Some pics from Emerald comicon, Seattle, WA 2009

[Dmac538]

Great report, and commentary and pics!! (thumbs u

[Senormac]

Thanks for putting the time in to report this and show so many pics. I love comic conventions.......

[arexcrooke]

Where is greggy

[seanfingh]

 

He had a tryout with the Supersonics. They need a Shawn Kemp-style big man.

[Bosco685]

Where is greggy

He was afraid folks would take his pictures and do crazy things with them.

 

 

I still think he is taking the role.

 

 

 

 

 

[thehumantorch]

Thanks for the excellent report and pics. Looks like a great time.

[thirdgreenham]

Sweet report, Allan (Alan?)!

 

Andy

[AGGIEZ]

Awesome. I really wanted to go to this con this year and visit the city while I was there. Maybe next year...

[Comicopolis]

Very impressed with that - well done

[worldsbestcomics]

Great report. I just got home from the show. I am sure greggy is still on the road with JohnnyG and Crows. They didn't leave Seattle until 5:00 PM and they were going to stop for dinner at a sweet Mexican restaurant that John said had awesome carne asada.

 

There are some pictures of greggy and his awesomeness did not go entirely unappreciated. In fact, I was at the CGC booth when greggy showed up and my quote was, "Greggy! Now there's a forum legend."

 

We need to meet up for sure next year aardvark (thumbs u

[Chespirito]

That was some really really cool reporting skills my friend...kudos on the pics as well..thanks..

[G.A.tor]

nice report

 

[aardvark88]

Well, looks like greggy's mothership is about to dock next to the brand new Vancouver Convention Centre.

 

 

Canada welcomes the return of greggy to our humble shores!

 

 

In all seriousness, here are some pics from the Winter 2010 Olympics convention centre that just opened up in downtown Vancouver.

 

 

This is Vancouver's old convention centre that was way too small.

 

 

The new one is about 1/2 the size of the complex that held NYCC comic-con:

 

 

I am sure greggy will be posting soon, True Believers!

[Johnny G]

Great report. I just got home from the show. I am sure greggy is still on the road with JohnnyG and Crows. They didn't leave Seattle until 5:00 PM and they were going to stop for dinner at a sweet Mexican restaurant that John said had awesome carne asada.

 

There are some pictures of greggy and his awesomeness did not go entirely unappreciated. In fact, I was at the CGC booth when greggy showed up and my quote was, "Greggy! Now there's a forum legend."

 

We need to meet up for sure next year aardvark (thumbs u

 

The meat was great! Just got in the door...

 

Don't worry folks, there will be plenty of pictures of Greggy some time tomorrow. I AM BEAT!!! Now time to get on the phone and try to track down passport as I think I lost it!!!

 

It was a pleasure meeting those I had the opportunity to meet with. Seattle is always a fun time, I really looked forward to it this year and was NOT disappointed! (thumbs u

[Chespirito]

Can anyone give us the low-down on Ray Park over there? Crowded? Did anybody care? Was the dude friendly?

[cujobyte]

Great report!! Wow. I really wanted to fly out there this year as well, maybe next. Thank you for the report.

[Bronty]

great pics al! really nice dezuniga drawing too

[Pirate]

is that John Higashi in the picture with Horn?

[Comicsarefun]

Great report! Our day was much worse.

 

Probably the worst con for buying comics we have been to in a decade. And on top of that, the Emerald City people have no idea how to handle a convention line. What a mess. It took us 40 minutes just to get to the line where you could buy tickets, which they did not open until the doors opened. They could have sold the tickets outside and done the pre ticket badge exchange outside as well. Very poor planning this year.

 

Many of the dealers were grumpy...in fact when I offered a guy almost double guide for a nice book I needed he told me since I was being cheap I should "go try to find it in a dollar box somewhere". It was not even an expensive key, and he had it at 2.5 times guide (Blue Cirlce #3). What a doofus.

 

I did meet Steve B. and tried a couple times to buy his Spidey #1 CGC 1 Blue, but he would not budge from his fair price (we were close). He was very nice about it, but much too busy to care.

 

Brought thousands to spend and left with almost all of it. Found a couple cool books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BaltimoreLauren]

 

Steady line up for superstar Frank Cho who stated he must have signed and sold 200 copies of his 2 hardcover artbooks in the 1st hr of the con at $25 each.

 

 

 

 

I swear, I see this guy over at one of my LCS's in the area all the time.