Made it to Comic-Con last weekend. I’m really glad I went, I had a lot of fun. For some reason I’m surprised about that and I’m not really sure why. We were only there for 3 hours or so, and we didn’t meet any celebrities. We did see a bunch of semi-famous people. I saw Brian Posehn walking around, which cemented my theory about the Comedians of Comedy tour ending in San Diego last weekend to get a free trip to Comic-Con. Also saw John Cho and Kal Penn from the Harold and Kumar movies. They were standing up at the top of the Warner Bros booth giving an interview. I was standing below it waiting for a friend and couldn’t figure out why the hell everyone was stopping and taking pictures of the backs of the two guys standing above me, I just didn’t recognize them at first. The other person we saw was the cheerleader from Heroes. Again, hordes of people stopping in the middle of a crowded aisle to get a picture of someones back. I got some dirty looks when I just pushed through and walked directly in front of all of them. I don’t know how many pictures I ruined, but the hatred in their eyes was all I needed to see to know I did the right thing.
I think this was my first trip where I actually bought comics. In the past I had pretty much just gone to buy Magic: The Gathering cards, to be in the Live Action Role-Playing games (holy shit, I just cemented my geek cred on the internet. What have I done?), and to just be lost in a giant crowd. Some things I was looking for was Batman: The Killing Joke, which is supposed to be a bunch of stories about people who could potentially be the Joker. They wouldn’t ever come out and say, the Joker is this guy and this is what happened, but they can come up with possibilities of who he might be. It was highly recommended by Blair Butler on G4tv and damn, it’s scenarios that are supposed to be so messed up it creates a true psychopath, how can I pass that up. I was also looking for the first volume of Hellboy, jumping on two summer band wagons. But it can’t be a bad thing that the two movies have gotten me back into comics, well maybe bad for my wallet. Anyways both were really expensive, The Killing Joke was $40 at the one place I found it, and I found a really nice Hellboy book for $50. I was willing to spend some money but that was a little much, so I passed.
What I did end up buying was 2 books from a Deadpool and Cable series. Deadpool is probably my favorite character ever, and his writers are always excellent from what I’ve seen. He’s one of the few really grey characters in Marvel I think, he’s just a mercenary with a sarcastic wit and some super powers. So when I saw those two books sitting on the rack there was no hesitation and I just snatched them up then went and asked about the other books. The booth I was at was excellent, their website is torpedocomics.com. The site is stocked pretty well, unfortunately they only have one of the other books from the Deadpool/Cable series on the site. I’m hoping that they’ll update it with the leftovers from the con this week. When I grabbed the books I didn’t see that it was only issues 7-12 and 25-29, I can’t read them out of order either. The story won’t make sense. I did flip through them though, and I really can’t wait to be able to get to them.
So that was pretty much my Saturday, Sunday was an easy day. Helped my pal brew a double IPA, can’t wait to taste it. If I had the chance to drop everything and work for brewery, I totally would. I’m not an alcoholic or anything but when you drink good beer it’s like tasting and being one with a moment in time. Ask anyone who loves good beer. Or go to a beer bar and watch someone come in and order their favorite beer, sit down and take that first sip and just kind of zone out for a few seconds. Maybe I’m being overly poetic, but damn it I love beer.
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