Planet Comicon Kansas City was held on March seventeenth by the nineteenth this 12 months. How was it? Was it higher than final 12 months? Will I am going again?
The Planet Comicon Kansas City was held on March seventeenth by the nineteenth this 12 months. How was it? Was it higher than final 12 months? I’m fortunate sufficient to have an uncle in Kansas City who I can stick with when visiting, and he got here together with me to the present. On Saturday afternoon, it was a lot busier than it was the earlier 12 months, which is nice information. A draw back is it’s a lot simpler to ask a cosplayer for a image when it isn’t crowded.
I used to be pleasantly shocked by the variety of comedian ebook distributors at Planet Comicon Kansas City. Sounds bizarre, proper? I bear in mind a Wizard World present in Des Moines the place the primary day of the present, solely Rodman Comics (that is me) had precise comics available. The first comedian vendor I discovered at this 12 months’s present was fairly excessive on their comedian bin costs. I stop wanting by them after solely a jiffy. That left me pondering there will probably be no restocking again points for Rodman Comics. At the second cease, I used to be pleasantly shocked; they’d half off of chosen packing containers of again points. Rodman Comics dropped a few hundred {dollars} there. At the third cease, they’d comics for a greenback every. Rodman Comics spent a lot more cash there.
I virtually obtained hit within the face with the hilt of a sword on a cosplayer’s again. Just a few backpacks obtained me within the again. The distributors had comedian packing containers on the bottom, and I fearful that somebody would possibly journey over me as I went by them. That’s a part of coping with crowds at comedian conventions. That stated, there have been a lot of cosplayers at Planet Comicon Kansas City—numerous implausible cosplay and many strains of individuals ready for actors or actresses and comedian execs.
I met with some fairly unimaginable artists that took the time to discuss to my uncle and me. Sabine Rich spoke with us essentially the most. She was good sufficient to signal her Spider-Man 1 cowl, Harley Quinn cowl, and New Mutants challenge 30 cowl, which after all, will probably be hanging up at Rodman Comics. Dawn McTeigue made me snort the toughest. She had a lot of implausible paintings.
I had hassle studying costs off the dearer books behind a number of the distributors. On the next Monday, I began making new indicators for the shop’s comics on the again challenge wall so my clients wouldn’t have the identical challenge.
How did I find yourself leaving Planet Comicon Kansas City? One of the cubicles was good sufficient to give me a comedian field to carry the comics that I purchased from them for Rodman Comics. The solely drawback was that there have been much more comics than would match due to shopping for so many. Three hundred comics had been purchased from one vendor alone. My uncle purchased some comics and prints for himself and was good sufficient to assist me carry the haul of comics going to a small comedian retailer in Ankeny, Iowa. If anybody was on the present and noticed a particular person leaving carrying a comedian field with a stack of comics on high of it, that most certainly was me. I realized that comedian packing containers will not be offered at comedian conventions. Carrying that exterior to the parking storage a few blocks away was my most train this 12 months. I did stumble and virtually dropped them.
I offered a number of the older Ghost Rider points that had been purchased at Planet Comicon Kansas City on the day they had been introduced in-store. Business-wise, that’s good. Personally, I had enjoyable and hope to return subsequent 12 months.
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