My New York Experience by (insert your name here)

daydreamscomics · Post by **daydreamscomics** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:47 pm

figured i'd start a thread for everyone who came to the Big Apple Con to post what they picked up while in new york and what they thought of the show

daydreamscomics · Post by **daydreamscomics** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:47 pm

i picked up these pages:

Solar #37 cover

Rai #30 Page 1

Psi-Lords #3 Page 1

i also picked up some nice batman prints from rodney ramos and tommy castillo, as well as a huge poison ivy castillo print. also picked up a couple exiles pages from jim calfiore.

cheap books were aplenty, and i was able to fill out some runs and narrow others down to some final issues. not much valiant to be found, which i found kinda odd.

the overall size and set up of the show was somewhat disappointing. i was thinking this was going to be much larger than it turned out to be.

but thanks to mr. john rosas, everything valiant related was awesome. the unity vfvss set was spectacular! the x-o print set from K_c is top notch! the rai penguin and solar prototype are amazing! the panels were also pretty fun. it was no holds barred on sunday

a big hand to john for all his hard work

the trip home last night was DREADFUL. i was on the same flight with justin (architect) and our plane left NY over an hour late. as soon as we landed we ran off the plane, only to find our connecting flight had left the minute we landed. we decided to hang out in the airport until morning (when we had a rebooked flight home)

as luck would have it, there was a frontier airline flight to denver that was running about 6 hours late. a bunch of people had to rebook so a bunch of seats opened up, and we were able to get home last night.

it was great meeting you guys out there! i'm hoping to make it out to san diego for a day or so, so hopefully we can all meet up again soon!

zach

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:08 pm

Well...Didn't pick up much...Not much there. Though Greg and I did pick up 27 issues of the price variant Super mario Bros. #8 .

Hanging with you guys was GREAT! All of you were really cool! And I tip my hat ( Penn State of course ) to John (svair) you did a GREAT job putting this together and if you need help next year I'd be more then happy to help out.

Sorry to disappoint some of you...I'm just a quiet guy I guess....

Oh yeah.....ASIAN A$$ RULES!!!!!

svair · Post by **svair** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:42 pm

jedimarley wrote:Well...Didn't pick up much...Not much there. Though Greg and I did pick up 27 issues of the price variant Super mario Bros. #8 .

Hanging with you guys was GREAT! All of you were really cool! And I tip my hat ( Penn State of course ) to John (svair) you did a GREAT job putting this together and if you need help next year I'd be more then happy to help out.

Sorry to disappoint some of you...I'm just a quiet guy I guess....

Oh yeah.....ASIAN A$$ RULES!!!!!

wrunow · Post by **wrunow** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:55 pm

Here is a cool piece of Visitor art I picked up to go with a couple of other pages I already had of this series:

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:04 pm

Nice piece.

Anyone get the Visitor splash that Mike was selling??

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:09 pm

jedimarley wrote:Nice piece. Anyone get the Visitor splash that Mike was selling??

Considering that Mike was only there on Sat.....I don't think so. I LOVED that 2 page spread just ran out of funds.

-Brian

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:12 pm

betterthanezra wrote:
jedimarley wrote:Nice piece. Anyone get the Visitor splash that Mike was selling??
Considering that Mike was only there on Sat.....I don't think so. I LOVED that 2 page spread just ran out of funds.

-Brian

$200 was a bit much. For me, anyway.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:17 pm

jedimarley wrote:Well...Didn't pick up much...Not much there. Though Greg and I did pick up 27 issues of the price variant Super mario Bros. #8 .

Hmm....I thought Greg had no love for the Nintendo/Valiant stuff. You guys must have got them for a steal.

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:19 pm

jedimarley wrote:
betterthanezra wrote:
jedimarley wrote:Nice piece. Anyone get the Visitor splash that Mike was selling??
Considering that Mike was only there on Sat.....I don't think so. I LOVED that 2 page spread just ran out of funds.

-Brian
$200 was a bit much. For me, anyway.

$200.....for the splash with the hole at the bottem right corner?

When I asked him about it he said it was only $75 dollars....

-Brian

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:21 pm

Not to bum anyone out, but my experience at Ground Zero was very emotional...I didn't leave there dry-eyed.

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:23 pm

betterthanezra wrote:
jedimarley wrote:
betterthanezra wrote:
jedimarley wrote:Nice piece. Anyone get the Visitor splash that Mike was selling??
Considering that Mike was only there on Sat.....I don't think so. I LOVED that 2 page spread just ran out of funds.

