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NYCC EXPLOSION (journal)It's once again that time, where I detail the wonderful times had at some convention or fan event. Unfortunately, or rather, fortunately for my wallet New York Comic Con is the last such event that I will be attending at least until 2012.
So right then, on we go. I land in Newark at roughly midnight, but don't get to Julia's apartment in NYC until almost 2am due to various unfortunate circumstances regarding C trains. Lame, but not the end of the world. Attempting to wake up early the next day was not enjoyable. Details of the rest of the morning can be found in Julia's journal, so I won't go into it, but we got to the con naturally around noon.
We spend the day looking around at all sorts of awesome nerdy things, as one would think to do at a convention. However, one of the best parts of Friday was going to the Mark Hamill Spotlight panel. He talked about all sorts of things from stuff about Star Wars, to the Joker, his career in general, and more. One of the last things he was asked was to do a "Why so serious?" in his own Joker voice, and it was glorious. We even got to meet him briefly for a photo-op the following day! He appeared to be hitting on Juls a bit too. Oh Mark you sly dog. He asked if we were a couple, and then if we were married. When we said no, he jokingly said, "probably better that way." I have the picture but have not scanned it yet. I'll put it up hopefully tonight. But he was a really nice guy and it was fun meeting him. Didn't get his autograph though, because no joke, it would have cost $100. I guess because it's actually worth something.
Later that night, we grab some late dinner Barbara, Michael, Andrew (Mistersir), Ray (Brownman), and several others at a restaurant that was probably too nice for what we were wearing. There was even a piano player next to us. I got pear and cheese (I think?) ravioli. It was pretty damn good actually.
Saturday, besides the aforementioned Mark Hamill photo-op, we did another extensive walk around the show floor and even met up with my two good friends Sam and Jordan who were also there with their significant others. Right after lunch, we went to go check out Saintash's booth which she was running with her boss Dennis Colero. There was some pretty ballin' artwork, some of which unfortunately got stolen during the night :(
That night, we went out for drinks with a whole whack of people from the site, which is always good times. I also realized with sadness that I forgot about attending the DBZ panel, though it was happening at 9:15 which was right in the middle of our night out, so whatever. You have no idea though how much I wanted to have Juls sit though some DBZ screenings though >:)
Sunday was the last official day of the con which was sad because it was lots of fun. That day we did our usual browsing but also went up to the 4th floor to the anime area just to see what was up there. It was actually far less crowded than the crazy show floor, and also much cooler and not as smelly. Julia bought a Daria keychain (while humming the theme of course) and otherwise, it was mostly anime artists and exhibitors which neither of us took that much interest in. However there were two big windows where you could see most of the packed show floor which was cool. Got some pictures there. I also got to meet Nicki Clyne, who plays Cally in Battlestar Galactica, so that was awesome. She even signed her BSG board game placard that I brought. I unfortunately didn't get a picture with her as we had missed her photo op and that was the only opportunity they allow to get pictures with them. I did, however, get a creeper picture OF her ;)
Sunday night was quite the adventure. You probably already heard most of the details on the podcast, so I'll let them stand for themselves, and instead present some photo evidence of the stories you heard, in my next journal. This journal will focus on pictures from the rest of the con.
And of course, there were cosplayers aplenty, many of which I got pictures of. A bunch of pics got cut off. I'll put them with the next journal.
Picture time!
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It's been a long day at work. :: sigh ::