Wizard World Philly Diary '07.

I'll bet you're wondering what the story is behind this pic?

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Details to follow...
I'm waiting to see the recordings.

And hey, got all your pics yet? :)
 
I'm waiting to see the recordings.

And hey, got all your pics yet? :)


I got my pics. Oddly enough there wasn't that many of the con itself. But it makes sense seeing as how I only had my camera on Sunday.


I'm waiting for TOG and Joe Kalicki to post their pics so I can pull the ones I took off them. BTW---PM me Cebulski's e-mail. I got the pic we all took. I gotta send it to him too.
 
I don't really have any pictures, except of Doom and TOG and I was going to let you guys post your own pictures of those. I'm a crappy picture-taker.
 
I do wanna see the Loners Crew pic. Right now, I have UC's 7 on my desktop, but I'll change that in a heartbeat to the Loners Crew pic with Cebulski.
 
Day Four

Now, get this.

Doom can sleep through grenades and bombs going off

Houde sleeps off a main street, where car alarms, police sirens and yelling occurs at all times of the day

Neither of us could sleep through the snores that emanate from Max. He woke up me around four, and Doom at 3. Bastich

Me and Doom went and got donuts and egg sandwiches at the Dunkins around the corner. Here, we witness this guy walking down the street, obvioulsy angry at something. If Joe Kalicki was with us, we would have been stabbed. Or at least Joe, we would have run away to get donuts.

Arriving at the con, we see Seymore one last time, and go top find TOG waiting in the normal person line to make fun of him. Instead of finding TOG, we found huge leather armchairs and recliners just hanging out in one of the corridors. We could have used them earlier.

Not too much happened here, except for the pic Doom posted, which I'll let him explain. After that, we went to the last Marvel panel, and shouted Nextwave at one point, where the ******* that is known as San Diego Jim, told us Nextwave should have sold more copies We Boo'd him. Then he told a little kid that Cap was really dead, so we boo'd him some more. We all take our pic with C.B., and he gives us all the number one and two issues of Loners, signed. The guy is really awesome.

Doom and TOG repeat what they did earlier. One last perusal of the con, and then we were done. We show Joe Kalicki the madness that is How I Met your Mother, and then he leaves, leaving me, Doom and Max as the last ones there. Max's snoring kept me up to about 11, then I fall asleep, waking up around 5 to get to the airport, and get back home.

The trip was fun, but as I stated before, I really wished that Philly waas a better city.

Oh, at one point, I touched the stairs, and Doom jumped on my back, and started to hit me in the head for about 200 feet of corridor. Then, I punched his arm only a few minutes later, and I thought he was going to tear me a new one.

No Random Stats today, because I couldn't think of any good ones, except the number of times I wanted to smother Max with a pillow.

Seventeen
 
Saturday –
Let me just say this---no one comiccons like Ice. Nobody.

He told us to meet him at the hotel at 7am. We got there at like 7:05-7:10….and he was ready to go! We were still wanting breakfast and Ice had already eaten and gone back upstairs to get his SUITCASE of comics. A ****ing suitcase. No one comiccons like Ice. Nobody!

Anyways we get breakfast and head over to the convention. Before we got in, Seymour had us line up by class. VIPs over here…advance ticket holders over there. And Big Seymour don't play. There was this one kid…he was obviously a Corky…and he stood in the VIP line and when Seymour asked to see his VIP pass, the kid pulled out a cut up WW Philly ad from a magazine. Big Seymour, his black heart not missing a beat, told the kid that he wasn't a VIP and told him to get in the other line. The kid obviously didn't understand what was going on….but Seymour didn't care. He gave the kid the "Springsteen Roadie Look"* at the kid moved.

Editor's Note--The Springsteen Roadie Look came from a Doom Impersonation Rant. I was going on and on in Seymour's voice and outta nowhere I gave Seymour a backstory. As Seymour I started shouting, "I roadied for The Boss back in '77! For 2 days. Saturday AND Sunday! Bro…YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!" This joke quickly caught on and for the remainder of our time there we kept saying "Saturday AND Suday!" for everything. Good times.

Anyways…once in, we get to stand in line. Or better yet….we get to sit. You see, since Ice told us to be there by 8am---we did. Little did we know that when they say you get in 2 hours early…they mean you get to wait in line, INSIDE for 2 hours before going in at the normal time. While this small fact irked Doom and Houde, we're sure that it pissed Max off to no end. You see, Max doesn't actually have a schedule. For like anything. Since he's on West Coast Time, 8am is like 5am to him. And since he doesn't wake up until 12-1pm West Coast time….he was lagging pretty hard thru the trip. So as we sat there, waiting to be let in, we see Max drift off to sleep. Doom had an idea. A dick-ish idea. Like you expected anything less. :wink:

So I quietly creep up to Max, and in a perfect Seymour voice, I scream "WHERE'S MY ****ING McmUFFIN!?!?!" right in Max's ear. Considering how I woke Max up on Sunday (details to follow)…I'd say that was pretty tame of me. Anyways…we all laugh and Max goes back to sleep. So did Ice's brother (who seemed like he didn't wanna be there at all and was only along because Ice's mom wouldn't let her baby outta the state without a chaperone).

