NYC Comic-Con PART 2

Welcome to Part II of VforVitale's thrilling exploration into the NYC Comic-Con. Yesterday we looked at toys and some ugly women, and today we're going to look at more toys, some panels, and ugly men! But first things first. As I mentioned yesterday, the first day of Con was also my birthday. And though by day's end I was exhausted (I also worked that day, mind you. Which necessitated getting up rather early), I still managed to party my ass off thanks to the party-planning efforts of Meryl. Here's knee-crushing proof:


All right back to the Con. Saturday was Panel day, I got to see a lot of cool panels and took a lot of crappy pictures that pretty much all look like this:


So, yeah. Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair and Guillermo Del Toro are in the above picture from the Hellboy 2 panel, but you can't tell because of the crappy lighting and my inability to focus. Other people in the photo are Barack Obama, Suri Cruise, Crispin Glover and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, but you can't see them either. It was quite a panel.

This is from The Spirit panel. That's Eva Mendez and Frank Miller. Eva Mendez was drunk. Frank Miller was Frank Miller.

There was a Hulk panel too, but they didn't allow any pictures for that. So afterwards I went and got a picture with him on the floor.

Hulk is actually a cool guy. He signed my chest and tried to get me to come to his stand-up act in Erie next month. I told him I had a wedding to go to (which was a lie). He looked disappointed.

This is Meryl trying to upstage me:

Pfffffft.

The last few panels covered Speed Racer and Dark Knight, but sadly no Watchmen. I did manage to see the next best thing, though, which was this:

Yup, that's Heath Ledger's Joker mixing it up with Michael Keaton's Batman. One of them's dead and the one's career is. What a country!

But back to Watchmen, they did have some toys:Awesome.

Some guy started yelling into a microphone and people started clamoring to catch whatever it was he was throwing at them:
Turns out it was Hepatitis C. Good times.

This guy isn't a cardboard cut-out:
He tried to get me to come to his stand-up act in Erie next month. I told him I was having a hip replaced.

This is what black-suit Spider-Man would look like if he gained 40 lbs and wore a fanny-pack:

There's enough of him to go around, ladies.

I had to take a picture of this guy because he was stupid enough to buy a statue half as big as he was and then realize he had to drag it around with him for the rest of the day.

Looking back, I wish I'd followed him around some more because I'd love to see this guy get home on the subway with that thing.

This is me standing next to a statue of what I would look like if I took my glasses off:

I'm a bit more ripped, but overall I think it was a decent likeness.

Ooh here we go. Ok a bit of a backstory on this one. I bought this same exact Iron Man statue 2 years ago for $250. Guess what I found it selling for at Con:
$1,300. Awesome.

That about wraps up Part 2 of my Con spectacular, check back tomorrow for Part 3! There may even be a special appearance by a very special guest! Or...there may not. Guess you'll just have to come back and see.
Burger King Stormtrooper commands you!!