Well i had a blast this weekend, i went to emerald city comic con in seattle on saturday and sunday and boy was it fun. On Saturday i didn't really buy many comics i decided to hold off till sunday when i might be able to find some last minute markdowns going on :)
So i took saturday to meet all the special guests and such. The one i was most excited going into the show was Peter Mayhew (chewbacca) and i was pretty happy to meet him and get his autograph though he seemed to be in kind of a bad mode and wasn't that friendly.
The guests i was looking forward to second most were the penny arcade guys, i went to their booth and ended up buying there new "heroism" t-shirt and a poster which i got autographed. They were really nice and they were having fun interacting with their fans and even playing a few rounds of puzzle quest with each other and fans who had brough DS's.
Next on the list were some of the actors from the show Farscape; Gigi edgely (Chi'ana), Wayne Pygram (scorpius), and Lani Tupu (Capt Crais and pilot's voice). I don't know if its because there weren't many farscape fans there or what but these guys didn't have many fans around, which was actually a good thing for me because it meant they had a lot of time to really talk and hang out with fans. Gigi was really cool and we actually talked for about 15 minutes or so after i got her autograph, that was probably my favorite part of the Con, she was really nice ( and really really hott as well :))
At the end of the first day they had a costume contest, where some pretty impressive costumes were worn. The Winner of the show was an amazing greivous costume and second place went to a really well done hellboy costume.
After the con was done for the night i met up with a friend and we cruised around seattle, checking out some of the sights including the space needle.
The next morning we went to the sci-fi museum in seattle, which had some cool sci-fi props and costumes, then to the Experience Music Project which had some great music memorbilla.
Then after lunch i headed back to the Con. I picked up about 25-30 comics ( some star wars stuff, and a bunch of marvel). Then made another round to the farscape cast. And then i sat in on a marvel discussion where some of the writers answered fan questions and talked about civil war, the aftermath, and upcoming events. Then i sat in on a webcomics panel. Mike from penny arcade was there, scott kurtz from PVP, and a few others. It was pretty interesting and scott and mike were pretty funny.
All in all it was a great weekend, and i'm definitley gonna try and make it out again next year, i just hope i wont be at sea. I want to make PAX this year, but unfortunatley i'll be at sea probably. Anyway, i
ve got a bunch of pics and stuff so i'll probably put them together and post a video/slideshow on youtube, i'll post the link when i get it done.