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Game of Thrones and Seville My wife and I are in Seville for vacation and we learned that Game of Thrones is filming part of the new season here at Alcázar (the Royal Palace) next week. The locals are excited but put off too, because they plan to film over Columbus day. Christopher Columbus is big here and many people visit Seville, so it'll be bad that the Alcázar will be closed that day. Here are some pictures of the Alcázar that we took during our tour. Maybe some of the rooms and courtyards will be used in GOT. If you've never been there, Alcázar has a Moorish feel to it like the Alhambra in Granada (in fact it seems GOT considered both as locations but eventually decided on Alcázar).

Things to look forward to Lots of things coming up. First, tonight C-Link's auction begins to close. I've got about 2 dozen tracking bids. Almost all are already beyond my reach. Fortunately, the book I want the most is also (I think ) a book no one else wants. How often does that happen?! I've also got 2 Value invoices pending. I fast tracked them and they both stand at Verified. Maybe I'll get them in a couple weeks? Anyway, here are a couple books I picked up on eBay recently with Pepoy covers. After shopping for a couple months, I figured out it made more sense to buy graded rather than raw. For what I paid for them, the sellers made a profit of maybe $10 a book, assuming they bought them for cover and didn't fast track. At that price it makes no sense to submit myself and take on the risk of getting less than 9.8. I've never understood how people can make money selling CGC modern books.

Quick update: Lost out on Bettie Page Comics 1 CGC 9 9. My top bid was $120, the winning bid was $122.50. I'm disappointed, but I would not spent more than $120 for this book, and if fact I was feeling queasy at that amount. Chasing registry points is fun, but you've got to keep things in perspective. Interestingly, you don't get much of a bump from 9.8 to 9.9 (64 to 80). If it had been a major jump (like > 75 points; 75 points can have a major impact in this set) I might have been more tempted. But here's what I mean by keeping things in perspective. Here's a comic I won last night, this golden age Crime Reporter with a Matt Baker cover. I picked this up for only $78! Any time you can get a Baker cover for good eye appeal for under $100, you've got a win!

Update on Dave Stevens Cover Set I got this one back from CGC this week. They relabeled it to reflect it's the Frank Miller version. They did it for free, including shipping it back to me. I needed this correction so I could enter it into my Dave Stevens set. This set includes comics with covers by the late, great GGA artist, Dave Stevens. On this one, it's actually the back cover that's by Stevens. I'm really getting into building this set, which is an about face for me as I never thought I'd get into collecting competitve sets. But my chances of taking the #1 position on this set are about zero. At the moment I'm #8 with1385 points. Doctor Joe is #1 with 3317 points. He's got some amazing comics, including 3-D Zone 16 SS 9.8 at 308 points (I'd love to know if it's Steven's sig or another creator on the book). Also, his set is only 45% complete, which means even if I get close he can shoot ahead by adding a few books. 3-D Zone 16 is the key to this set. You have to have it in 9.8 (mine is 9.4). I'm been trying to get a 9.8 copy of this comic. This summer I bought 2 raws. I had hopes for 9.8, but having them in my hands they are 9.6 at best (although I might roll the dice and send them in anyway). A copy was sold on C-Link for $435 last month, which is about twice what I'm willing to pay. I'll move up a little in the near future, as I've got one book that's coming to me in the mail (a real steal that popped up on eBay last weekend, that I immediately hit BIN), and a couple bids out right now I'm cautiously hopeful on.

Game of Thrones CGC SS I've said before how I like collecting CGC SS comics signed by actors of my favorite shows. To me they're great momentos of the TV show or movie. The key is, you have to pick the right book. Either the 1st appearance of the character in the comic, or a good cover of the character. Game of Thrones is one of my favorite shows. Here's a book I picked up on eBay a few weeks ago, signed by Emilia Clarke (Dani) and Jason Momoa (Drogo). The cover depicts, well, their wedding night (which is why some people call the show Porn of Thrones). I watched this book on eBay for a few months. The seller had it expensively priced and it didn't move. I guess the seller realized it wasn't moving so he put it up for sale in a no reserve auction. I was lucky to be watching when it went up for auction, and won it at substantially less than the seller's original price. So I was really happy with my buy, but THEN the seller put another copy up for no reserve auction. So he had 2! (This seller apparently has relationships with actors or studios so he has alot of CGC autographed items -- and with every buy, for CGC or non-CGC items, he also includes pictures of the actors signing the thing you bought, which is very cool -- so he's one of my favorite sellers on eBay.) That copy sold for less than I paid. Oh well, can't do anything about that ... except feel bad ....

