Wrath of Con Party

Here are a few pictures from the Wrath of Con Party. It was an awesome event, definitely a highlight of the convention for me.

Masi Oka from Heroes and Myself

Zachary Levi from Chuck

The Guys from the Ben 10 Movie

Aita Briem 

Sam Huntington

Ed Brubaker, Zoe Bell and Myself

Ryan McPartlin from Chuck

Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence and Myself

Alison Haislip, Myself and Chris Hardwick

Kevin Sorbo, Myself and Chuck Lorre

Jess, Kunal Nayyar, and Myself

SDCC 09

In a little less then a month, I will be heading to San Diego Comic-Con. I hope to be able to update this site, with interesting news from the con. I will also be updating twitter a lot during the convention, so if you want to be update on the latest happenings at SDCC make sure you visit my twitter page.

Early press releases from various studios and networks are already appearing online. Some of the shows attending this years convention are: Dexter, Caprica, BSG: The Plan, Eureka, The Big Bang Theory, Dollhouse, Bones, Chuck, Supernatural, Smallville, Heroes, Sanctuary, Lost, Family Guy, True Blood, Fringe, Doctor Who, Torchwood and many others.

The Stargate Contiuum Panel at SDCC 08

A few films have announced SDCC premieres, as well as panels. Peter Jackson will be making his first SDCC appearance whilst promoting the film District 9. There will be a New Moon panel, the sequel to Twilight. Warner Brothers has confirmed some of the films that will have panels, howerver the talent attending the panels has not been confirmed yet. Some of the films are: Sherlock Holmes, The Box, Where the Wild Things Are, Jonah Hex, The Final Destination, and others.

This SDCC marks the 40th anniversary of the convention and with all the announcements it seems like the convention is going to be great.

NY Comic-Con 2009

A few weekends ago I went to NY for Comic-con. I have been so busy with work that I just didn't have the time for this huge post. But I figured I better make some time for this.

The convention was amazing. There was a lot of great programming and a lot of big names in attendance. There was so much to do at the convention and there was not enough time to do it all. Before I realized it, the convention was over and the 3 days had gone by so fast. I didn't even have time to attend a panel til Sunday. I was able to attend the Chuck panel, and they showed some exclusive clips from the second half of the season. I also went to the panel for the Wanted video game. The game looks awesome, has some really cool features and ties into both the film and the book. There was a little mention of the film sequel, only confirming that there is a sequel and no details about the cast or the storyline of the film.

A highlight of the convention for me was meeting Brian M. Bendis. It was great meeting him, because I really did enjoy reading Secret Invasion. I also met John Noble from Fringe and he was really nice. Fringe is easily one of the favorite new shows, and Dr. Walter Bishop is the best part of the show, so it was really great meeting him. I was also interviewed for the Fringe Podcast so that was pretty cool as well.

Lastly at the end of the day on Sunday, while walking down Artist Alley, I bumped into Tahmoh Penikett from Battlestar Galactica. It was amazing because I was unable to attend the Dollhouse Panel, and I didn't want to go the convention center at 3 in the morning for tickets to the signing, so it amazing that I just bumped into him. He was so nice, and he even took a picture with me. Being a big fan of BSG I was ecstatic.

So onto the pictures. I posted a bunch of other pictures on my Flickr site, so feel free to look at them there or on facebook. I may post more of the them here if I have the time.

New York Comic- Con

Well NY Comic-con is right around the corner...in fact it's 1 month away today. And this convention is shaping up to be great. The guest list is awesome and some attending artists and writers are: Grant Morrison, Brian Bendis, Jim Lee, Geoff Johns, J.G. Jones, David Finch, Matt Fraction, Ben Templesmith, Leinil Yu, Dave Gibbons, Alex Maleev, Andy Lanning, Dan Abnett, Gabriele Del'Otto. It has also recently been announce that Robot Chicken creators, Seth Green & Matthew Senreich will also be attending, they will be hosting a panel with special guests Breckin Meyer, Geoff Johns and Kevin Shinick, on saturday.

For more information on the convention visit: nycomiccon.com

For the latest news on the convention visit: mediumatlarge.net

Baltimore Comic-con

Baltimore Comic-con
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Well this past Saturday I took a trip down to Baltimore, with my friend John for Baltimore Comic-con. I had a really great time at the convention, and I even got to meet Jim Lee while I was there. I started out the day by going to the DC Nation panel. Dan Didio moderated the panel and panelists included Geoff Johns, Jimmy Palmiotti, Sean McKeever, James Robinson, and Sterling Gates. The panel started out by highlighting DC's current lineup and a preview of what's coming up next. There was a lot of talk about Final Crisis and Batman R.I.P.  as well as Superman and how October was going to be an important month for the Man of Steel. The panel was interesting and I always enjoy the DC panels because they seem to be very fan friendly. Geoff Johns was probably the best part of the panel, because we got to hear about some of the upcoming things that he has going on, and his answers to questions were very funny. A lot of the questions that people asked were about characters that had been killed off or hadn't been seen in a while and Johns kept saying that they were black lanterns. 

