The Kill Shakespeare guys were back! I got to tell one of the creators that I won a nerd-off because we recited Shakespeare to each other at last year’s con. He was very proud to have been a part of that.
I discovered a lot of new writers and creators including Love and Capes about a superhero and his girlfriend who discovers his identity, the Perhapanauts, a team of famous monsters (Big Foot, a Chupacabara) and some meta-humans who go after destructive monsters, Gray Rights and Thrifty Shades of Gray, collections of one panel comics about aliens, FUBAR, a zombie WWII anthology and The Escape Goat, a goat magician with a 2,000 year old assistant.
I also got to meet Tom King the writer of A Once Crowded Sky, a superhero novel. He was selling hardback copies of his book for $15 and signing them. I was so stoked because I’d been waiting to get his book. I’m so glad I did. When I went past his table later, he was totally sold out.
There were also a lot of crazy costumes. Bane (of Batman fame) as a pimp, a RennFest style pirate, Ramona and Gideon (from Scott Pilgrim), Abe Lincoln & John Wilkes Booth, and a bath salt zombie (my date). I was Red Riding Hood from the Fables series. I might enhance the costume next year by wearing cut-offs, a baseball tee, and high tops since Red Riding Hood partakes in baseball later in the series.
It’s one of the smaller cons but it’s still fairly young as far as cons go and they’ve gotten Stan Lee for the last couple of years. Lee’s very picky about what cons he goes to and he has chosen to come to our con multiple times so I think our con has a bright future.
Current Jams: Vampire Club (Twilight Version) - Voltaire
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