WonderCon

For some reason, the missing... spy and if you guys if you haven't been listening long uh to our podcast or um if maybe you missed the episode or something you can see it just over my my right shoulder if you're watching um on youtube this right behind me is a piece of original art from david mack um this one is the the The color piece that he did for the Invincible cover that he did earlier this year.

I think it was like WonderCon, like before WonderCon.

Or I think it was like a WonderCon exclusive that he did.

And so I have three out of the four pieces.

The three pieces that I have are one, this color one that you see.

Um, so I worked, like, San Diego.

I worked a convention in California called WonderCon.

Um, but I think in terms of one where I would, like ...

That felt like more like, like, my people, like, it was definitely Alternative Press Expo, and I first started going to that one in the '90s, too.

I'm glad you're t- taking my pants down here on this, on the show.

Uh, in 2010- When, uh, the Green Lantern movie with Ryan Reynolds had a presentation at the WonderCon-

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Good job.

Meanwhile, Lois is running around Metropolis WonderCon and wants to figure out Clark's ph-ph-ph-phantatices.

But Zatanna shows up when it starts fantasizing with Clark.

All on her own.

the hair.

Listen, he is a 12-year-old who is obsessed with Warrior Angel.

So naturally, he steals the one comic at Metropolis WonderCon that nobody has ever opened.

The enchanted book transforms him into the adult superhero, Stephen Swift.

Shout out to Chris and his wife, Maureen.

They tackle shows all the time down here and, you know, pretty much everywhere, San Diego, WonderCon, et cetera.

But they have a really graphic design designy element to their booths.

Like they build walls.

And so I need to work backwards from that.

And I've been thinking through...

the what that stuff is going to look like and and what the shape of it is going to be and how many pages it's going to be etc and what i want from it so you know again at risk of repeating myself too much from previous weeks What I've made the decision for is that I'm going to release the first two volumes of this zine fiction thing for the first show next year, either Stockton or WonderCon or whatever comes along the way in February or March.

in the spirit of invader, in the spirit of witch master of Norway, in the spirit of what I like out of novels, it's going to have some degree of illustration to it.

I used to go to Ape.

I used to go to WonderCon when it was at the, um, Moscone Center.

Yeah.

And, um, so I said, "Let me talk to Erik Stephenson about publishing the Thought Bubble anthology," which was a newspaper-like.

Though you could start doing, like, condition checks now, and being like, "Oh, this one's in better condition," and start doing replacements.

Yes, that will come, probably when we're at WonderCon next year.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

They make a lot of money on their movies there.

Uh, and I- they definitely don't want to be censored.

But as you and I learned at, uh, that panel we went to at WonderCon last year, uh, there are people whose jobs it is to specifically look at comic books and know how to be sensitive to other cultures.

Mm-hmm.

Even forgetting about San

Diego, I think that there's other, I think WonderCon's better than New York.

You're out of your fucking, no, I'm drawing the fucking line.

Not programming-wise, not programming-wise.

Nope, in no single way is WonderCon better.

Not programming, no single way? There is no

version of this where WonderCon is better.

Atmosphere, the atmosphere for the after hours is