Comic Book Haul

The ones I got:

• Wasteland: Cities in Dust
• Northwest Passage
• Lost at Sea
• Arab in America
• Jobnik #1
• Wasteland: Shades of God - I read the first one, liked it so I picked this up too.
• Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
• Dead Space #1
• Capote In Kansas
• Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships

Fiancee:

• Paul goes Fishing
• Continuity
• First Moon
• Grey Horses

Two women I went to the con with said to me, where are the indie books. Hint Hint Hint! One also noted the lack of women as special guests which another friend jumped on before the show. Hint hint hint!!!

Also donated blood, went to the Comic Legal Defense Fund after party, all there of Isotope's events (iFanboy was co-sponsoring two of these), and picked up the pint glass made of the Darwyn Cooke after New Fontier movie on Saturday.

Fell and Stuff

I picked up a copy of Fell Feral City to have Ben Templesmith sign tonight and proceeded to read it. I was amazed at how good it was. I might need to read it again to make sure my brain was processing correctly and it wasn't an illusion.

I did notice something about the way Warren Ellis writes. He likes to have characters talk, and by talk I mean tell everyone how it is showing how cool they are and how everyone else is wrong. Of course someone usually smacks them down for some reason, but boy do people like to monologue or show how smart they are in his comics.

Last night Darwyn Cooke signed two of my books. He seemed very social and cool, joking around and talking with everyone. Watching him draw a Batman sketch for someone else was very cool. He drew the Spirit for me (which I didn't ask for he just did) and joked that it always rains on the poor guy while adding rain to the sketch. When I asked him to make one of the signatures out to my fiancee and I he drew a heart around our names.

WonderCon

I'm so far behind on covering what I've been reading. For example I just finished The Boys volume 2, I've been rereading Invincible volumes 7 and 8, the comic book club is reading The Salon and The Blot and I'm still waiting for my copy of The Blot to arrive.

And WonderCon is this weekend and there are Isotope and iFanboy events to accompany the convention. Speaking up which I should go pick up my three day pass NOW!