katsu you, katsu me....

today was quite a busy day.

at the Chicago comic convention from today through Sunday. so far, it's about as expected. there's a rather fun game in the PlayStation booth, although i forget now what it's called. hopefully i'll get to play it again. it involves the player standing in front of a blank screen and some sort of motion-detecting device monitoring you as you beat imaginary things (which show up onscreen, which is how you track them). i'm not terribly good at it, but i was better than some people. hee.

also, met Paul Dini. again. forgot we'd met him before, because am a dork with no memory. ^^;;; was reminded upon pulling out my Mad Love comic and seeing that oh yes, evidently we'd met before because he'd signed it. ^^;;;

hee. anyway, this time round, i got my Batman Animated book (done by Chip Kidd, and really REALLY spectacular) signed. (Spaz was lovely enough to take a picture. ^^)

other biggest amusements of the day were had by visiting the Toynami booth, which has many fun Robotech toys---but the really amusing things were the I-Men, which seem to amount to their versions of Kubrick block figures. witness for the prosecution below, one Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law:

we go back for more punishment tomorrow morning, bright and early. and on Sunday. unfortunately, they seem to have taken away the Trailer Park, which was this block of time where they'd string together a zillion or so trailers of things scheduled to be released theatrically in the next couple of years. which was usually one of the more interesting things about the con---but alas, it has gone.

loads of bootlegged Invader ZIM stuff, which kinda pisses me off. i mean, not on Nickelodeon's behalf---they're the ones who shot themselves in the foot with how they treated it. but on behalf of everyone who worked so hard on that show, well---argh. argh argh ARGH. --;;;

oooh, i should mention also that the Smokescreen Transformer (Makkinen edition) is on display at the Hasbro booth. that thing is REALLY gorgeous. i'm still amazed asking price (so far) is only going to be $50. i really would've thought it would be more. i mean, not that i'm encouraging it to be...but. XD

finally, there was dinner. which i'll include here just to say OMFG YOU SHOULD EAT IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DO YOU REALISE HOW LATE IT IS?!?!??!

hrrm. would this count as "torikatsu"? haps. XDXD

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