So I just got back from NYC Comic Con yesterday and yes, it was a very interesting weekend. I met a lot of people and did a lot of things, so let me break it down for you in days.

Friday: I came dressed as the Dollman. There wasn't too much action going on Friday and I didn't to break out the spandex quite yet, so I skulked around the show as everyone's favorite face smasher. The turn out was mediocre since people weren't let in til 3pm. Being a professional creator, I got to come in early and it was a nice flow. I met up with Fear.net and the Dollman got a few interviews. I managed to also make friends with a few people who had notable connections to big name distributors and of course I gave them dvd copies of Methodic. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on who bites. I was also interviewed on Fox news which was fun and as always, freaked the hell out of all the convention goers. After the show, I went home to crash, but Niki had to quickly film something for someone. She's also the official spokes model for Captain Action and spent all day promoting the new comic whereas I basically walked like 5 miles around during show. So needless to say, we were both pretty beat when we got back and just passed out.

Saturday: We got to the show around 10:30 and it was PACKED! People lined the floors from wall to wall. It was madness. I had suited up as the ever trusty Blue Beetle and hit the floors. Now I don't like tooting my own horn, but damn was I entertaining. And man do people love the beetle. I also got to meet up with a fan of mine by the name of Ralph who seems to be a promising computer animator that I intend to work with someday soon. Around 3:00, I hit the downstairs area to take part in the Fan Films panel. Clive Young had written a book concerning fan films and hey, what do you know, I'm in it. I'm also on the cover too. The panel was pretty fun, I tried to not bore the audience as much as possible by being as humorously informative as possible, but some of the other panelists who will remain nameless were not so successful. I was joined by my good friend, Fanboy Will of Fanboy Theatre and fan film urban legend, Dan Poole, who once upon a time, put on a Spiderman costume and like an idiot with a death wish, swung from building to building on a rope with no safety net, all for the sake of making the 1992 fan film, The Green Goblin's Last Stand. Oh and please make no mistake, I totally respect Dan and his efforts, but I still think he's a friggin idiot for doing what he did as unsafely as he did it. That shit takes balls. Anyhoo, we did the panel, which had a great turn out, then I went back upstairs where I had a little wardrobe malfunction. Let's just say it involved a prop bottle of Jack Daniels, a trash can and my crotch ripping open at the seam. It was horrible. At that point I IMMEDIATELY returned to the Captain Action table where Niki was stationed and I changed wardrobe. And yes, it was for the better. After that, the convention began to sort of die down and it was time to get on out. Later that night, Niki, myself and company went to release party for the new Flash Gordon comic book. But we had to leave early because well, we were friggin exhausted from running around all day.... again.

Sunday: So with my Blue Beetle costume out of commission and my lack of desire to wear my spandex, the Dollman made his second appearance at the convention. Sunday was fun because it wasn't too packed but it wasn't too empty. I even ran into these two kids, probably 4 and 6 and they were not scared of me. Sledgehammer and all, they ran up to me and hugged me and one kid said he loved me. Go figure. I have a personal policy I follow which I mentioned back in my Halloween blog, I refuse to scare kids under the age of 10 unless they provoke me. So needless to say, these kids were not on my shit list and it was nice. I also made some great connections regardling Captain Action that day. I recently co-wrote a pilot for a Captain Action lampoon comedy and thanks to some potential connections I made, it might get made. We'll see. Everything was going pretty smoothley on Sunday right up until I met Dan Didio. My god, do I hate that prick. I don't care what anyone says, it's not fair to mess around with fan's hope. I asked him how long the Blue Beetle had left and he told me "Not long." When I asked him why he felt it nessesary to kill Ted Kord, again, he said "We already have a Blue Beetle." I don't know about you but the way he spoke to me made me want to take my sledgehammer and smash in his knee caps. It's rude to to bring back a character, especially for me who has spent the last 3 years campaigning for his return, and then kill him AGAIN! What the hell. Why bring him back in the first place if you're only going to kill him again? For sales? To piss off fans? It's just rude. After that huge upset in my day, I kind of took it easy and just wandered around till the show ended. I met up with Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti as well as a few other artists, and then when they turned off the show lights and began striking the floor, Niki and I packed up and went home.

All in all, it was a great show, but that pompus attitude from Didio really put me in a bad mood. It almost makes me wonder why I'm a fan in the first place if I'm not repected by the very people I buy my comics from? I'm not sure how to end this one, so I will.