Random Thoughts: Special Convention Edition

- Driving to Chicago is much better than driving to Charlotte.
-- I still hate Virginia

- We wore special shirts. We were a scary legion of blue-shirted groupies.
-- Lots of people asked "So what happens when fangirls attack?"
--- We really need a nice practiced clever answer for this...hmm...

- The DC Panels were a lot of fun!
-- Bob Wayne is a lot funnier in person than reading quotes in writing. Seriously, very very funny.
--- Keith Giffen's funny too. And he knew of WFA!
-- Geoff Johns is a balloon killer!

-Dan Didio is a really nice, if hyper, guy really. Very enthusiastic. I admit I don't understand how he sets some folk off. He's like certain members of my family. Maybe it's an Italian thing. :-)

-Ragnell asked if Mosaic is in continuity. Specifically the end. They said yes. Later we asked Geoff Johns if he remembered the ending...particularly the resurrection. His facial expression was funny. Kind of an "Oh shit" look. But not necessarily in a bad way. We're hoping it means he realized he has a new toy.

-Saw a video game concert. It was cute but kind of lame. Too much current video game music. I was hoping for more of the classic stuff. They had a nice Legend of Zelda one though. In general it was all other stuff though. And the theatre was too cold. :-)

-The hotel room is nice, roommate and I are staying with Ragnell and her sister. We watched the first Lexx movie as it's crackier than Mosaic.

-Saw some neat costumes! A Batgirl, Supergirl, Power Girl. My roommate saw a Sandman (Doddsian not Vertigo). There was a nifty Alan Scott too.

-Roommate got Dirk Benedict to sign an old Battlestar Galactica comic, go her!

-And some nifty comic news that certain folk might like, that's probably been reported elsewhere:
--Batgirl will be in Titans East. Cassandra Cain. No details though.
--Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire/the Zamarons (or at least one of the three) will come up in Green Lantern

-Lots of John Stewart questions, which is great!

-They showed the JSA cover as well, I hadn't seen it yet.
--Interesting missing people.
--And yay! Sand! I like the costume. On closer look it's not very much like Wes's. The mask is vaguely skull like and the skeleton-boned gloves are a little weird. Even his costume looks vaguely like a black shroud.
---I wonder if it's a mask at all.

-Ron Marz is really nice too. He wrote the happy birthday song in Ragnell's sister's autograph book (it's her birthday, naturally). And they gave out free copies of the first issues of Samurai Heaven and Earth.
--Apparently he studied Chinese and Japanese history in college. :-) Common ground! Cool! Also means that I'll probably like Samurai! (Somehow I'd never gotten around to reading it).

-We saw Paul Jenkins's writing comics panel. It was very neat! Some nice tricks to consider.
--He was nice as well. Makes me almost regret not being a Civil War fan.

-Lots of neat artists and web comics. We got inducted into a web-comic "frat" in which we had to swear to drink a lot of beer and look at breasts.
--It's quite possible I'm a bad feminist.
---He joked about it being a frat custom for "brothers" to kiss, so we (all girls) should.
----We said okay, if he kissed his "brothers" at the table, (all guys), they declined.
-----No hot man-on-man action for me, darnit.

So yeah it was fun. Tomorrow is a Silver Age trivia thing. I might try, even though I suck at most Silver Age stuff that's not Lantern related. Still it sounds like fun! I'm definately going to watch!