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Post by Jeffro on Aug 22, 2017 17:03:53 GMT -8
I'm actually kind of pumped for Terrificon. It's got a pretty good guest list and Superworld will be there. I can always find something from Ted to buy. Jeffro, you out there? How was Terrificon? It wasn't bad. The guest list was good enough to make me want to go. Comic dealers were really hit or miss. Ted had some nice stuff and a couple others had decent vintage material but I wasn't blown away by the comic selection. There were two art guys there with lots of pages but again nothing that really grabbed me unless I wanted to pay a lot more money than I brought with me. They had a JLI reunion panel with Giffen and Maguire that was very funny. If the guest list is as good next year, I'll go again. |
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Post by Bats on Aug 29, 2017 12:18:23 GMT -8
 For the past 5 years, LSCC has been held in February/March, in the Excel Centre at the London Docklands. This year it was moved to the Business Design Centre in Islington... and the busiest holiday weekend of August! The BDC is a smaller venue than Excel, which is just as well, because attendance appeared to be about half that of LSCC 2016. Probably due to it being held over the August Bank Holiday Weekend. The venue itself, however, looked much nicer inside than drab, empty warehouse appearance of the Excel. Beforehand...  Then...  Exhibitors were on the lower and middle floor...  With creators and panel rooms up on the top floor...  (Credit to whoever posted those last two photos)  It wasn't the most impressive Guest List ever seen at LSCC (we had Stan once!) but included such creators as... Gabrielle Dell'Otto Terry Dodson Lee Bermejo Jae Lee Guillem March Dave Gibbons And some guy called Brian Michael Bendis, who once wrote a Batman story... |
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Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Aug 29, 2017 15:32:32 GMT -8
Nice venue. Is that Poison Ivy walking up the main stairway?  Did you buy anything? |
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Post by Bats on Aug 29, 2017 21:04:48 GMT -8
Nice venue. Is that Poison Ivy walking up the main stairway? Did you buy anything? Yep that was Poison Ivy... Not too many PIs this year. Or Harleys for that matter. The whole thing was scaled down, including Cosplay. Overall the experience was good, just smaller. I didn't buy much of anything... except beer One figurine, a handful of moderns, and a few Lego figures for Batgirl. I'll post some more later on! |
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Post by Bats on Sept 2, 2017 15:45:04 GMT -8
Apologies for the tardiness... As mentioned, the whole thing was quite small. Smaller than previous years, that is. You guys would probably look at it and think "Aww, at least they're giving it a go."  Artists' Alley was downsized, with notable absences from artists who attended previous years... such as Gary Frank, Neal Adams, George Perez (get well fella) and Brian Bolland. Thankfully, it was air conditioned (unlike the main hall), so got a lot of thoroughfare... The Cosplay was almost non-existent in comparison to previous years. There were only a few people wandering around in costumes at any one time and the "pros" only seemed to make the odd guest appearance. There was a good selection of comic stalls and other merchandise, which kept me entertained for a the weekend. (Seriously) I spent an hour or two toying with the idea of buying a Batman #194, but it was just a bit too tatty for my liking. Slab wall...  I'll take the Superman #1, please... How much?! I see you take American Express... Can I use someone else's...? I attended a few panels over the weekend, the first one being on DC Rebirth... Billed as a discussion on Rebirth and "how it's taken the industry by storm", the panel consisted of four artists who were unable to answer any questions on why DC felt it necessary to have a "Rebirth". This culminated in some guy asking the panel "Watchmen... Why? ... Just why?!" which was met with silence The "My Batman" panel was quite good, which was four artists discussing their inspiration for drawing Batman. Apparently everyone loves Brian Bolland There was also a panel on the importance of comic covers, which somehow managed to dodge the subject of multiple variants. Probably because the panel consisted of variant cover artists... The panel host was an interesting chap (who I had the good fortune to meet later on). He has the entire run of Detective Comics and Batman (in a bank vault). His knowledge of DC comics is astonishing. |
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Post by Stu on Sept 2, 2017 15:59:45 GMT -8
Apologies for the tardiness... As mentioned, the whole thing was quite small. Smaller than previous years, that is. You guys would probably look at it and think "Aww, at least they're giving it a go." Artists' Alley was downsized, with notable absences from artists who attended previous years... such as Gary Frank, Neal Adams, George Perez (get well fella) and Brian Bolland. Thankfully, it was air conditioned (unlike the main hall), so got a lot of thoroughfare... The Cosplay was almost non-existent in comparison to previous years. There were only a few people wandering around in costumes at any one time and the "pros" only seemed to make the odd guest appearance. There was a good selection of comic stalls and other merchandise, which kept me entertained for a the weekend. (Seriously) I spent an hour or two toying with the idea of buying a Batman #194, but it was just a bit too tatty for my liking. Slab wall... I'll take the Superman #1, please... How much?! I see you take American Express... Can I use someone else's...? I attended a few panels over the weekend, the first one being on DC Rebirth... Billed as a discussion on Rebirth and "how it's taken the industry by storm", the panel consisted of four artists who were unable to answer any questions on why DC felt it necessary to have a "Rebirth". This culminated in some guy asking the panel "Watchmen... Why? ... Just why?!" which was met with silence The "My Batman" panel was quite good, which was four artists discussing their inspiration for drawing Batman. Apparently everyone loves Brian Bolland There was also a panel on the importance of comic covers, which somehow managed to dodge the subject of multiple variants. Probably because the panel consisted of variant cover artists... The panel host was an interesting chap (who I had the good fortune to meet later on). He has the entire run of Detective Comics and Batman (in a bank vault). His knowledge of DC comics is astonishing. Please tell me that chap wasn't Ian Levine  And yes, everyone should love Brian Bolland. |
