comic conventions

[Guest starvenger]

I ask because I'm headed up to the Motor City Comicon a week Saturday. I'm not really a memorobilia collector, but the MCCC generally gets a good assortment of tv and movie stars (this year they include LeVar Burton, Julie Newmar, model Aria Giovanni and ex-wrestler Virgil (but I think he's there every year)) and it provides me the opportunity to let out my inner geek.

 

So, anyone?

[Mrnoitaull]

Evrytime I go out to San Diego around the same time( July) , I intend to go to Comic Con because my role model, Joe Madireira is there every year.

[Guest raptor]

Evrytime I go out to San Diego around the same time( July) , I intend to go to Comic Con because my role model, Joe Madireira is there every year.

You hope to achieve limited success, and then not do any work for the rest of your life? Cool.

 

Joking aside, I've never gone to a convention. Mostly due to the lack of anything substantial in any of the areas I've lived. Always interested, though. Just to speak with some creators, or something.

[Guest starvenger]

Evrytime I go out to San Diego around the same time( July) , I intend to go to Comic Con because my role model, Joe Madireira is there every year.

You hope to achieve limited success, and then not do any work for the rest of your life? Cool.

 

Joking aside, I've never gone to a convention. Mostly due to the lack of anything substantial in any of the areas I've lived. Always interested, though. Just to speak with some creators, or something.

I generally use this site to see what's going on up in my area, but the only ones I've really been to are the Motor City and the Canadian National, simply because they don't just do comics but go "cross-platform" with their exhibits and guests.

 

Talking to creators is fun. Although one year Chris Claremont and Peter David were both in Toronto and doing some fun back-and-forth banter. Both are pretty cool to talk with.

[Guest brokentusk16]

I live in Minnesota, so we only get two cons a year (a smallish one and a medium sized one). Not a lot of "big names". I used to go religiously in high school, but I haven't been to one in the past couple years.

[Guest converge241]

i would say go if youve never been

 

i never really liked them (ran a booth at a few)

 

just too crowded and an over-abundance of

 

1) old asshole collectors

2) "bad" fanboys

 

i say bad fanboys cause we are all fanboys here but you cross that line when you lose our good friend hygenie

[Guest starvenger]

i would say go if youve never been

 

i never really liked them (ran a booth at a few)

 

just too crowded and an over-abundance of

 

1) old asshole collectors

2) "bad" fanboys

 

i say bad fanboys cause we are all fanboys here but you cross that line when you lose our good friend hygenie

You think that's bad? Toronto's major con is a blend of comics, anime and sci-fi which not only has comic fanboys and trekers, but anime fanpeople dressed as Sailor Moon. And I wish I was just talking about hot twentysomething ladies in a Sailor Moon getup, but I have seen Comic Book Guy lookalikes in said getup. OTOH, the perfume used by the female anime fans does help to somewhat counteract the B.O.

 

I'm not really helping to convince people to go, am I?

 

Seriously though, it's fun to just go, find some books, do some haggling, and ogle models and girlfriends who were taken there by their boyfriends.