Motor City Comic Con & Jim Shooter!!!

hillmanthe2nd · Post by **hillmanthe2nd** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:06 am

Anyone notice who was listed as a guest for the upcoming Motor City comic Con? Why Mr. Jim Shooter!!!!

I will be there all 3 days (working as a volunteer one of those days). Anyone else going? I plan on getting lots of stuff signed and maybe, if I am lucky, I will even talk Shooter into doing a sketch for me!

http://www.motorcityconventions.com/mot ... index.html

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:29 am

Nice. I wonder if that means he's getting back into comics? The Phobos website has been down for months, so if you can ask him what he's up to these days.

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:27 pm

I will be there. I live in Brighton so I'm only about 20 minutes away. I was planning on having him sign at least my Unity #0. I'm debating Harbinger and the other rarer Pre-Unity stuff. Like you said Hillman, a sketch would be very cool!

Flinx · Post by **Flinx** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:09 pm

I Think I need to move to the US.

Also noticed that Norm Breyfogle, Sean Chen, Dave Cockrum & Aaron Lopresti are listed as guests, plus a lot of others I would like to meet.

Anyone out there willing to help get a couple of comics signed?

dino · Post by **dino** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:12 pm

Flinx wrote: I Think I need to move to the US.

Also noticed that Norm Breyfogle, Sean Chen, Dave Cockrum & Aaron Lopresti are listed as guests, plus a lot of others I would like to meet.

Anyone out there willing to help get a couple of comics signed?

I'll sign them for you. I do a great Jim Lee, my Mcfarlane could use some work but its pretty good too.

Flinx · Post by **Flinx** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:19 pm

dino wrote:
Flinx wrote: I Think I need to move to the US.

Also noticed that Norm Breyfogle, Sean Chen, Dave Cockrum & Aaron Lopresti are listed as guests, plus a lot of others I would like to meet.

Anyone out there willing to help get a couple of comics signed?
I'll sign them for you. I do a great Jim Lee, my Mcfarlane could use some work but its pretty good too.

Thanks Dino, but already have Lee & McFarlane.

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:25 pm

I Think I need to move to the US.

Also noticed that Norm Breyfogle, Sean Chen, Dave Cockrum & Aaron Lopresti are listed as guests, plus a lot of others I would like to meet.

Anyone out there willing to help get a couple of comics signed?

I might be able to help you get some books signed. How many are you talking? I'm not sure if any of the artists/writers have signing fees. Let me know. PM me or e-mail me...

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:58 pm

Shooter signed my Magnus 0 and 1, and Solar 1 last October.

Cool guy!

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:52 am

I'm sure each one of us whom have seen Shooter has worshiped his work on pre-unity Valiant. And I'm sure each one of us has told that to his face when we get to shake his hand. Does he say anything back about it? Is their a spark in his eye when the topic is brought up? Does he know about this little fan following?

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:25 am

whetteon wrote:I'm sure each one of us whom have seen Shooter has worshiped his work on pre-unity Valiant. And I'm sure each one of us has told that to his face when we get to shake his hand. Does he say anything back about it? Is their a spark in his eye when the topic is brought up? Does he know about this little fan following?

I wish he would drop us a line here. We've heard from the other big hitters at Valiant. I'm suprised he has'nt chimed in too.

Boda

wrunow · Post by **wrunow** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 6:33 am

I am willing to bet Shooter has prowled around this site in his spare time without taking part or as a guest at one time or another. He may have something up his sleeve and that is why he is making con visits, or maybe he just needs a little extra cash right now.

Flinx · Post by **Flinx** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:28 am

sandman wrote:
I Think I need to move to the US.

Also noticed that Norm Breyfogle, Sean Chen, Dave Cockrum & Aaron Lopresti are listed as guests, plus a lot of others I would like to meet.

Anyone out there willing to help get a couple of comics signed?

I might be able to help you get some books signed. How many are you talking? I'm not sure if any of the artists/writers have signing fees. Let me know. PM me or e-mail me...

Thank you, just sent an email.

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 1:14 pm

whetteon wrote:I'm sure each one of us whom have seen Shooter has worshiped his work on pre-unity Valiant. And I'm sure each one of us has told that to his face when we get to shake his hand. Does he say anything back about it? Is their a spark in his eye when the topic is brought up? Does he know about this little fan following?

He is very appreciative to meet any and all fans. In person, with the fans, he's very generous, gracious and humble. I spent hours talking with him at one Con, all about Valiant, Bloodshot, LSH, Marvel, etc. And then he waqs just as gracious by email afterwards. There were many pros there who respect him (Paul Levitz & Walt Simonson being the most vocal fellow attendees there, while many more came by just to pay their respects).

That was when I got my SOLAR HC signed by Shooter, JayJay and BWS. Great Con...

BoH

dave · Post by **dave** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:23 pm

i don't know if i'll make it this year (i live in taylor-you know-taylor-tucky) i scored big last year when i went!

i didn't know anyone from brighton was on the boards!
we just moved from south lyon 3 years ago...still work in brighton occassionally.

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:01 am

Yeah...I just moved to Brighton about a year ago. I've lived near Lansing and St Joe also.

It's probably been 6 years since I've been to the Con. I saw David Prowse (Vader) and Peter Mayhew (Chewey) the last time I was there. I also got Quesda/Palmotti to sign my XO #0. Very cool.

Let me know if you make it. I'd love to actually meet some of the people from the board.

dave · Post by **dave** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:20 pm

i'm gonna be working in brighton tomorrow...there aren't any shops out that way are there? there was one in novi (a triangular building) but it closed...before i ever made it there!

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:33 pm

dave wrote:there was one in novi (a triangular building) but it closed...before i ever made it there!

I remember one like that that I visited in '95. It was very small and had almost no Valiants. I remember that driving a bit south on the interstate (not very close) there were two good ones (that I found in the phone book, one of them even had TV commercials). One closely west of the interstate and one a bit east of the interstate, close to a Sveden House.

/Magnus

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:06 am

There's nothing in Brighton that I know of. Howell has a new shop that opened last year, but they don't have any older than a year. Not worth your time. Novi has a Comic City, but again, mostly new stuff and TPB. You might get lucky there. Ann Arbor has a few shops that are decent. I also go up to Lansing. I grew up there and know the shops better.

Where do you go?

dave · Post by **dave** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:17 am

i go all over...i've been to the 2 that i believe magnus is mentioning-both on ford road-a to z and the other comic city. i've been to 3 in ypsi-ann arbor; there are four over here on the "east side" (taylor, wyandotte, allen park) i've even been to one down in monroe-my job has me driving apx 100 miles a day in any direction!