Star Wars Mini-Figs and a Brief Tour of My Comic Book Room For a while my son (who is now 13) was all into Legos, and especially Star Wars Legos. He eventually moved onto different things (especially skateboarding) and all the Legos are in a big tub in our storage room. A couple years ago I decided to pull the Star Wars mini-figs from the big tub, to display in my comic book room. My son was cool with this, because my kids like to see part of themselves in the comic book room. The parts of the figures were all over the place. It took me a while to put them together. Here's where I am right now, I still have a small box of parts to put together. My kids were also into Harry Potter Lego sets. Here are the figures I managed to salvage (not a whole lot of them): I also collect Star Trek action figures. Mostly still in the card, but after collecting for years I've picked up a bunch of loose figures (many from my older brother who gave me his collection.) But how do you display those loose figures? I finally decided to put them all in a plastic box I got from the grocery store, it was a great way to display them in a small amount of space. Something else I find fun to collect are DC and Marvel mini-figures. I end up storing them everywhere, where ever they fit. Here are a few pics of them in my comic book room.

Batman 42 - the First Catwoman Cover in Batman This one came up for sale on the boards a few weeks ago, Batman #42. It's the 2nd cover with Catwoman, and the 1st in Batman. I really like books like this, fun "minor" keys. I don''t mind restoration because it brings the price down. But I find it hard to value restored comics. Overstreet has 4.0 at $412 and 6.0 at $616. GPA has the book at $500 for 5.5, but their last sale was way back in 2011 (making their data of little use). There's a 5.0 on sale on eBay right now for $600. In pricing out a book like this, where there's not alot of sales data, I just try to do a gut feel on what I'm willing to pay -- taking into consideration it's a book I want but not a big collecting goal (in fact it wasn't even on my want list when it came up for sale here). This pricing information helps inform my decision though. For example, I definitely wasn't paying anything close to the VG (4.0) price of $412. So anyway, the seller and I were able to work out a deal. It's a cool book to have, the 1st Catwoman cover in Batman. And I love those DC covers where the main characters pull the cover back to reveal a new character to the title.

My First Sketch Op Almost Done I'm hesitate to post this as I don''t want to jinx it -- but it looks like I might be getting the books from my first sketch op in the near future. I signed up for it last November (!!), and after drama involving the facilitator it looks like it's on track to be completed soon - finally! This, only after some good souls pitched in to get it done. Both sketch covers are done. Hopefully they'll be submitted to CGC soon. I commissioned 2 covers, both homages to this Batgirl cover: I commissioned a Black Canary and a Scarlet Witch. Here they are before being submitted to CGC (one a front cover, one a double cover):

Biggest Holder I've Ever Seen This is another book I submitted for on-site grading at Baltimore, a TBP to add to my Frank Miller Sin City collection. In Baltimore, CGC told me they didn't have a holder big enough to fit the book. They took it back to Florida for processing. To their credit, they still treated it as on-site and mailed it to me for no charge. What surprised me is the size of the holder. It's about the same size as golden age, but much thicker. Here're a couple pictures comparing the two.

Thanks Hibou! I'm watching one of your eBay books.

On-Sites from Baltimore I wasn't around on Sunday of the con to pick up my on-sites. It took about a week and a half for CGC to cart my books back to Florida, contact me to work out the shipping method, and then finally ship my books to me. I've written before how I collect Jen Broomall's BDI trades. I got some of them graded in Philly. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7287580&fpart=16 I graded 2 more in Baltimore. (I think I have the full set now, until she comes out with more.) I got one 9.8 and a 9.6. Ugh! I was hoping for 9.8s across the board. But really, the 9.6 was iffy at even 9.6 due to some wear along the spine and edges. I'm actually lucky to get the 9.6. Maybe someday I'll come across another copy and try again for 9.8 (her Legend of Oz TPB is getting hard to find).

Something CGC Wouldn't Grade This is one of the books I tried to grade on-site at Baltimore. I've never gotten one of these before. CGC wouldn't grade it because the cover's a little bigger than the inside pages (I guess that's called overhang). I assume they thought encapsulating it might damage the book due to the overhang. Nice to see CGC has this quality control. I'm thinking about sending it to that other company to see what they might do.

