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New York Comic Con 2015

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 1:18 pm
by Mr Wallstreet
If anyone would like anything from NYCC this year let me know and I will do my very best to get it for you. I can't guarantee anything because <Aunt May voice> "I'm not Superman" but, again, I will do my best to get it.

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 11:08 am
by XIII
I'll look up the guest list and let you know. You're a boss, Wally.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:13 am
by Mr Wallstreet
NYCC has come and gone. I had a surprisingly great time despite setting myself up with low expectations.

I helped work the booth for a friend of mine who was launching his own comic called Zindan: The Last Ansars (check out their facebook page). I wasn't at his booth the whole 4 days but I was there on and off for several hours at a time all weekend. During my time there, I met a some other people who I had a massively fun time with. That was the real treat: unexpectedly meeting more cool people. Though CC is always fun, you don't always expect to meet or make new friends. If I'm being overly gushy and corny, that's just how I feel right now. But know that they can never compete with or replace my beautiful BX.

In that same vein of friendship, I also reconnected with a childhood friend of mine who I hadn't seen in 20 years. Though we'd reconnected on facebook several years ago, we never got together until this past comic con. We spent sunday hanging out together and catching up.

The highlights:
Getting a photo & sig with Andrea Romano
Photo & pic with Todd McFarlane
Scoring a limited edition Back to the Future Pepsi Perfect
Randomly chatting worth Dan Slott for a few minutes between panels

I had wanted to get a bunch of signatures from various artists/creators but was simply unable to. The sheer number of people in the artist alley building was staggering. There was security and con staff at almost every table and every table had a line. There was hardly any walking or standing room.

Between Friday - sunday, whenever the crowds got too big in AA, security would close off AA- only letting people out and not letting anyone in, until AA was less packed. So you've got this packed building of artists and you've got a crowd of people waiting to get in. It was a huge mess. This obviously killed my drive to get into AA on Friday & definitely Saturday. I went on Sunday to AA and though there seemed to be less people, it was no less crazy. I wound up only scoring a handful of signatures

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:14 am
by Mr Wallstreet
Overall, though I didn't get much in the way of signatures, making new friends and reconnecting with old ones made it just as enjoyable.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:54 pm
by XIII
Did you taste the Pepsi Perfect? Does it taste like regular Pepsi?

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:41 pm
by Mr Wallstreet
I did not taste the Pepsi. My friend, however, did open and drink his Pepsi perfect. Both my friend and the Pepsi company confirmed that it tastes exactly like regular pepsi.

On October 21st, Pepsi co will be releasing 6500 limited edition Back to the Future Pepsi perfect bottles to be sold for 21.91 or something. No word yet on where they will be released. If I can, I'll try to score one more