The NYCC 2007 Experience

Alf's revelation/question was worth the 25 awful and 3 decent quests preceding it.

I had an amazing time, 100 times better than I could have imagined.

I'm surprised at all the horror stuff going down. Now I'm sorry I missed it.

It looks like it will. There's a lot of online post-show press for it this year.

Didn't indulge in too much of the horror stuff this year (I just stopped by the After Dark FIlms table - a piss poor representation, mind you - and grabbed some stuff & entered the raffle for a t-shirt). But I did have a good time, and plan on going again next year. The 2 drawbacks, as I see them are:

1. The hour long wait to get in. We got there at 11:30, and the place opened at 10 AM. And Al does not exaggerate when he says the line really was 7 blocks long. Although the line moved pretty good, I do not see why it took 1 hour to get us inside. I overheard someone say later in the day that there wasn't a wait at 1 PM, so maybe we'll just arrive in the afternoon next year; and

2. There seem to be fewer and fewer actual comic book vendors each year, and more and more cross marketing stuff.I don't have a problem w/ RPG publishers, film companies or anyone else being there, mind you, but I go mainly to buy books, and the more actual comics being sold, the better, IMO. That is the reason this con is there in the 1st place, right?

But again, overall a positive experience, even if there was no way in hell I was getting a ticket to the SK panel discussion by the time we got in.

So that's what the notorious Alex R looks like!

I helped set up a "Comic Con" at a school library one time. Alex, I can definitely relate to ya. So many bad questions...

Hilarious.

I'd love to go to one of these things. I know a lot of it may seem lame and there will always be way more uber-geeks then I am comfortable with, but still - to relish a day with fellow geeks sounds fun. Obviously you get out of it what you put in, but I'd probably take it like Alex. Just hang back, make fun of the ubers, and visit the things that seem cool to me.

Good job on the article.

Great shot of us (Alex and I) from behind. Also confirms to my wife that I was there and not at some strip-club that smells like comic books and NJ Transit.