Fun Key! First Mention of Batmobile and Gotham City This comic was offered for sale here a few weeks ago. It caught my interest because the notes say it's the first mention of Batmobile and Gotham City. I did some research. Overstreet confirms this comic is the first mention of the Batmobile, but says Wow #1 is the first mention of Gotham in comics. Huh? Wow is a Fawcett book, not DC. As far as I can tell, Wow #1 is the first mention of Gotham in comics, but it's not Batman's Gotham. Batman's Gotham is first mentioned in this comic, Tec #48. This is confirmed in a few places. For example, here's the review of Detective 48 by the ComicVine: "This is a pretty good crime story - a nice meaty plot involving a surveyor who finds a limestone cavern under the nation's gold reserves and the gangsters that frame his daughter for murder in order to blackmail the man into revealing the entrance to the cave.It also marks a number of firsts. Prior to this issue, the city which Batman operated in was New York - sometimes referred to as a 'gotham'. But in this issue, it is expressly named 'Gotham City'." As for the Batmobile, there's actually a website batmobilehistory.com. It says: "Batman drove high-performance cars since his debut, but the term "Batmobile" didn't appear until nearly four years later in February 1941's Detective Comics #48. The car that first used the name was unlike later cars: this one was a bright red convertible that lacked fins, shields, or any other "bat" theme save for a small gold hood ornament. It did, however, sport a supercharged engine capable of tremendous speeds and a heavily reinforced nose capable of smashing through buildings without suffering any damage." So the more I looked into the issue, the more I wanted it. In fact, I got a bit obsessed with getting the book. Problem was, the seller had it priced a bit more than I was willing to pay. But after some back and forth we were able to do the deal once the seller said he'd take a cash and trade deal. So I got the Tec 48 for cash plus these 2 books. Detective 371 is one of my favorite Batgirl covers, but I was okay with trading it as I've wanted to upgrade. Shadow #1 was an easy one for me to trade. I won the comic earlier this year in a C-Link auction but it doesn't really fit in my collection. So now I've got the first mention of the Batmobile and Batman's Gotham City. How cool is that!

Baltimore Con - Last thoughts Some last thoughts about the con: * It was fun, but for me Baltimore is a local con so I commuted from home each day (90 minutes each way). That made it not as much fun for me. It's more fun being away from home, to be able to completely immerse in comics and fandom. On the other hand, I was able to bring my daughter with me for the first time and that was alot of fun. * There was TOO much to buy. San Diego doesn't even compare. NOT - EVEN - CLOSE. * Speaking of SDCC, Baltimore sealed my decision to no longer go to SDCC. SDCC is no longer a comic con, and Baltimore really showed that. Sure, WW and other cons aren't true comic cons either, but SDCC is so expensive and so much a hassle. Last week SDCC sent out an email blast about buying tickets for next year (it was about making sure you were registered so you could participate in the ticket buying process). I've deleted those emails, I'm not going to even try to get tickets. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but it's a big deal for me because SDCC has always been my comic mecca. Well, no more, I'm done with it. * I have to rethink my CGC submission strategy. In Baltimore I submitted (a) a 13 book Modern on-site invoice; (2) a 15 book Value invoice; and (3) a 21 book Value invoice. 49 books! Why do I need them graded? With that money, I could have bought 3 major grails I had my eye on. And where am I going to store these slabs? I don't know ... I'm sure I'll be excited when I get them (I wasn't at the con on Sunday so they have to ship my on-sites to me, I don't have them yet). But why do we grade, when it takes money away from buying books (kinda like throwing out the baby with the bath water). I'm not going to stop submitting books, but I will be giving a harder look at the books I submit. * The fun of the con was offset somewhat by the "sketch op from heck" I'm suffering through right now. Sometimes I feel life is two steps forward, one step back ... Anyway, here are a few statutes I picked up at the con. Thanks for reading!

