maggied’s blag

Dale and I went to NY Comic Con the first weekend after term started. It was the first convention either of had ever been to, and needless to say it was pretty overwhelming.  When we first got to NYC on Saturday morning (after waking up at 7am; we were pretty dedicated) we walked with a crowd of people over to the Jacob Javits center. It was pretty obvious we were all going to Comic Con. Some people were dressed up but not quite as many as I had expected. Way more people were dressed up as Anime characters than as Comic Book characters and/or Super heroes. I got really excited when we finally arrived because many of the security guards were dressed up as storm troopers! A lot of them looked really awesome, so I got my picture taken:

We had originally made a list of the different booths we wanted to visit, but it was so crowded and awesome that we just wandered around through the booths. There were lots of vendors with everything nerdy. I took a picture with my favorite pal, Yoda, who was on sale for somewhere in the four figure range ($$$).

I couldn’t have all the fun, though (after all, this wasn’t a Star Wars convention), so Dale got a nice shot with Batman. Look at the super excited face!

After walking around a bit more I got my picture taken with spidey (even though I like Peter Parker better…)

And then the zombie spidey attacked us! What ever were we to do!

After drooling over the booths for a while, we attended an interesting panel called “Anime for Comic Fans, Comics for Anime Fans.” I thought the talk was really interesting because it defined characteristics about a given Anime or Comic and gave a recommendation of something one might like in a somewhat different medium.

The panel was really exciting, but Dale and I still had a fundamental disagreement about whether Anime or Comics were better. Conveniently, Marvel had just the venue for us to battle it out in (I’m pretty sure I won).

After getting that over with, we went to see a screening of the first few episodes of Gurren Lagann. It was pretty crazy; robots, breasts, and crazy battles. What more could you ask for (this is after I spent a few minutes arguing that robots and breasts aren’t what anime is all about. sigh.)

We left the Con around 4pm to go listen to my little brother play saxophone over at The Bitter End. He was playing with his music school and  he went on last. Every time I hear him he gets a lot better. After listening to music for a while we went out to dinner and caught up with my cousin and her SO. They live really close to Times Square, so we got to walk around there for a while.

The next day at Comic Con was time for shopping. After watching The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (which I highly recommend — it was amazing, even despite the fact that it didn’t feature robots nor breasts), Dale got his Comic on. Meanwhile, I scored some totally sweet Star Wars plushies.

All in all it was a really fun weekend. Now term has started, though, and things are already pretty hectic. Hopefully there will be time to do something exciting for Spring Break!

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