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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

C2E2! 2011!!!!

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We're in high gear for C2E2!!! Last year we were a bit skeptical about C2E2 and how it would match up against Wizard World. Well... Wizard World ended up being a swap meet featuring ex pro wrestlers and Rod Blagojevic. Yeah... Garb Shamus brought Rod Blagojevic and charged $80 a picture. The only high profile comic book creator to show up was Brian Azzarello who was the only redeeming quality of Wizard World. All I can say is hopefully WW can knock the price off a few bucks this year, because the place is literally a swap meet. Very sad stuff since Wizard World Chicago has been fantastic in past years.

C2E2 however was the little convention that could! The crowds were small but the names were bit! Joe Quesada, Jim Lee, Geoff Johns, Brian Azzarello, Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman and many other great names (I almost forgot that Alex Ross was there too!!). At first I felt like all that great talent was wasted at an event that no one showed up to, but it truly is a great convention to be at. Cliff (fellow napalmassault.com nerd) and I felt that last years C2E2 was perfect for nerdy first timers who'd never been to a convention. We thought it be the perfect place to get geared up for Wizard World. Until WW showed up and we quickly realized that C2E2 won the battle of the chi city cons by a very large margin.

Where will I be?
On Friday I plan to hit up the Food and Comics panel starring none other than Top Chef Master Rick Bayless who is a big hero of mine! The guy is the culinary genius who brought us the Frontera Grill and put a tremendous spin on traditional Mexican cooking! I'll score a few words with him and hustle up a picture! If I can get a pic of us high fiving each other my day will be made! Other than that panel, Friday will be a "walk around and take in the sites" day. If you're going Friday should be the least crowded day.

Saturday will be a really busy day, I'm going straight to the Chris Hemsworth Q&A (HE PLAYS THOR!!!) Maybe we'll even get a glimpse of some footage of the movie or some type of freebie! Vertigo and Dynamite will have a panel at 2pm, then at 5:30 we'll head over to Marvel's Cup O' Joe panel where Joe Quesada will give a Marvel state of the union address. I won't be doing much DC stuff because I really haven't followed any. Sorry.

Sunday I'll have an interview with one of my favorite writers: Jeffrey Brown, I'll check out the Garth Ennis panel and I'll even squeeze in some Danny McBride action on Saturday! Please follow myself @napalmassault, Cliff @WTFisCLB, and John Bruni @tusitalabruni for ALL your C2E2 needs! We do NOT disappoint!

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