After the DC Panel was the Marvel A Cup of B Panel, which was moderated by Brian Bendis and included Dan Slott, Tom Brevoort and C.B. Cebulski. There was some announcements made at the beginning of the panel, including that Dan Slott will be writing Mighty Avengers starting with issue #21 and that he will no longer be writing for Avengers: The Initiative (which will only be written by Chris Gage). Instead of writing Mighty Avengers, Bendis will be writing Dark Avengers. He will also be teaming up with Alex Maleev to write Spider-Woman: Agent of SWORD which will debut in March of 2009 (Maleev and Bendis previously worked on Daredevil together). After the announcements the audience asked questions but there was nothing revealed about upcoming issues of Secret Invasion. A funny part of the panel was that there was a women signing in the front of the room for the hearing impaired and whenever Bendis would curse he would stop the panel to see how she signed the curses and he was paying a lot of attention to the woman signing. Also one of the audience members had made a jacket out of Mighty and New Avengers tie-ins, which he felt were filler issues, so that kept being brought up through out the panel.

After the panel I was finally able to make it to the convention floor. I got some good back issues that I was looking for, and I was able to get some things signed by Geoff Johns, JG Jones, Jim Lee and Dan Slott. I liked how the floor was set up, and how every artist and writer had their own table that they spent most of the day at, it made it a lot easier to get things signed and chat with the writers and artists a bit more.

San Diego Comic-Con Pictures

Comic-Con Schedule

Well just a quick announcement that the schedule for Comic-Con is up and it is awesome. There are so many amazing panels, ranging from films, to tv to comics, and websites. The convention should be amazing, so if you're going have fun...I know I will.

*Update: The Autograph schedule is now up as well.

**Update: The convention is officially sold out. I hope you have your tickets if you wanted to go.

Wizard World Philly

Well this past weekend I attend Wizard World Philly. It was a really good convention and I had a fantastic time. I went in thinking that it wouldn't be as good as NY Comic-Con but I really enjoyed myself.

I went on Friday and picked up my badge and did a quick walk through of the convention. There were a lot of booths and a got some good pins at the DC booth. I was pretty tired from spending most of Friday at the King of Prussia Mall so I didn't spend that much time at the con.

I spent all day Saturday at the convention. I started out the day by walking through the convention and hitting up the major booths (DC, Marvel, Top Cow, etc). I got some good free comics. Vertigo gave out the first Issue of House of Mystery and it is very good and interesting. I am definitely going to pick up the next issue, because it has my interest. 

After walking around the booths, I went to the J.G. Jones career retrospective panel at 11 a.m. J.G. was the Guest of Honor, and his panel was awesome. I was surprised that not that many people turned out to the panel, but I think that was because it was so early and people were still getting into the convention. They started out the panel with a slideshow of some of his work. After the slideshow, J.G. discussed what was going on when he was creating different pieces and some interesting facts about the art. It was great to hear his thoughts on his work. After the panel he was nice enough to sign for the fans that where there and he signed my copy of Wanted (which I can't wait for).

The next panel that I attend was for Marvel's Secret Invasion. Secret Invasion is one of my favorite comic series of the season, and it was great to see what was going to be happening in the series in the next few weeks. The cover for one of the upcoming issues was amazing, it was Captain America, Iron Man and Thor and the caption read Reunited. The crowd went wild at the sight of this, and all I have to say is how excited I am. I hope the real Steve Rogers comes back, its just not the same. Another cover has Nick Fury on it, and it will be good to have him finally back. I believe he is on issue 3, which comes out this week. The panel was awesome, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada was moderating the panel and along with Tom Brevoort answered most of the question about SEcret Invasion. Also in attendance were Brian Reed, Dan Slott, Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak, C.B. Cebulski, and Arune Singh.

During my lunch break I decided to walk around Philly since it wasn't raining. I walked all the way from the convention center to Independence Hall. I really wanted to see the Liberty Bell, but there were no more tickets available, so I walked back to the convention center to have lunch.

