Saturday, October 18, 2014

Niagara Falls Comic Con 2014.

 Hey guys. Welcome to my 6th blog of the year. How sad is that? Its been a rough year. I'd rather not get into it. Needless to say there's been a lot of moping and feeling sorry for myself. A friend of mine--Kimmy  pointed out that maybe getting back to the blog would cheer me up a little bit. I'm sure going to give it a try. I do miss it and despite the shitty things that have happened to me this  year..there were also a few happy moments as well.  Some  great moments for the pod cast actually.

  So the last time i wrote we had done our trivia night. It went over great. What happened next surprised us. After a few years of trying we finally got press passes to the Niagara Falls comic con. Our friend Alex had a lot to do with that. She had gotten us tickets to give away at our trivia night from Chris who is also one of the creators of Niagara Falls comic con. Over the years it seems he had a problem with us. Not sure why. This year Alex talked to him and we were given 2 press passes to the event. Kath was already getting in for free to help our friend Kristen with her table. Ryan and I would use the passes and hopefully get some interviews.

 If that weren't enough, we won two  tickets from Mostly Comics for  the third day of the con. We could cover two days of the three day convention.Ryan couldnt make it to the second day so we gave the extra ticket to Kimmy. She would also help on photography opportunities.

 Day one:  Because we were getting in as press we were allowed to go into the building an hour early. Ryan and I scoped out the place to see where  everyone was located. We immediately found out  that some of the celebrities were not doing any press. We were sad because we had our hearts set on a Dean Cain interview. I was happy with the interviews we got. We got to meet and talk to Dan Parent-a writer for Arche Comics and creator of Archie's first gay character Kevin Keller. He was such a nice guy. We also met the current artist on Marvels Elektra series Mike D'elmundo.

   We did an interview with a local cos player named Zombie Bit Me. We were so impressed with what she had to say that we are now trying to do cos play interviews at every con we go to. Interesting stuff.

  It was cool seeing all the friends we have made at other cons such as the ladies from Cosplay for a cure and our old buddy Alfonso and Steph and Dan from the Gce.  I love seeing people from our extended geek family.

  Ok let me get to one of the coolest moments of the day. The interview i was hoping to land was the guys from the show Comic Book Men.  As you all know I am a huge Kevin Smith fan. Walt and Brian from comic book men and have appeared in a lot of his movies. Walt even drew a couple of Kevin's Batman comic book series which i also loved. I really wanted to get an interview with any of the guys from the show. I was really nervous to speak with them but managed enough guts to walk up to Walt and another cast member Ming. They were very nice and said yes. I started to talk to Ming and Walt kind of looked pissed off. I was hoping i hadn't caused that. As soon as i started talking about actual comics he actually lit up and got talkative. Man it was a nice moment. Walt even signed one of my comics. I was so happy.

Day 2; like i said earlier this day i was helped by the lovely Kimmy. We took a lot of pics and spoke to some local talent, Limmy surprised Kath and i with a huge surprise--she got us a photo op with the comic book men! When we went into the room Ming recognized me and yelled out --JStew! It was  truly a kick ass moment.

  So a few thank yous: Thanks Chris for the passes we appreciate it. Thanks to Ryan for being a huge asset to the We Got The Geek team.Thank you Kimmy for helping us out on Day two. You are a great friend. We can't wait to check out Niagara Falls comic con next year. Truly an awesome experience for the whole team.

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