NY Comic Con-Saturday April 19th April 23, 2008
Posted by 54071 in : Comics , trackbackHey there!
A day late and a dollar short.
I apologize to everyone for this being late, but due to some recurring health issues ( chronic COPD and Asthma ) I have been really under the weather lately.
Well, this was my first ( and possibly Last ) comic con…I’ll give you my impressions of it all..
First, I should state here that at the ripe old age of 50, I really don’t like crowds ( I know, if I really don’t like crowds, what was I doing going to an event like this in the first place? ) well, I actually went to this just for the express purpose of meeting my distributor, AAA Anime in the flesh, and talk a bit of business…of which I did. I finally met my rep from AAA and it was nice to put a face to the voice, and while we did talk a bit about the Anime Figure business, there really were not any real gems of knowledge to be taken away from this impromptu meeting…needless to say I was a bit disappointed…and I was also hoping to walk away with a gift of two and did not…they would be giving away some leftover items to attendees on Sunday, and of course I would not be getting any loot that way!
So, aside from being prodded thru a line like cattle ( my friends and I joked about waiting for someone to get out a cattle prod to move us along ) I will admit there was a lot of neat stuff to see, and I was like a kid in a candy store…from looking at different figure displays from companies like Kotobukiya to Diamond Select, and of course all the comic companies, but truth tom tell, the highlight for me was when we were standing on line waiting to get into the facility, who gets escorted in but Stan ” The Man ” Lee…. I shook his hand and said hi…and I’ll always remember that moment…because for me it made the show for me.
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