The final panel that I went to was Cup O' Joe with Joe Quesada. In this panel they answered the fans questions about anything in the MU. However most of the answers were to keep reading. Some interesting announcements were that: the next Stephen King comic would be The Stand, Daredevils new enemy would be Lady Bullseye, and finally that Marvel zombies would be crossing over into the MU. It's going to be a good year for Marvel comics and a lot of interesting comics are coming out. After the panel, I was able to get Joe Quesada's autograph on Invincible Iron Man Quesada Sketch variant, so that was awesome.

I went back to the convention floor after the panel, I found some great buys. I was able to get the first three Y: The Last Man TPBs for 20% off which was awesome. I already read the books and they are so good, I can't wait to get the rest in the series. I then stopped by the Marvel booth, since they were giving away a bunch of swag, and I got a free comic which was cool, except it was one that I never heard of or that I was interested in. After that the convention ended and I went back to my hotel to get ready for dinner. I went to eat at the Hard Rock with my Aunt, and that was great. I love the Hard Rock, especially since they have the best pins, which I purchased an awesome teal one.

On Sunday I also spend the whole day at the convention, but I was running a little late and didn't get there til close to 12. I immediately went the Marvel: Prize no prize panel. And one lucky fan walked away with the new issue of Secret Invasion. The questions were super hard, and after getting the final one right, the person deserved the issue. I unfortunately still have to wait til Wednesday for my copy. I walked around the Convention a bit, and I went to a J.G. Jones signing at the Top Cow booth. I was able to get him to sign my copy of Final Crisis, a Flash poster, and my TPB of Y: The Last Man. He was such an awesome guy, and pretty funny. He talked about juggling cats, which was amusing. 

I went to 2 more panels, a DC discussion and a Marvel discussion. It was great because the fans were able to talk about what they liked about the comics, characters and reminisce about how comics have affected them. At the end of the DC panel, Batman pins were handed out, and at the end of the Marvel panel, a free issue of X-Men legacy was handed out. I just love free swag. After the final panel, I went back to the convention and got for back issues of Colossus: Bloodline for $1. It was amazing how cheap everything went by the end of the day. After that, I met my Aunt, and we drove home from Philly. It was an awesome weekend and I can't wait for my next convention.

NY Comic-Con

So I attended NY Comic-Con on Saturday with my friend Carl and what an amazing day it was. I attended a few different panels, met a few celebrities, got introduced to some new comics and had an amazing time. So here are the highlights.

Before even getting into the con the excitement started. While waiting to get in, making our way closer to the entrance Stan Lee walked by. It was amazing to see him (although I only caught a glimpse because I am short) and the crowd went crazy.

The first panel that I went to was the Disney Panel for Wall-E and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The Wall-E clips were great, and it made me really look forward to the film. The Narnia panel was great. William Moseley, Ben Barnes, Peter Dinklage, and the producer of the film. The cast was great, there were a lot of funny moments and some interesting questions asked to the cast members. However some of the questions lasted forever, and people were basically saying how much they loved the books and hoped that the film didn't ruin the books. But otherwise it was a great panel, and I am looking forward to seeing the film.

The next panel was the Sci-Fi panel for Battlestar Galactica. I had never watched the show before, but after listening to some of the panel I will have to start watching the show.

After then panels we went up to the convention floor. I walked around looking at some of the new comics and seeing who was signing at the different tables. I found out the time for the Milo Ventimiglia autograph session, and I found out about some interesting new comics from Marvel. I have to mention Secret Invasion because it is my new favorite comic series. It is a comic event, and I after receiving the first issue for free at the con, I can not wait for the next issue. Also while walking around I made it to the DC area and saw the new figurines for Watchmen and The Dark Knight. Wow they are amazing except there was no figurine for Doctor Manhattan and that is the one character that I really want to see.

Afterward I went to the Milo Ventimiglia signing for Devil's Due Publishing. He was a really nice guy, and was very friendly with all of his fans. After his signing we went to lunch and after lunch we went to the Devil's Due Publishing panel, where Milo talked about his new comic, Rest. The comic sounds very interesting and I look forward to reading it in August when it drops.

After this panel there was a lot more walking, and I caught a glimpse of Frank Miller who was promoting The Spirit. 

The final panel that I went to was for Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. I had really enjoyed the first Starship Troopers film, and I had never seen the second one, so I didn't have the highest expectations for this film. But I was very surprised at how good the film looked. The bugs look amazing and there are some new bugs that are huge. Also some of the sequences look great. Not only does it look like a good action film, but there is also a lot of comedy in it. It could be a cult classic like the original. I hope it gets a nationwide release because I would really like to see the film. The cast afterward did a signing and took pictures with fans. They were all so nice, and really great with their fans. 

Well thats all I have to say about the con. Here are some pictures: