Yesterday I was at the Baltimore Comic-Con.<\/p>\n
Work was offering free passes earlier in the week, and having never been to a comic convention I decided I’d go.<\/p>\n
I took the subway into downtown. Trying to navigate the stops by memory was a bad<\/i> thing — I should have checked the map — as I got off one stop too late. I wanted Lexington Market, not Charles Center, so instead of hoofing it five blocks to the convention center, I hoofed closer to twelve. (I also chose the wrong side of Charles Center to exit on. Go me.)<\/p>\n
But hey, it was a nice day. Hot. But nice.<\/p>\n
Big hall. Lots of creators. Lots of dealers. It was… interesting.<\/p>\n
Though I’d printed off a panel schedule, I didn’t attend any — I’d foolishly forgotten to wear a watch, so I had no idea of time.<\/p>\n
I ran into Glenn Hauman<\/a> of ComicMix<\/a>. We chatted for a couple of minutes. He kept fiddling with his computer — he was probably downloading porn.<\/p>\n I bought an autographed Grendel: Devil by the Deed<\/i> from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund table. Autographed! By Matt Wagner! Happy happy happy!<\/p>\n I also bought a Christmas present.<\/p>\n One table was a small publisher who put out a comic called Dracula vs. King Arthur<\/i>. I’d heard of this. I wasn’t paying any attention as I walked by, and the guy behind the table said something that I’d heard out of the corner of my ear and caught my attention. We got to talking King Arthur — that’s always good. I’m reminded of that scene in The Simpsons<\/i>, I’m thinking of the episode with Mel Gibson:<\/p>\n Homer: You had me at “Hello.” Anyway. He didn’t even have to make a sales pitch. And he threw in a one-shot his company had done — For Life<\/i> — which was slight but a nice read.<\/p>\n I also met Dr. Arnold Blumberg<\/a>, who’s one of the moderators of the Outpost Gallifrey Doctor Who<\/i> forum, if memory serves. He’s also sold a story to Big Finish for one of their upcoming Doctor Who<\/i> anthologies.<\/p>\n I stayed a couple of hours. I didn’t have anything to get signed, really. It was an interesting experience. Especially to see up-close a lot of names I’ve known for twenty-plus years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I was at the Baltimore Comic-Con. Work was offering free passes earlier in the week, and having never been to a comic convention I decided I’d go. I took the subway into downtown. Trying to navigate the stops by memory was a bad thing — I should have checked the map — as IContinue reading “On the Baltimore Comic-Con”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[4092],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-comic-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMel: I didn’t say “Hello.”<\/p>\n