Bit of a late blog entry for this but, last Saturday I was in attendance and the 1st Kapow Comic Con. The premise behind Kapow was to bring something of the SDCC and the other big US comic cons to the UK. Whilst we have some of our own shows such as MCM which is more gaming and Anime orientated and Memorabilia which is more …well memorabilia, we do not have a proper London centric comparison to the US experience.
My experience of comic gatherings has been somewhat limited despite collecting for many many years. Previous experiences have been a few Birmingham comic marts and the 2006 Bot Con (yes it is a Transformers convention, but myself and my mate went to meet one of our fave comic artists Mr Geoff Senior ->Who didnt show :( ). So all in all this was pretty new for me.
Our plan was to go on the first day, show our support for comics in the UK, checkout the con, buy some merch/back issues and attend some of the panels plus avoiding the main cosplay day. (lol). We aimed to get to the convention for the 10am Marshal Law panel (both being avid ML fans)…..first problem, bloody engineering works, we ended up taking a convuluted route to the Con but, still we got their with a bit of time to spare……enter the 2nd problem……the queue. Despite being open at 9am the queue was still huge so by the time we got in we were 26 mins late for the ML panel.
Not the best start to the event but, we were pleasently surprise by the venue and the setup. The Business Design Centre has a slightly unusual layout with the main area of the Con above some central retail units but, the stall holders were pretty good with alot of the major London stores there plus the stores we buy from on ebay. In addition to this a 2000AD and Marvel/Panini stand to one side. grrrr this was how my first money disapeared! my first score was something of an impulse buy. When I looked through vol 1 of the ABC Warriors Volgon War in nice hardback format I was so taken I bought the first 3 volumes. (I'll probably talk more about that trade hardback in a later post).
My next purchase was from the Marvel / Panini (oh how we all mis a proper Marvel UK) in the shape of the 2nd and 3rd trades of the excellent Captain Britain & MI-13 series. I was fortunate enough to meet the writer, the super nice bloke that is Paul Cornell later on in the day, sporting a beard grown for charity I made sure to tell him how great CB & MI13 was and to ask for some more please!
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