I’ve been seeing some good coverage this year from the CC.. people taking cameras in and documenting heaps of it. Saw the initial trailer for Iron Man.. **** that looks soooo good. Just when I thought Iron Man couldn’t get any better, he goes and breaks the sound barrier. Awesome.

Dunno how you managed not to spend a cent in there.. I’d be buying the miniatures like crazy. One of all my favourite Marvel characters… hehe..

You’ll have to try and find that image, V! Very cool haha..

Thanks for the summary mate, really appreciate it!

Hope to get over one year.. really do!

ComicCon was a bit more sedate for me than usual, as I spent a lot of time limping from sit to sit, but still quite fun. The floor is like a sixth of mile long, so I hadda go easy – too much back and forth, and all of sudden I’ve walked ten miles. My butt is sore, that’s for sure – they don’t hardly have a soft chair in that place! I got a nice smile from Elvira, the campy horror queen, when I tipped my hat; met Ernie Hudson, the black guy from “Ghostbusters”; got to chat with Ray Bradbury, the sc-fi god – I’ve been running across him at bookstores and conventions for more than thirty years now! Met my high-school pal there – he’s my best friend from forever ago, and he ‘s always there, too, all the way from Arizona, and we tramped about a bit, talking old movies with a another friend of his. I always stay late for the Masquerade, but out behind the green room where they take the official portraits – up close and fascinating. Believe it or not, I didn’t buy but one damn thing for myself this year, a calendar of pin-ups signed by Olivia, the Bettie Page painter. Vavoom! There were some tempting miniatures and thousands of comics, but I passed on it all – gotta save some dough for other issues in life this year. I did buy my son the latest Arsenic Lullaby and Penny Arcade, but that’s it.

I wear a black single-breasted coat with white piping along the edges and the collar, over a dark blue mock turtleneck, tan pants, black deck shoes with white trim along the bottom; a multi-colored shooting-stick umbrella; (boy, did that come in handy – I needed a cane!) and a genuine straw skimmer hat. (Some people call them a boater, but that’s a different kind of hat) I had been wearing a recent Italian straw skimmer, the only new ones made these days except for bespoke tailors in England, but a couple of years ago I ran across a mint condition skimmer from the late 1930’s made in Baltimore – a genuine find! It has a more modern band on it, but it was a steal at $65.00 because it had been custom made for some guy with a narrow head – just like mine! It fits perfect! If you do a search for “The Prisoner” TV show under Google images, there should be plenty of pic of what I was aiming at. There was actually a shot of me on Flickr from last year’s con, but I couldn’t find it to send you a link. If I catch one I’ll send it to you. Without bragging in any way, I’m pretty damn good, and many people have said I should go in the Masquerade rather than just walking the convention floor, but that’s not my style. I figure I was stopped by at least 20 people for pictures, and often posed with them – a few years ago five Japanese con-goers posed next to me in turn! HeHe! This year, at the backstage area for the formal Masquerade, two married pros from England told me “the Prisoner” was the “Citizen Kane” of British television, while having me pose in a chair with cutie-pie wife in my lap!

Ah, Scotty - see ya here someday, soon, I hope.

Knew you’d be going to the Comic Con.. I just knew it! Grrrr

Hope your net is all sorted properly soon hun!