Flee-Marquette's MEGACON report w/ pics, video, music, wildlife,etc.

[DrWatson]

I noticed that Watson was at a loss for words during that vid....

I stay quite when the camera's rolling. I don't want you newbies to Southern culture overwhelmed by my accent.

 

I'm astounded by two Doc errors in very recent posts (was there something in the food at Mega Con?)...#1: "I stay quite..." Did you mean to say quite quiet?

It's the time change and spending too much time with MCMiles.

 

[ciorac]

I noticed that Watson was at a loss for words during that vid....

I stay quite when the camera's rolling. I don't want you newbies to Southern culture overwhelmed by my accent.

 

It is quite impressive when witnessed first hand.

Please, you're just as bad. Put you in a petticoat and give you some tits and there wouldn't be any Southern belle that could even hold you a light.

 

[Subliminal]

Crank it up!

 

 

Enjoyable video (thumbs u

I like how you are good at giving us a raw footage view (even of endless displays of CGC books) of a walk thru of a con. I feel like its the 70's from that Smokey and the Bandit opening all the way to certain sellers still sporting neck blankets of bygone decades like myself. It even looks like you are still using the old flip video cam and getting magic out of it that I can't even get out of mine.

 

I'm a birdwatcher too and I love that bird pic!

 

 

[MCMiles]

I noticed that Watson was at a loss for words during that vid....

I stay quite when the camera's rolling. I don't want you newbies to Southern culture overwhelmed by my accent.

 

I'm astounded by two Doc errors in very recent posts (was there something in the food at Mega Con?)...#1: "I stay quite..." Did you mean to say quite quiet?

It's the time change and spending too much time with MCMiles.

 

 

I was waiting for that remark.

(In my best Eddie Murphy Mr. Robinson's neighborhood voice) Ha Ha, very funny muthaf@#&a.

 

 

[Theagenes]

I noticed that Watson was at a loss for words during that vid....

I stay quite when the camera's rolling. I don't want you newbies to Southern culture overwhelmed by my accent.

 

It is quite impressive when witnessed first hand.

Please, you're just as bad. Put you in a petticoat and give you some tits and there wouldn't be any Southern belle that could even hold you a light.

 

 

No kidding. This thread has made me spew coffee on my keyboard at least three times so far.

 

 

Flee, love the pics and vids! It was great seeing you again and meeting your better half.

[Ringfinger]

Great report!!

[TheSurgeon]

What percentage of these cons is devoted to vintage comics as opposed to all the other stuff?

[MCMiles]

For Megacon it's pretty small. Maybe 10%

[Unca Ben]

Richard showed me this beauty, so naturally I had to buy it.

 

It will be the cornerstone of my old-label, slabbed, low-grade, silver-age romance collection.

Looks like Gene Colan art on the cover. If it is, Gene does a nice rendition of the Fab Four!!!

[Flee-Marquette]

What percentage of these cons is devoted to vintage comics as opposed to all the other stuff?

Like Mike said, for Megacon, "vintage" (I am assuming Gold, Silver, Bronze

comics) is about 10% of the show. If you add in other comic merchandise

like Moderns, statues, T-shirts and all the comic artists with booths then as

an industry I would say comics represented about 50% of the show. Now the

reason for attending the show would be heavily skewed towards the anime

and manga crowd. It almost boiled down to if you weren't wearing a costume

then you were probably there for the comics.

 

And speaking of costumes, I am loading up the third and final video of random

crowd footage of Megacon on Saturday. Will post it next.

[Flee-Marquette]

Okay, final installment on Megacon - the costume madness. I got an HD video

camera with my Staples Reward points and experimented with it a bit. This next

Youtube video you have the option of watching it in High-Def. Here a few stills

pulled from the video.

 

This Wonder Woman was probably the most photographed over the weekend.

Everyone wanted their picture taken with her.

 

 

 

[Flee-Marquette]

Saturn Girl and Red Sonja.

 

[Flee-Marquette]

Harley Quinns were everywhere.

 

[Flee-Marquette]

On a serious note. You have to wonder if Convention Security was a little nervous

having individuals walking around dressed like this in such a crowded venue.

 

[Flee-Marquette]

Carrying around a 15 foot sword had to get old after awhile.

[Flee-Marquette]

And the final video. At about 1:20 there is a great Arnold as the Terminator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[chromium]

And the final video.

 

 

 

 

"This video is private."

[Flee-Marquette]

Try it now.

[chromium]

Still private

 

[VintageComics]

Still private

 

Ditto. I thought it was just anti Belgian but it's anti Canadian as well.