Baltimore -- More stuff I picked up Here are a few other things I picked up at the con. I was really surprised at the really good inventory of low- and mid-grade gold for sale, and at reasonable prices. I’d say I was “pleasantly” surprised, but maybe “alarming” would be a better way to describe it because I spent WAY more than I should have. I spent so much on Friday I was thinking I’d just window shop on Saturday but I couldn’t resist. In addition to wanting to spend time with the family, a big part of the reason I didn’t go on Sunday was I didn’t want to be tempted to spend more. To give an example, this book is one reason why I didn't go back on Sunday. There were 3 copies of this book at the con, two were high grade and priced at around $1400 each. From the sticker you can see this one was offered at $525. Maybe the dealer would take $475 or even $450? Who knows, at this con it was definitely a buyer's market. So I didn’t want the temptation, I could not afford to spend more money! Anyway, enough of what I didn’t buy! Here’s a book I picked up from Greg Reese, always a pleasure to do business with. His stock was incredible, and he gave me a little more off for being a repeat customer. I bought this Matt Baker cover from a local dealer, for 80 bucks! I also picked up these inexpensive Archie Montana covers. From a risqué level, Montana was right up there with today’s GGA artists (ebas, Tyndall, Debalfo, etc.) especially given the comics his covers appeared in (i.e., kids’ comics).

Baltimore Con - A few things I picked up This was my biggest buy from Baltimore. With Ant Man apparently slatted for an upcoming movie, TTA #27 (1st apperance) and #35 (1st apperance in costume) are hot right now. Honestly I thought I'd miss the boat on these 2 books as they were rising in price faster than I was able to afford. But I managed to pick this up from the dealer/collector I mentioned yesterday, who was at the con to reduce his collection. It wasn't cheap but I think I got it lower than current market value. Honestly I like 35 better than 27 since Antman is wearing his costume. Given the price difference (like 3x more for #27) I think #35 has a higher ceiling price wise. We'll see ... Cons are always a great place to pick up books. They're so inexpensive (at least 50% off cover), I should take bigger advantage of it. The Ardard was only $5. Camelot 3000 Deluxe was $15, the other 2 were $10 each. Hard to beat that!

Baltimore Con - Wall Pics I've decided to skip Sunday and just laze around the house today, spend time with the family and watch football. I've spent too much anyway! Here are wall books from Friday and Saturday:

Baltimore Con - Saturday - Post Convention To make today even better, when I got home I smoked beef and pork ribs on my Big Green Egg. I used a mix of mesquite, apple and hickory for the smoke. Tomorrow I'm going to shoot up to Baltimore to pick up my on-sites (hopefully they'll be done!). Then I'll get back home before kickoff to watch the Redskins game. Before I leave for the con I'll put a pork belly on the Egg. It doesn't look great now but wait until after it's been cooking low and slow with smoke for a few hours. What a great weekend this is turning out to be! So since this is a con report I guess I should post a pic from the con. Here's another book I found interesting, a low grade Richie Rich #1 for $300. It's on my want list and the price is right (and the dealer is motivated, I would not be surprised if he sold for $250, maybe even $225 -- maybe even $200!) but I'm hoping to get a bit nicer copy.

Baltimore Con - Saturday Today was another great buying day (unfortunately for my bank account!). I bought so much I decided to submit another Value submission. So yesterday I submitted 15 books via Value (which was always my plan) and today I submitted another 21 books via Value, of which probably 10-12 came from buying books today and yesterday. Here's just one example. Maybe the best of all Schomberg GGA covers, this comic has been on my want list forever. I got it for 80 bucks! Here's another book I've wanted for awhile, the 1st appearances of Loki and Odin. Okay, I paid more than $80 but I was able to get the dealer to come down a bit off the $400 sticker price. When I planned to go to Baltimore I never expected to get comics like this. I've heard how great Baltimore is, and now you can add me to their list of supporters. At other big cons I go to (SDCC, Chicago) you tend to see the same big national dealers. They were here in Baltimore too, but also here are so many dealers I've never seen before. In fact, the guy I got the JIM #85 from is a collector who's reducing his collection. As we were going back and forth on price for the JIM #85, I was checking GPA and eBay on my iPad. The dealer estimated the grade at 3.0. Okay, let's go with that. GPA has it at $385. I think that's lower than current market. So the dealer/collector got some cash, and I got a pretty good deal even if it comes in at 2.5. If it comes in at 2.0 then at that point it's hard to say. I like the book though. Some chipping on the side and the cover's spine is fragile, but otherwise great eye appeal. So, onsite did close yesterday. But CGC opened it up again this morning at 11am (not sure why 11am since the con opened at 10am). This time though they limited people to 3 books max. By the time I went to the CGC booth around 2pm, on-site was closed. I mentioned to the CGC staffer how at WW Philly on-site didn't close until Saturday, 3 days after opening. The staffer told me that had never happened before, that it's more normal for onsite to fill up the first day like here in Baltimore. The only artist I really cared about seeing here in Baltimore was Gerhard. This is the first con I've ever seen him at. I bought from him this great hand colored print of Cerebus and Jaka. I'll post wall pictures later. For now here's about the most interesting book I saw, 1 page of Batman #1 for $1000. I didn't buy it -- I wasn't even tempted, not really -- but I thought it was cool. I might have been more tempted if the page included the first appearance of the Joker or Catwoman -- but then I'm sure it would have been alot more expensive.

