All right, guys. Without exaggeration, today is one of the best days I've had in a long time. Kind of overwhelming how good it's been, so I'll just go chronologically and hit all the main stuff.
First of all, after getting ready for SDCC in the morning, I get a text from my neighbor saying I got the FroYo manager job! So I'm giving my two weeks notice at my awful website job tomorrow morning. So, so, so excited. Gonna be a pretty big change.
Okay, then the train ride down to San Diego was so great. I love trains. The views were spectacular.
And then going into the exhibit hall at SDCC for the first time. So insane. Just overwhelming.
After an hour or so of just wandering around and kind of getting a grip on SDCC, I met up with Bii and Serpentine. Both totally awesome guys. We mostly just wandered the floor and saw the endless amount of stuff there is to see, but some of the highlights were:
- Meeting this guy who made an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (comes out from IDW in October 2015 I think). Chatted with him for a couple minutes about how amazing HST is and how I've always thought HST's books would make amazing comics. We both agreed that the not very well-known Curse of Lono would be the second-best HST book to adapt of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas did well. He was a cool guy. Gave me a signed 50-page preview of the OGN.
- Meeting Rob Liefeld and taking a picture with him. Self-explanatory why this is awesome.
- Going to the Chip Zdarsky panel. That guy is absolutely hilarious. Such a fun panel. Mark Waid even went up during the open-question time and asked him who his favorite JSA character was.
I'm absolutely certain I'm forgetting some amazing stuff, but those are some highlights off the top of my head.
I hadn't bought anything all day (obviously) and I was 99% sure I wasn't going to buy anything, but then literally minutes before the exhibit hall closed, we stopped by the Drawn & Quarterly booth and I knew I had to buy something. The prices were way lower than I was expecting, so I bought
"Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years..." which is a massive 775 page hardcover that's half history of Drawn & Quarterly and half comic strips. Looks super cool. And I bought
"Pure Pajamas" by Marc Bell which is a collection of short comics by Marc Bell. Other than that I know nothing about it other than the fact that the art looks absolutely amazing. And I also bought
"Ant Colony" by Michael DeForge which I've read probably half of already since it's also a webcomic and I absolutely adore it. It's incredible. I'm so stoked for every single one of those things I bought and I paid something like $60 for all three, which seems like a total steal.
Here's a picture of my haul.
And then, lastly, the train ride back was almost as awesome as the train ride there. And now I'm home, just super stoked about how great life is.
Anyways, thank you so much Bii and Serpentine for wandering around SDCC all day with me. You guys are seriously great guys and I had such an amazing time. I'm really looking forward to seeing you at future cons!
