Way too many comics today.
Come in Alone | Channel Zero | Frumpy the Clown | Maus II | Flash: Blood will Run | Invisibles: Apocalipstick | Strangehaven: Arcadia | Starman: Night and Day | Swamp Thing: Earth to Earth | Essential Wolverine I (signed by Claremont but more on that in mo)

Two hardbacks aswell because I basically decided fuck it I can afford them and they are nice, in fact one of them is really nice. Over the coming months I believe I will look into some stuff in hardback. I’m thinking the entire run of Sandman in hardback would be really really really nice. Todays was Kevin Smiths Green Arrow: Quiver and the oversized Ultimate Spiderman. Yes I have the Spidey stuff in TPB already but this is really sweet and a really nice price.

The WEF is having a noticeable impact on my reading and I will discuss this more in the days and weeks to come.

So this afternoon I headed out to the Chris Claremont signing. If you don’t recognise that name, well shame on you. Chris is one of the legandary writers, known mainly for his work on X-Men in the past few decades. Anyway it was good, fucked up and didn’t bring what I wanted signed and the selection there was shite so…..

I’ve been to alot of cons, I’ve seen a hell of alot of autograph sessions over the past few years and I really don’t get the comic ones. About 5 years ago I was at a comic con in Dublin and Garth Ennis was there (I do kick myself now that I know who he is…) and there were people coming up with litteraly 60 comics and putting them on the table and he was just signing them all. The same again today, one guy had at least 100 old X-Men comics and he just placed them on the table and started chatting while they were all being signed.

2 Things

1) what is the fucking point? Oh well yes I have 192 Chris Claremont autographs…I’m sorry that’s very sad.
2) how fucking rude is that? Here sign these 100 comics for me please. I mean for fuck sake?

Yes I think it’s a really nice thing to have and yes it took me about a 2 1/2 hour round trip to get to the signing. I’ve read alot of Chris’s work and it’s easily the best X-Men stuff ever and I am looking forward to his re-launching of Gen 13 and yes I wanted to get something signed. A whole one item. The same with the Warren Ellis talk on Thursday night, he was signing briefly after the talk so I brought Planetary book one along for that reason. That I get, it’s a nice thing to have but 100 fucking comics?

Anyways…hardback stuff. The plan is to get Sandman (as mentiond already) some Alan Moore stuff, Top Ten for sure, I have the Absolute Authority on order and will more than likely get Ellis’ OGN (original graphic novel) stuff in hardback. Maybe go back and get some Rising Stars and Astro City and Planetary for sure.