So, wait, how many comic conventions were there this past weekend? Wizard World Texas, Big Apple Con, and the Dublin Comic Convention… Any others? Anyway, Millarworld definitely enjoyed the Dublin event, with many positive comments along the lines of this:
Definitely the season’s big social event with staggering levels of fun, friviloity, alcohol consumption, sketches, inappropriate gestures, blatant antagonism from Team Merkin, cheating from Team Pro-Celebs, great panels, honest debate. Not even RyanAir and the poor traveller hacking up a lung behind me on the plane-ride back could detract from the experience.
For such a quiet convention, there was even some news:
Only notable marvel anouncements were the end of adjectiveless X-Men, which is only half news realy since we were kind of expecting it. It will be replaced by a new series, X-Men Legacy, written by Mike Carey and illustrated by Scott Eaton. Each issue will feature a back up story of 8 pages or so. They will be flashback stories centred on certain characters or events and illustarted by a guest artist each month. The first will be Romita Jr.
New series from Ennis, War is Hell, with a first arc focusing on war eagle. Covers by Cassiday interior by Chaykin.
C.B. also let slip in the getting into comics panel that Marvel will be lanuching a new writers athology, to give new and upcoming writers a chance to showcase their talents in short stories.
Nothing else public. I had one other interesting, well at least to me, bit of news but I’m not spilling because I don’t want to get the artist in trouble if he wasn’t supposed to tell.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Where were you when you weren’t in Dublin?
Wolverhampton.
At a designer arts and crafts fair.
I sold 83 comics, and was promptly invited to another show. Also, to do a comics workshop.
Nobody wore a tank top.
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