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Wrapping things up…
Pained Auron - I got the Deadpool sketch on the cover. David Nakayama said that he had a problem coloring it in the way he likes to do because the surface of the comic couldn’t take it, but he gave Deadpool a really cool red outline. And because he didn’t color it he even tossed in a FREE copy of his independent comic signed by him! That guy is MAD COOL. He drew Deadpool really well and even got a bit of his comedic personality in there! Give me a couple of days to rest up and what not and I’ll PM you about sending it to you and stuff. Ditto for the person asking for the Raiden toy. Yeah, currently too tired to look on the page before to look up the name of the person who asked me about the Raiden figure. 
I got a FREE Naruto figure they were handing out! It came in one of those boxes for Japanese mini models where you don’t know who’s inside until you open it. It could of been Naruto, Sasuke, Haku, Kakashi or Jiraiya but I got Naruto so screw all of those guys. Now if Shikimaru was available that would be another story. Laziness for the win! :rock: Though yeah I got Naruto going into Demon Fox mode, did I mention that I got it for FREE! Man I love that word free. :lovin:
I got a crap load of back issues I today! I found about 95% of the books I was looking for at the con! :woot: I picked up Spawn #10, the other Spawn issue that was not reprinted in the TPB because it used a lot of Marvel and DC characters without asking ROFL! Only paid 2 dollars! I got a bunch of other books too, each of them I paid about 1 to 2 dollars for. A crap load of What Ifs, like What If Wolverine fought Conan :wow:, What if Spider-Man gave into the symbiote suit on Battleworld, What If Spider-Man married Black Cat and so on. Man love What Ifs! I found a gem in Marvel Team Up, it was an issue that had Cosmic Universe Aunt May team up with young Franklin Richards. Found an Uncle Scrooge Don Rosa story that I haven’t read before too for a dollar. Good fun! :party:
Lastly were the 2 books that I paid big money for, but these were rare books. I got the What If issue that introduced Spider-Girl for the first time ever! That one went for 50. Then I got an issue of Hulk that featured the very first time he fought against the Juggernaut, #172 I believe. This story has never been reprinted in TPBs ever or in any other format and the only other way to check it out is to get the Hulk DVD-Rom that has a bunch of issues (but I have the Spidey and the X-Men ones already, I read too slow, I’m still in the 60s for both lol) or to sign up for Marvel’s Digital Comic Universe and pay ten books a month, no thanks… The man selling the comic knew how rare it was so he put three backboards in it! This one went for $75 bones and that was the highest I paid for a comic at the con. Worth it for me to see Juggy and Hulk go at it for the first time, I was a happy camper after I read that ish. :lovin:
Now for the panels!
The first one I attended was of Stan THE MAN Lee! He was pushing Election Daze. A long time ago before he got into comics, he used to publish books filled with photographs where he would right funny captions for the pictures, kind of what Mad and Cracked magazine does nowadays. So he put out another picture book where he gives the people word balloons, only it’s with current politicians. Plenty of examples but it’s hard to explain if you don’t see the pictures. In one of them is there’s a picture of Hilary Clinton where she looks bored, and above her head there’s a thought balloon that says “I bet Bill Clinton is having more fun than me.” So yeah, stuff like that.
There was a contest where they tossed up a picture of Obama holding his hands up in the air close to his head, like he had a headache or something but he was really gesturing during a speech and people had to make up a funny word balloon to put above his head. The winner was “MUST GET HILARY! OBAMA SMASH!” After that person won (you had to participate in the contest at Filsinger’s panel to be entered) they opened it up to the crowd so we could come up with things for Obama to say. There were plenty of funny ones like “G-UNIT!” “I have a headache this big!” and so on. There were even Marvel suggestions from the crowd like “Avengers Assemble!” “Obama Sense tingling!” and my favorite, “WHAT DID YOU DO TO SPIDER-MAN’S MARRIAGE?” Stan Lee said that this just goes to show you, people who read his comics are very smart people!
Another woman said that she was his neighbor back when he lived in Rhode Island many many years ago and Stan remembered her. She said that hearing his voice reminded her how much she missed being his neighbor. Stan Lee thanked her and wrote this down because it was something had to remember to tell his wife. It was very touching… Hey there’s something in my eye… Excuse me… :sad:
Someone brought up his Super Hero Reality show and Stan said that he gave it up because he hated eliminating people, he wanted everyone to be winners (which is why he didn’t vote in the picture contest either, the crowd decided by votes). Even though on that show it was the public that eliminated people by votes and so on he didn’t like telling people they lost and that’s why he gave it up, saying he’s not Donald Trump.
Stan Lee does a great J. Jonah Jameson impersonation! Sounds just like him! He said if he was a little younger he could of played his role in the Spider-Man movies, but the guy they found is “…pretty good.”
One lady claimed that she was having Dinner with Bill Clinton later that night at a function, and she wanted to hand him a copy of Early Daze. Stan Lee said “You are going to give a copy to Bill Clinton? SURE! Quick sell her a copy for half price!”
