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owlbeerSo, it was Armageddon time again (Wellington's answer to a sci-fi con, but mostly a way to separate geeks from their money) and I spent about five hours there today with my 14 year old cousin, which was really cool. We don't hang out that much, but it was really cool to spend the day with her and she held up under my geeky ramblings very well. ;)
I always think Armageddon is so much bigger than it is, but it's kinda remarkable how much you can find to entertain you.
I arrived just before the John Rhys-Davies panel started and I was thinking of going but in the end I opted to walk around, because I love LotR but I thought there was a lot he was going to cover that I'd probably heard.
So, I saw that there was only a small line in front of where Brian K Vaughan and Jimmy Cheung were sitting (to be fair, all through the day there was only a small line, the anime and tv guests drew a much bigger crowd), so I nervously wandered over because I wanted my Y:The Last Man Vol 1 and Runaways Vol 1 TPBs signed, which he happily did. There wasn't much conversation because I was pretty nervous, I garbled something about really loving Runaways and Y: The Last Man and he thanked me. I also overheard a little bit about Joss's run on Runaways and his run on the Buffy comic from his conversation with the guy in front of me and it sounded really, really cool. He seemed like a lovely guy. I also watched Jimmy Cheung draw for a little bit and dude it's always awesome to watch comic book artists draw, even if I'm not really familiar with his work. My comic book reading is sporadic at best at the moment, but still, Brian K Vaughan! Favourite comic book writer! Much with the awesome, even if I didn't have anything really deep and meaningful to say to him.
After that I walked around the rest of the auditorium and met up with my cousin. I picked up Howl's Moving Castle on DVD and bought a couple of badges (The Count! - yes, from Seasame Street - and Brian from Family Guy - the next best thing to Stewie) and then Aaron Douglas's panel was about to start.
Aaron was OMG awesome. So funny and just really awesome to listen to. He had some great stories and also went on some really cool random tangents including a long rant about how he found Lost impossible to watch anymore (paraphrased: we can send a man into space, and yet can't find a jet-liner that crashed like months ago) and how he couldn't stand CSI: Miami , which included your necessary panning of David Caruso. It was awesome. He also made some nice comments about how Americans were wonderful people but their government was fucked, and he did these really cool impressions of Edward James Olmos and James Callis. Just, yeah, he rocked.
We hung around a little for the Billy Dee-Williams panel but we were really hungry and I needed to get more money because Aaron's panel had convinced me that I was going to need to get his autograph later on. (Same thing happened with Jewel Staite last year *mutters*). He seemed quite ... frail though. I don't know if he's had health problems and to be fair I don't actually know how old he is.
More wandering occurred, with me awfully tempted to buy The Wrath of Khan for 10 bucks, but we eventually ended up at the Don S Davis panel. His answers went on some really random (but interesting) tangents but he was such a sweet guy and talked really passionately about the military and the people that he worked with. Awww.
I then lined up to get Aaron's autograph. Most people were after John's or Billy's, so I got through the line pretty fast. I picked a rather nice unshaven!Chief picture for him to sign and he was really lovely. He looked at my Rolling Stones T-Shirt and said, 'you are not old enough to have been at that concert' (it's a 1972 tour shirt) to which I said, no, I wasn't even alive. He asked me if I liked BSG and I said I loved it, but hadn't seen the end of S3, but was one of those people who read spoilers and knew what happened already. He told me I should stay spoiler-free for S4, which ... yeah, I don't like my chances, but I told him I'd try. ;) I kinda wish I'd asked him about the Stones, but yeah, I managed to talk a lot more than when I was with Brian. Just, such a lovely guy.
And then, after wandering a little more and figuring we'd seen most things, we left. All in all, it was a very cool day, and now I'm tempted to get the BSG episodes I haven't seen yet ... it was hilarious how like half the BSG panel audience admitted they totally downloaded it. Ah, geeks.
So, yeah, good day and now I have to get ready to go out for Indian. Mmmm.
