–As many have said, the floor was busier this year compared to past years, especially on Saturday. Friday was better, but I can still remember a time when Friday meant easily moving through the exhibit hall and browsing booths without too many people surrounding you. Not so much this year. It seemed like there were more exhibitors, or at least more space was given to exhibitors, and the comic booths at the front of the hall seemed to be packed every time I went by. The line to buy the specialUncanny X-Men/San Francisco Giantsvariant cover at the Marvel booth was an intimidating thing on Friday, looping around the booth. I never even made it inside the DC booth because of the crowds. And any booth that had a signing going on — Image, IDW, Oni, BOOM! — brought lines. Hopefully all that traffic turned into decent sales for everyone on the floor. I know at least one comic company I spoke to was really happy with their sales on Saturday.
–I didn’t buy a lot at this show — my two purchases were the above-mentioned Giants/X-Men comic, and a copy ofPascal Girard’s Reunion from the Drawn and Quarterly table. Of course, I didn’t really spend a lot of time on the floor anyway … I was only there Friday and Saturday, and spent my time either covering panels, being on panels or writing about panels.
–I found it absolutely hilarious that Peter David was able to move around the floor unnoticedbecause he was dressed as The Green Hornet. I saw him pulling off his mask right before the Spider-Man: Edge of Time panel began and thought, “Why would the Green Hornet be taking off his costume? It’s a pretty awesome costume!” That was a fun panel, BTW, but they didn’t allow for questions at the end, which was too bad. I’m looking forward to the new game and seeing if they can pull off the time travel aspect as well as they did the four different spider-dimensions in
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