Tuesday, December 27, 2005
BiMonSciFiCon
one of the things that makes me me is my love of comics. i've been reading comics since i was about 4 and taught myself to read italian by poring over my brother's old marvel comics during long summers back in the old country. i never really looked back, and now have more comics than a man my age really ought to. despite all this, i'd never been to a comic book convention. so, when good ole goldberg suggested we go to the big apple comic convention, i happily agreed. here are some of the notable things i saw at the con:
incredibly famous celebrities such as:
former monkee peter tork
and daniel logan, the lil' dude who played young boba fett
adults dressed up like fictional characters:
goldberg with boba fett. (the antenna on his head allows him to call his mother to come pick him up.)
goldberg with the power girl of... earth prime? earth-c-minus? earth-12? i never could get the dc multiverse straight.
there was also tons of merchandise which made me wish that i was rich and had some kind of tesseract house where i could keep oodles and oodles of useless crap and never run out of room:
these decals reminded me of how several years ago i thought it'd be cool to get a tattoo of the cobra logo from g.i.joe, but never did. i was glad i didn't when i went to the now defunct krazyfest a few years ago and saw literally about 7 or 8 kids with that tattoo.
this being a comic con, there were obviously comics, including marvel spotlight #32:
the first appearance of (the original) spider-woman, jessica drew. i take some small amount of... pride? less shame? in the fact that i managed to track down and acquire all of her appearances in the funny books before she became the marvel darling that she is now.
by the end of the day i was left with the feeling that the con, as a whole, was a bit of a let-down. the space the con was in was super-crowded and difficult to navigate, all of the merchants had a lot of the same stuff, and everything was priced kinda high (especially the entrance fee) for my cheapskate ass. that said, i did come away with a few good finds, despite the fact that i've put myself on a bit of a budget when it comes to comics and comic-related memorabilia. so, while i wound up buying full runs of "all star squadron" and "infinity inc.", i couldn't justify spending $40 to own the closest thing that most of the fan-boys at the con would ever get to seeing a woman's breasts:
incredibly famous celebrities such as:
former monkee peter tork
and daniel logan, the lil' dude who played young boba fett
adults dressed up like fictional characters:
goldberg with boba fett. (the antenna on his head allows him to call his mother to come pick him up.)
goldberg with the power girl of... earth prime? earth-c-minus? earth-12? i never could get the dc multiverse straight.
there was also tons of merchandise which made me wish that i was rich and had some kind of tesseract house where i could keep oodles and oodles of useless crap and never run out of room:
these decals reminded me of how several years ago i thought it'd be cool to get a tattoo of the cobra logo from g.i.joe, but never did. i was glad i didn't when i went to the now defunct krazyfest a few years ago and saw literally about 7 or 8 kids with that tattoo.
this being a comic con, there were obviously comics, including marvel spotlight #32:
the first appearance of (the original) spider-woman, jessica drew. i take some small amount of... pride? less shame? in the fact that i managed to track down and acquire all of her appearances in the funny books before she became the marvel darling that she is now.
by the end of the day i was left with the feeling that the con, as a whole, was a bit of a let-down. the space the con was in was super-crowded and difficult to navigate, all of the merchants had a lot of the same stuff, and everything was priced kinda high (especially the entrance fee) for my cheapskate ass. that said, i did come away with a few good finds, despite the fact that i've put myself on a bit of a budget when it comes to comics and comic-related memorabilia. so, while i wound up buying full runs of "all star squadron" and "infinity inc.", i couldn't justify spending $40 to own the closest thing that most of the fan-boys at the con would ever get to seeing a woman's breasts:
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# posted by Sweatpants Money : 12/27/2005 07:03:00 PM
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i've always wanted to know Hawk Girl's story. I've gathered it has something to do with a planet far away, her being a planet from far away police officer, ending up on Earth somehow and not being able to get back to said planet far away -- but I've never known the specifics. How she managed to end up topless -- well -- is just weird. I don't need to know that.
Goldberg is cute.
Goldberg is cute.
you're getting hawkgirl and hawkwoman mixed up. (damn that d.c. continuity...) hawkwoman was from another planet (thanagar), while hawkgirl is from earth, though her soul is that of an ancient thanagarian who crash landed on earth during the time of the ancient egyptians. and, of course, in canada, the whole thing's flip-flopped. i suggest you look up hawkgirl's entry on wikipedia for the answers you're so sorely lacking.
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