Friday, February 6, 2009

nerdgasm, day 1

sorry, no time for rambling-yet-thoughtful-enough text just like last year. this time it's just resize, post, and stream-of-consciousness keyboard whacking. welcome to the 2009 edition of the New York Comic Con.


friday line's not that long, but i got bored by the 2 hour wait.



Rorschach trying to find a conspiracy in this mass of smelly geeks


Raphael: "dudes, your costumes suck!"



the Comedian drawing a crowd


a lusty wench from Krod Mandoon


hey, terrorists! this is the American way of life! we do not apologize for it!



Matt Fraction waiting for me to show up to sign my Iron Fist books


mrrrrrrrrrooowwwwwwwwwwwww



anything to part a fool and his money



Kevin Grievoux, Frank D'Armata, Robin Furth, and Greg Pak



cool Dark Reign poster



a stolen shot of Dougie Braithwaite


Bendis, what have you wrought? (the early line to the Secret Invasion creator signing)


Brian Michael Bendis, my kababayan Leinil Francis Yu, Laura Martin, Mark Morales, and Gabriele Dell'Otto


can you?


two fake He-Men


Chewbacca wookieing around


Snake Eyes checking for Cobra infiltrators


Esad Ribic and Alex Maleev now have their own shop


ex-X-Men scribes Joe Kelly and Steven Seagle


Captain Morgan and Cap'n More Guns (heh)


Dark Reign panel, hosted by Jim McCann and Jolly Joe Q


a true fanboy always wears his underwear on the outside (Hanes preferably)



now where the hell is Starman?


who you gonna call?


Chris Claremont: "you think X-Treme X-Men is the bomb? yeahhhhh riiiiiiiight ..."


why everyone wants to join the Freedom Fighters


damn you, give me back my ongoing series!


a face that can only love a clown


we're out of legal hell, baby!!!


say one line and you get to be semi-famous



Eric Maruscak and his Watchmen


why T'Challa is no longer King of Wakanda


Lara Croft is trying to point me to the men's room


i really wonder how your predecessor carried that in his back without being obvious


Greg Rucka; James Robinson (back to camera)


Dan DiDio trying to explain and justify Final Crisis to the DC Nation (and failing spectacularly)

seriously, his Powerpoint show ended in an arrow pointing to Grant Morrison's head (who was conveniently absent). and he had this gimmick of slowly shedding his shirts, each of which is a color of a Lantern (yeah, they had to shill Blackest Night, to divert all of us from Final Crisis, and why Batman is not really dead or whatever).


and yeah, i asked a DC staffer why they don't post their signing schedule well in advance, and she was surprised the other majors did it. she had no answer to it, and just asked me to check the booth daily.

and that is why Marvel is kicking your butt three years running.

fail.

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