had no redeemable qualities whatsoever.
Stan left after we all gave him another standing ovation, man WHERE would we be without Stan? :lovin:
JQ followed that by telling a story of how Stan Lee tends to call him up from the blue and say “This is Stan Lee.” like as if JQ doesn’t know who Stan Lee is. He also did a really good Stan Lee impersonation while saying that Stan always tells him on the phone, “I just read the last three months of Marvel comics. Joe, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?”
After that I hung out with Orochizoolander, who really came through getting food while I was waiting on line to seeing the TM Revolution concert. Man if you ever get the chance to hang out with Orochizoolander please do so, homeboy will hook you up! :tup:
HELL YEAH! That’s right TM Revolution had a concert. I didn’t pay no hundred bucks to see it, joint was FREE AT THE CON! :rock: Yeah they are J-Pop band and the lead singer looks… REALLY GIRLY but ah well they get a pass for singing a Rurouni Kenshin song. :karate:
So they busted out their Gundam Seed songs and showed clippings from the anime on the screen! They even played the song they had on the Japanese dub of the Spider-Man 2 movie, the coolest thing was when they played that song red and blue lights were on the stage. See man this was comic book related WHAT? They played a song no one’s heard of yet for a new anime called Soul Reaver, and showed us footage for that anime! Next they played their song from the Capcom 3D game Sengoku Basara (Devil Kings) and showed cut scenes from the game while they played that song! Hell yeah I always find Capcom related things at these shows, the fanboy in me was happy! :rock:
They went through all of their songs and everyone was screaming for “Heart of Sword,” the song from the Rurouni Kenshin anime that they are best known for. They sung it dead last and HELL YEAH THEY SHOWED IMAGES OF RUROUNI KENSHIN ALONG WITH SAGARA SANOSUKE, WHERE MY NET NAME COMES FROM AND HE’S THE GUY IN MY AVATAR!" Maaaang I was clapping along and sung all of the lyrics to the song along with the band man, LOVE RUROUNI KENSHIN you just don’t know. :tup::tup::tup::tup::tup:
THIS CON RULES! I really had a blast today. Most def gonna hit up the Stan Lee panel tomorrow and another one Morrison is at along with buying old books, and the party continues! :party:
lol…sano’s blog makes me smile inside.
jokes for dayyysss.
I love reading those posts as well. Lol, he didn’t know who Shuma Gorath was. Then again, I wouldn’t know too if it wasn’t for capcom.
If you happen to see joe tomorrow, as him why Hulk look like Hellboy now ;P.
Oh yeah, I e-mailed namco about Sc4 being there, and they replied back with they’ll be holding Naruto: ultimate Ninja tournaments (WTF) at NYCC. So they must be there?.. just hidden. loved how they totally advoided my question.
im just mad the fat mexican dinner isnt fired. damn u rumor machine.
good lord i swear sano’s like 15…not in a im making fun of him…but he’s just sooo damn happy.
Oh the Naruto game is there. Yeah I guess their area is smaller than it is in Digital Life which is why I forgot about it. I have at least 1 funny picture of that area, whenever I get around to uploading.