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Chicago Comic Con So, I tried to make a post on Friday before I left for Chicago Comic Con, but the internet went down. It's probably better because I was only going to later post what happened later. Everything started out alright until we got to Chicago. THE TRAFFIC WAS TERRIBLE! We left early in the hopes of get to the center early and we sat in traffic for an hour and maybe moved 5 miles at best! Moral of the Story: Leave Early! Know your route and if you can if there is any construction. Now that we are past that. once We go there we saw the usually suspects of Awesome Cos-players!  We made our way around the convention center when I noticed some images by Frank Frazetta that were printed to about 24 X 36in poster sized pictures. After speaking to one of the guys for a bit he mentioned that Robert Rodriguez a friend and fan of Frank Frazetta photographed the paintings in order to help raise the funds for a gallery dedicated to Frank Frazetta that would display his worl...

San Diego Comic Con! Well, San Diego Comic Con start yesterday 7/18/13, and it's causing me to think back to last year when I went. It is one of the most intense weekends I have had. San Diego Comic Con is the mecca of Comic Cons, unveiling new movie, games and other media related events. Actually to use the word comic when describing these cons is a bit of a misnomer, these events have more then just comics or comic related stuff but rather it should be referred to as a Universal Media Convention. Along with the above mentioned events Celebrities show up to connected with fans, taking photo ops, signing photos, or simply answering fans questions during panel discussions. Outside of these events artists line up to show their work to the industries leading professionals. Companies debut latest designs in software and equipment pertaining to all artists ranging from Painters, Illustrators to 3D Modeling and Practical Creature Creation, these events are for all artists. Last ye...

Gay Spider-man in Movies I was reading about how they may make Spider-man gay in the new movies. Commenters wrote how it was wrong on the bases that he was not gay in the comics, which I understand. However this is the second incarnation of Spider-Man in the movies and they didn't make him gay in the first installation. So what does it matter if he is gay the second time around? Recently we have heard about some people arguing against Johnny Depp's interpretation of Tonto in the recent Lone Ranger movie. Producers, Directors and Actors are artists and they experiment with style, content and substance to bring us a unique experience, not a carbon copy of a previous work but sometimes their own impression of the source material however abstract. We relate to these characters in our own way and sometimes because of that we may be a bit deeply involved and so it strikes at ourselves when someone changes them. Hollywood has always been into marketing the...

Superman        With the excitement good and bad of the new Superman: Man of Steel movie released on the June, 14th, 2013 I feel compelled to write a bit about Superman: comics and movies. As a kid I watched the Christopher Reeves Superman movies and I my first comic had Superman in it (see My first comic), I even had a giant sized Superman comic that had a fold out poster of Krypton that was tacked to my wall for most of my youth. As a young kid he was cool, but in a way I think kids have a tendency to notice. Superman is colorful: Kids notice bright colors, He was mostly blue: usually a young boys favorite color, He is super strong and super fast, He can fly! plus he has bonus powers like heat/lazer/fire vision and freeze things with a single breath. He always defeats the bad guy and has basically one weakness. This is an ideal super hero, un-defeat-able. However he wasn't my favorite, but he was the one I was familiar with first and I liked ...