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by **doombug** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:43 pm

God so tired, hopefully I sound okay on the podcast tonight. :lol:

by **bkthomson** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:44 pm

We have low standards.

by **sdsichero** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:57 pm

bkthomson wrote:We have low standards.

We let Zechs on the podcast

by **Chesscub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:36 pm

Sitebreaker wrote:I always love when people do a "group cosplay." I love the Rogues...

I was half tempted to call Captain Cold "Chillblaine" just to muck with him. :lol:

by **Zechs** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:46 pm

That Mr. T was at C2E2.

by **Chesscub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:50 pm

Let's see: My comments on the show (part, the first)

They've basically outgrown the space they're in at the convention center and need to get a second big room for it so there's a little room to breathe. Saturday it took me close to an hour to get in and I got in line at 10:15. Sunday was much better to get in.

In the vein of needing more space, they had to move Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley to the outside of the main floor at lunch. Originally their line wheeled all over the place and was blocking Joe Sinnott, Al Feldstein, Al Jaffee and Bill Sienkiewicz. The only problem with that was they didn't announce they moved them.

Joe Sinnott at 85 is an amazing man and more talented than 90% of the artists working now. I bought a sketch from him which he did in my West Coast Avengers hardcover (Lost in Space Time which he'd inked before) I watched him work for a while and he still has it.

Bob Layton is possible one of the coolest men in the business and a sweet guy. We talked about cameo appearances in movies. I'd asked why he didn't do one. He was like. "It takes you right out of the movie when you see someone you know" There was a cool picture of him with Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau on his table. He got a giggle that I brought the Secret Society of Super Villains HC in to get signed.

If you get a chance, check out Alice Darrow's artwork (Geof's daughter), she's got some real talent. Her drawings are really cute anime based designs.

I forgot the Arthur Sudyam makes you buy something to get his signature on all your stuff. One time and that's it for me.

Geof Darrow was disappointed I wanted a less crude sketch of a Roomba this year. I told him I loved the first one but I couldn't send it around at work. When his daughter saw what he drew last year, she was laughing and appalled at the same time. :lol:

Francis Manapul is amazingly friendly to chat with. We talked about the transition from artist to writer/artist. He was willing to listen to criticism. The thing he hasn't been liking about being a writer is the politics of it. He'd gotten sick Saturday so he was limited on Sunday. I was hoping to get a sketch from him. He was doing some insane free sketches with just black watercolor.

by **Jack Burton** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:58 pm

I agree they've already outgrown Hynes which is kind of stunning since they just moved their last year. I really love how well this con is doing since it basically started out in the basement ballroom of the old Hancock building but I sort of miss the smallness of it. It was easier for me to shop and look through the boxes lol.
So yeah the crowd took a little getting used to.

My other one little area of annoyance is there's always this one dealer who has ton trades for 1/2 off but why is it ALWAYS a vast majority of DC stuff? I love DC but sometimes I'm looking for Marvel stuff buddy.

by **Chesscub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:59 pm

Part 2:

Prozac Man doesn't look like a pill. Who knew? I got to see the battle of Hawkeye vs. Green Arrow at Doombug's table. :-D

I wish I had more time to hang out but I was carrying for three people (me, my brother and my niece)

Katie Cook is fun to chat with and she does these little water color sketch cards. Great sense of humor.

I got to see a couple pages of Tucci artwork for his next project. Blew my mind of how much detail he gets out of a pencil. He'd told me about the pitch he made for a Human Torch 70th Anniversary Special. I would've loved to've read it.

Jim Calafiore as always is a cool guy. I asked what he's working on next. He and Gail are working on a pitch for DC. He mentioned that Secret Six was chosen by IGN as the #4 run of comics in the past decade (so suck it, haters!)

Simon Bisley was a hoot to chat with. He may be the first redneck Englishman I've ever met. Right before he started doing a sketch for my brother, he took a draw off a Grey Goose and then sip of Red Bull. We got talking about snapping turtles cause the guy before wanted a Ninja Turtle done up as Venom. Which then led to a conversation about the TV show Swamp Men.

by **Chesscub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:00 pm

Jack Burton wrote:I agree they've already outgrown Hynes which is kind of stunning since they just moved their last year. I really love how well this con is doing since it basically started out in the basement ballroom of the old Hancock building but I sort of miss the smallness of it. It was easier for me to shop and look through the boxes lol.
So yeah the crowd took a little getting used to.