Baltimore Con - Friday Just a brief report. I got to the con around 11am, 2 hours before the opening at 1pm. There were people there but no where as crowded as SDCC or even WW Philly. I went to get my wrist badge and it was then I found out they were offering VIP tickets -- $149 (VIP) vs $55 (general). I thought about upgrading. The biggest benefit was getting in an hour early all 3 days. But ultimately decided not to do it. They let us in early at 1250, and I thought "Ha! I made the right decision! I'd be pissed if I spent extra for VIP and here all of us cheap seats are getting in early!" (Some people are so clueless. I'm with a group of about 300 people who waited in line for 2 hours, sitting on the floor. Other people hung out in other parts of the convention center which is fine. But they weren't in the official line. So one guy -- who clearly has been sitting in a nice sofa -- I know this because we pass him as the line moves to the con door -- he tries to join our line. To his credit, the con staffer stops him and says "sorry sir, these people have been waiting in line 2 hours, they get in before you." I mean, what kind of person must that guy be to have to be told that?!) I went straight to the CGC booth to submit my on-sites but I took my time. I didn't rush over because I remembered in Philly the CGC booth wasn't crowded except for about the first 10 minutes of opening day. Well guess what? I finally make it to the CGC booth about 15 minutes after opening and there's a long line. I see 2 people and they are submitting long boxes of on-sites. Long boxes! Another guy is submitting a short box of Valiants (must be working on his set?) Then, the CGC staffers start looking nervous. There's rumbling in the line that onsite is filling up. One CGC staffer asks everyone "who's submitting on-site?" Almost the entire line raises their hand. The line doesn't move. The people in front are submitting tons of books! And -- THIS DRIVES ME CRAZY -- people ahead of me in the line do not move up when the next person is served. They just meekly stand in place. What the heck? Come on people, be assertive, you're in Washington DC now! Is this possible? It's only 30 minutes into the con could they really close on-site? The main reason I'm at the con is for the freaking on-site. I start regretting not upgrading to VIP. That's what I get for making fun of the VIPs. But thankfully I do get my on-site submission in (not a long or even a short box, just 17 moderns). Whew! Gemma checks me in, which is a nice coincidence as we exchanged emails last month about re-subbing a book to get an updated label and she remembers. Gemma tells me they ARE getting alot of on-sites and they will probably close for on-sites this afternoon (except for a few SS they'll hold back each day). Wow ... in WW Philly they didn't close on-sites until (I think) Saturday (and the con opened Thursday, so 3 days afer opening). Here they fill up the first day? Although it makes sense I guess, Baltimore is a comic con and WW Philly is more a media con. (Wouldn't it be possible for CGC to limit people to 50 on-site books or so? You can get in line as often as you want, but each time you can only submit 50 books. Seems like that would give everyone a chance.) As for what I got today ... I wasn't expecting to do much, just go through dollar boxes as I've spent alot lately. But holy cow, the selection and prices, I couldn't let these deals go by ... I think I picked up 5-6 grails! I'll post more tomorrow.

This is why I can't save for Baltimore Con I saw this on eBay last night, an autograph photo of Shatner and Nimoy authenticated by CGC. I lost out on a similar auction last month. Afterwards I did some research and realized I should have bid higher. The only place I can think of to get Shatner and Nimoy's signature is a Wizard World Con. A VIP Shatner badge is $275. Both a Shatner and Nimoy experience would probably be at least $400 and maybe $500. I won this photo for a lot less than just the Shatner price. Which confirms what I've always thought, that autograph ops at WW cons are fun and great for collectors and fans, but they are lousy investments. So get them for fun, not to flip! It amazes me the quantity and quality of great things for sale. There are so many outlets. As Baltimore approaches I'm pretty sure my biggest financial outlays will be the grading I'm submitting to CGC. I've spent too much lately on eBay and on these boards, I think in Baltimore I'll mostly be taking pictures and hitting the dollar boxes.

