Emeral City Comic-Con 2008

Sunday, May 11, 2008

We were at Emeral City Comic-Con in Seattle, Washington, USA this past weekend. It's rumored to be the 2nd biggest comic book convention behind San Diego Comic-Con International. It was packed and quite large as this is the first year it was held at the Seattle Convention Center. This show is a lot different than San Diego. For instance, this is THE SHOW for comic books. Whereas, pop culture and the film industry have virtually overtaken traditional comic book trading at San Diego, Emeral City is all about comic books. There was maybe one booth for movie oriented things. Everyone there was a comic-book vendor and they were all “talking shop”. Here are some of the highlights & a lot bunch of pictures:

The local chapter of the Storm Trooper Brigade had a booth and there were people in Storm Trooper costumes all over the place. They even had a dude in a Darth Vader costume that looked totally authenticate who was giving them orders. The kids were very excited to get a picture with some of the storm troopers.

Some of the cast of WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO was in attendance with Fat Momma being the biggest star of the group. They were signing autographs but there wasn’t much of a line. Defuser & Ms. Limelight were also there.

Wil Wheaton was signing and talking with fans. He actually had quite the line-up so he’s won someone over out there.

We were actually excited to go and meet Adam Baldwin (of FIREFLY fame) but he turned out to be unable to attend at the last second. In his place, of all people to bring in, they had Daniel Logan (young version of Boba Fett in Star Wars episodes 1 & 2). You remember him. He’s the kid that laughed when his “dad” was trying to kill a younger version of Obiwan. Painful. Seems like a nice guy in real life though. I blame Lucas of course for most of that disaster.

Jamie Bamber’s (Apollo on the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) plane was late on Saturday so he didn’t arrive until afternoon but the line was pretty long to see him. Lots of BG fans out there.

There were some GREAT deals on comics at the show. Most of the merchandise stuff was over-priced but a couple of booths had graphic novels at 50% off for the day so I picked up a few that I’ve been meaning to buy but never wanted to pay full price.

Overall, if you just want the comic book purest show, then Emerald City is the one to go to. If you want to know what movies, video games, and toys are coming out in the next year (with a few comic book vendors in between), then San Diego is the show to go to.

Categories: Conventions

By Doctor Ess

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