SDCC Valiant info....

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:18 pm

Knightt wrote:Seeing over 50 people show up to the Valiant Panel to observe and participate: OUTSTANDING

Seeing ONE Valiant professional SHOW UP to the panel: EMBARRASSING

Sitting through the meeting within three feet from xoken, OOPS I mean dino and him not saying ONE word to me or afterwords: PRICELESS

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:20 pm

cinlach@aol.com wrote:i can't believe no one showed up for the panel.

that sucks for BTE...did folks at least give a decent reason for not showing up?

All I heard about it was either "late" or "previous commitments."

-slym

SnotDrip · Post by **SnotDrip** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:31 am

Ok

but everyone at once??
bummer

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:29 am

Knightt wrote:Seeing over 50 people show up to the Valiant Panel to observe and participate: OUTSTANDING

Seeing ONE Valiant professional SHOW UP to the panel: EMBARRASSING

Sitting through the meeting within three feet from xoken, OOPS I mean dino and him not saying ONE word to me or afterwords: PRICELESS

Dino was there?!?!

Frustrating....but ok......

It was fun meeting everyone that would allow themselves to be reognized!

And with the panelists....what's a guy gonna do? Chain the creators together and drag them in?

Brian did all he could, it was still great panel!

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:33 am

Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but which one of the panelists actually showed up?

SnotDrip · Post by **SnotDrip** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:34 pm

Brother J wrote:Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but which one of the panelists actually showed up?

...and what was discussed?

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:46 pm

SnotDrip wrote:
Brother J wrote:Sorry if I missed it somewhere, but which one of the panelists actually showed up?
...and what was discussed?

I believe I read somewhere that it was Charles Yoakum. As for what was discussed...??? The guys who attended will have to fill us all in there.

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:47 pm

Oh yeah - MagnusRF is on his "Satanic" post right now...

-slym

bernardchang · Post by **bernardchang** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:11 pm

i just wanted to thank all the fans who stopped by the panel. i apologize for myself and sean who were unable to make it. he had a very important late-lunch meeting that day, and it ran over. i was stuck watching the our booth (theblvd) as all the other members were out on similar mtgs or panels, and as things turned out, all ran late. i showed up just minutes after the panel had ended and chatted with a few outside the room.

saturday is the busiest day of the show, with over 100,000 people making their way through the convention floor. most of the artists have booths that they needed to watch over. even though our blvd booth had two "assistants", i could not leave them unsupervised (and there were a lot of convention goers stealing books lying on the table).

sean and myself were mostly at our booth on the exhibitor floor the rest of the weekend and chatted with all the fans who bothered to stop by.

what i would recommend for next year (if you're all still interested in holding an event), is to have the panel either on sunday or friday. collect all the cell phone numbers of the artists you have planning to attend, and either call them or send guys out 30 minutes before to do a sweep. due to the massive number of people at the show and all the commotion, it is very easy to forget the time and have things slip by.

lastly, i have always been a supporter of doing something outside the actual show hours, such as a group dinner or drinks social like we did last year.

-bc

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:14 pm

bernardchang wrote:lastly, i have always been a supporter of doing something outside the actual show hours, such as a group dinner or drinks social like we did last year.

-bc

-slym

TimeWillTell · Post by **TimeWillTell** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:37 pm

Having been an exhibitor at the SDCC back in 1999, I can attest to the craziness this convention generates. There were many times I wanted to make it to any number of panels, etc. (or even walk the floor), but there always seemed to be something going on at our own booth that required my presence for one reason or another.

I would be interested to hear from some of the board members who attended what their overall impressions of the convention were and anything they would care to mention about any interesting discussions at Brain's panel, etc.

Thanks,
-TWT

stone384 · Post by **stone384** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:08 pm

My impression was that it was croooooooowded and some of those fanboys need to wash under their manboobs alittle more. There was a definate aroma at times. The panel was cool. There were quite a few non board members there. After the panel quite afew were inquiring about the the site. So we might being seeing some new members soon. Met BTE and a few others (although not everyone) and I met up with knight on sunday (oh, and xomatic also, though he doesn't know it). Ran sean chen down at his booth and gave him a little lighthearted grief about the panel (forgot to ask about his pengies and the solar statue, oops), then he, bernard chang, j.p. Leon and all the rest of the guys at their booth were kind enought to sign their sketchbook for me. Even got my san diego exclusive zoom suit signed. Had a good time and now I need a nap!!!
Matt

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:13 pm

stone384 wrote:My impression was that it was croooooooowded and some of those fanboys need to wash under their manboobs alittle more. There was a definate aroma at times.

