More [mis]adventures at Emerald City ComicCon

I arrived at the CGC stand fresh and early on the Saturday morning after the doors had opened at ECCC. Mike came over to say hi, then looked at me strangely before exclaiming "That wasn't there yesterday, what the hell happened?!?!" There was something different about me - my right arm was now in a sling and I couldn't move it without extreme pain, so it was effectively useless.

I explained that the day before getting out of the taxi on my way back from my meetings I'd slipped and fell very badly on my shoulder. One ambulance, 3 hours in hospital and x-rays later I was in the sling and told I had a Grade III seperated shoulder.

Given this, the team at CGC went above and beyond on my quest to get the remaining signatures by helping me out with my comics throughout the day as I struggled with just my left arm.

Highlights included managing to find a great copy of Hulk 350 featuring the classic Ground Zero story for Peter David to sign. I also managed to pick an amazing copy of the New Mutants Annual 2 (first appearance of Psylocke) as well as Avengers 257 (first appearance of Nebula - I had an idea I would get Karen Paige to sign it - more on that in my next post).

I also finally managed to catch up with Ann Nocenti, who completed my signatures on my Longshot collection as well as signing my Daredevil 252 featuring the first appearance of Typhoid Mary ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_Mary_(comics) ). Ann was great and we talked about Mary; how she came up with the character and how disapointed she was in the movie representation of her turned out. She was also surprised to hear how Mary's character has continued evolve (or not) within the Marvel Universe, particularly the Mutant Zero stuff. We also chatted briefly about Longshot, how cool the mini series was and if she ever wanted to return to the character. She said she'd thought about it and how cool it would be to do another story with Art Adams again. I suggested a title; Longshot Oneshot, which she seemed to like.

The big task of the day though was making sure I got some sketches on a bunch of Blank variants I had brought with me. Early on I stopped by Davd Marquez's stand and decided to ask him if he would do a sketch commission of Nightcrawler and a Bamf on a blank variant of Amazing X-Men I had. He agreed and I handed it over. Little did I know that Ed McGuiness was in attendance, who I just happened to stumble on whilst wondering the stalls. After some quick hunting around I managed to get another copy of Amazing X-Men and asked Ed if he would do the same sketch commission of Nightcrawler and a Bamf. Unfortunately he was already pretty booked up, but after seeing my arm and chatting about what happened, he kindly agreed before also signing my Nova #1 and Amazing X-Men #1.

Now I had a dilemma; I had two great artists, doing the same commission on the same Blank variant. For a moment I thought it would be good to compare the two, but I had another idea and so rushed back to David's stall to see if I could change the commission. Thankfully David hadn't had chance to start work yet and so we agreed on a new sketch commission; Professor Kitty Pride and Lockheed the dragon on a blank variant of All New X-Men (presented below).

All in all, it was another great day.

Interestingly as I write this my signature series and sketch submissions switched from Verified to Scheduled for Grading as well. Not long now...

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