C2E2 2011

Well put another "Con" in the bank. We went to C2E2 last Sunday. Had a ball. I didn't buy much this year. I picked up some Alien Kubricks series 2. These are blind boxed so i've been avoiding them but a booth had 3 for $10 so i took a chance and lucked out and got the 3 of the 5 i wanted.

(i got facehugger with ash, Dallas, and the baby alien with 2 eggs. score!)

Retro Outlaw has these, limited to 250, hand painted resin statues of everyone's favorite Droogy Alex.

Oh and by the way each one is signed by MALCOLM MCDOWELL!!! I am still on the fence if i'm going to buy one of these.

Yoshi bought various Hulk, Stormtrooper, and monster figures. And a Terminator (his favorite movie at the moment).

He dressed as a post apocolyptic marauder ala- Fallout, Road Warrior, Borderlands, etc.
Whatever i'm doing as a Dad... I know i'm doing it right.

Anyway, as always, pictures speak better than my words ever could. Here is C2E2 in Chicago-March 2011.

And the highlight of the show for him (and me) was meeting Finn the Human and Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time. Princess Bubblegum gave him a lollipop that he's built into a sort of shrine in his room.

And here is our hero about 5 minutes after we got in the car.

Old Man Logan

I haven't been regularly reading comics in quite some years. Well as i write that i realize that's not entirely true. My son has a decent collection of old Hulk, Spidey, and G.I. Joe comics which i occasionally read to him. But baring that and my growing collection of vintage Marvel Star Wars comics i am not really up on the latest in the comic world. The last great series i  read was The Maxx in my opinion. Anyway, my friend Jeremy turned me on to a 6 or 7 issue mini series that was pretty old (it had Dark Knight ads in them ) called Old Man Logan.

The story is centered on Wolverine who now some 50 years older goes by the name Logan and hasn't popped his claws in as long. See 50 years ago all the villains teamed up in the marvel universe and attacked the heroes. With the odds 10 to 1 the heroes lost. Wolverine didn't die. The villains broke him. Broke him in a way that i will not reveal here but it was a jaw dropping moment in the books.

He takes a job that has him travel across the territories of the United States that have been divided between various Villain factions. I don't want to spoil to much but i can't recommend this series enough. Check it out the next time your at the comic store.

comics

i think i'm gonna be $500 lighter.i went to the comic store saturday.i knew the new issue of star wars dark times came out and i wanted to get my hands on it.they have vintage marvel star wars at this shop but i've avoided re-collecting these for 2 reasons.1-when i was a kid i plunked done my allowance every month for these and even as akid i knew the inside art work was HORRIBLE!people and objects size never related to each other.everyone had these hard,square superman jaws.freakin bunny bounty hunters!luke looked like one of the allman brothers.can i stress how bad the art is?2-the shop charges $4-$5 an issue.there were like 120 issues.but like everytime i've gone previous i looked at them anyway.and then i saw this issue in the box.


i remembered this issue.leia is trapped somewhere hiding and fighting the empire lone-wolf style.and as bad as the inside art was the covers(like almost every comic in the world) were GORGEOUS.so i plunked down my $5 for this issue thinkin "i'll only buy the issues with covers i like."

i think i'm gonna be $500 lighter.