My brother and I woke up at 5 AM to take a ride to the city with my dad. There, we arrived at the Javits center located on 34-39th Street in Manhattan around 6:30 AM to find a line of about 200 comic/anime geeks all waiting anxiously to enter the premises - most of whom had all weekend passes, unlike my Saturday ONLY pass… (From which I purchased online months before.) Which brings me to wonder exactly what time those people began lining up… By the way, the place officially opens at 10 AM… So apparently I'm a geek too. I figured taking public transportation would take a lot longer and I was right. We entered the building at 8 AM to wait the rest of the time. The lines had already lost its order as promotional gifts were being tossed into the crowd of crazy fans, ranging from Ben 10 cardboard things, to bags that advertised something, or small Batman figurines. By then, no one was in the order they lined up in outside the building, as people pushed forward and around to get up front, after having to walk a circle for a mile… When 10 AM came, almost everyone had the goal of rushing to the back of the building to acquire the tickets for specific artist signatures. This included T.M. Revolution, Alex Ross, Stan Lee, etc… My brother wanted Stan Lee and Alex Ross and I figured TMR's signing tickets would be at the same booth, so I lined up with him, only to make it to the 269th place or something (after sprinting through booths) and so he was unable to get Stan Lee, but got the Alex Ross ticket.

Now the TMR tickets were being given out at a booth NEXT to where all the other tickets were given out. (Darn worker gave me the wrong info… Should have read closely on the site…) and so I was pissed that I had to get on another line. My brother had wanted TMR's signature as well so we waited, pretty sure we'd get an autograph ticket since 200 were supposed to be given out and the line wasn't that long. You had to buy merchandise in order to acquire a ticket (which was fine by me… I bought pins), but to my horror, the LAST TICKET was given out to the person in front of me… WTFBBQSAUCE?! Now the staff there said that TMR would continue to sign if time permitted, after all the ticketed people had their chance. Seeing as the signing was scheduled for 1:30-3:00 PM, it didn't seem to look like a big problem. But there were many problems…

After walking around the booths for a bit so that my brother could shop for comic stuff, we walked over to where TMR was set to sign 45 minutes earlier, making it in the top 10 in the line. Now I knew if we explained our no-ticket situation, something would be done, and so my brother and I were the first on a separated line consisting of fans without the ticket for TMR's signature. As it came close to 2:15, we were informed that TMR would be leaving the booth at 2:30. We stayed in our line for one hour, waiting for the chance, which we had since we were just a few feet away with only 10 or less ticket holder's left. Suddenly, some of TMR's staff said that he had to leave, despite it only being about 2:22 and that the signatures could only have been promised to the ones with tickets. Now I had stood on line for almost two hours, being moved back and forth and TMR was only 5 feet away. (No pictures were allowed, although a few did from a distance - ME) I was not about to be ushered off without an autograph.

My brother started waving at TMR, who had not even gotten up from his chair after the last ticket holder had left. He made eye contact, smiled to my brother and gestured for us to come over. And so SCREW WHATEVER YOU STAFF WORKERS JUST SAID, T.M. Revolution just told us to go over… And so we did, while the staff members/Comic Con staff started shouting, "Oh, it was a mistake, he's still signing…"

As I got up to him, he was smiling and looked way better than I had seen him in any photo. He is awesome. I thanked him and he responded with a friendly "No problem." He signed the Comic Con Booklet (which was supposed to be the only thing he'd sign for time issues.), I shook his hand, he smiled and I thanked him again as I floated off. Shortly after, my brother followed after getting his autograph and handshake…

That feeling was… Amazing… Sticking it to the staff members I mean. LMAO. When in this situation, make eye contact with the star as he or she is the boss. I was relieved as we went over to the Alex Ross signing for my brother. Probably only a handful of minutes later, we heard screaming as TMR left. I fear less than only 10 people after my brother and I got TMR's autograph… I feel for them, I really do…

After my brother got Alex Ross to sign and take a picture with Alex Ross (who is REALLY down to earth by the way - he spent a good few minutes with each person as he signed their stack of comics or 30 sets of picture frames or showed off their tattoo… I was fumbling with my camera for what seemed like a minute, and he just continued to shake my brother's hand and smiled…), we set off to other booths to hunt for merchandise and stuff for my brother to buy/get signed. I had just gone to this thing for TMR. One out of two tasks had been completed already. The concert at night was free and was the only thing I was waiting for… I got free stuff here and there, including manga previews and posters, meaning the only thing I spent there were on the tickets for the convention, TMR pins, and cold Cookie Dough frostie…

At 5 PM, we sat through the premiere of the award-winning anime movie, "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" until it ended at 7 PM. The Javits center had closed up everything else, save the IGN Theater where TMR was scheduled to perform 9 PM that night. The line already had what seemed over 200 people on it… It was CRAZY… Regardless of this, at 8 PM we entered and sat around as the cameraman displayed the crowd on giant screens. People with costumes, drawings, hot images of TMR, etc from the crowd were displayed on the screen so that we would be occupied. (People with signs offering to have TMR's baby were also present, willing to "yaoi with TMR", marry him, etc…) I was sort of in the middle/back - maybe about 50-60 feet away. I had a good view and angle of everything. Finally, the concert began.

I, as any other attendee of one of TMR's concerts, can definitely say that he brings on an AWESOME SHOW… His voice is powerful, he's got so much energy, and his hair stays practically perfect throughout the entire show. He had a long black leather trenchcoat looking outfit at first, which I knew was WAY TOO HOT for all those spotlights on him… In the middle of the concert he took it off to reveal a smexy black, tight sleeveless shirt, tied on by strings in a shoelace fashion, so that you could see his bare back. Towards the end, he took off THAT and underneath was a loose black tank-top thing with his back showing. The dude poured water over his chest during one of his fast-paced songs, making girls' screams go crazy… His hair stayed intact really well BTW…

He'd done mostly Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny songs, a few from his new album coming up, and as the finale, "Heart of Sword" from Rurouni Kenshin. That was what everyone was waiting for. After that "final song," some people left, but seeing as the lights were still off, I stood in place. I knew something was up and shortly after, TMR came on the stage again, wearing the official Comic Con t-shirt for his event (Which was available for purchase at his booth.). He sang two songs for the encore and assured us he'd return. In all, he sang 12 songs… IT WAS AWESOME… The concert was scheduled until 10 PM, but it ended up half an hour longer… T.M. Revolution is KING.