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Post by steveinthecity on Sept 2, 2017 20:17:24 GMT -8
Apologies for the tardiness... As mentioned, the whole thing was quite small. Smaller than previous years, that is. You guys would probably look at it and think "Aww, at least they're giving it a go." Artists' Alley was downsized, with notable absences from artists who attended previous years... such as Gary Frank, Neal Adams, George Perez (get well fella) and Brian Bolland. Thankfully, it was air conditioned (unlike the main hall), so got a lot of thoroughfare... The Cosplay was almost non-existent in comparison to previous years. There were only a few people wandering around in costumes at any one time and the "pros" only seemed to make the odd guest appearance. There was a good selection of comic stalls and other merchandise, which kept me entertained for a the weekend. (Seriously) I spent an hour or two toying with the idea of buying a Batman #194, but it was just a bit too tatty for my liking. Slab wall... I'll take the Superman #1, please... How much?! I see you take American Express... Can I use someone else's...? I attended a few panels over the weekend, the first one being on DC Rebirth... Billed as a discussion on Rebirth and "how it's taken the industry by storm", the panel consisted of four artists who were unable to answer any questions on why DC felt it necessary to have a "Rebirth". This culminated in some guy asking the panel "Watchmen... Why? ... Just why?!" which was met with silence The "My Batman" panel was quite good, which was four artists discussing their inspiration for drawing Batman. Apparently everyone loves Brian Bolland There was also a panel on the importance of comic covers, which somehow managed to dodge the subject of multiple variants. Probably because the panel consisted of variant cover artists... The panel host was an interesting chap (who I had the good fortune to meet later on). He has the entire run of Detective Comics and Batman (in a bank vault). His knowledge of DC comics is astonishing. Please tell me that chap wasn't Ian Levine And yes, everyone should love Brian Bolland. I was kind of hoping it was Ian Levine.  And yeah, I agree about Brian Bolland. |
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Post by Bats on Sept 2, 2017 23:48:50 GMT -8
Please tell me that chap wasn't Ian Levine The music guy...? No. |
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Post by Stu on Sept 3, 2017 7:54:40 GMT -8
Please tell me that chap wasn't Ian Levine The music guy...? No. Yeah, he is kinda famous for the music, Dr. Who, and for having every DC comic. |
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Post by Bats on Sept 3, 2017 21:57:27 GMT -8
Yeah, he is kinda famous for the music, Dr. Who, and for having every DC comic. Ah yes. Allegedly... The chap in question was Duncan McAlpine. |
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Post by Siggy's Tar Dust® on Sept 4, 2017 16:12:24 GMT -8
Cool report. I liked the DC Rebirth 'silence' story Any concern that your Cons are going to keep getting smaller? Any hope that this was just a fluke? |
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Post by Bats on Sept 4, 2017 22:12:20 GMT -8
Cool report. I liked the DC Rebirth 'silence' story Any concern that your Cons are going to keep getting smaller? Any hope that this was just a fluke? LSCC, definitely. The main problem was the time of year... peak holiday time. I doubt they'll have time to move it to back to Feb for next year, so we'll have to see. Something's certainly gone on behind the scenes... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 15:45:52 GMT -8
Yeah, he is kinda famous for the music, Dr. Who, and for having every DC comic. Ah yes. Allegedly... The chap in question was Duncan McAlpine. Duncan McAlpine, the long time comic shop owner, market contributor, and writer of the UK Comics Price Guide! |
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Post by Bats on Sept 5, 2017 21:09:31 GMT -8
Ah yes. Allegedly... The chap in question was Duncan McAlpine. Duncan McAlpine, the long time comic shop owner, market contributor, and writer of the UK Comics Price Guide! A very interesting fellow. He should've had his own panel! |
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Post by Stu on Sept 6, 2017 9:03:26 GMT -8
Apologies for the tardiness... As mentioned, the whole thing was quite small. Smaller than previous years, that is. You guys would probably look at it and think "Aww, at least they're giving it a go." Artists' Alley was downsized, with notable absences from artists who attended previous years... such as Gary Frank, Neal Adams, George Perez (get well fella) and Brian Bolland. Thankfully, it was air conditioned (unlike the main hall), so got a lot of thoroughfare... The Cosplay was almost non-existent in comparison to previous years. There were only a few people wandering around in costumes at any one time and the "pros" only seemed to make the odd guest appearance. There was a good selection of comic stalls and other merchandise, which kept me entertained for a the weekend. (Seriously) I spent an hour or two toying with the idea of buying a Batman #194, but it was just a bit too tatty for my liking. Slab wall... I'll take the Superman #1, please... How much?! I see you take American Express... Can I use someone else's...? I attended a few panels over the weekend, the first one being on DC Rebirth... Billed as a discussion on Rebirth and "how it's taken the industry by storm", the panel consisted of four artists who were unable to answer any questions on why DC felt it necessary to have a "Rebirth". This culminated in some guy asking the panel "Watchmen... Why? ... Just why?!" which was met with silence The "My Batman" panel was quite good, which was four artists discussing their inspiration for drawing Batman. Apparently everyone loves Brian Bolland There was also a panel on the importance of comic covers, which somehow managed to dodge the subject of multiple variants. Probably because the panel consisted of variant cover artists... The panel host was an interesting chap (who I had the good fortune to meet later on). He has the entire run of Detective Comics and Batman (in a bank vault). His knowledge of DC comics is astonishing. Any talk about Metal and the Dark Multiverse? That storyline is freaking me out, it's like a car crash I can't take my eyes off of. |
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