-Brian
$200 was a bit much. For me, anyway.
$200.....for the splash with the hole at the bottem right corner?

When I asked him about it he said it was only $75 dollars....

-Brian

Really? Even $75 is too much in that condition.

wrunow · Post by **wrunow** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:33 pm

This page is actually colored in pencil with an overlay with the color codes for digital coloring (I assume).

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:37 pm

Another great piece that thought of getting.

Is it me, or was there some great art for sale at the con?

wrunow · Post by **wrunow** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:42 pm

jedimarley wrote:Another great piece that thought of getting.

Is it me, or was there some great art for sale at the con?

No man, it's not you, there were some really sweet pieces there, most of them have never been available because they were brought along by the colorists and inker and artists that actually did the stuff. How cool is that?

I know that the stack Andrew Wendell had was just sitting in his closet and he decided to bring it down and see who wanted it.

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:45 pm

You guys are really making me jealous. Wish I could have been there. Of course if I did make it, some of you might not have gotten what you did.

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:47 pm

x-omatic wrote:You guys are really making me jealous. Wish I could have been there. Of course if I did make it, some of you might not have gotten what you did.

There was more then enough for everyone.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:58 pm

jedimarley wrote:
x-omatic wrote:You guys are really making me jealous. Wish I could have been there. Of course if I did make it, some of you might not have gotten what you did.
There was more then enough for everyone.

I dunno, Brian is a little crazy about his original art... I don't think he can ever be satiated!

-slym (was surprised BTE only got 5 pages from Mr. Wendel)

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:03 pm

slym2none wrote:
jedimarley wrote:
x-omatic wrote:You guys are really making me jealous. Wish I could have been there. Of course if I did make it, some of you might not have gotten what you did.
There was more then enough for everyone.
I dunno, Brian is a little crazy about his original art... I don't think he can ever be satiated!

-slym (was surprised BTE only got 5 pages from Mr. Wendel)

Seriously it was 6 pages...and I got his contact to get more

-Brian

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:14 pm

betterthanezra wrote:
slym2none wrote:
jedimarley wrote:
x-omatic wrote:You guys are really making me jealous. Wish I could have been there. Of course if I did make it, some of you might not have gotten what you did.
There was more then enough for everyone.
I dunno, Brian is a little crazy about his original art... I don't think he can ever be satiated!

-slym (was surprised BTE only got 5 pages from Mr. Wendel)
Seriously it was 6 pages...and I got his contact to get more

-Brian

-slym

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:52 pm

jedimarley wrote:
x-omatic wrote:You guys are really making me jealous. Wish I could have been there. Of course if I did make it, some of you might not have gotten what you did.
There was more then enough for everyone.

Don't forget, you're talking to the guy who has a bajillion Unity Reds....

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:03 am

Okay, here's the one piece of art I had done at the show:

Tommy did it for me & I was really pleased! I chose him after Dela showed me the Shadowman piece Tommy did for him. ~Pete

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:13 am

jedimarley wrote:Well...Didn't pick up much...Not much there. Though Greg and I did pick up 27 issues of the price variant Super mario Bros. #8

First off, there is no Super Mario #8. There is an Adventures of Super Mario 8 and a Nintendo Comics System 8, though.

So, which one is it and why is it a price variant? I think the Adventures issues were priced $1.50.

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:25 pm

ckb wrote:
jedimarley wrote:Well...Didn't pick up much...Not much there. Though Greg and I did pick up 27 issues of the price variant Super mario Bros. #8
First off, there is no Super Mario #8. There is an Adventures of Super Mario 8 and a Nintendo Comics System 8, though.

So, which one is it and why is it a price variant? I think the Adventures issues were priced $1.50.

It was Adventures of Super Mario 8, cover priced at $1.50.
Since all my other Valiant Nintendo books are priced $1.95,
I was happy to pick up those books for under cover price.
Admittedly, I know very little about the pre-Hero Valiant books...
so I was happy to add the $1.50 book (with the newsprint paper)
to my small collection of otherwise $1.95 books.

justin · Post by **justin** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:34 pm

jedimarley wrote:Not to bum anyone out, but my experience at Ground Zero was very emotional...I didn't leave there dry-eyed.

All three of us shed tears my man, it was emotional for me watching Knight put the badges from his uniform he wore in Afghanistan at the base of one of the drawings that children had done for their lost ones.

-j