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Megacon 2008 - Day 2!

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So far, I’ve learned three essential con-going lessons.

First, it’s better to bring a con buddy. It’s possible that flying solo is benefiting me in the sense that I’m getting to go to the panels that I want to go to and the only compromises I have to make are because of time, but I’ve also gotten alot of enjoyment from striking up conversations with fellow geeks and I think I’d be getting even more enjoyment from having a group of people to wander around with. Next year, I’m going to try to make arrangements to meet up with people, and not at the last minute like I did this year.

Second, I need to get a recording device of some kind to take with me to panels. I simply can’t write fast enough to take notes on everything and I know I’ve missed alot of statements this year, possibly important ones.

Third, and possibly most importantly, leave SEVERAL hours early for the con on a Saturday. I spent literally two hours in traffic for the last half-mile to the con this morning and missed the first panel. AJ, if you’re reading this, it was the independent film maker panel where I planned on getting more information on those short films. Sorry, man, I’ll try to get more information from some other sources.

Anyway, lessons learned that will hopefully make a very fun experience even more enjoyable next year.

The first panel that I actually made it to today was “DCU Countdown to Crisis” with Mike Marts and Ian Sattler. Considering their answers to most questions were to make sure to read Batman RIP and Final Crisis, both events sound like they’ll be very exciting. This was the panel where I really learned the second lesson up there, because I know I missed some very good stuff while I was taking notes. Most of what I missed was Final Crisis related and most of what I got was Batman RIP related. You gotta pick your battles and I’m a Batman fan, sorry.

Anyway, here’s what I caught:

• In response to a question about whether we would see more yellow rings on Earth characters, like Scarecrow’s almost-induction, Sattler stated that we’ll be seeing alot of rings on alot of people, though he was careful not to be any more specific. If I had to speculate, (and what else am I here for?) I’d say that alot of those rings will be black.
• Marts states that RIP will take place in Batman, but will have major effects on the supporting titles (Nightwing, Robin, etc.) in 2009.
• When someone (*cough*me*cough*) stated that the Resurrection of Ra’s Al Gh crossover seemed to be all hype with no real payoff or effect and asked if we’d be seeing Ra’s again or if that storyline would have any real effect, Marts stated that the whole Al Ghul family would be showing up again soon, in Batman or possibly Nightwing. The “possibly Nightwing” part caught my attention so I then asked if the Al Ghul’s would have any connection to the current graverobbing mystery in Nightwing. Marts answered with “possibly” but then upgraded that to “probably”. This is probably my only scoop, and it’s probably not much of one, but there you go. I had my small moment.

The only other panel of note I caught was Joe Quesada’s “Cup of Joe” panel, where…

• Joe promised that Giant Size Astonishing X-Men was really and truly coming out in April
• Damon Lindeloff turned in some script pages (Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk?) during the WGA strike,
• Joe Fridays will be moving from Newsarama to MySpace starting April 28th and now me called Cup of Joe Fridays because of a deal made between Marvel and Myspace
• When asked about any plans to bring back Steve Rogers, Quesada said “Bucky is Captain America now”, to the annoyance of the questioner.
• The Mayor of Orlando has declared Mar 8th “Joe Quesada Day” - let’s have a party!
• Most of the rest of the panel consisted of rehashing the same One More Day stuff that we’ve all heard. I honestly didn’t pay much attention since I’m just tired of the whole thing. It’s done. I don’t like it and I’ve stopped reading, but I was never a big fan of Spidey anyway. I’ve heard some people are really enjoying Brand New Day and I’m happy for them. It’s time to move on, kids.

I skipped today’s “Marvelous Men” Panel with Daniel Way, Mark Texeira, and David Finch (a tactical error on my part) in favor of Mark Waid’s panel on Boom! studios, which was cancelled. Somehow I felt awkward sneaking back into the Marvelous Men panel, but I should have done it anyway. I imagine that was a very good panel and I’ll try to find someone else’s recap for y’all.

I also didn’t really feel like sitting through the webcomics awards, costume contest, or rave, so all I have left for you are a few crappy pictures. Tomorrow is the last day and I plan to get there early for some more interesting panels.

First I have Peter Rios from Comic Geek Speak and those very kawaii cat ears I told you about yesterday

Next are two Quesada pics, one of Joe beginning the panel and the second of the presentation of Joe Quesada day.

The rest of these are of various costumes and I think they’re all self-explanatory. Also, I’m sorry that my photography skills suck.

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