My other one little area of annoyance is there's always this one dealer who has ton trades for 1/2 off but why is ALWAYS a vast majority of DC stuff? I love DC but sometimes I'm looking for Marvel stuff buddy.

Marc Nathan (the guy who runs Baltimore's Comicon) had a table of cheap hardcovers. Mostly all Marvel. I got Marvels Project for reference material for Billy Tucci to do a sketch cover for me. I almost never made it to the dealer side of the room.

by **Chesscub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:09 pm

Finally (the Kevin Eastman story):

The Eastman line was the most insane all weekend long. I was in that line Sunday for 3.5 hours. They were handing out tickets for it. They'd capped it before lunch and were giving out tickets after lunch so I got a ticket then.

I counted myself lucky as they stopped giving out tickets for the line at 2:30. I hopped out twice actually to pick up commissions.

We all bonded in line. The guy in front of me pulled out his sketch book of his work and showed me it. Then got a marker out and continued working. I pulled out a blank Daredevil cover and asked if he could do me a DD. It turned out really really nice. Kevin liked it when he saw it. :-D

It turned out that Kevin was doing sketches for everyone in line which slowed things down immensely and chatting with everyone. He's an amazingly great guy. Open and giving and cheery even after two days of shaking hands, drawing and autographing

There was a guy that was working with Kevin (I'm betting he was a Mirage Studios person) to keep the line in order was using me as the point where he'd have to stop doing sketches for people because it was getting too late. When the guy saw me get up to Kevin at 4:30, he told Kevin he needed to cut back on the sketching. Kevin was like "Hey, we've got plenty of time left" and continued on his way. LOL

While I was in line I bought a TMNT trade of Kevin's favorite stories so I'll give it a read. I've never actually read an issue of it apart from the Savage Dragon crossover almost 20 years ago now (yikes). With it, I got a FCBD Turtles issue which I got signed as well. And I bought a blank cover for him to sketch on which he drew Master Splinter on.

When I was leaving, I ran into a family that I'd been running into all weekend. One of the kids was dressed as Jay Garrick. I knew they were in line behind me so I asked if they made it all the way through. The father said they left after an hour and a half but that the other son really wanted Kevin's autograph. I was like, hold on a second. I pulled out the FCBD issue and handed it to the son that wanted the autograph. His eyes lit up and was extremely thankful for it.

That made the entire weekend worth it. I always feel the shows should be more for the kids than the adults. Since I had the extra copy which I would've read and filed away somewhere, it's instead going to someone who will appreciate it all the more.

by **Chesscub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:12 pm

And two final notes:

1. I'll be scanning stuff in tomorrow at work. The weather sucked this morning and I wasn't about to get anything wet.

2. When I went to get Ben Templesmith's autograph, he was doing a Batman commission. He looked up when he saw that I was there and asked "Greetings! What can I do for you?"

I started singing "I'm a little teapot sort and stout" I told him it was an open ended question so never be surprised at the answers you get. :lol:

by **doombug** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:57 pm

Jack Burton wrote:I agree they've already outgrown Hynes which is kind of stunning since they just moved their last year. I really love how well this con is doing since it basically started out in the basement ballroom of the old Hancock building but I sort of miss the smallness of it. It was easier for me to shop and look through the boxes lol.
So yeah the crowd took a little getting used to.

My other one little area of annoyance is there's always this one dealer who has ton trades for 1/2 off but why is it ALWAYS a vast majority of DC stuff? I love DC but sometimes I'm looking for Marvel stuff buddy.

you didn't stop by why exactly? :smt013

by **doombug** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:02 pm

I forgot to tell the Hawkeye story on the podcast last night. :lol:

Okay so without dragging it out like crazy, Andre (who podcasts listeners have heard on the WILC's podcast plenty of times) gets to my table to say hi and hang out a while. Anyways this little kid (had to be like 8 or 10) walks up to him and asks him who he's supposed to be...followed by asking him if he's Hawkeye.

I'm sitting at the table as is Prozac and we're both trying not to laugh, I think my buddy Jeff was there at this point too.

Andre of course not wanting to upset said kid just answers that yes he was Hawkeye (even though he almost explained the Green Arrow thing)

So for the rest of the day we were calling him Hawkeye and taking shots at Green Arrow whenever we could.