Quick update: I'll probably be watching other sales for a while, I can't help it given how much I spent on the book. This one just sold on Heritage for $1123 (including BP). Qualified 9.4 from the Don and Maggie Thompson collection. I like the Thompsons (I remember Don's writings with alot of fondness) but I personally would not pay more for this pedigree. Can't wait to get my book from CC.

Going to Baltimore for On-Site Grading - Part 2 Decisons, decisions! There's a book I want for one of my sets, and I'm trying to get a 9.8. Leading up to Baltimore I bought 3 copies off eBay. None of them are strong 9.8 candidates, but I planned to chance it and submit the best 2. I figured I could try to flip them if thet came in at 9.4 or 9.6 and at least get the cost of the comic + grading back. But now the current Comic Link auction has the book I want in CGC 9.8. What do I do? The hammer price will be more than I want to pay, most likely. And the auction won't end until after the con. After thinking about it, I think I've decided to go for the C-Link book. I'll have to pay more than I want, but I figure I can at least go $50 more than what I'd normally bid (i.e., the cost of on-site grading for 2 books). I might eventually submit the 2 books the normal way and try to sell them to make up some of my costs.

Hi dane323, I think they cap it each day so people who only go Saturday (for example) have a chance at on-site if they submit early enough. They have less capacity though the farther you get into the con (which makes sense). If you submit really early, they will probably have the books ready before the end of the con. If you're not there to pickup, or if they're not ready by the end of the con, they ship them to you.

Going to Baltimore for On-Site Grading As I write this Baltimore Comicon is only 6 days away. I’m going for the first time. The main reason I’m going is because CGC is offering on-site grading. I discovered the wonder of on-site at WW Philly earlier this summer. I won’t say it changed my life … but if not for on-site grading I would not be going to this con. (I’m sure I’m not the only person who feels this way. I wonder if cons give CGC a financial incentive to do on-site grading?) Here’s the price schedule for on-site grading: • Modern $25 (versus Regular $18 / fast track $28; limited to 1980 to present) • Economy $50 (regular $35 / fast track $46) • Value on-site not available (regular $25 / fast track $35; 15 book minimum) • Standard $85 (regular $60 / fast track n/a) Clearly if you’re thinking about going FT for either Modern or Economy, then on-site is the better option. Personally I focus my on-site submissions on Modern. I've never used Economy. For books older than 1980, I use Value where on-site is not offered. For expensive books where you can't use Value, I use my 4 yearly membership coupons. Right now I have around 17 Modern comics to submit on-site in Baltimore. I say "around" because I'm still trying to decide for some books. I might have a few more or less. I also have around 23 books to submit via Value. I haven’t decided whether to submit fast track or normal. I might submit 15 fast track, and then hold the rest for my next Value submission. Other than those CGC submissions, I don’t have a lot of collecting goals for Baltimore. I’m planning to take Friday afternoon off so I can be close to the front of the line to get my on-site books submitted to CGC (since this is the main reason I’m going to the con I don’t want on-site to fill up, although I doubt that will happen on Friday). I’ll browse the dealer’s room on Friday but I’m not looking to buy a lot. Frankly I think I get better selection/deals via these boards and eBay (as well as c-connect and c-link). There are a few new comics I'm hoping to pick up. Depending on the condition, I might submit them via on-site (if it's still available). On Saturday I’m taking my daughter. She's really into anime and wants to cosplay, so I’ll hang out with her (if she’ll let me). I'm hoping she won't get bored. She's never been to a comic con, only anime/manga cons, so I hope she finds enough to do. If she does get into the comic con then it'll really be great because I'll be able to take her to the cons I go to. It might be a reason to try for SDCC tickets next year (otherwise I'll probably be avoiding SDCC since it's so expensive and such a hassle to go to). And then on Sunday I’ll shoot up to the con first thing to see if my on-sites are done; they should be, but if not I’ll have them mail them to me. I want to be home early because, for some reason, kickoff for the Redskins game is noon. Anyway, I also hope to take pictures of cosplayers and dealer walls. I’ll post them here in my con report.