Picked up a copy of Early Daze outside the panel for 10 bucks, I GOTTA support Stan. Guy’s 85 years old and has the energy of a teenager! If I make it to 85, I pray that I can still be posting damn happy blogs like this! He’s my hero! :tup:
Time for another Morrison panel, now focusing on Final Crisis! I got to speak to him and I thanked him for All Star Superman, saying the last issue was one of the best single issues I have ever read (seriously, READ ALL STAR SUPERMAN GOSH DARN IT) and I thanked him for saying that Batman’s been Batman for 15 years because everyone at DC has been saying he’s only been Batman for 10 years for a looooooooooooong time. Morrison said “Yeah he’s getting up there.” My question for him was that I liked how in big events that characters do things we don’t expect and who should we keep an eye on in Final Crisis. He said everybody, as he tries to give every character in there a chance to shine and the book features the entire DCU. But to narrow it down he said keep an eye out for Kirby’s New Gods characters however. He mentioned one of them (the name escapes me, I am so not a DC New Gods person…) and said that he’s really cool, he goes home and drinks milk out of a glass like a little kid but when it’s time to fight he gets all diesel like the Hulk and kicks ass!
Someone asked about big events and having to buy a lot of books. Morrison said “Just buy the books you like because a lot of them are crap.” He cleared up that he wasn’t talking about all of the Final Crisis tie ins, just a lot of comics out there (but yeah you kind of get what he means ROFL)! JG Jones, I think I mispelled his name but he’s the 52 cover artist (future Final Crisis artist also, interiors) and I’m too tired to look up his name ATM said that when he was a kid buying a single issue of Spider-Man was an event for him. So to him everything is an event anyway and to just get the books you like reading. 
There was a question about Final Crisis being a cosmic event, and with that in mind what would the regular non cosmic heroes be doing, he said you can’t throw a Batarang at Darksied afterall. Morrison said “You can throw a Batarang at Darksied, it just won’t work!” He said that the event starts on Earth, something like 50,000 years in the past - :wow: - and it will gradually build up to the cosmic heroes.
Someone suggested that Morrison do some work with the DC Animated series. Morrison said that an animated adaptation of All Star Superman has been discussed! :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: He said nothing is official and it is just something they talked about, so nothing’s happening and he’s not confirming anything. And to that, JG Jones added “Morrison confirms vagueness.”
Another person commented on Morrison’s intimate knowledge of the DCU and asked if he would do anything with the Space Monkey Gleek, you know the monkey from the Wonder Twins on Super Friends. Morrison said “Who?” And then he said “Apparently I don’t know everything. GLEEK IS MY BLIND SPOT!” Oh snap Gleek is the DC equivalent of Shuma Gorath.
One of the things Morrison said yesterday that I forgot to mention was he loved comics and how they are the greatest form of entertainment and it’s basically a 2D world. He was also fascinated on how with any character, you could print out copies of all of their appearances, lay them out before you and you could in a sense see the entire lives of these characters, some of them going back about 70 years. He imagines that’s how God would see a man’s entire life. Such is the mind of Morrison. Man why are you not reading All Star Superman already? :rock:
When that wrapped I caught an hour of the Gundam Seed anime so I can get some FREE anime viewing on. They played Gundam Seed in Japanese with subtitles man THAT’S HOW YOU WATCH ANIME RIGHT THAR! :tup:
There was a three hour Robotech panel going on and I snuck in to catch about the last half hour or so. I asked about the upcoming Hollywood movie, how when I looked at the footage of the Dragon Ball Z movie the guy looked nothing like Goku. So I asked if the characters would have the big hair of the Robotech anime in the Hollywood movie. The example the gave was Wolverine in the X-Men movies, how he didn’t have yellow spandex in the movie because it wouldn’t work in real life. I commented that Hugh Jackman did have Wolverine’s hair though, or at least fairly close to it. One guy who had long hair on the panel put his hair above his head so it looked like he had a 'fro said “This is what Rick Hunter would look like.” Hey man I tried to put a wig on Tobey Mcguire’s head but to no avail, and that was my last good deed of the day.
This con was AWESOME! I said last time that the NY Anime Festival was the best con I ever attended, no man this one was now! JQ, Dan Slott, Tomasi, Michelinie, Morrison, TM Revolution, STAN THE MAN LEE and lots of other things I mentioned including finding nearly every back issue I wanted, wow I really had a great time. It was cool hanging with Orochizoolander, running into Kourin-chan again and meeting Apathy-Inc, SRK represent! I mean, it probably doesn’t matter if this con was better than the anime con since the same exact people who run the NY Anime Fest run the NY Comic Con so they win either way. It’s all good! :lovin:
Give me a few days to toss up all of the pictures I took, and as usual I took a lot! My real life’s been on hold for the last three days and I seriously need to catch up on a few things along with sleep since I’ve only been doing a couple of hours a night at best. So right now I have to go over to my brother’s house since I haven’t seen my 3 month old nephew for a while now, I gotta watch all of the Cartoon Network / Adult Swim shows I taped after (ARG! I FORGOT TO TAPE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN PLEASE TELL ME IT WASN’T NEW!!! :annoy:) until I pass out and fall asleep, so I can watch the rest the next day. And hey, there’s like a movie out there with Jackie Chan and Jet Li in there that I haven’t seen yet, I’m really out of circulation… I feel like Rip Van Winkle… So people are still using the internet right?
Some guy near the back yelled that there was a kid who was to short to be seen and he has a question…I was that “kid” lol so I asked where he got the idea for gothic and if preptime bats was in manfred’s shoes is there any way he could cheat the devil? He told me at the time he was really into oldschool gothic literature so he just wrote his take on it since no one else had thought to do it and not even a well prepared batman could beat the devil.
