Emerald City Comic Con

As a few of you know from some of my posts on facebook, this last weekend I went to Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con which was held on Saturday and Sunday! There were over 20,000 people in attendance. This convention was huge, at least 4 times bigger than Portland's Comic Show. My friends Mark, Sean and Pete also went all thanks to Mark and his generosity with the tickets and hotel room purchases! Thank you very much Mark!


While I was there I got some awesome swag or as I like to call them sometimes Shineys! Along with all the goodies that I got for free while at the convention. Here's the stuff I got to keep as memory but didn't get pictures of...
I got to see Leonard Nimoy while my friend Sean actually got his autograph
I saw Stan 'the Man' Lee but sadly no autograph cause it was sixty stones to get that
Lou Ferrigno is huge
Geoff Johns is cute and from what I heard from other fans super friendly

And some of the fans really need to stop bitching about anything and everything because it is not needed, those people are there for your entertainment and are only human if someone is not at their designated spot they might be in the toilet or getting something to eat, give them a chance.

Now on to some of my goodies that I got while there:

Scruffy Puppies books one and two. The author of these books was very friendly and cute. The art is fantastic I have at this point not read the stories but will by tomorrow night. And then I will let you know how good it is. I did flip through the first book and really liked the art Brent Trembath is really very talented. Book two's art is okay I guess but you can tell its not Brent's work. Here are the books:

Brent also has his own site for the books: http://www.scruffypuppies.com/ check it out!


On Sunday(yesterday) I went back to the convention, why not, I had a two day pass, there was a free table with some DC comics swag for grabs and people milling around so I poked my head in and wanted to see what was on there. In the process some grumpy bitch looked at me and said 'you know there is a line of people wanting to grab this stuff, why don't you go to the end of it' to which I replied, 'this is swag and its free just grab what you want and STFU there is no need for a line when everyone can get something!' She did not like that but didn't say anything when I kept grabbing what I wanted. What I got there were four hero buttons, Superman, Batman Wonder Woman and the Flash along with a DC Direct catalog for their 2010 collectibles:

the DC Direct catalog can be seen atop this post!

Now on to my Shineys, my toys:

Scareglow: Not many of you know who he is but he was one of my favorite He-Man characters when I was a kid. His original bio said he was Skeletor's skeleton ripped out of his body but now he is an Eternian Ghost Here's his Bio:

Real Name: Karak Nul™

In life, Nul was a shifty bounty hunter who spent years attempting to break into Castle Grayskull®, obsessed with the countless legends that it contained the power to be Master of the Universe. In death, he was cursed and banished into the dimension of Infinita, forever chained to his past crimes. He was brought back to Eternia® by a magical spell of light cast by Skeletor  to locate the most evil warriors in the five dimensions. Provided with a Scythe of Doom, Nul agreed to join forces with Skeletor and quickly became known as Scareglow™, thanks to his ability to burst forth and freeze his enemies with fright. 

Scareglow has 19 Points of Articulation: ball jointed head, ball jointed shoulders, swivel biceps, hinge elbows, swivel wrists, mid torso hinge, swivel waist, ball jointed hips, swivel thighs, hinge knees and hinged ankles. He also glows in the dark. He comes with a heavy duty purple cape, his scythe of doom, a mace with the tip to look like Castle Greyskull and inside of it is a key for something I have no knowledge what it is for.

Stealth Operations Suit AKA War Machine (sorta) from Iron Man 1 Wal Mart Exclusive:

Slower, but more heavily armored than the Iron Man armor, the Stealth Operations Suit boasts a much broader array of weapons, from repulsor rays to rocket launchers. Jim Rhodes pilots it on missions too sensitive for the high profile Iron Man to tackle. 

Yeah I know I stole the bio from another site but you know what it was the same bio on the back of the card too so suck it! Anyway this is pretty much War Machine even though it doesn't have the name. With the Silver and Black color scheme and the gatling gun on one shoulder and the rocket launcher on the other this toy is War Machine. The silver and grey go together really well and are set off with just a little bit of blue for his chest blast and his eyes. Over all it looks really nice: S.O.S. WM has 28 points of Articulation ball jointed head, ball jointed shoulders, swivel biceps, double hinged elbows, hinged wrists with a swivel, hinged torso, ball jointed hips, swivel thighs, double jointed knees, ball jointed feet with a swivel ankle, and two slide brackets for his attachable weapons. he also came with two attachments for his wrists to mimic his wrist mounted guns.

 

And last but certainly not least 

IM2 War Machine: 

Holy shit is this character awesome looking and he only stands 4.5 inches tall. He is your typical silver and grey/black with red for his chest piece and his eyes he also has two arm cannons that are not removable and then two shoulder mounted gatling guns one is a huge launcher with two different 'missiles' to fit in the barrel and the other is a smaller one with no place for a missile. War Machine has 24 Points of Articulation:  ball jointed head, ball jointed shoulders, ball jointed elbows, swivel wrists, mid torso hinge. double ball jointed hips, swivel thighs, hinge knees and hinged ankles. In addition he also has swivel brackets for his guns that have ball joint attachments for the guns to rest on for a full variety of positions to shoot. 

Again if you would like me to go more indepth with any of these reviews I will be most glad to but you gotta let me know with a comment!