Phoenix Comicon: Day 3
Decided to use the light rail today, as a $3.5 all day pass makes for a much better deal then the $12 or more for parking downtown. Took about a 1/2 hour to go from the park&ride lot to the stop next to the convention...
Killed some time watching some short movies, with the live-action version of the first part of Street Angel standing out. Captured the cleverness and humor of the comic well. Then I hit the dealer's room again and found a dealer with a 50% off all trades offer and so grabbed a couple books there...
After that I met up with kafeixuesheng at the John Scalzi panel. Scalzi read one of his short pieces then did Q&A on writing and dealing with Hollywood. Then we went out and grabbed something to eat before hitting the James Marsters' Q&A. I had no idea he had a theater background before landing the role of Spike. I liked his story about how Anthony Head used to yell at him about his ridiculous his accent was. And what it was like to make-out with John Barrowman on Torchwood...
Not much after that, kafeixuesheng got all his Scalzi books autographed and we tried to find some open gaming. Sadly the best would have been waiting an hour or more for a 4e demo so I called it a day...
All in all I had a good time. And the various 1/2 off books meant I saved at least what I paid for the con registration. Of course it was all topped off by me getting a flat on the drive home. So even though I hadn't planned on going for the partial Sunday events, I'm definitely not now that I have to find a tire place that is open tomorrow. I think Discount should be. Stupid tire...
Killed some time watching some short movies, with the live-action version of the first part of Street Angel standing out. Captured the cleverness and humor of the comic well. Then I hit the dealer's room again and found a dealer with a 50% off all trades offer and so grabbed a couple books there...
After that I met up with kafeixuesheng at the John Scalzi panel. Scalzi read one of his short pieces then did Q&A on writing and dealing with Hollywood. Then we went out and grabbed something to eat before hitting the James Marsters' Q&A. I had no idea he had a theater background before landing the role of Spike. I liked his story about how Anthony Head used to yell at him about his ridiculous his accent was. And what it was like to make-out with John Barrowman on Torchwood...
Not much after that, kafeixuesheng got all his Scalzi books autographed and we tried to find some open gaming. Sadly the best would have been waiting an hour or more for a 4e demo so I called it a day...
All in all I had a good time. And the various 1/2 off books meant I saved at least what I paid for the con registration. Of course it was all topped off by me getting a flat on the drive home. So even though I hadn't planned on going for the partial Sunday events, I'm definitely not now that I have to find a tire place that is open tomorrow. I think Discount should be. Stupid tire...