Motor City Comic Con
The MCCC was fun. I haven't attended in...6 years, and a lot has changed. They moved from the Novi Expo Center to the Rock Financial Showplace (pet peeve: I hate it when corportations name shit after themselves). They're in the same city, but the newer place is a lot larger.
I'm not really into comics, but they have lots of sci-fi actors who come and sign photographs, etc. Sean and I originally started attending in high school to get Star Trek actors' signatures.
This year, I got signatures from:
Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: TNG)
Ethan Phillips (Star Trek: Voyager)
Dominic Keating (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Connor Trinnear (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Corin Nemec (Stargate SG-1)
Billy West (Futurama, Ren & Stimpy, etc.)
Michael Gross (Tremors)
Most of the actors were really personable and friendly. Billy West was surprised at the fact that I liked Zoidberg's character, and wrote "let's go eat garbage!" on his 8x10. ^_^
Dominic Keating told my brother that he thought I was "cute" (while he's really hot, this kinda creeps me out since he's 21 years older than me). He and Sean had a good time bitching about how Americans have bastardized the spelling of the name Sean, and now spell it Shaun or Shawn. Michael Gross was hilarious and thought it was cool that Sean and I both have Irish names, but was disappointed to learn that we're not Irish. ^_^;
The only person that I didn't enjoy meeting was Corin Nemec. He's...kinda a jerk in real life. He was charging more than all the other actors (even though he's hardly done any acting worth mentioning) and wouldn't let you take a photo with him unless you paid an extra $15! Corin Nemec also was hardly ever at his table, which made it almost impossible to track him down for a signature. Although this isn't really a valid complaint on my part, he does not look like his SG-1 character anymore. He looks like a little Johnny Depp clone, which is scary. He was actually talking on his cell phone quite a bit while signing autographs, which I thought was rather rude - he should have stepped out to take the call.
In all, a great way to spend the afternoon while embracing my nerdiness. :)
I'm not really into comics, but they have lots of sci-fi actors who come and sign photographs, etc. Sean and I originally started attending in high school to get Star Trek actors' signatures.
This year, I got signatures from:
Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: TNG)
Ethan Phillips (Star Trek: Voyager)
Dominic Keating (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Connor Trinnear (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Corin Nemec (Stargate SG-1)
Billy West (Futurama, Ren & Stimpy, etc.)
Michael Gross (Tremors)
Most of the actors were really personable and friendly. Billy West was surprised at the fact that I liked Zoidberg's character, and wrote "let's go eat garbage!" on his 8x10. ^_^
Dominic Keating told my brother that he thought I was "cute" (while he's really hot, this kinda creeps me out since he's 21 years older than me). He and Sean had a good time bitching about how Americans have bastardized the spelling of the name Sean, and now spell it Shaun or Shawn. Michael Gross was hilarious and thought it was cool that Sean and I both have Irish names, but was disappointed to learn that we're not Irish. ^_^;
The only person that I didn't enjoy meeting was Corin Nemec. He's...kinda a jerk in real life. He was charging more than all the other actors (even though he's hardly done any acting worth mentioning) and wouldn't let you take a photo with him unless you paid an extra $15! Corin Nemec also was hardly ever at his table, which made it almost impossible to track him down for a signature. Although this isn't really a valid complaint on my part, he does not look like his SG-1 character anymore. He looks like a little Johnny Depp clone, which is scary. He was actually talking on his cell phone quite a bit while signing autographs, which I thought was rather rude - he should have stepped out to take the call.
In all, a great way to spend the afternoon while embracing my nerdiness. :)