Austin Comic Con. Which I thought was note worthy since outside of
giant "W" there was nothing in the literature and signage that denoted
its affiliation with Wizard.
My highlights and a few thoughts:
- The girl who was pretty much butt naked, dressed up as Poison Ivy on Friday. I didn't get any batteries for my camera until Saturday, and I only saw her that one day.
- There was also a Texas Art Educators conference in the same building, and I was really happy to see all of those people getting there picture taken with a remote controlled full size R2D2 that was running around. I saw more of them getting pictures than conventioneers.
- Another missed picture opportunity: Kevin Nash and Lou Ferrigno talking to each other. Nash is overall biggger, but Ferrigno still has better definition.
- There was one dude who was some kind of handler for the wrestlers and he would have been hard pressed to look more like a greaseball.Maybe if he was wearing a track suit.
- It was cool to see Adam West and Burt Ward together.
- The guy who played the Soup Nazi seemed an odd choice. As was the girl who carried suitcase number 9 on Deal or No Deal.
- I loved going to the Bill Sienkiewicz panel. He seemed to put a lot of thought into his answers, and he answered at length. I bailed during the last 5-10 minutes when people start getting into the minutae of Elektra.
- I couldn't believe people would pay that much on crappy convention food when there were better, cheaper places literally across the street.
- I am NOT used to wearing shoes for that long.
- I was distressed that Ernie Hudson was wearing his Ghostbuster's outfit, but a friend pointed out that he probably earns more money wearing it. Point taken.
- It was also cool to see Erin Grey and Gil Gerard together.
- There were some "celebrities" who I had no idea who they were...
- There was also one dealer who looked a lot like Ben from Lost.
It was good times, and my only real problem was leaving about 3 hours later than I wanted to on Sunday.
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