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geekgrrl
02/02/09

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hooray! hopefully this will be more entertainment than comic. i would like to see who all we can attract. and i sure hope "reflecting the essence of Chicago" doesn't mean cutting and pasting tired clichés into press releases.
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DePaulBlueDemon
02/02/09

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I'm not into this sort of thing, but I'm glad Chicago gets a chance to host this.
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Spoony Bard
02/02/09

@DePaulBlueDemon: DePaul? Nice. That's where my wife goes to school.
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Sachin Agarwal
02/02/09

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Robomodo, the makers of the new Tony Hawk game (although no one will confirm it, for God knows what reason) are also here.

BTW, the Lakeside center is the older Mac, but it should be a decent size. As stated above, Wizard World does keep it pretty proper to dead tree comics, so we'll see if this just turns into a geekcon the way that San Diego has and New York looks to be shaping up to be.

Of course, by 2010, [www.dawdle.com] will probably either be in LA or NYC.
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Spoony Bard
02/02/09

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WOO HOO! We're getting Comic Con! YAY :D This is GREAT news! All we have now is Wizard Con. And some Second Life thingamajig.
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darkkn1te
02/02/09

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Umm... Chicago has a comic book convention: Wizard World. Maybe it's consistent and myopic focus on actual comic books made it less noticeable to the outside world. But I welcome more conventions to the city.
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Diverse-Nerd
02/02/09

@darkkn1te:

Truth! Jim Lee bought me a shot of Patron and I told Brian Michael Bendis that he writes better black people than Brian Azzarello.

I love Wizard World.

We've also got a HUGE anime convention, Anime Central, every year. We've been geeking it out hard over here in the City of Wind for awhile now.
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Spoony Bard
02/02/09

@Diverse-Nerd: Even Alex Ross showed up this year. Got to chat with Paul Dini for a while too. Good times.
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cr0m300
02/02/09

@darkkn1te: @darkkn1te: I don't like this. Wizard World has been getting good again in the past year or two, and I don't want a schism to happen. I'm going to end up paying attendance for twice the amount of conventions now just to get the same amount out of it.
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The Cap'n
02/02/09

@cr0m300: I've been to Wizard World for the last 4 years (my g/f publishes and sells there) and it has been, to me anyway, getting consistently worse and worse. The "collectible" vendors have gotten more samey, the crowds have gotten more whitebread, the beer has been getting more expensive, and the guests are more of the "3rd ewok from the right in scene 7" variety than anything else (Warren Ellis was a pleasant surprise last year, but he and veronica mars are the exceptions that prove the rule).

I think that cracking down on bootlegs and boothbabes has taken everything not corporate out of the festival. I don't pretend that a convention held at McCormick will necessarily fix anything, but at least it has hope.
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Bizariko
02/02/09

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It's nice that more and more venues for comic conventions are being opened :)
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Americo
02/02/09

@Bizariko: It's nice that I can travel for one hour on two buses to McCormick Place. :)
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Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
02/02/09

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I'm happy for the Chicago-land residents, but I still can't wait for the New York ComiCon!

Who else is going?
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