New York Comic-Con 2009: Friday Wrap-Up
I haven’t been on my feet for so long since my trip this past summer. Ohhh, I ache. I should really try to sell my backpack to the Spanish Inquisition for a few denari. So I saw jedi and Leia bikinis and stormtroopers and elves and a lot of Naruto stuff. PacMan hats were in vogue, and the Ninja Turtles are out in full. Twenty-five years, baby! There were only two decent video games being promoted — “Prototype” and some assassin game that just looks like a roped-in Metal Gear with a chick. Blah. Prototype looked cool, but kind of felt like “What if the Venom symbiote was a leather jacket and you could fight the army?” I’m not sure how awesome the game will be once you figure out which button to mash repeatedly to quickly dispatch characters. It’ll stop looking cool and start feeling tedious. I also played GTA: Chinatown Wars on the DS. I’m a recent convert to the DS — mainly to play retro Square-Enix RPGs — but this GTA felt like GTA 1 from like, the 90s. Overhead…really tiny on the screen…unimpressive.
I bought a pretty sweet tee shirt, though. Check my Facebook status and imagine what it might be.
Finally, I did go to one panel that was pretty great. It was a comic book writers on writing panel. They promised us Chris Claremont, but he never showed up. Instead, they brought in Walt and Louise Simonson which was awesome, and Tom DeFalco was there. Tom has the unique privilege of having written the VERY FIRST COMIC BOOK I ever read. Also in attendence were Colleen Doran, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Christos N. Gage. They all seemed like very sweet, happy people who like each other and their jobs (Colleen was a little toocoolforschool) and they all preferred comics to TV. It’s a more pure medium. Interesting stuff.
More to come tomorrow! We’re gonna get serious about panels and screenings. Woo.
PS, there are WAY too many people at this con. You can’t get into or navigate anything.
