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My Dragon Con Adventure
It was hot and I had my wife and kids with me, but it was fun
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My Dragon Con Experience
It was a hot Sunday morning when I loaded up the family and headed down
into Atlanta for the rush of fan-boy geekishness known as Dragon Con. The
family?! Yes, the family. What good is a hobby if you can't share it with
your family? Anyway, getting my wife Lisa to come down was a lot easier when
I called it a "sci-fi" convention instead of a "comic book" convention. Go
figure. Being the benevolent webmaster that I am, I thought I'd share my
premiere convention experience with you.
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Here's me and my daughter Charis with Kevin Anderson, author of
the X-Files hardcovers. This was my first stop for the day, and a really
good place to start for me since I'm such a big X-Files fan! |
The follicly challenged individual signing comics is the illustrious
Peter David, writer for Supergirl and Young Justice. It took me nearly an
hour of waiting in line to reach the table. I even got to see Peter explain
to a kid who brought a stack of about 50-100 comics that THREE was the limit.
Good stuff. Trust me. |
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Me and Peter David. Peter signed my copies of Tangent Wonder Woman,
Young Justice #1, and the racial tension issue of Supergirl. And the best
part -- he remembered who I was from the e-views, the site, and the message
board. Cool, huh? |
At the DC booth, I took some time to browse through the myriads of black
and white previews they had available. Also, at some times during the day
artists dropped by to do sketches for fans. Sadly, I didn't have time to
wait in the lines, but I did get this pic of Brian Stelfreeze (in the
rainbow-colored hat) and Howard Porter (in the khaki cap) while they did
some fan sketches. |
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Yep, Together with my wife Lisa, my daughter Charis, and my son
Evan, Dragon Con '98 was a family affair (no Buffy and Jody jokes, please!).
Some of the spokesmodels kinda brought a little shock to the "family outing"
status, though (and no, I didn't take pictures of the scantily clad
spokesmodels, so don't ask.). Here's Charis holding her copy of Superman
Adventures #1 that she got at the DC booth. And of course she's smiling because
she knows one day that all of dad's comics will be available for her to read
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And here's Evan, still sucking on his pacifier. He enjoyed the day,
but got tired a little sooner than the rest of us. He didn't like waiting
in the lines too much either. |
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Apparently, EVERYBODY there wanted to meet Ray Bradbury. This is
the line from my perspective. Shortly after we got in line, Dragon Con workers
closed the line and had to turn people away. |
And here he is -- Ray Bradbury, the heart and soul of modern science
fiction! Meeting Ray was definitely the high point of my Dragon Con experience.
Unfortunately, because of the lines, we were limited to one book to be signed
and barely time to say hello, but luckily, when I mentioned trying to find
my copy of his "Mr. Electrico" article, he stopped, wrinkled up his face
in thought, then talked to me about how he was trying to find his copy also,
and how he knew it was somewhere in his basement. All in all, it was tres
cool! |
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Being new to the whole convention experience, I had expected to
see more goofballs dressed up in costume. Coming on Sunday, I was told, I
shouldn't expect to see many costumed fan-geeks. Oh well, I did get to see
Sailor Moon walking around with her pal Sailor Jupiter, though. (Although,
she looked a little "different" than I remember her from the cartoon ...) |
And finally, on my way out to get the family home, I managed to snap
this pic of the man in the mask, Anthony Daniels, better known as C3P-O from
Star Wars. |
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So there you have it -- Dragon Con '98 as seen through the eyes of
a newbie. I'd love to hear about some of your convention experiences and
see some of your convention pics.Just email 'em to me at
staylor104@aol.com.
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