THAT sir, is disgusting.

TimeWillTell · Post by **TimeWillTell** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:20 pm

stone384 wrote:
My impression was that it was croooooooowded and some of those fanboys need to wash under their manboobs alittle more. There was a definate aroma at times.

THAT sir, is disgusting.

But aaahhh... So true!
Thanks for bringing back THAT memory!!

-TWT

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:24 pm

TimeWillTell wrote:
stone384 wrote:
My impression was that it was croooooooowded and some of those fanboys need to wash under their manboobs alittle more. There was a definate aroma at times.

THAT sir, is disgusting.
But aaahhh... So true!
Thanks for bringing back THAT memory!!
-TWT

uh guys, are you talking about the con in general or the VALIANT panel in particular? I'd hate to think my fellow VALIANT fans had poor personal hygiene!

stone384 · Post by **stone384** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:34 pm

The con...all panel attendees had 3% body fat and a full head of hair. ; ) and as nasty as it was for those of us who bathe regularly at least none of the offenders were trying to snuggle up to me. Poor, poor booth girls.
Matt

dino · Post by **dino** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:39 pm

Knightt wrote:Sitting through the meeting within three feet from xoken, OOPS I mean dino and him not saying ONE word to me or afterwords: PRICELESS

I did smile and wave for the photo you took of me though.

I had a chat with Dan, X-O matic, bte and a couple of non board members both inside and outside the room after the panel. Didn't spot you.

Oh and you were three feet from me and didn't say one word either: AWKWARD

cinlach@aol.com · Post by **cinlach@aol.com** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:43 pm

<blink>

DINESH!!

welcome back dude...hope my "man-boob aroma" didn't run you off.

take off your coat and stay awhile compadre.

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:47 pm

Brother J wrote: I'd hate to think my fellow VALIANT fans had poor personal hygiene!

Slym was there??

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:48 pm

cinlach@aol.com wrote:take off your coat and stay awhile compadre.

Yeah.

Stop this lurking, and start posting.

dino · Post by **dino** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:50 pm

cinlach@aol.com wrote:<blink>

DINESH!!

welcome back dude...hope my "man-boob aroma" didn't run you off.

take off your coat and stay awhile compadre.

I'd love to but I have to go squash some fan projects before lunch, then its off to post with all 953 of my other usernames and then I have to insult some former Valiant creators mothers. Oh and of course there is the evening smoke blowing seminar that I carpool to with Justin.

Man...its hard keeping up the persona

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:52 pm

dino wrote:
cinlach@aol.com wrote:<blink>

DINESH!!

welcome back dude...hope my "man-boob aroma" didn't run you off.

take off your coat and stay awhile compadre.
I'd love to but I have to go squash some fan projects before lunch, then its off to post with all 953 of my other usernames and then I have to insult some former Valiant creators mothers. Oh and of course there is the evening smoke blowing seminar that I carpool to with Justin.

Man...its hard keeping up the persona

That's our VVI.

dino · Post by **dino** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:55 pm

dino wrote: I'd love to but I have to go squash some fan projects before lunch, then its off to post with all 953 of my other usernames and then I have to insult some former Valiant creators mothers. Oh and of course there is the evening smoke blowing seminar that I carpool to with Justin.

Man...its hard keeping up the persona TM

Almost forgot

cinlach@aol.com · Post by **cinlach@aol.com** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:55 pm

dino wrote:
cinlach@aol.com wrote:<blink>

DINESH!!

welcome back dude...hope my "man-boob aroma" didn't run you off.

take off your coat and stay awhile compadre.
I'd love to but I have to go squash some fan projects before lunch, then its off to post with all 953 of my other usernames and then I have to insult some former Valiant creators mothers. Oh and of course there is the evening smoke blowing seminar that I carpool to with Justin.

Man...its hard keeping up the persona

well played dino...well played...lol

looks like you've not lost a step in the past few months...stick around this time.

not everybody wants to chuck rotten eggs at you...regular eggs will do fine for me.

see, that's a joke...i'm not really gonna fling raw eggs at you.

maybe.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:08 pm

jedimarley wrote:
dino wrote:
cinlach@aol.com wrote:<blink>

DINESH!!

welcome back dude...hope my "man-boob aroma" didn't run you off.

take off your coat and stay awhile compadre.
I'd love to but I have to go squash some fan projects before lunch, then its off to post with all 953 of my other usernames and then I have to insult some former Valiant creators mothers. Oh and of course there is the evening smoke blowing seminar that I carpool to with Justin.

Man...its hard keeping up the persona
That's our VVI.

And the guy hasn't lost a thing.