Once we actually got into the con, it was the usual. Walked around and perused the stands inbetween the big panels. One of the more interesting attractions of the stands was along the outer rim of the vendors in the back. This area was relegated to veritable nobodies and their fanart. But who should we see there but David Mack!!?!?! The fact that he was on a featured panel with Bendis the day before and now is mixed in with the nobodies struck us all as odd. Which then led to the ongoing joke that Bendis is a dick and that he likes to taunt his peers with random acts of power plays. The idea that at random Bendis sends you back to the gutters at his whim and then proclaims that "Without Bendis---YOU'RE NOTHING!" just seemed completely hilarious to us all. Mack didn't even have a nameplate or giant poster of his work or nothing. It's like they grabbed all his stuff and threw it on the table and told him that this was his spot….STFU and deal with it. Bendis is a dick.

Most of the stories and comments about the panels themselves have already been mentioned in other threads. Just know that the Loners Crew was reppin' again. We shouted "GO UC!" at any opportunity we got. One of the key things to note is that on Saturday is when we got to see that guy in the rubber latex Venom suit. It was hilarious. We couldn't stop laughing at his shiny suit!!!! Then we say another guy in a Venom suit…but with hightop sneakers on. It's people like this that embarrass us as a comic reading community. Because you know they aren't wearing their regular clothes over their costumes on the way to the con. NO!!!! They are walking down the busy streets of Philly dressed as Robin, Venom and The Hurricane. I guess there's no shame in mom's basement.

Actually---when I think about it…Saturday was the big day for costumes. And not really good ones like Baroness. No….I'm talking some really bad ones. There was Blind Supergirl. Black Supergirl With a Jherri Curl. There was Poor Powergirl. The Hurricane (from WWE). Ooooooh…..and everyone's favorite----Mini Fat Black Juggernaut. Believe me when I say that the description I just gave was spot on. Literally.

But alas, Doom had dinner plans with Illy and had to leave our UC Crew. So Doom went back to the room and SUITED UP! We had dinner at Morimoto's Sushi and it was the greatest sushi I've ever had outside of Tokyo. For serious. And it cost a lot! But in the end it was totally worth it. Sadly…our evening out on Philly was cut short by her having to escort some of her dad's workers at the last minute. You see—Illy's dad owns a stripping/escort service. She works for her dad. But not in that capacity (that'd just be weird). She drives and works as a receptionist. A concierge to the girls if you will. Had this been a party for any of her or his friends, and I would've been able to tag along. But unfortunately for Doom, this was for a private bachelor party and I had to miss out on the strippers. Sigh. Anyways…seeing as how I was still hungry---after me and Illy parted ways I went to Crown Fried Chicken again and got some more Caribbean beef patties. Keep in mind that I am mixing spicy beef with $100 of sushi…$50 of sake…and I lost count of how many martinis I had.

I go back to the room and jump on the UC. About 15 minutes later Max comes up to the room and we open his bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey. Now I don't know what the hell happened to that bottle of Jack on the plane…..but it was some of the strongest whiskey I've ever had. And this from someone who just sits around and drinks whiskey. Also, we're not doing shots of Jack. No….we're pouring it into glasses that would normally be used for scotch or OJ in the morning. I get thru the first glass and then pour me another. At this point Houde comes in and does not partake. I assume SexyButt has forbade him from touching the spirits. :lol: I get thru the second glass and then pour a third. It is at this point that I really start to feel it and realize that the Jack is not mixing well with the beef…..or sushi….or vodka….or sake. Max sees this and backs up a few feet. Fortunately I didn't puke. Puke Free In Philly! WOOOO! The sad part is that I was in no shape to take on anymore alcohol. So nobody got to see Johnny Barracuda. Maybe next time.

So at this point all of us are in the room and I introduce them to the hilarity that is FOX's "The Loop" Season 1. They both love it. Too bad on Sunday they saw some of Season 2….and found out that FOX got rid of the 2 sexy girls on the show. Meh…..


Good times….and we still had Sunday and another night of Max's snoring to go.
 
BWAHAHA! Calling Ice anything other than Puerto Rican is like calling Slimjim black! :lol:

You mean African-American. :D

And ice might just be a little too hard core for me. I'm not as lazy :) as Max, but that would have been like a vacation for me...I get up that early for work. I wouldn't have been in a huge hurry to get in.
 
I got one more day to write about. It includes the Doom Vs. TOG karaoke showdown. More than likely I'll have that done tomorrow....plus a few pics.

TOG and Ice have the most pics.
 
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i was shocked actually, i did not expect him to be a Phillipino-Joe-Q
Okay, that can offend me. I'm not even close to a phillipino anything. I don't even have the "stereotypical" Puerto Rican tan color.

And just for the record, I didn't know we were going to wait in line for 2 hours. Wizard just said "VIPs be here at so and so time." I thought they were gonna let us get in at that time.

And the reason why my brother looks like he didn't want to be there is because he's not a morning person. At all. So he always looks like that anywhere at that time in the morning. And no, my mother doesn't have him as a chaperon. I asked him if he wanted to come back last year because we had a good time at the con.
 

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