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[Alucard]

Just curious. I'll be there this Saturday. (It's at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre) The events lined up all sound rather sweet. Patrick Stewart at 5pm! I'm not sure if I'll stick around for that but it would be cool. Anyways, any other geeks heading down?

Here are the scheduled events for the comic portion:

http://www.hobbystar.com/ComicConToronto/pdf/COMIC SCHEDULE04.pdf

 

[explodet]

Damn it, it's this weekend?

I guess I'll try and catch it tomorrow. Although usually I just check out the dealers to see what's available.

 

[Alucard]

Well, it actually started today but I'm working so I'll just be heading down for tomorrow. It should be cool. I had fun the one time I went...so much stuff to check out and see and so little money to spend on it. I doubt I'll get to see Patrick Stewart since tix to see him will likely be ridiculously expensive. A lot of the free stuff should be good anyways. Plus, there will likely be hilarious cosplay!

 

[GG-Duo]

Me, on saturday.
I have no interest in any of the 4 things there, but I figure that I should go to those at least once in my life. and who knows, there could be cool stuff there.

 

[Shinobi]

My bro's going tomorrow...too damn expensive for me to bother.

 

[Alucard]

$20 for the day! DO IT! 300lb Wonder Women await!

 

[Fifty]

It's interesting finding out who else from GA lives in Toronto via this thread

 

[Alucard]

GA Toronto meetup?!

 

[GG-Duo]

GA Toronto meetup?!

sure. check pm's.

 

[Kefkaff]

I wouldn't count on Patrick Stewart showing up... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040827/ap_on_en_mo/people_patrick_stewart

Anyway.. if I lived in Toronto and was bored out of my mind I'd go

 

[ThirstyFly]

Ah crap, it snuck up on me. Too late to make plans with my friends to go now.

Oh well.

 

[Shinobi]

$20 for the day! DO IT! 300lb Wonder Women await!

:lol Yeah, there's a selling point...

 

[Alucard]

Sweet. I got a couple of books signed by Michael Turner and his colourist (for Soulfire) and picked up Jason and the Argobots by J. Torres and even had a nice little chat with him before getting that signed. Really cool and personable guy.

The Dreamwave section was probably the sleekest...they had a couple of booth babes that you could tell weren't overly thrilled to be there. I didn't get a chance to get Pat Lee's autograph, which I was kind of disappointed in. Same with Brian Azzarello. (I picked up Superman #204 for nothing. Haha.) And I found Daredevil #41, which I've been looking for for a long time now. It was the 25 cent issue. Woo.

Next year I wanna go for the full weekend and see everything and get as much stuff signed as possible. Tons of cosplay.

 

[GG-Duo]

Never again, never again, never again.
I thought I can stand cosplayers, but uh, not really. They creeped me out for some reason.

bought a Street Fighter #2 Foil for a friend, cuz the cover looks very cool (Ken). A ReBoot button (yay). Astroboy and Nightmare Before Christmas shirts.

Some comments:
the toys are expensive compared to Pac Mall standards.
Nice to see that people still love Invader Zim after all this time.
Too much Naruto, no One Piece
interesting to see what sort of manga is carried. I guess manga is still sort of niche, so only a certain type of manga gets popular enough? Where's the Firefighter Daioh, man.
Some of the artists there were pretty amazing. I like that one dude who draws comic book characters in a caligraphy style.