Tag: ComicCon

Not that I was planning to go this year…

Not that I was planning to go this year (with Long Beach just a month later, and Comikaze just a week after that), but it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the WW cons. The next time I do plan on going to a Wizard show, I’m definitely not getting advance tickets.

WWLA Canceled — Sorry, Postponed — Again

Sequential Awesome: An Open Letter To DC Creative, RE: Wally West

Sequential Awesome: An Open Letter To DC Creative, RE: Wally West

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An Open Letter to DC Creative, RE: Wally West,

I’d like this to be professional and not bring emotion into it, but, well, I can’t do that. You’re effectively brushing a character that’s shown more growth and publishing success than his replacement (and predecessor). Your flippant dismissal of…

At Comic-Con last(?) year, O’Malley mentioned that the movie crew tried to visit real…

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/13/scott-pilgrim-real-life-locations/

At Comic-Con last(?) year, O'Malley mentioned that the movie crew tried to visit real locations when he referenced them specifically. In one case, a phone booth had been removed, and they rebuilt it for the scene.

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Cosplayer Coincidence

Wayne Lippa wrote:

So, I was looking at a few of your other pictures, Kelson, and just out of curiosity, what was the story behind the photo of you and Misty Lee?

Early last year I followed Mark Evanier’s blog for a while, and in one of his posts he recommended a magic show in the Los Angeles area. It was a one-weekend show with one act of Misty Lee and one act of Sylvester the Jester. I got tickets and went. I think it was around March, or maybe May.

So during the 2006 Comic-Con, I was walking around and saw someone who, at first glance, seemed to be wearing a very good Zatanna-style costume. I asked her if she’d pose for a picture (which unfortunately turned out to be out-of-focus, so I didn’t post it). As I lowered the camera, I recognized her as Misty Lee.

I told her I’d been to her show in Burbank, she said something about “I hope it wasn’t ___ night, that one was terrible!” I couldn’t remember which day of the weekend I had gone, and she offered to pose with me for another photo. She also offered me tickets the next time she did a show in the area. She seemed very happy to be recognized as Misty Lee, magician, rather than as random attractive woman in hot costume. I handed my camera to the man she was walking with, and glanced at his name badge: he was her husband, Paul Dini.

So I got my picture taken with Misty Lee, by Paul Dini! (It’s too bad I look terrible in that photo — I’m 5-10 pounds heavier than I am now, only half-smiling, and starting to blink.)