Wondercon 2010 Recap

Wow this is a few weeks late, I would have done this recap a lot sooner but I'd been waiting for pictures to come out of the whole thing and they haven't. But I have scans of art! And a screencap!

In my last post, I discussed getting to go see Kick-Ass a week or so before it

premiered and how much I loved it. My friend Jenna is actually showing up in the commercials for it! She's the one in pink who kicks at the camera. But when I was watching the commercial, I realized *I'M* in it too! I circled where we are in the pic

ture.

But anyways, back to Wondercon! So Jenna and I have been going to conventions for years as a pair, mostly APEcon and anime conventions, and last year's Wondercon was her first WC, and so this year she jumped at the chance to go again. I went with the express notion of meeting Amanda Connor and Jenna wanted to meet Peter Beagle, the writer of The Last Unicorn. We showed up and we went to the artist alley, where we try to get doodles, and Jenna got a cute sketch of a unicorn and I got a commision

of Boy Blue from this woman. Isn't it adorable? After her, we went by this table looking for the guy who played Chewbacca and ended up THISCLOSE to Adam Baldwin! HE IS TAAAALLLL.

We went by the artist alley again, where I got a doodle from FRANK CHO!

He was pretty nice, so I'm glad I worked up the nerve to talk to him. After Frank Cho, we swung by Amanda Connor's table but she wasn't there, so we went over to Peter Beagle's table. He was pretty nice and signed Jenna's copy of the movie of the Last Unicorn three times, plus a picture she bought from his table.

He was willing to sign my sketchbook too. That imprint you see on the paper is the Frank Cho sketch, so now I have two in one!

Jenna was so excited about Peter Beagle and her unicorn sketch that she ran over to this other booth to show off the autograph and it turned out the man running the booth was doing some sort of record breaking thing where he did as many sketches as he could for the whole weekend so Jenna got on board for a...unicorn. She had a unicorn full day.

I got on for a girl cowboy. After I got my girl cowboy, we decided to swing by the artist alley to see if Amanda Connor was there. She was! And she was so so nice! I'm an even bigger fan of hers than I was before. So much so I even went out the next day to my local comic book store (Flying Colors) and bought the Power Girl TPB with Amanda Connor's pencils. The cover and a place to buy it: Here. Anyways, promoting done, I stood in line and she asked if I was there for the writer and when I told her I was here for HER, she acted all surprised, and I got to tell her how much I love her art and how I love how she draws her women. I bought a Catwoman print(which I don't have a scan of, it's too big for my scanner) and she was just so nice and gracious. Definitely going on my list of people I adore. After her, we decided the con was a bust so after stopping by Trina Robbins' table to buy her new book, we went to dinner and came back for the movie 'Kick-Ass' which you all read about in my last post. Next year will be fun and I look forward to it!

Shut Up. Kick Ass

Wondercon was this past weekend and although I picked up some cards and freebies, as well as getting some sketches and getting to meet Amanda Connor face to face and telling her I love her art(OMG she is the nicest nicest person ever) it was all quickly and superbly overshadowed by an event that happened that night. My friend Jenna and I went to the Kick-Ass booth to see about getting tickets to get into the autographing booth for the movie because her favorite actor portrays Red Mist(the kid in red on the ads) but when we arrived, this older woman asked if it was just us two there and when we said yes, she asked if we wanted to be on a panel for the advance screening of Kick-Ass, which was even better (maybe) than getting autographs so we got to see the entire movie before its release on April 16. I'm not here to spoil it or review it, I'm here to say it was, indeed, awesome, the fight scenes featuring Hit Girl was extremely well executed and planned, I loved the cinematography and the way it was handled. As far as I'm concerned, Hit Girl is where the movie's at. The other actors were cool, I liked Kick Ass and Red Mist, I even liked Kick Ass's friend, not the one in glasses, the other one, he looked familiar but comparing them to Hit Girl's character, they all paled immensely. She was so ruthless but so devoted to her father and equal parts badass vigilante and adorable geek girl, helping Kick Ass while also taking him down a notch. If they release her as a doll or something, I'll be adding her to my collection.