Also, I saw Sunshine on Thursday and I really recommend it if you like your sci-fi a little more psycological than action packed. It has a few cliches but overall it's well worth watching. The direction and soundtrack are also very cool.
I always think Armageddon is so much bigger than it is, but it's kinda remarkable how much you can find to entertain you.
I arrived just before the John Rhys-Davies panel started and I was thinking of going but in the end I opted to walk around, because I love LotR but I thought there was a lot he was going to cover that I'd probably heard.
So, I saw that there was only a small line in front of where Brian K Vaughan and Jimmy Cheung were sitting (to be fair, all through the day there was only a small line, the anime and tv guests drew a much bigger crowd), so I nervously wandered over because I wanted my Y:The Last Man Vol 1 and Runaways Vol 1 TPBs signed, which he happily did. There wasn't much conversation because I was pretty nervous, I garbled something about really loving Runaways and Y: The Last Man and he thanked me. I also overheard a little bit about Joss's run on Runaways and his run on the Buffy comic from his conversation with the guy in front of me and it sounded really, really cool. He seemed like a lovely guy. I also watched Jimmy Cheung draw for a little bit and dude it's always awesome to watch comic book artists draw, even if I'm not really familiar with his work. My comic book reading is sporadic at best at the moment, but still, Brian K Vaughan! Favourite comic book writer! Much with the awesome, even if I didn't have anything really deep and meaningful to say to him.
After that I walked around the rest of the auditorium and met up with my cousin. I picked up Howl's Moving Castle on DVD and bought a couple of badges (The Count! - yes, from Seasame Street - and Brian from Family Guy - the next best thing to Stewie) and then Aaron Douglas's panel was about to start.
Aaron was OMG awesome. So funny and just really awesome to listen to. He had some great stories and also went on some really cool random tangents including a long rant about how he found Lost impossible to watch anymore (paraphrased: we can send a man into space, and yet can't find a jet-liner that crashed like months ago) and how he couldn't stand CSI: Miami , which included your necessary panning of David Caruso. It was awesome. He also made some nice comments about how Americans were wonderful people but their government was fucked, and he did these really cool impressions of Edward James Olmos and James Callis. Just, yeah, he rocked.
We hung around a little for the Billy Dee-Williams panel but we were really hungry and I needed to get more money because Aaron's panel had convinced me that I was going to need to get his autograph later on. (Same thing happened with Jewel Staite last year *mutters*). He seemed quite ... frail though. I don't know if he's had health problems and to be fair I don't actually know how old he is.
More wandering occurred, with me awfully tempted to buy The Wrath of Khan for 10 bucks, but we eventually ended up at the Don S Davis panel. His answers went on some really random (but interesting) tangents but he was such a sweet guy and talked really passionately about the military and the people that he worked with. Awww.
I then lined up to get Aaron's autograph. Most people were after John's or Billy's, so I got through the line pretty fast. I picked a rather nice unshaven!Chief picture for him to sign and he was really lovely. He looked at my Rolling Stones T-Shirt and said, 'you are not old enough to have been at that concert' (it's a 1972 tour shirt) to which I said, no, I wasn't even alive. He asked me if I liked BSG and I said I loved it, but hadn't seen the end of S3, but was one of those people who read spoilers and knew what happened already. He told me I should stay spoiler-free for S4, which ... yeah, I don't like my chances, but I told him I'd try. ;) I kinda wish I'd asked him about the Stones, but yeah, I managed to talk a lot more than when I was with Brian. Just, such a lovely guy.
And then, after wandering a little more and figuring we'd seen most things, we left. All in all, it was a very cool day, and now I'm tempted to get the BSG episodes I haven't seen yet ... it was hilarious how like half the BSG panel audience admitted they totally downloaded it. Ah, geeks.
So, yeah, good day and now I have to get ready to go out for Indian. Mmmm.
Also, I saw Sunshine on Thursday and I really recommend it if you like your sci-fi a little more psycological than action packed. It has a few cliches but overall it's well worth watching. The direction and soundtrack are also very cool.
